Patent ID: 7837327

Claim:
A contact lens user support system comprising: a multiplicity of user client apparatuses for use by a multiplicity of users who use contact lenses, each apparatus including image signal acquiring means for acquiring an image signal of a contact lens used by each user; a server apparatus for use by a supporting entity, the apparatus including evaluation data calculating means for deriving lens condition evaluation data for evaluating the condition of the contact lens on the basis of the contact lens image signal; memory means for storing information able to be read out by the server apparatus; and communication network means enabling sending and receiving of signals between the user client apparatuses and the server apparatus, wherein the image signal acquired by the image signal acquiring means of the user client apparatus with the contact lens used by the user as a subject is transmitted via the communication network means to the server apparatus; the lens condition evaluation data for the contact lens is derived by the evaluation data calculating means of the server apparatus, the lens condition evaluation data being associated with identifying information of the user and stored in the memory means; and the lens condition evaluation data is transmitted via the communication network means to the user client apparatus so as to be provided to the user.