Patent ID: 7931372

Claim:
A computer implemented method for treating presbyopia in a visual system of a particular patient, the visual system including an eye having a pupil, a change in viewing distance with the eye inducing a change in pupil dimension, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer a plurality of pupil dimensions of the eye corresponding to a plurality of different viewing distances; receiving, by the computer a desired effective power for the eye for each of the different viewing distances, the computer including a processor and a memory that stores instructions; generating a a presbyopia-mitigating prescription by executing the instructions with the processor such that the presbyopia-mitigating prescription has an optical shape that provides the associated desired effective power for each of the different viewing distances; and transmitting providing the presbyopia-mitigating prescription to an intra-ocular lens source so as to identify an intra-ocular lens that corresponds to the presbyopia-mitigating prescription such that when the intra-ocular lens is included in the visual system the presbyopia of the patient is mitigated.