Patent ID: 8506351

Claim:
An eyeglass lens processing apparatus comprising: a processing chamber; a pair of lens chuck shafts which is disposed in the processing chamber and chucks an eyeglass lens; a lens rotating unit including a motor for rotating the pair of lens chuck shafts; a processing tool which is disposed in the processing chamber and processes a periphery of the lens; an axis-to-axis distance changing unit including a motor for changing an axis-to-axis distance between a rotating shaft attached to the processing tool and the lens chuck shafts; a data input unit for inputting processing condition data including a target lens shape; a processing controller which controls the lens rotating unit and the axis-to-axis changing unit to process the periphery of the lens based on the input processing condition data; a camera which is disposed in the processing chamber and has an angle of view where the camera can take a video picture of the processing of the lens by the processing tool; a memory which stores video pictures taken by the camera and processing condition data input by the input unit; and a specifying unit configured to selectively read out a particular video picture and a particular processing condition data among the video pictures and the processing condition data stored in the memory to display the read-out particular video picture on a display or transmit the read-out video picture to an external storage device.