Glasses manufacture
A method of eyewear manufacture including: adhering frame material onto a surface of a corrective lens, the frame material extending along at least 10% of an edge circumference of the lens; and attaching the lens to a second lens.
1. A computer-implemented method of customizing a glasses manufacturing process comprising:
(a) receiving, by a computer, one or more feature measurement of a customer;
(b) designing, by said computer, a glasses frame of a glasses design, said glasses frame to be adhered onto a lens, said designing, based on said one or more customer feature;
(c) sending customer glasses design data to a manufacturing device; and
(d) manufacturing a pair of glasses based on said designed frame by the manufacturing device;
wherein said manufacturing comprises:
i. adhering frame material onto a lens surface of a corrective lens, said frame material extending along at least 10% of an edge circumference of the lens; and
ii. attaching said lens to a second lens;
and wherein at least a portion of said frame adhered to said lens does not provide mechanical strength to said glasses.
2. The method according to claim 1 , said lens is a corrective lens, with a correction according to a corrective prescription of said customer.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises designing a size and shape of said glasses frame.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises designing a glasses lens shape, based on said customer feature measurement.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more customer feature comprises a customer pupil distance (PD).
6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein a shape of a lens of said glasses is scaled using said customer PD.
7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises adjusting said frame, based on said one or more customer feature.
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises selecting.
9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises iterative designing.
10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said feature measurement comprises an eye size and/or shape.
11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises designing in response to a prescription of said customer.
12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises designing in response to a lens property of said glasses.
13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises designing in response to a facial shape or ears of the customer.
14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said receiving comprises analyzing an image of the customer.
15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises designing in response to aesthetic information of the customer.
16. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the aesthetic information comprises one or more of hair style, hair color and clothing.
17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprises designing in response to coloring information of the customer, wherein said coloring information includes one or more of an eye color, a skin tone and a hair color.
18. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said designing comprising generating a plurality of designs and comprising displaying said plurality of designs to said customer.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein designing comprises selecting said plurality of designs from available designs based on one or more customer feature measurement, aesthetic information and/or prescription.
20. The method of claim 1 , wherein said adhering comprises one or more of:
(a) printing on said lens;
(b) attaching a printed layer to said lens;
(c) surface treating said lens in preparation for said adhering; and
(d) using an adhesive layer to attach said frame material to said lens.
21. The method of claim 1 , wherein designing comprises selecting a frame from a set of available designs and modifying said selected frame.