In a 25 Feb 2017 report at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum Magazine, Alyssa Pagano reports on prototype
liquid lens smart glasses at the University of Utah.
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Originally Posted by Alyssa Pagano, IEEE Spectrum
Researchers at the University of Utah produced a prototype pair of these glasses by using flexible lenses and piezoelectric pistons. For users who are both nearsighted and farsighted, the lens’ curvature is gradually shifted between optical powers by the pistons. As the lenses change they can bring into focus any point along the way. This is possible because the lenses aren’t made of rigid materials, as they would be in traditional glasses. Instead, two flexible membranes encase glycerol, a highly refractive liquid, to comprise each lens. The lenses stretch and become more convex as transparent pistons push them forward, and more concave as the pistons move back.
To adapt to an individual's particular vision, the glasses require two pieces of information. One is the prescription, which the user enters into a mobile app. The other is the distance to the desired focal point, which is measured by a sensor in the center of the frames. A microcontroller in one stem of the glasses stores the prescription information and receives the distance measure from the sensor. It plugs those numbers into a specialized algorithm, which in turn determines how much voltage to apply to the piezoelectric pistons to achieve the desired curvature.
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Article and video here -
http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/semic...t-to-your-eyes