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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2000
Takahiro Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Hatano, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhito Eto, Tokyo, JP;
Takumi Uchiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Iwai, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Hatano, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhito Eto, Tokyo, JP;
Takumi Uchiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Iwai, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lens shape data processing apparatus and a lens grinding machine having the same apparatus in which the lens shape data reading out and the layout setting work for another spectacle lens can be conducted during the lens edge measurement or the grinding process is provided. The lens shape processing apparatus comprises a memoryfor storing a plurality of lens shape information for the spectacle frame measured by a frame readera liquid crystal display unitincluding an image display sectionfor displaying the lens shape based on the lens shape information and an operation contents display sectionfor displaying items for switching a plurality of screens, a plurality of keys corresponding to the items of the operation contents display section, and an arithmetic control circuitfor setting the data for grinding an unprocessed lens into a lens shape based on the lens shape information, wherein the keys are used both to switch to a screen for selecting and accessing one of the lens shape information stored in the memory, and to access the preceding lens shape information and the next lens shape information or new lens shape information.