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23970707, Vol. 1.0, No. 1
CAT’S EYE OPTICAL ENHANCEMENT LENSES

Authors: R'rraww Hontrú / Nyka Wyss:
Authorized by: Dr. Wilhelmina Bellweather:

ABSTRACT

The Caitain R'rraww Hontrú of the USS Juneau expressed to the Engineer Nyka Wyss that he had difficulty in seeing Holographic Persons. The problem was not that he couldn't see constructs in a Holodeck, but that he could not see a being that was outside of a room without multiple holo-emitters. Caitains have an added item for seeing in low light conditions. Their species has spheres as well as rods and cones to pick up visual wavelengths. Because the spheres allow low light into the Caitain eye, they also diminish the eye from viewing the wavelengths that make up the Holographic Person. Primarily when said Person is not in a Holodeck. The more holo-emitters the better the light construct is seen.

Hontrú had a difficult time when being cared for by a Holographic Person. When he was being attended to by the Holographic Medical construct Mark II aboard the USS Eagle, he could not see the attendant and it was as if a disembodied voice touching him and trying to give him aid. It was very unnerving to the Caitain Tactical Officer at the time.

INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT

We wish to present the specifications for a new and different way to give visual enhancement to individuals who have sight issues or require time released medication. This new technology also has applications for the use in Military, Science, Engineering and Command uses. This new kind of contact lens device will be first be developed for species that have ocular senses in the means of a standard “Eye” which 98% of humanoids have.

These are not the ocular implants that were used in the 2360’s. The old implants were just that, implants that required a delicate eye operation to connect the eyepiece into an individual's neo cortex and a connection into their brains. Ocular Implants have been used on some humanoids rescued from the Borg to replace or augment the eye if it were lost to assimilation.

Our device is not an implant, an individual need not have an operation to use this device. It can be placed directly on the eye’s Cornea. Just like the kinds of lenses used to correct vision for the visually impaired. For those who were born or had lost their sight for some reason the ocular implant is still the best option. Our lenses can’t give a person sight, for those who have eyesight with the normal humanoid spherical eye, the Cat’s Eye lens can assist and enhance different wavelengths of eye usage.

Now lets us introduce to you the technology we call the Cat’s Eye.

THE MEDICAL METHOD

If a person has a missing eye we have the medical capabilities to grow a new eye for that person and attach the limb into the person's nervous system. The medical version of the Cat’s Eye can be used to deliver time released medication into the new eye and attach the new eye to the optic nerve and the brain. A regenerated eye has to be based upon the patient's own DNA patterns, as much as the eye can be grown into the optic nerves, if the brain has never had eyesight the brain patterns have to be adjusted within the individual cerebral cortex.

What we are most excited about in the medical application of this new lens can assist the time released medication to species that could heal or to deliver special meds that should not be delivered via hypo-spray. This way the patient won’t have to return to the medical professional each day, but to just apply the contact lens daily or weekly or however long the medication is to be administered. After the medication has expended itself the lens can be removed and discarded.

The biggest breakthrough we have developed is the use of the lens to deliver data from information systems for the user to see in front of them in a Heads Up Display or HUD. Imagine your tricorder is scanning the bio gel pack in your engineering department and you have to find the one out of one hundred packs that is contaminated. The tricorder identifies the damaged cell and the Cat’s Eye shows the engineer which pack it is, and all the pertinent information on their HUD, instead of having to read a small screen, all the data is directly in their line of sight.

The implications of the use of the Cat’s Eye for the Science and Command divisions is also just as exciting. Tactical information, formulas for vaccines, and anything which will assist our crews and officers to be able to read data and use their limbs at the same time without having to look directly at a readout or console could save time and increase efficiency.

If a person has a missing eye we have the medical capabilities to grow a new eye for that person and attach the limb into the person's nervous system. The medical version of the Cat’s Eye can be used to deliver time released medication into the new eye and attach the new eye to the optic nerve and the brain. A regenerated eye has to be based upon the patient's own DNA patterns, as much as the eye can be grown into the optic nerves, if the brain has never had eyesight the brain patterns have to be adjusted within the individual cerebral cortex.

What we are most excited about in the medical application of this new lens can assist the time released medication to species that could heal or to deliver special meds that should not be delivered via hypo-spray. This way the patient won’t have to return to the medical professional each day, but to just apply the contact lens daily or weekly or however long the medication is to be administered. After the medication has expended itself the lens can be removed and discarded.

CAT'S EYE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE

THE OCULAR LENS A soft lens made of durable flexible nano-structures, originally designed for corrective purposes in the Catian visual acuity. Yet as development continued we were able to apply this device to other means, and patients.

MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT The start of our development was to assist a particular species see in a varied visual spectrum like the ocular implants previously used. We wanted to develop a means for a being with no other visual impairments to benefit from seeing in otherwise non used wavelengths of vision.

Our Marine officer of the Caitain species had the difficulty in seeing the spectrum of light that makes up a holographic person or item. The Caitain eye physiology has an extra component that allows low light vision, but it over compensates when it comes to the artificial construct our technology that makes such a construct outside of a Holodeck or Holosuite. Our officer had difficulty seeing the EMH and since such constructs have no other ways for them to be observed, eg. olfactory or tactile senses, such an individual was hard to pick up. He was engaging with a disembodied voice that would try to hold or examine him.

Our first trials took the transparent nano-structures are used to sandwich medication and or blocks for the Caitain extra spheres which in addition to the usual rods and cones in the back of the eye under the ocular nerve. The amount of medication that needed to be used to allow our subject to see on a regular basis was found to be too much to be taken in by the body. This was a setback for this individual and we withdrew this method, but we discovered it could be used to deliver different kinds of medication with ease and less work for the medical professional and the individual needing the dosages required over time.

OCULAR LIGHT WAVELENGTHS Using the Cat’s Eye to deliver medication is like administering something for a medical patient like we have outlined above. The other medical application for the Cat’s Eye is to enhance what wavelengths of the visual spectrum one can see. This was the method we were able to use for our Caitain subject. The miniature scanner and enhancer built into the lens can be programmed with known medical records of information on a particular species. Fed and uploaded from a medical computer system or medical tricorder, each contact lens can be programmed for the individual's needs.

TECHNICAL SPECS

CHARGING THE HARDWARE Operational Charging Function (OCF) Kinetic energy is one key feature in powering the lens (blinking), while natural ocular fluids (aqueous and vitreous) produce electrolysis reactions. Non-Operational Charging Function (NOCF) The charging function uses a Hydro-gel Electrolyte Solution. A synthesized bio-chemical solution that creates a reaction to maintain a charge in the lens while in storage.

DATA TRANSMISSION OTS (Optical Transmitting / Tracker Sensor): A sensor used to track and transmit the FOV (Field of View) to match the operator’s pupil location and LOS (Line-of-Sight). RFDT (Radio Frequency Data Transmission) The transmission of the data will be sent via an RFT (Radio Frequency Transmission) with an antenna built into the lens. It circles the lens and is used as the seal between the layers.

OPTICAL DISPLAY DMP (Display Management Processor) Updates data transmitted by external sources such as shipboard sensors, tricorder scans and drone uplinks. Each lens will be able to be programmed by its user for specialized functions per department, Command, Engineering, Science. Marine and military data can receive field locations and updates delivered by drone or shipboard sensors.

DISPLAY DATA Depending on the application, the operator will have access to data specific information pertaining to their departmental needs, such as, tactical/security, science, medical, engineering, command, etc…

Command Display

Engineering Display

Marine HUD

Medical Display

Tactical Display

CONCLUSIONS

What we were able to accomplish for our primary subject we were able to program the lens to tone down the use of the Spheres in the Caitain photo-receptors. Our engineers were able to develop a way to tune those spheres down, and to allow them to tone back up when the waves of light read a holographic emitter within several meters of the lens photo sensors. When such wavelengths are not in the vicinity of the sensors the stimulation of the photo-receptors return to their normal state.

We have discovered that the use of these wavelength detectors can be used to enhance other viewing defects or shortcomings. The ocular enhancements can be used to give those with little night vision a way to see in low light and darkness conditions. With the right attunement seeing in Ultraviolet, Heat, and as mentioned Low Light as well as what every visual wavelength the patient would require, based on medical readings and the advice of the medical professionals.

The biggest breakthrough we have developed is the use of the lens to deliver data from information systems for the user to see in front of them in a Heads Up Display or HUD. Imagine your tricorder is scanning the bio gel pack in your engineering department and you have to find the one out of one hundred packs that is contaminated. The tricorder identifies the damaged cell and the Cat’s Eye shows the engineer which pack it is, and all the pertinent information on their HUD, instead of having to read a small screen, all the data is directly in their line of sight.

The implications of the use of the Cat’s Eye for the Science and Command divisions is also just as exciting. Tactical information, formulas for vaccines, and anything which will assist our crews and officers to be able to read data and use their limbs at the same time without having to look directly at a readout or console could save time and increase efficiency.

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The Ocular Implant: Memory Alpha - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ocular_implant

Bionic Contact Lenses: YouTube - https://youtu.be/1CVN5FRl5F8

Google Smart Contact Lenses: YouTube - https://youtu.be/JCZlMw8Q27c

VR Contact Lenses Are Here: YouTube - https://youtu.be/QYgWFBoLmpg