VISION AID FOR MANIPULATING THE RETINAL IMAGE FOR EYES HAVING MACULAR DEGENERATION

A compact, efficient and more patient-friendly device for manipulating, in particular enlarging and/or redirecting and/or distorting or altering, image information passing through an optical system is to be provided with this invention. The device as per the invention is characterized by a micro-segmentation of the optically active surfaces in which a number of micro-segments (9), (12) and/or (13) that manipulate the image information and micro-segments (14) that do not manipulate the image information are alternately arranged in the form of an array; an individual micro-segment represents a complete optical system. The invention can be used, in particular, as a vision aid for patients who suffer, as an example, from a partial loss of the field of vision because of macular degeneration.