Patents Assigned to Kabuhsiki Kaisha Topcon
  • Patent number: 7677728
    Abstract: A subject is placed in a more natural state or is encouraged to blink at specified intervals to obtain a measurement result under a fixed condition, and the judgment of the degree of dry eye is facilitated. A measurement part obtains, based on a reflected light flux from a subject eye, optical characteristic data of a two-dimensional vector form representing the time course of each optical characteristic of the subject eye in an blink interval from a certain blink to a next blink with respect to the first to the nth blink intervals. An analysis part one-dimensionally arranges each of the optical characteristic data with respect to the first to the nth blink intervals measured by the measurement part, and arranges the one-dimensional arrangement of the optical characteristic in a p-th blink interval at a p column to create a two-dimensional array, and performs a principal component analysis processing on the two-dimensional array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Kabuhsiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Yoko Hirohara, Toshifumi Mihashi