Methods Of Use Patents (Class 351/246)
  • Publication number: 20140132923
    Abstract: An ophthalmic imaging apparatus including an observation light source configured to emit observation light for observation of an eye to be examined and an imaging light source configured to emit imaging light for imaging the eye, the apparatus comprises a photometry unit configured to acquire a photometric value of an observation image of the eye illuminated by the observation light source; an alignment processing unit configured to perform alignment processing to match the eye with a target position; an imaging light amount adjusting unit configured to adjust a light amount of the imaging light source by using the photometric value before completion of the alignment processing; and an imaging processing unit configured to image the eye by using a light amount adjusted by the imaging light amount adjusting unit after completion of the alignment processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawase, Osamu Sagano
  • Publication number: 20140132924
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus that determines whether alignment with a subject eye is complete using an observation image of an anterior ocular segment of the subject eye obtained through a split prism determines whether or not the alignment is a success or failure based on a position of a pupil image on respective lines of a line pair that are parallel to a boundary of the split prism and are equidistant from the boundary in the observation image. The ophthalmic apparatus determines the success or failure of alignment for a plurality of line pairs whose distances from the boundary are different, and determines whether or not the alignment is complete based on the obtained determination results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Sagano, Daisuke Kawase
  • Publication number: 20140132931
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus for measuring spatial distances within a patient's eye is disclosed. The apparatus can be used to measure, for example, the capsular bag depth in an aphakic eye. The spatial measurement system can direct laser light into a patient's eye so that a portion of the light is scattered by the capsular bag. The scattered light can be directed to a detector where spots can be formed corresponding to the locations on the capsular bag from which the light was scattered. The distance from the cornea to the capsular bag can be determined based, for example, at least in part on the distance between the spots formed on the detector. In some embodiments, the apparatus can include a surgical microscope and/or a wavefront aberrometer. In some embodiments, an alignment system can be used to precisely position the apparatus relative to the patient's eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack T. Holladay, Thomas D. Padrick, Richard J. Michaels
  • Publication number: 20140132928
    Abstract: In order to prevent inaccurate position detection caused by overlapping between a position alignment index and an optic papilla of a fundus in position alignment between an eye to be inspected and an apparatus when a fundus image is photographically captured, an ophthalmologic apparatus includes: a projection unit configured to project a plurality of alignment indices onto an eye to be inspected; an optic papilla position detection unit configured to detect an optic papilla position of the eye to be inspected; and an alignment detection unit configured to detect a positional relation between the eye to be inspected and an apparatus main body from a reflection image of the alignment index, wherein the alignment detection unit performs alignment detection by selecting a reflection image of at least one of the reflection images of the plurality of alignment indices depending on the optic papilla position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Ono
  • Publication number: 20140132927
    Abstract: A ophthalmic apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to obtain, through a photographing optical system, an image of an eye to be examined which is illuminated with illumination light from an observation light source of an illumination optical system; a display unit configured to display the image obtained by the imaging unit; and an image processing unit configured to display an image of the eye on the display unit at a display magnification corresponding to an observation portion of the eye or a display magnification corresponding to operation of the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yutaka Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20140132929
    Abstract: Provided is an ophthalmologic examination method including a first control step of driving a focus unit based on an index image acquired by projecting an index to an eye to be inspected in a state of setting light intensity for illuminating the eye to be inspected to a first light intensity, a second control step of driving the focus unit based on the index image acquired in a state of setting the light intensity to a second light intensity higher than the first light intensity, and a memory step of storing specific information on the eye to be inspected during the first control step and the second control step. The second control step is executed after driving the focus unit to a position stored in the memory step in the case of storing again the specific information after storing the specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiya Fujimori
  • Publication number: 20140132918
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus obtains a suitable defocus state early in split AF even immediately after the apparatus shifts to an fundus observation state. At the time of focus state detection immediately after the shift to the fundus observation state, the apparatus tarns the fundus observing illumination light off if a focus determination unit determines that the defocus amount is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and turns the fundus observing illumination light on if the focus determination unit determines that an in-focus state immediately before photographing is obtained, thereby allowing the examiner to check a fundus state immediately before photographing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Aikawa
  • Patent number: 8721081
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for the differential diagnosis of a patient with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) from a patient with Parkinson's disease (PD). One method includes identifying a plurality of partially repetitive eye movements that over time define square wave jerks, each square wave jerk of the plurality of square wave jerks defined by a first horizontal saccadic movement that moves the eye away from a fixation target followed by a corrective saccadic movement towards the target shortly thereafter, measuring a vertical component associated with the plurality of square wave jerks, comparing the vertical component with a threshold value. PSP or PD is identified by comparison of the vertical component with the threshold value. In another embodiment, a patient's saccade rate is determined and compared to a threshold value, and PSP or PD is identified based upon the comparison of the saccade rate with the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Dignity Health
    Inventors: Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik, Xoana Troncoso, Jorge Otero-Millan
  • Patent number: 8721082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for characterizing a perception of blur by a subject (10) in order to determine a dioptric blur value for an image (C) observed by the subject. The image has a blur generated by the low-pass filtering of the image components in accordance with the respective space frequencies of said image components. An indication of the perception thereof of blur in the image is provided by the subject and is associated with the dioptric blur value. Several images associated with different dioptric blur values are used for defining a dioptric blur threshold value for the subject that corresponds to a blur perception criterion. The invention can be used for adjusting the design of a progressive lens for the subject in accordance with the sensitivity to said visual blur of said object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique
    Inventors: Björn Drobe, Guillaume Giraudet
  • Patent number: 8721077
    Abstract: In depth-resolved imaging of scattering media, incident light interacts with tissue in a complex way before the signal reaches the detector: Light interacts with media between the light source and a specific depth, then scatters at that depth and the backscattered light again interacts with media on its way to the detector. The resulting depth-resolved signal therefore likely does not directly represent a physical or optical property of the media at those depths. Exemplary systems, methods and computer-accessible medium can determine physical or optical properties based on such depth-resolved signals. For example, almost all the light can interact with the media, and that the energy of the incident light at a certain depth is likely therefore related to the integral of the scattered light from all deeper locations. Based on the detected signals, the properties of the media can be estimated in an iterative way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Koenraad Arndt Vermeer, Johannes Fitzgerald De Boer
  • Patent number: 8721080
    Abstract: Systems for imaging structures of a subject are provided. The subject has an optical axis, a pupil, and a nodal point. The system includes an image capture device; a first structure including a mount for the subject to be imaged by the image capture device, the first structure providing at least two rotational degrees of freedom; a second structure including a mount for the image capture device, the second structure providing at least two translational degrees of freedom; and a means for aligning the image capture device in relation to the optical axis, the pupil, and the nodal point of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Biopgtigen, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunita Sayeram, Joseph Elliott Vance, Pete Huening, Eric L. Buckland, Joseph A. Izatt, Glenn A. Myers
  • Publication number: 20140125954
    Abstract: A method of calculating clinical performance of an ophthalmic optical correction using simulation by imaging a series of objects of different sizes by each of a plurality of eye optical systems, each of the eye optical systems including the ophthalmic optical correction, the method comprising A.) at an object distance, calculating a set of indicia of image quality, each indicium of the set of indicia corresponding to an object in the series of objects when it is imaged by a given one of the plurality of eye optical systems, B.) at the object distance, comparing the set of indicia to a threshold to determine a just-discernable object size for the given one of the plurality of eye optical systems, and C.) repeating steps A and B for each eye optical system in the plurality of eye optical systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated
    Inventors: Amanda C. Kingston, Paul D. Ludington, Richard Potvin
  • Publication number: 20140125955
    Abstract: Postoperative lens position is predicted on the basis of known measured values, such as the corneal thickness, the depth of the anterior chamber, the eye length, and the distances of the capsular bag equator and/or of the lens haptic from the anterior surface of the lens. In addition, the calculation also takes into account the attitude of the intraocular lens, for which purpose additional parameters of the pseudophakic eye are used that have not previously been taken into consideration.; The proposed method is suitable for a more exact prediction of the strength and nature of an intraocular lens to be implanted in a pseudophakic eye in the context of cataract surgery or of a refractive intervention. The method is based on the use of suitable calculation methods, e.g. geometric optical formulae, or of ray tracing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Bissman, Tobias Bühren, Michael Trost
  • Publication number: 20140125951
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical coherence tomography device and an optical coherence tomography method using same for capturing the cornea and the retina of the eye by using light sources in respectively different wavelength ranges. According to the present invention, included are two light sources, a first interferometer and a second interferometer for generating respectively different interference patterns by the light outputted from each of the light sources, and interference pattern detection means for detecting an interference pattern occurring in each interferometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Tae Joong Eom, In-Won Lee, Hoon-Seop Kim
  • Patent number: 8714743
    Abstract: The present invention is a slit lamp mounted eye imaging, a slit lamp integrated, a handheld, OCT integrated, or attached to a separate chinrest-joystick assembly apparatus and method for producing a wide field and/or magnified views of the posterior or the anterior segments of an eye through an undilated or dilated pupil. The apparatus images sections and focal planes and utilizes an illumination system that uses one or more LEDs, shifting optical elements, flipping masks, and/or aperture stops where the light can be delivered into the optical system on optical axis or off axis from center of optical system and return imaging path from the eye, creating artifacts in different locations on the eye image. Image processing is employed to detect and eliminate artifacts and masks from images. The apparatus can be used in combination with an OCT, microscope and can be disposed in a hand-held housing for hand-held use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: Steven Roger Verdooner
  • Patent number: 8714742
    Abstract: Methods and systems for changing a property of an eye. A property of the eye can be changed using an aspheric profile for increasing a depth of focus. Aspheric profile generation can include calculating a shape for increasing the focal depth to be rotationally symmetrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: AMO Manufacturing USA, LLC
    Inventors: Guang-Ming Dai, Kingman Yee
  • Publication number: 20140118696
    Abstract: A method determines the position and/or radius of the limbus and/or the position and/or radius of the pupil of a patient eye. In the method, an image of the patient eye is obtained and a plurality of different ring-shaped comparison objects having respective radii and respective centers are provided. The image is correlated with the plurality of comparison objects to yield a local best match between the image and the comparison objects when there is a coincidence of one of the ring-shaped comparison objects and a ring-shaped jump in brightness in the image having the same radius and the same center. The comparison objects having a local best match with the image are determined. Thereafter, the position of the center of the comparison object having a local best match with the image is selected as the position of the center of the limbus and/or the position of the center of the pupil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schuhrke, Guenter Meckes, Stefan Graeber, Keith Thornton
  • Publication number: 20140118694
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes: a photographing optical system including an optical scanner for scanning an examinee's eye with measurement light and a detector for detecting a coherent state of reflected light of the measurement light from the examinee's eye and reference light, the photographing optical system being configured to capture a tomographic image of the examinee's eye in response to an output signal from the detector; a reference data setting unit for setting a photographing condition of a previously acquired captured image as reference data for a follow-up; an image capture data setting unit for setting the reference data set by the reference data setting unit as image capture data for the follow-up; and a tomographic image acquisition controller for acquiring a tomographic image of the examinee's eye by controlling the photographing optical system based on the reference data set as the image capture data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenshiro Fujiu
  • Publication number: 20140118692
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a focusing unit configured to focus, on an imaging unit, a return beam from a fundus of a subject's eye, a first drive unit configured to drive the focusing unit based on an index image obtained by imaging, using the imaging unit, a return beam from the fundus resulting from an index projected on the fundus by a projection unit, and a second drive unit configured to drive, after the first drive unit has driven the focusing unit, the focusing unit based on a contrast of a fundus image obtained by imaging, using the imaging unit, a return beam from the fundus, the fundus having been illuminated by an illumination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Kishida, Toshiya Fujimori
  • Publication number: 20140118697
    Abstract: An adaptive optics (AO) optical system is used, to perform accurate alignment between the AO optical system and a subject's eye. An ophthalmologic apparatus according to the present invention includes a positional relationship change unit (e.g., a driving mechanism including a stage for moving the apparatus) configured to change a positional relationship between a subject's eye and an optical system including an aberration measurement unit (e.g., a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor) in a first irradiation state of the subject's eye with measurement light, and an irradiation state change unit (e.g., a mechanism for changing an irradiation position) configured to change an irradiation state of the subject's eye with the measurement light from the first irradiation state to a second irradiation state for correcting an aberration of the subject's eye based on a measurement result of the aberration measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Tanaka, Futoshi Hirose
  • Publication number: 20140118699
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of calculating tear film lipid and aqueous layer thicknesses and/or corneal surface refractive index from interferometry data obtained from simultaneous measurements of the aqueous and lipid layers of the tear film along with a measurement of the corneal surface reflectance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Stanley Huth, Denise Tran, Huawei Zhao
  • Publication number: 20140118687
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes an illumination optical system which projects an illumination light beam from an illumination light source onto the fundus of the eye to be examined and an imaging optical system which guides reflected light from the fundus to imaging part. The ophthalmic apparatus calculates the contrast value of the fundus image formed by the imaging part, and focuses the imaging optical system on the fundus by moving a focus lens in the optical-axis direction of the imaging optical system based on the contrast value obtained by the calculation. The apparatus adjusts the contrast value obtained by the above calculation based on the position of the focus lens in the optical-axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ohban, Satoshi Aikawa, Yoshitaka Nakano, Yohei Saito
  • Publication number: 20140118698
    Abstract: A system measures macular pigment of a macula of a human eye of a subject. The system comprises a light source having a first light and a second light that modulate at variable frequencies, an input device for receiving an input indicating the frequency at which the user perceives the modulation of the first light and a second light, a display device, at least one processor, and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the system to (i) display, on the display device, test data corresponding to the user's inputs from the input device, (ii) determine whether the test data are valid or invalid through a curve-fitting algorithm, (iii) automatically indicate that the test data are valid or invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: ZeaVision, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis L. Gierhart, Christopher Gerald Barber, Malcolm Stuart Grover
  • Publication number: 20140118693
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an illumination projection unit configured to project an illumination light onto a fundus of a subject's eye, an index projection unit configured to project an index onto the subject's eye, an image capturing unit configured to capture a fundus image including an index image based on light returning from the subject's eye, a focusing unit configured to focus the light returning from the subject's eye onto the photographic unit, a detection unit configured to detect a position of the index image in the fundus image, a determination unit configured to determine the area in the fundus image which does not include the index image based on results detected by the detection unit, and a control unit configured to control the focusing unit based on contrast of the area determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Ryutaro Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20140118689
    Abstract: A fundus imaging apparatus selects a focal position detection method in accordance with whether a diopter correction lens is inserted in an optical path of an imaging optical system that includes an imaging unit; and detects a focal position based on a signal from the imaging unit according to the selected focal position detection method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Saito, Satoshi Aikawa, Hideyuki Ohban, Yoshitaka Nakano
  • Patent number: 8708489
    Abstract: A fundus image photographing apparatus with adaptive optics generally corrects an aberration by feedback control using a wave front sensor and a wave front correction device. The reduction in the time required to correct the aberration to a high-resolution photographing level is demanded. Aberration correction information of last photographing is stored for each subject, and a stored correction value is used to correct the aberration to reduce the time before the completion of the aberration correction. If there is no stored information, a correction value for a preset reference aberration amount is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
  • Patent number: 8708492
    Abstract: An apparatus including an illumination unit for illuminating an eye to be inspected with light from an observation light source or light from a photographing light source; an photographing unit for guiding reflected light from the eye to an photographing element, to record an image thereof; a calculation unit for calculating an appropriate observation or photographing light intensity based on an illumination light intensity of the illumination unit and an image signal of the photographing element; an automatic light intensity adjustment unit for causing one of the observation and photographing light sources to emit light at the calculated light intensity; and a control unit for controlling the adjustment unit according to a selected one of a mode of acquiring the fundus image and a mode of acquiring the anterior ocular image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yohei Saito
  • Patent number: 8708488
    Abstract: A method for carrying out eye surgery comprises a comparison of images recorded before surgery with images recorded during surgery in order to generate a marker which represents a target orientation of an intraocular lens or a difference between a current orientation and the target orientation of the intraocular lens. An eye surgery system respectively comprises an imaging system which is used during a surgery and has a camera, and a diagnostic system which is used before surgery and which also has a camera. The imaging system used during surgery comprises an image processing device in order to perform a computation based on the recorded images, and in order to determine a respective orientation value, from which a representation of a marker representing the target orientation of the intraocular lens is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Martin Kraus, Christoph Kuebler, Delbert Peter Andrews, Mark Lansu, Thomas Schuhrke, Anja Seiwert
  • Patent number: 8708495
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting vision in macular degeneration patients. Following a diagnostic procedure which has been successfully tested to determine the factors needed to correct the vision of a patient with macular degeneration, the present invention describes a prototype correcting procedure and device using a computer program and display device. Through manipulation of a grid and quantitative analysis of the manipulations, the extent and correction factors needed to correct the vision of a macular degeneration patient are discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents fo the University of California
    Inventors: Walter Kohn, James A. Klingshirn
  • Patent number: 8709002
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modifying an eye including a light source with light elements, a photodetector producing a signal representing images of the light elements and corresponding to locations on an ocular surface, an optical system directing light from the light elements reflected by the ocular surface onto the photodetector, a memory including code for processing the signal, and a processor for executing the code and outputting shape data for use in calculating a treatment plan for the eye. The code includes instructions for determining the shape data based on a combination of zonal reconstruction and polynomial fitting using the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: AMO Wavefront Sciences, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen W. Farrer
  • Patent number: 8712505
    Abstract: Systems and methods of analyzing an optical coherence tomography image of a retina are discussed. A 2-dimensional slice of the image can be aligned to produce an approximately horizontal image of the retina and an edge map based at least in part on the aligned slice. Also, at least one global representation can be determined based on a (multi-scale) spatial division, such as multi-scale spatial pyramid, on the slice and/or edge map. Creating the local features is based on the specified cell structure of the global representation. The local features can be constructed based on local binary pattern (LBP)-based features. Additionally, a slice can be categorized into one or more categories via one or more classifiers (e.g., support vector machines). Each category can be associated with at least one ocular pathology, and classifying can be based on the constructed global descriptors, which can include the LBP-based local descriptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Gadi Wollstein, Joel S. Schuman, Yu-Ying Liu, James M. Rehg, Mei Chen
  • Patent number: 8708496
    Abstract: Described herein are methods for imaging ocular devices. The methods generally involve (a) applying a scattering agent to the ocular device; and (b) imaging the ocular device using optical coherence tomography (OCT). The methods described herein provide useful structural information about the surface of the device with high sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Yeming Gu, Rebeca Kyker Bowden, William Jordan Hall, Deborah J. Mulcahy, Yongxing Qiu, Benjamin David Sullivan, Robert Carey Tucker
  • Publication number: 20140111774
    Abstract: There are provided an ophthalmologic apparatus, an ophthalmologic control method, and a recording medium capable of irradiating a subject's eye with an appropriate light amount. The ophthalmologic apparatus includes a measurement unit configured to measure a light amount emitted from a light source, and a control unit configured to control a light amount emitted from the light source based on relation information representing a relationship between a light amount emitted from the light source and a light amount irradiated on a test eye, and the light amount measured by the measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Isao Komine
  • Publication number: 20140111770
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus, when an output result of an imaging unit provided in an optical path of an imaging optical system satisfies a predetermined condition, stops controlling a driving unit in at least one direction based on a positional relationship of an image of the light flux, which has been reflected by a cornea of the subject's eye and regulated by a light flux regulation unit provided in the optical path of the imaging optical system, and maintains the control of the driving unit in the other directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Ohta, Toshiaki Okumura
  • Publication number: 20140111766
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a projection unit configured to project a light flux to a subject's eye, an imaging optical system configured to form an image of the light flux reflected by the subject's eye or an image of the subject's eye on an imaging plane, an imaging unit provided on the imaging plane of the imaging optical system, a determination unit configured to determine a parameter regarding the imaging unit or the projection unit for acquiring unique information of the subject's eye based on a physical property of the subject's eye, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire the unique information based on the image of the light flux or the image of the subject's eye captured by the imaging unit with use of the determined parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuaki Umekawa, Tomoyuki Ikegami
  • Publication number: 20140111768
    Abstract: The ophthalmologic apparatus includes a light source configured to irradiate a subject's eye, an irradiation optical system arranged between the light source and the subject's eye, a first image forming optical system configured to include a first optical path splitting member for splitting an optical path of the irradiation optical system and form an image of a return light from the subject's eye as a first image, and a second image forming optical system configured to include a second optical path splitting member for splitting an optical path of the irradiation optical system and form an image of a light output from the light source without through the subject's eye as a second image on a different position from that of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Isao Komine
  • Publication number: 20140111769
    Abstract: A compensation optical apparatus for obtaining and image of an object without reduction in image quality irrespective of aberration compensation, includes: a division unit for dividing a return beam from a measured object; an aberration measurement unit for measuring an aberration caused by the measured object, with a divided beam from the division unit; an aberration compensation unit for performing aberration compensation based on the aberration measured by the aberration measurement unit; a projection unit for projecting a beam obtained by the aberration compensation in the aberration compensation unit to the measured object; an acquirement unit for acquiring a value exhibiting a state of the measured object based on the return beam from the measured object, which is obtained by the beam projected from the projection unit; and a control unit for retreating the division unit from an optical path based on the value acquired by the acquirement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji NOZATO, Takeshi KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140111767
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes: an optical coherence system for obtaining a tomographic image of an examinee's eye, having an optical scanner for scanning the eye with measurement light and a detector for detecting an interference signal of the light and reference light; an observing optical system for acquiring a front image of the eye; a scan controller for controlling the optical scanner to scan with the light different transverse positions set on the image, and acquire first interference signals at the positions; a display controller for displaying on a monitor an image created in response to the first interference signal; and an image recapture setting unit for setting a rephotographing transverse position in response to an operation signal from an operating unit for the image on the monitor. The scan controller scans the eye with the light at the rephotographing transverse position, and acquires a second interference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Murase
  • Publication number: 20140111771
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for monitoring the movement of eyeball comprises collecting an image frame of pupil; extracting a pupil pixel set (S); extracting a boundary value of the pupil pixel set; setting a center point based on the boundary value and dividing the pupil pixel set into four quadrant sets (S1, S2, S3 and S4); calculating the coordinate of cross points of the two straight lines and traversing points in the four quadrants, wherein the cross points form a pupil center coordinate set (S5); and calculating an average value of horizontal and vertical directions according to the pupil center coordinate set (S5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: ISEN TECH & TRADING CO., LTD (CN)
    Inventor: Zhiyong Liu
  • Patent number: 8702236
    Abstract: A binocular pupillometer apparatus is provided with processing means to calculate the relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) in a subject. The RAPD is calculated as the shift required to bring the two pupillary responses of the left and right eyes into coincidence. Where the responses are not parallel, modified pupillary responses are determined having the same area difference between the responses and an average rate of change with respect to stimulation intensity. The RAPD is calculated from the modified pupillary responses rather than the observed responses. Improvements to the pupillometer include a divider positioned between the left and right stimulating channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Procyon Instruments Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Robert Stafford Taylor
  • Patent number: 8702238
    Abstract: Medical tests and examinations are performed with consumer computing devices. The medical tests and examinations are selected and customized in accordance with conditions present in the testing environment, as well as physical characteristics of a user taking the test. The tests can include visual acuity tests, colorblindness tests and other medical tests, such as hearing tests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Orca Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew M. Berry, Robert M. Berry, Wesley D. Chapman, Jacob S. Lybbert
  • Publication number: 20140104572
    Abstract: A tunable, achromatizing optical system for use with a broadband imaging modality system for imaging objects having a range of longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA) values. The optical system includes an achromatizing component and a parfocal component, for example, a zoom system. A method for tuning the wavefront curvature of different chromatic components of objects having a range of longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA) values when imaged by a broadband imaging modality system includes the steps of providing a broadband imaging modality system having an entrance pupil, for imaging an object having longitudinal chromatic aberration; providing a tunable, achromatizing optical system; and varying the focal length of the parfocal component while maintaining a conjugate relationship between the achromatizing component and the entrance pupil of the broadband imaging modality system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    Inventors: Robin Sharma, Yusufu N. Sulai
  • Publication number: 20140104569
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus which captures an image of a retina by illuminating the fundus of an eye to be examined with light from a light source through a measuring optical path is provided. The ophthalmic apparatus divides light from the light source into light propagating to the measuring optical path and light propagating to a reference optical path different from the measuring optical path, obtains interference light by composing return light returned along the reference optical path and return light from the measuring optical path, images interference fringes generated by the interference light composed at a position conjugate with the position of the pupil of the eye, and corrects a wavefront aberration of light passing through the measuring optical path by using correction data for correcting a wavefront aberration of the eye which is obtained from a captured image of interference fringes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shoichi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20140104568
    Abstract: Methods and tools for evaluating fit of eyewear are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes steps of evaluating coverage provided by an eyewear article on the face of the wearer and evaluating a gap formed between a peripheral edge of the eyewear article and the face of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Karen Cuta, Christopher J. Dujovski, Laurent Froissard, Christopher Henderson, Donald Rust, Andrew Stephen Viner
  • Publication number: 20140104570
    Abstract: A fundus camera, which does not take time for adjustment of illumination light amount and focusing even if brightness of the fundus is different for each eye to be inspected, includes an illumination unit for illuminating the fundus of the eye to be inspected, a photometry unit for performing photometry of reflection light from the fundus illuminated by the illumination unit, an illumination light amount control unit for controlling a light amount of the illumination unit, a focus detection area determining unit for determining a focus detection area with respect to a fundus image taken by an image pickup unit, and a focus detection unit for detecting a focus position in the area determined by the focus detection area determining unit. The photometry unit calculates a photometry value of the focus detection area, and the illumination light amount is controlled based on the photometry value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiraku Ogura
  • Publication number: 20140104575
    Abstract: This document provides methods and materials for quantifying ocular counter roll and detecting vestibular otolith damage. For example, devices for quantifying ocular counter roll, methods of making devices for quantifying ocular counter roll, and methods for using a device to quantify (e.g., quantify indirectly) ocular counter roll are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    Inventor: David A. Zapala
  • Publication number: 20140104571
    Abstract: In order to perform observation and imaging by the same image capture unit, an ophthalmologic imaging method includes illuminating a fundus of an eye to be inspected with light having a first wavelength, guiding return light from the fundus to an image capture unit through a focus lens so as to obtain an in-focus position of the focus lens in accordance with the light having the first wavelength, illuminating the fundus with light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and guiding return light from the fundus to the image capture unit through the focus lens so as to obtain an image of the fundus. The focus lens is moved to an in-focus position for the light having the second wavelength based on a wavelength difference between the light having the first wavelength and the light having the second wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiraku Ogura
  • Publication number: 20140104574
    Abstract: Ocular surface interferometry (OSI) devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for measuring a tear film layer thickness (TFLT) of the ocular tear film, including the lipid layer thickness (LLT) and/or the aqueous layer thickness (ALT). The TFLT can be used to diagnose dry eye syndrome (DES). Certain embodiments also include ocular topography devices, systems and methods for deducing corneal shape by capturing an image of a target reflecting from the surface of the cornea. The image of the target contains topography information that is reviewable by a clinician to diagnose the health of the patient's eye by detecting corneal aberrations and/or abnormalities in corneal shape. Certain embodiments also include a combination of the OSI and ocular topography devices, systems and methods to provide imaging that can be used to yield a combined diagnosis of the patient's tear film and corneal shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: TearScience, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Grenon, Donald R. Korb
  • Publication number: 20140104573
    Abstract: An ophthalmic imaging apparatus divides a frame image obtained by capturing a moving image into a plurality of regions grouping pixels, and acquires photometric values corresponding the plurality of the regions. Further, the ophthalmic imaging apparatus determines acknowledgement or dis-acknowledgement of capturing a still image based on temporal variation of the acquired photometric values or distribution of the acquired photometric values on a fundus image. The ophthalmic imaging apparatus inhibits to execute a still image capturing of the fundus if the dis-acknowledgement of capturing is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Iwanaga
  • Patent number: 8696123
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine an incident angle of a signal light beam made incident on an object to be imaged in accordance with a structure of the object to be imaged and an instruction unit configured to send an instruction to capture a tomographic image of the object to be imaged on the basis of the signal light beam made incident on the object to be imaged at the determined incident angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Miyasa, Akihiro Katayama