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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120081667 | Arrangement and method for carrying out a surgical treatment of an eye An arrangement for carrying out a surgical treatment of an eye includes a diagnostic instrument which is adapted to register eye-structure data. A data processing unit is adapted to generate, on the basis of the eye-structure data registered by the diagnostic instrument... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081663 | Simulator for use in ophthalmological measurements A simulator to be used in ophthalmological measurements includes a display apparatus and a control device. The control device is adapted to control the display apparatus in such a manner that the display apparatus displays an image that is adapted to simulate the arrang... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069297 | EYEGLASS PRESCRIPTION METHOD In general, in some embodiments, the disclosure provides a method that includes making a subjective refraction of a person to determine information about the person's vision, making a wavefront measurement of one or both of the person's eyes to determine information abo... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069303 | MEASURING SYSTEM FOR OPHTHALMIC SURGERY The invention relates to an optical measuring system comprising a wave front sensor for characterizing a shape of a wave front of measuring light and an imaging lens, wherein the imaging lens comprises a first optical assembly and a second optical assembly for imaging a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069298 | OCULAR MODELING METHODS AND APPARATUS A method and apparatus for modeling a lens of an eye, comprising: measuring the anterior shape of the eye's cornea; determining direct optical measurements of at least one parameter of the cornea and at least one parameter of the lens; determining the refractive index o... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050675 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE CONTROL APPARATUS In an ophthalmologic apparatus in which a head part is moved at a speed according to a rotation speed of a rotational part of a joystick, in order to enable a moving amount of the head part to correspond to a rotation amount even when the rotation speed becomes higher, ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044454 | CUSTOMIZED INTRAOCULAR LENS POWER CALCULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD Selecting an optimal intraocular lens (IOL) from a plurality of IOLs for implanting in a subject eye, including measuring anterior corneal topography (ACT), axial length (AXL), and anterior chamber depth (ACD) of a subject eye; selecting a default equivalent refractive ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120033179 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF THE OCULAR PIVOT POINT The invention relates to a method for determining the location of the ocular pivot point (ADL) in an eye (10) of a test person. In the method, the mean curvature (KH) of the cornea (14) of the eye (10) is determined. The mean phase error (PF) of the... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026460 | COMPOUND MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION FOR LASER SURGERY AND OTHER OPTICAL APPLICATIONS Methods, devices, and systems establish an optical surface shape that mitigates or treats a vision condition in a patient. An optical surface shape for a particular patient can be determined using a set of patient parameters for the specific patient by using a compound ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019780 | OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An ophthalmic apparatus comprises: aberration correction unit arranged to correct aberration of at least one of irradiating light directed to an eye to be examined and return light from the eye; light-receiving unit arranged to receive, as return light from the eye, the... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110304819 | Image-Guided Docking for Ophthalmic Surgical Systems A docking method for an ophthalmic system may include the steps of aligning a docking unit of the ophthalmic system and an eye; generating an image of an internal structure of the eye by an imaging system; improving an alignment of the docking unit with the internal str... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304822 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD An ophthalmological measuring device for determining geometric structures in an eye includes an optical, triangulating measurement system for determining at least one geometric reference in the eye by triangulation, and an optical, interferometric measurement system for... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110292395 | INTERFEROMETRIC SAMPLE MEASUREMENT A device for the interferometric measurement of a sample, in particular the eye, including an interferometer arrangement with a first measurement beam path, through which a measurement beam falls onto the sample, and a first reference beam path, through which a referenc... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292336 | ANGLE INDICATOR FOR OCULAR MEASUREMENTS Implantation of an accommodating intraocular lens in an eye may require the accurate measurement of the size, circumference, or diameter of the capsular bag of the eye. A flexible ring or ring portion may be temporarily or permanently inserted into the capsular bag for ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110279774 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTION OF OBJECTIVE VISUAL ACUITY BASED ON WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENTS Methods, devices, and systems for predicting an optical acuity measure of an optical system of an eye. An optical acuity measure can be predicted by determining a point spread function based on a wavefront measurement of an eye, convolving a resolution target with the p... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282331 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY WITH MULTIPLE IMAGING INSTRUMENTS A combination includes an OCT system, an optical instrument, optics defining an optical path from the optical instrument to a target, and secondary optics for coupling the OCT system to the optical path. This combination permits simultaneous operation of the OCT system ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110273666 | VISION CORRECTION LENSES A method of customizing vision correction including measuring optical aberration data of a patient's eye and calculating a lens definition based on the optical aberration data, wherein calculating the lens definition comprises calculating a correction of at least one lo... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267579 | INTEGRATED SURGICAL MICROSCOPE AND WAVEFRONT SENSOR A wavefront sensor is integrated with a surgical microscope for allowing a doctor to make repeated wavefront measurements of a patient's eye while the patient remains on an operating table in the surgical position. The device includes a wavefront sensor optically aligne... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110261319 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING RETINOSCOPES A device for calibrating retinoscopes for diverging and/or converging streak and spot retinoscopy and a method for calibrating retinoscopes to produce a given convergence or divergence of light emitted from the retinoscope from a fixed retinoscopic working distance to p... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS A method of creating a statistical model for use in predicting vision correction prescriptions for patients is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of wavefront aberration measurements from a plurality of patient's eyes, obtaining a plurality of visual ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249236 | SCHEMATIC EYE AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND EVALUATION METHOD FOR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS A schematic eye used for the evaluation of the optical system of an optical coherence tomography apparatus which captures a tomogram of the fundus includes the first optical member which irradiated light from the optical system strikes and the second optical member whic... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110242482 | System and Method for Determining and Predicting IOL Power in Situ The present invention relates to a system and a method for determining the power of an artificial intraocular lens (IOL) in situ. The invention furthermore relates to a system and a method for predicting the optical outcome of IOL surgery. Use of the system may provide ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238045 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE FOR TREATING THE HUMAN EYE A method for controlling a device for the treatment or refractive correction of the human eye using an electronic data processing system provides a simple overview of the influence of all of the parameters. To this end, once the operating parameters have been determined... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110228219 | OPHTHALMIC SIMULATOR A metamorphopsia simulator is capable of numerically simulating deformation of the retina of a metamorphopsia patient and irregularity in an arrangement of visual cells caused thereby. The metamorphopsia simulator of the present invention uses a method of digitizing a d... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228218 | IMAGING SYSTEM Imaging systems are provided allowing examination of different object regions spaced apart in a depth direction by visual microscopy and by optical coherence tomography. An axial field of view and a lateral resolution is varied depending on which object region is examin... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110222020 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Distributed Scanning for Motion Artifact Reduction in Optical Coherence Tomography Methods of reducing motion artifacts in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) include scanning a sample with a scan pattern to acquire OCT data at a plurality of data locations. The data locations are distributed in the scan pattern across the sample such that at least som... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110222021 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL MEASURING DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT METHOD An ophthalmological measuring device for determining geometric structures in an eye includes an optical, triangulating measurement system for determining at least one geometric reference in the eye by triangulation, and an optical, interferometric measurement system for... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110211161 | Diagnostic, Prescriptive, And Data-Gathering System And Method For Macular Pigment Deficits And Other Eye Disorders A macular health measurement and storage system comprises a plurality of macular-pigment measurement machine for measuring macular pigment density in humans, a plurality of computers each of which is associated with a corresponding one the macular-pigment measuring mach... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205488 | METHOD, DEVICE AND ARRANGEMENT FOR MEASURING THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF AN OPTICAL SYSTEM A method for measuring the dynamic behavior of an optical system is aimed at rendering the dynamic behavior of the optical system objectively detectable. To this end, the optical system to be measured is stimulated by stimuli whereby causing it to react, and the reactio... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199578 | Imaging System According to certain embodiments, foveal array elements of a foveal region of a focal plane array are sampled at a faster sampling rate to yield foveal array data. Peripheral array elements of a peripheral region of the focal plane array are sampled at a slower sampling... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199575 | NON-REFLECTIVE IMAGING OPTICS FOR OPTICAL DEVICES, PARTICULARLY IN OPHTHALMOLOGY Imaging optics for optical devices, with which reflections of the illumination light, which is guided through the same optical elements as the observation light, are kept from reaching the observation pupil of the imaging beam path. The non-reflective imaging optics inc... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199576 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MEASURING TEAR FILM AND DIAGNOSING TEAR DISORDERS Methods and devices measure eye blinks and tear film lipid and aqueous layer thickness before and following ophthalmic formula application onto the ocular surface, especially wherein the ophthalmic formula is an artificial tear. The methods and devices are suitable for ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110181836 | PHANTOM FOR RENDERING BIOLOGICAL TISSUE REGIONS Models of anatomical parts and methods utilizing and fabricating such anatomical models are provided. The model can include an assembly of one or more optically transmissive media having a first portion and a second portion. The one or more optically transmissive media ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110170059 | PHYSICAL MODEL EYE SYSTEMS AND METHODS An optically realistic model eye is described. The optically realistic eye model has an optical axis and includes: an anterior replaceable module comprising a model cornea, model iris and model lens rotatably mounted for rotation about said axis, said module being repre... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164220 | Adaptive Sequential Wavefront Sensor with Variable Aperture One embodiment is a machine comprising a sequential wavefront scanner, a variable aperture, a position sensing device and a controller. The controller is coupled to the variable aperture and sequential wavefront scanning device and configured to coordinate the operation... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110149240 | ASSESSMENT OF TOPOGRAPHIC SEMI-MERIDIAN PARAMETERS FOR CORNEAL ASTIGMATISM ANALYSIS AND VECTOR PLANNING TREATMENT Techniques are disclosed in which a topographic parameter is determined in each semi-meridian of the eye by considering the topography in each of three concentric zones from the central axis at 3 mm, 5 mm, and 7 mm and assigning weighting factors for each zone, By selec... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110149241 | ZONE EXTENSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Wavefront measurements of eyes are often taken when the pupil is in a first configuration in an evaluation context. The results can be represented by a set of basis function coefficients. Prescriptive treatments are often applied in a treatment context, which is differe... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110149245 | OPTICAL COHERENCE REFLECTOMETRY WITH DEPTH RESOLUTION A device for performing distance measurements on an eye. The device includes an interferometer, focuses at least one measurement beam records backscattered radiation and interferometrically generates a measurement signal displaying structures of the eye by time-domain, ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110152846 | VISION CORRECTION SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF A vision correction system and an operating method thereof are provided. The vision correction system includes an evaluation device and a correction device. The evaluation device scans an eyeball of a person and records a spherical curvature of a cornea of the eyeball a... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110149239 | OPTICAL DIAGNOSIS USING MEASUREMENT SEQUENCE Devices, systems, and methods that facilitate optical analysis, particularly for the diagnosis and treatment of refractive errors of the eye. An optical diagnostic method for an eye includes obtaining a sequence of aberration measurements of the eye, identifying an outl... | 06/23/2011 |
