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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120038886 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC OBSERVATION AND PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS An ophthalmologic observation and photographing apparatus capable of photographing a color image and a fluorescence image includes an illumination unit for illuminating a fundus of a subject's eye, an observation and photographing unit for observing and photographing a ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033180 | OPHTHALMIC DEVICE AND METHOD An ophthalmic device and method actively correcting possible movement of the eye of a patient with respect to the correct positioning during the examination are described. An illumination light beam is provided, that passes through a cross-section of the anterior chambe... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033181 | FUNDUS OBSERVATION APPARATUS The fundus observation apparatus 1 has a function to form tomographic images and 3-dimensional images of a fundus Ef by scanning signal light LS as well as a function to form a moving image (observation image K) of a fundus Ef during OCT measurement. Furthermore,... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120002166 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS AND OPHTHALMOLOGIC SYSTEM Provided are a fundus imaging apparatus and a fundus imaging method capable of alleviating loads on an operator and a patient in fundus imaging and of acquiring a high-resolution fundus image. The fundus imaging apparatus having a tracking function is configured to: det... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110299037 | Ophthalmic photographing apparatus A method for obtaining a tomographic image of a fundus by optical coherence tomography includes the steps of setting a line, based on which the fundus tomographic image is to be obtained, on a first front image of the fundus, the first front image being a still image, e... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292341 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED EYE MEASUREMENT An imaging method according to some embodiments of the present invention includes obtaining working distance information from an optical coherence tomography system, the working distance being the working distance to the sample; obtaining information from one or more oc... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110242488 | OPHTHALMIC MEASUREMENT APPARATUS Provided is an ophthalmic measurement apparatus capable of quickly transferring from measurement of ocular characteristics of one eye to measurement of ocular characteristics of the other eye. An ophthalmic measurement apparatus 10 includes: measurement units ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234978 | Multi-functional Adaptive Optics Retinal Imaging An optical apparatus includes a system of optical components capable of operating in a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) mode and an optical coherence tomography (OCT) mode. The system of optical components includes a first optical module for the SLO mode, a second op... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110202044 | Optical Coherence Tomographic System for Ophthalmic Surgery Optical imaging techniques and systems provide high-fidelity optical imaging based on optical coherence tomographic imaging and can be used for optical imaging in ophthalmic surgery and imaging-guided surgery. One method for imaging an eye includes positioning the eye r... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202017 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING THE REFRACTION OF AN EYE, THE RADIUS OF CURVATURE OF THE CORNEA OR THE INTERNAL PRESSURE OF AN EYE A method for establishing the refraction of an eye (9) by means of a refractometer (3) is provided, in which the current visual axis (S) of the eye (9) is established before establishing the refraction, the refractometer (3) is aligned with r... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199579 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND METHOD It has been very cumbersome to determine whether or not alignment is required before the fundus image is acquired after the tomographic image is acquired, causing the reduction in diagnostic efficiency. An ophthalmic apparatus is provided to solve this problem, which co... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110187995 | PURKINJIE IMAGE-BASED ALIGNMENT OF SUCTION RING IN OPHTHALMIC APPLICATIONS An alignment device including means for releasably attaching a suction ring and means for applying a pattern of light to an eye of a patient. The alignment device further including means for detecting light reflected from the eye and determining whether the suction ring... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110176111 | OPHTHALMIC PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS An ophthalmic photographing apparatus includes: an interference optical system including a splitter that splits light, emitted from a measurement light source, into measurement light and reference light, and synthesizing the measurement light reflected on an eye with th... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110051089 | FUNDUS IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR A fundus image is displayed, which enables accurate positioning and focusing to be easily performed with respect to an eye to be examined even on a small display unit by selecting a display magnification. At a first display magnification, an opening portion “m” of a... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110051090 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes an optical system, a pedestal, an auxiliary lens configured to be able to be inserted into and retracted from the optical system, a focusing lens, a focusing lens driving unit configured to move the focusing lens along ... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110043757 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING MOTION OF A SUBJECT USING A SERIES OF PARTIAL IMAGES FROM AN IMAGING SYSTEM A line scan imager is used to determine the motion of a subject. Each line of image data from the line scan imager is compared with a reference image. The location of a matching line in the reference image reveals the displacement of the subject. The current subject dis... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110032481 | FUNDUS CAMERA When a bright spot image A received by an imaging unit is extracted, in step S1, a light emitting surface P of an operational distance index is minutely moved back and forth in an optical axis direction of an imaging optical system toward a cornea. In step S2,... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110007274 | OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS When the fundus camera is positioned on the same side as the subject's eye relative to an appropriate position (front-focus state), the positioning index light source turned on in blue produces most-focused positioning index images. The positioning index light sources b... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110001928 | Systems for Imaging Structures of a Subject and Related Methods 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 st... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110001929 | Fundus photographing apparatus A fundus photographing apparatus has an optical system including a movable focusing lens and photographing a fundus, an optical system photo-receiving by a first image pickup element a target from an alignment target projection optical system and detect an alignment sta... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100296057 | OPHTHALMIC DEVICE An ophthalmic device is provided with a photographing optical system that photographs an eye fundus; an illumination optical system that illuminate the eye fundus; a split target projection optical system that projects a split target for focusing the photographing optic... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100277692 | FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS A fundus photographing apparatus includes a first photographing unit arranged to obtain a first fundus image and including a first illumination optical system including a first light source and a scanning unit, a first photographing optical system and a wavefront compen... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100278394 | Apparatus for Iris Capture An apparatus comprising an illumination source and an imaging sensor is provided to measure an iris for biometric identification purposes. The illumination source is configured to illuminate an eye to produce reflected light. The imaging sensor is configured to receive ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100259724 | Reflection microscope and method An apparatus and a method for operating an endothelium reflection microscope. The apparatus includes an optical head, which comprises: (i) an illuminating system, (ii) a frontal eye observation optical system along a central channel in which an alignment-use light spot ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100238404 | DIAGNOSIS OF OPTICALLY IDENTIFIABLE OPHTHALMIC CONDITIONS An apparatus for performing multiple procedures involving the eye. The apparatus includes an imager for imaging at least a portion of an eye of a patient, a data collection apparatus for collecting a data set corresponding to at least a portion of an eye of a patient, a... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100220289 | Optical Alignment Apparatus and Method Therefor An optical measurement apparatus comprises an optical system (100). The optical system (100) comprises a source (102) and an image capture device (112). The source (102) is arranged to generate, when in use, a beam of electromagnetic r... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100195050 | IMAGING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING TOMOGRAM OF FUNDUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An imaging control apparatus which controls an imaging unit configured to capture a tomogram of the fundus of a target eye includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information representing the direction of a fundus movement of the target eye, an analysis unit ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100182567 | FUNDUS OCULI OBSERVATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM CONTROLLING THE SAME [Task] To provide a fundus oculi observation device capable of effectively performing dispersion compensation. [Means for Resolution] A fundus oculi observation device 1 functions as an optical image measurement device that splits a ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100165293 | DUAL SCHEIMPFLUG SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF AN EYE An apparatus for imaging an eye can include a pair of Scheimpflug imaging systems. Each Scheimpflug imaging system can have respective video cameras and optics configured to direct light reflected from an eye into the video cameras. The apparatus can also have a movable... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100152847 | OPTICAL ANGULAR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR OPHTHALMIC APPLICATIONS AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING OF A TORIC INTRAOCULAR LENS WITH INCREASED ACCURACY An ophthalmic system for use in performing angular measurements in relation to a patient's eye. The ophthalmic system can include an optical angular measurement device that can provide angular indicia by, for example, projecting an image of an angular measurement reticl... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100123872 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS An opthalmologic apparatus changes the wavelength of index light, which is projected on an eye to be examined, by selecting the light emission of a visible LED and an infrared LED, and changes the position of a split unit along an optical axis based on the selection.... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100110378 | ENABLING MEASUREMENT WITH A HANDHELD EYE IMAGING DEVICE An apparatus and method is disclosed that enables an existing handheld eye imaging device to do direct measurement on images taken from the patient eye. In a preferred embodiment, a reticle is arranged in the handheld eye imaging device so that a reticle image is superi... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100110377 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS FOR IMAGING AN EYE BY OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY An OCT appliance (optical coherence tomography appliance) comprises an OCT module and a camera for observing the fundus of an eye. By recognizing characteristic features (biometric features), the means defining the region observed by the OCT module, in particular the sc... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100053554 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL EXAMINATION DEVICE The invention relates to an opthalmological measuring instrument, e.g. for determining the corneal curvature, anterior chamber depth, axial length, or the like, comprising measuring systems for determining said variables. The measuring systems are connected to an evalua... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100033677 | IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEM A system having a sensor and variable focus lens for iris image standoff acquisition. The sensor may capture a sequence of images at a high frame rate of a person for getting an eye or an iris in a window within the images. Even if the eye moves around in the image, the... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090323023 | Ophthalmologic Imager An ophthalmologic imager comprises an illuminating optical system (10) for projecting an illuminating light beam onto an ocular fundus, a light-receiving optical system (an imaging optical system (20), an observing optical system (30)) having a focu... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090279052 | Ophthalmologic surgical microscope system having an OCT-measuring device The invention is directed to an ophthalmologic surgical microscope system (100) for examining the eye of a patient. The ophthalmologic surgical microscope system includes a surgical microscope (101) as well as a carrier arrangement (102) wherein the... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090268161 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) IMAGING SYSTEMS HAVING ADAPTABLE LENS SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS OCT imaging systems are provided for imaging a spherical-type eye including a source having an associated source arm path and a reference arm having an associated reference arm path coupled to the source path. The reference arm path has an associated reference arm path ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090195750 | Ophthalmic apparatus An ophthalmic apparatus capable of alignment in total automation and manual alignment with an examinee's eye comprising an ophthalmic examination unit, a unit detecting an alignment state of the examination unit with the eye, a main base, a mobile base on which the exam... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090190092 | FUNDUS OCULI OBSERVATION DEVICE AND OPHTHALMIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE A fundus oculi observation device comprises: a first image forming part configured to form a 2-dimensional image of a surface of a fundus oculi of an eye; a second image forming part configured to form a tomographic image having a cross-sectional position in a measureme... | 07/30/2009 |
