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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127429 | EYE POSITION REGISTERING AND TRACKING Embodiments of the invention refer to a system for registering and tracking the position of a person's eye, in particular for refractive ophthalmic surgery. According to embodiments, the system is structured such that eye images containing at least the iris and the pupi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127430 | System And Method For Objective Chromatic Perimetry Analysis Using Pupillometer The present invention relates to a system, device and a method for objective visual field testing and in particular, to such a system and method in which provides objective chromatic perimetry test or color vision test using a pupillometer.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105802 | AUTOMATIC ACCOMMODATIVE SPECTACLES USING SENSORS AND FOCUSING ELEMENTS A pair of spectacles that can automatically change its power so that a fixation region of interest (ROI) of the user is always in focus. The automatic accommodative spectacle device includes focusing elements, sensors, line of sight detector, focus engine, focusing elem... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081666 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTIVE SECONDARY SACCADES ANALYSIS WITH VIDEO OCULOGRAPHY SYSTEM A video oculography system for calculation and display of Corrective Secondary Saccades Analysis is disclosed. A method for Objective Diagnostics of at least one of traumatic brain injury, Internuclear Opthalmopligia, Ocular Lateral Pulsion, Progressive Supernuclear Pal... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120050682 | OPHTHALMIC SPECTACLES FOR CHARACTERIZING THE DIRECTION OF GAZE OF A WEARER The invention relates to ophthalmic spectacles for characterizing the direction of gaze of a wearer. Each lens of the spectacles is provided with output sections for directing a radiation towards the ocular areas of the wearer, in which different portions of an ocular l... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050681 | OPHTHALMIC SPECTACLES FOR CHARACTERIZING A CONVERGENCE OF THE EYES OF A WEARER The invention relates to ophthalmic spectacles for characterizing a convergence of the eyes of a wearer. Each lens of the spectacles is provided with output sections for guiding a radiation towards the side areas of an eye of the carrier, in which the right and left por... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110261320 | ARRANGEMENT FOR ATTAINING HIGH-PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF AN EYE A solution for attaining high-precision and reproducible measurements during opthalmological biometry and imaging includes an illumination unit for producing a fixation marker, a device for transmitting the light of the produced fixation marker into the eye, a measureme... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110176110 | ARRANGEMENTS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING AN EYE MOVEMENT, PARTICULARLY A MOVEMENT OF THE FUNDUS OF THE EYE In addition to a first detector for capturing a potential movement field of the eye in overview images, a second detector is used to capture a particular section of the eye in sectional images. From a displacement between two overview images and an intermediate displace... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110157553 | SURGICAL MICROSCOPY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING EYE SURGERY A surgical microscopy system comprises microscopy optics for generating an image of an eye under surgery. A pattern generator generates a pattern to be superimposed with the image. An eye-tracker is provided for tracking a position of the superimposed pattern with respe... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110116045 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE An ophthalmic imaging apparatus for imaging a subject's eye includes a detection unit configured to detect facts that the subject's eye moves by an amount of movement thereof, which is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and that the movement thereof is finishe... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109880 | Eye Tracker Device Two collimated light beams are directed towards an eye to provide two reflection spots. The collimated light beams are advantageously provided by a diffractive beam expander. The reflection spots and the pupil of the eye are monitored by an imaging unit. The collimated ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110069277 | VISUAL DISPLAY WITH ILLUMINATORS FOR GAZE TRACKING A visual display characterized by hidden reference illuminators is adapted to emit invisible light for generating corneo-scleral reflections on an eye watching a screen surface of the display. The tracking of such reflections and the pupil center provides input for gaze... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110043759 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING FAMILIARITY WITH STIMULI The present invention comprises a system and method for determining the familiarity of a subject with a given stimulus. The method is based on tracking eye movements of the subject when they are presented with these stimuli, for example by use of an eye-tracking camera ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110001930 | PHASE MODULATION DEVICE FOR AN OPHTHALMIC INSTRUMENT, OPHTHALMIC INSTRUMENTS EQUIPPED WITH SUCH DEVICE, AND RELATED CALIBRATION METHOD A phase modulation device implemented in an ophthalmic instrument using a main light beam interacting with an eye, the device including: an apparatus for modulating the phase of the wave front of the main light beam, a controller for controlling the phase modulation app... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100309432 | EYEBALL MOTION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS An eye movement measurement apparatus 1 measures movement of a cornea 101 by imaging a corneal reflection light image L2 generated as a result of irradiating the cornea 101 with infrared light L1. The eye movement measurement apparatus... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100283972 | Saccadic Motion Detection System A saccadic motion detection system comprised of an optical system that focuses light reflected or emitted from the subject's eye onto an optical navigation chip, which connects to circuitry configured to convert analog light from the eye to digital representations motio... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100245767 | EYE-TRACKING METHOD AND EYE-TRACKING SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME An eye-tracking method includes: acquiring an image of an eye of a user captured by an image-capturing module while the user is gazing at a gazing location on a screen module and a pair of light sources emit light toward the eye of the user; determining an angle and an ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100220291 | WEARABLE EYE TRACKING SYSTEM An eye tracking system includes a transparent lens, at least one light source, and a plurality of light detectors. The transparent lens is adapted for disposal adjacent an eye. The at least one light source is disposed within the transparent lens and is configured to em... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100220290 | Apparatus and Method for Recognizing a Person's Gaze An apparatus and a method for recognizing a person's gaze are disclosed, where the apparatus includes a main body, an eye-movement detector, a data generator and a transmitter, where the main body has the specific area. The eye-movement detector can detect whether a gaz... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100208207 | AUTOMATIC DIRECT GAZE DETECTION BASED ON PUPIL SYMMETRY The present invention provides a system and methods for direct gaze detection based on pupil symmetry. The system and methods work by first finding the user's eyes in a video camera image and measuring the symmetry of the pupil region. If this pupil region is close to r... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100208206 | LATERAL GAZE ANGLE ESTIMATION USING RELATIVE EYE SEPARATION This invention provides for the automatic determination of a human's gaze angle. The gaze angle is assumed to be the same as the head angle (i.e., eyes looking straight ahead). It is determined by comparing the observed eye separation relative to a maximal eye separatio... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100149491 | PUPIL POSITION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, METHOD THEREFOR, AND DEVICE CONTAINING COMPUTER SOFTWARE A system and pupil position acquisition method and a device containing computer software for executing the same are provided. The system includes a shooting module, a scanning module, a signal transformation module, and a signal analysis module. The shooting module shoo... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100128222 | METHOD FOR VISUAL FIELD TESTING A method of ocular testing is provided using a testing apparatus having a display (2) and a control means (6, 17) for controlling movement of a cursor (7). The method comprises providing a fixation target (T), detecting when an observer (1) m... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100103375 | EYE-TRACKING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME An eye-tracking method includes acquiring an image of an eye of a user, identifying a pupil of and a reflected light spot on the eye from the acquired image, determining a distance of the reflected light spot from a reference point on the pupil and an angle of the refle... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100092049 | Method of Precision Eye-Tracking Through Use of Iris Edge Based Landmarks in Eye Geometry In the field of eye tracking, greater accuracy or resolution in monitoring movement of the eye can be gained by digitizing the eye, and tracking the movement of a landmark with fixed size and a fixed location relative to the eye's local coordinate system. The edge of th... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100067118 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY APPARATUS A head-up display apparatus having a structure capable of imaging a user, and enabling an eye position of the user to be accurately calculated is provided. The head-up display apparatus reflects visible light L emitted from display means 2 toward the user D by a ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100066975 | EYE TRACKING ILLUMINATION The invention relates to automatic eye tracking, wherein at least one imaging device (150) registers sequential image data (DEYE) representing at least one eye (181; 182) of a subject (180). A processing unit (170) receives the ima... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100057059 | CORNEAL SURGERY APPARATUS A corneal surgery apparatus which comprises a laser irradiation optical system and an eye position change detection unit comprising an illumination optical system and an image pick-up camera picking up an anterior-segment image of a patient's eye and detecting the chang... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100053555 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING EYE MOVEMENT An eye tracking apparatus includes a first image detector for capturing scene images, a second image detector fixed relative to the first image detector for capturing eye images including a pupil of a person and a reference object located within an image detection field... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100045933 | Device and method for determining the orientation of an eye In a device or a method for determining the direction of vision of an eye, a starting point or a final point of a light beam reflected by a part of the eye and detected by a detector system, or of a light beam projected by a projection system onto or into the eye two-di... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100002192 | PERIMETER A perimeter has fixation state judging means for individually judging a fixation state of an examinee in connection with each presented stimulus, and the fixation state judging means individually judges the fixation state whenever the stimulus is presented. Even if defe... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090303435 | EYE EXAMINING SYSTEM AND METHOD The present invention is directed to a system and method of using a hand held occluder, which is visually opaque but transmits infrared light, in combination with an infrared imaging device for measuring deviations of an eye using cornea reflex measurement of a fixation... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090275929 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MEASUREMENT IN AN EYE DURING OPHTHALMIC PROCEDURE Systems and methods are provided for sensing a movement of an eye. The system includes a light source configured to illuminate the eye with a first light having a polarization state, an image capture apparatus configured to generate at least one image of the eye based o... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090225278 | Eyeball locating method and system An eyeball locating system includes a display panel, an application program and a matrix optical sensor. The matrix optical sensor is disposed in the display panel. The application program controls the matrix optical sensor, executing an eyeball locating method to measu... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090219484 | VIEW POINT DETECTING DEVICE A gaze point detecting device 1 detects a gaze point of an object person by projecting a display image displayed by an LCD 8 to outside via a finder 4 and capturing an eye image of the object person by a CCD 11 in response to illumination lig... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090174864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING EYE MOVEMENT A system for tracking eye movement is disclosed. A first light source, emitting light including a first wavelength, is adapted to illuminate corneal tissue of an eye. The first wavelength is selected such that it is strongly absorbed by corneal tissue. A position sensit... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090153800 | Light Sensitivity Meter and Uses Thereof A text apparatus for measuring the degree of light-sensitivity of a subject, such as a subject with cataracts or migraines. The apparatus comprises a viewing shroud for positioning at least one eye of the subject in a testing position and an illumination source adapted ... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090115966 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING EYE RESPONSES TO AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINE IMPAIRMENT OF A SUBJECT The impairment determination system automatically determines impairment of a subject based on pupil movement, as well as pupil responses to illumination and target tracking for either eye or both eyes simultaneously. The impairment determination system automatically pro... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090115965 | SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING EYE RESPONSES TO AUTOMATICALLY TRACK SIZE, LOCATION, AND MOVEMENT OF THE PUPIL The present system for analyzing eye responses accurately and automatically tracks the size, location, and movement of a subject's pupil(s) in response to a predetermined test protocol. These eye responses include both ocularmotor and pupillary responses to illumination... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090109400 | GAZE DIRECTION MEASURING METHOD AND GAZE DIRECTION MEASURING DEVICE A face horizontal direction measuring unit measures the angle of the face horizontal direction for a face image obtained by an imaging unit. By using information on the radius of the head and information on the shoulder position of the person obtained by the aforementio... | 04/30/2009 |
