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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127431 | SCANNING OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR LARGE AXIAL SCAN DEPTH ANTERIOR SEGMENT OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) An optical coherence tomography scanning system includes a lens divided into two halves: one optimized to achieve normal incidence angles on the posterior surface of the eye's lens, the other optimized for the anterior surface of the eye's lens.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127432 | MEASURING OCULAR POINT SPREAD FUNCTION USING ADAPTIVE OPTICS Measurement of the optical point spread function through a double-pass technique is enhanced by using adaptive optics to form a tiny spot of light on the retina.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120081668 | IMAGING OF MACULAR PIGMENT DISTRIBUTIONS Macular pigments are measured by spectrally selective lipofuscin detection. Light from a light source that emits light at a selected range of wavelengths that overlap the absorption band of macular carotenoids is directed onto macular tissue of an eye for which macular ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20120069302 | Electronically Controlled Fixation Light for Ophthalmic Imaging Systems An electronically controlled fixation light system is described for ophthalmic systems. The ophthalmic system can include an ophthalmic imaging device that generates an image of a portion of an imaged eye, a fixation light controller that includes an input module, confi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050684 | LASER ILLUMINATION SYSTEM An ophthalmic endoillumination system comprises a self-contained power source and a laser light source powered by the self-contained power source to produce light. The system further comprises an elongated member sized for insertion into an eye and for conducting the li... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050680 | LIGHT INTENSITY CONTROL APPARATUS, LIGHT INTENSITY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND OPHETHALMOLOGIC APPARATUS Provided is a light intensity control apparatus including: a photometry value calculation portion for measuring reflected light from a fundus under illumination of an observation light source; an observation light source control portion for controlling a light intensity... | 03/01/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120026461 | FUNDUS OPTICAL IMAGE DEVICE A fundus optical image device includes a light source, a first optical element set and a second optical element set. The light emitted from the light source reaches the fundus through the first optical element set. The second optical element set has at least one curvatu... | 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 |
| 20120013909 | Apparatus and method of monitoring and measurement using spectral low coherence interferometry A spectral interferometry apparatus and method are disclosed, that can be used to monitor or measure an unknown length by following a characteristic of an indicating signal. The measurement is performed by adjusting an optical path difference (OPD) in an interferometer ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013849 | Apparatus and method of monitoring and measurement using spectral low coherence interferometry A spectral interferometry apparatus and method are disclosed, that can be used to monitor or measure an unknown length by following a characteristic of an indicating signal. The measurement is performed by adjusting an optical path difference (OPD) in an interferometer ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110299038 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AND/OR ADJUSTING THE SAME An ophthalmological measuring system, for obtaining biometric data of an eye, provided with the necessary calibration and check devices for monitoring the functionality and the calibration status. The ophthalmological measuring system includes an illumination source for... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292344 | Real-time spectrally-adjustable ophthalmic illumination An ophthalmic illuminator is provided that includes a plurality of color sources, each color source producing a light of a corresponding color; a combiner for combining the light from the color sources to produced a combined light; at least one optical fiber configured ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292343 | Spectrally-adjustable ophthalmic illumination with discrete sources An ophthalmic illuminator includes a one or more light combining stages arranged in series to augment a white light source with various color spectral bands. A first stage combines white light from a white light source with colored light from a first color source. Each ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285961 | TEAR FILM MEASUREMENT The invention comprises an apparatus for measuring the relative thickness of the lipid layer component of the precorneal tear film on the surface of an eye after distribution of the lipid layer subsequent to blinking is disclosed. An illuminator directs light to the lip... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110279778 | OPHTHALMIC APPARATUS, ADAPTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS An ophthalmic apparatus includes an aberration correction unit which corrects aberration occurring in light irradiating an eye to be examined; and a common optical system which is commonly provided for an optical path of irradiated light on the aberration correction uni... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279777 | System and Method for Illumination and Fixation With Ophthalmic Diagnostic Instruments An eye measurement system may include a target that moves transverse to an optical path from the target to eye, so as to relax accommodation of the lens of the eye. The target may move transverse to the optical path on a display. The patient may be fogged while the targ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279775 | Apparatus and Method for Diagnosing Disease Involving Optic Nerve An apparatus and a method for diagnosing optic neuropathic diseases including glaucoma, are provided. The apparatus for diagnosing optical neuropathic diseases measures a thickness of a retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) using methods such as optical coherence tomography ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110261324 | Illumination System for an Ophthalmic Surgical Microscope, Ophthalmic Surgical Microscope, and Method for Operating an Illumination System for an Ophthalmic Surgical Microscope Disclosed is an illumination system for an ophthalmic surgical microscope (10), including a light source (32) for emitting light along an illumination beam path (50) directed toward an eye (12) of a patient, and a measuring device (54, 62<... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261323 | 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 |
| 20110255054 | DEVICE FOR SWEPT-SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY A device for swept-source optical coherence domain reflectometry (SS OCDR) on moveable samples, particularly human eyes, for obtaining A-scans, having a measuring range according to the sample length and having a laser light source which can be adjusted by a main wave n... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110244504 | BIOMARKERS OF INFLAMMATION IN BRUCH'S MEMBRANE OF THE HUMAN RETINA A method of diagnosing a patient with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), by detecting biomarkers in the patient's Bruch's membrane, and diagnosing the patient with AMD. A method of detecting the presence of AMD in a patient, by detecting biomarkers in the patient's... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110228222 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TAKING IMAGE OF EYEGROUND BY OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY An optical unit concentrates light beams from measurement-light paths at first and second irradiation positions on an eyeground. Next, a control unit controls a scanning unit so that the light beams concentrated at the first and second irradiation positions are scanned ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228223 | SPECTRAL CONTRAST FOR GLAUCOMA IMAGING A system for analyzing and detecting early stage damage to the retina related to glaucoma. The reflectance of different wavelengths of light by the retinal nerve fiber layer are compared. Changes in relative reflectance values indicate damage to the retinal nerve fibers... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110230130 | LAMINAR-FLOW OPERATING THEATRE Laminar-flow operating theatre that comprises a support (4) that defines a horizontal plane, on which the patient (2) rests, which has a main longitudinal direction, on which support (4) there is, in addition, an operating region (R), laminar-flow-e... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110224658 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC LASER SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD An ophthalmologic laser system and an operating method. The laser system includes a laser, a scanner unit, a focusing lens and a beam splitter that directs radiation that reaches the beam splitter from the direction of the area of examination through a confocal aperture... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110211162 | OPTHALMIC APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS Ophthalmic apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed. One embodiment is an ophthalmic scanning apparatus including a laser operable to emit a laser beam, a scanning mirror operable to scan the laser beam over at least a +/−15 degree scan, and a lens system operab... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205492 | OPHTHALMOLOGICAL DEVICE An ophthalmological device (1) in accordance with an embodiment of the present application includes an optical transmission system (5) for transmitting femtosecond laser pulses to a projection objective (3) for projecting the femtosecond laser pulse... | 08/25/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110157554 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OCULAR AXIAL LENGTH An object of one aspect of the present invention is to obtain a measurement value in accordance with the condition of a crystalline lens of an examinee's eye. An apparatus for measuring ocular axial length includes: a measuring unit which irradiates measurement waves to... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110149247 | Bichromatic white ophthalmic illuminator An ophthalmic endoilluminator having only a first monochromatic light source emitting a first light and a second monochromatic light source emitting a second light. The first and second lights defining a light color axis representable on a chromaticity graph. A collimat... | 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 |
| 20110149246 | Photonic lattice LEDs for ophthalmic illumination Photonic lattice sources drive an optical fiber in an ophthalmic illuminator to illuminate the interior of an eye. To produce white light, an RGB combination of photonic lattice LEDs may be used. Alternatively, a bichromatic combination of photonic lattice LEDs produce ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110128501 | SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A CORNEA AND OBTAINING AN OPHTHALMIC LENS A system for determining the shape of a cornea of an eye illuminates at least one of the interior surface, the posterior surface, and the interior region of the eye with infrared light of a wavelength that can generate fluorescent light from the portion of the cornea il... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110128500 | SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A CORNEA AND OBTAINING AN OPHTHALMIC LENS A system for determining the shape of a cornea of an eye illuminates at least one of the interior surface, the posterior surface, and the interior region of the eye with infrared light of a wavelength that can generate fluorescent light from the portion of the cornea il... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110128499 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING DISTANCE BETWEEN EYE TISSUES An eye distance measurement apparatus according to one aspect of the invention includes an interfering optical system that projects at least one piece of split light toward an examinee's eye, combines the split light, guides the combined light to a light receiving devic... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110122366 | Single-fiber multi-spot laser probe for ophthalmic endoillumination An ophthalmic endoilluminator is provided. The ophthalmic endoilluminator includes a light source, a first optical assembly, an optical coupling element, and an optical fiber having an optical grating located distally on the optical fiber, the optical fiber optically co... | 05/26/2011 |
