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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186830 | Iris pattern recognition and alignment An improved aberrometer is disclosed having a variable visible illumination fixation target for controlling pupil size for the diagnostic images. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8177362 | Optical image measurement device A device is an OCT device that splits a low-coherence light into a signal light and a reference light, detects an interference light obtained by superimposing the signal light propagated through an eye and the reference light propagated through a reference mirror, a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172398 | Unit for obtaining and displaying fundus image Unit for obtaining and displaying fundus image is comprised of a memory that stores a plurality of fundus images wherein a positional relation between an optical axis of an eye ball being examined and an optical axis of an objective is different, an image playback p... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8152299 | Fundus camera A fundus camera includes an illumination optical system, an observation photographic optical system, a photographic diaphragm unit located in a position conjugate with the subject's eye in the observation photographic optical system, and an imaging unit disposed in ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147064 | Fundus camera When pattern recognition of a fundus image is started in step S1, output from a fundus image sensing unit is compared with a regional pattern of stored fundus image specific regions in step S2, and it is decided whether to proceed to pattern recognitio... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8132912 | Iris imaging system using circular deformable mirror mounted by its circumference A rapid iris acquisition, tracking, and imaging system can be used at longer standoff distances and over larger capture volumes, without the active cooperation of subjects. Eye reflections from the subjects' eyes are used to steer a high resolution camera to the eye... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132913 | Adaptive optics apparatus and imaging apparatus including the same An adaptive optics apparatus includes a first conversion unit configured to convert a polarization direction of one of two polarization components of light to a polarization direction of the other of the polarization components, the light being emitted by a light so... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132911 | Fundus photo-stimulation system and method An eye examination device has a fundus observation system and an optical stimulation system. The optical stimulation system has an optical targeting subsystem and an optical stimulation subsystem, wherein the optical stimulation system is structured to be used to pr... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8123354 | Compact adaptive optic-optical coherence tomography system Badal Optometer and rotating cylinders are inserted in the AO-OCT to correct large spectacle aberrations such as myopia, hyperopic and astigmatism for ease of clinical use and reduction. Spherical mirrors in the sets of the telescope are rotated orthogonally to redu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118430 | Opthalmologic imaging apparatus and opthalmologic imaging method An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures a fundus image of a subject's eye includes a first extraction unit configured to extract, from a first fundus image photographed with a first light quantity, an image of a first area having intensity not less than pr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109633 | Noninvasive ocular monitor and method for measuring and analyzing physiological data A non-invasive device and methods for acquiring and analyzing ocular images from a subject is presented. Aspects of the method comprise of the acquisition of ocular image(s) and subsequent evaluation, classification and/or interpretation of these image(s). The ocula... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109634 | Snapshot spectral imaging of the eye Obtaining spectral images of an eye includes taking an optical system that images eye tissue onto a digital sensor array and optically fitting a multi-spectral filter array and the digital sensor array, wherein the multi-spectral filter array is disposed between the... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8096659 | Fundus camera A fundus camera includes an optical path splitting unit arranged between a focusing unit and an imaging unit. The splitting unit has characteristics adapted to reflect light of a visible light region and to transmit near-infrared light. The splitting unit retreats f... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096658 | Fundus oculi observation device and program for controlling the same A fundus oculi observation device 1 can form a near-infrared motion image and a color image (still image) of a fundus oculi Ef. The device 1 specifies an image region within the near-infrared motion image corresponding to a region of interest within th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8092021 | On-axis illumination for iris imaging The present invention provides a rapid, high quality iris imaging system. In one embodiment, on-axis illumination is used. A single steering mechanism steers both the camera and the illumination, without parallax issues. The illumination beam can be combined along t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092022 | Opthalmology photographing apparatus A fundus camera includes an illumination unit to illuminate an ocular fundus of a subject's eye, an autofluorescent exciter filter insertable into and retractable from an illumination optical path of the illumination unit, an observation and photographing unit to re... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092023 | Ocular surface interferometry (OSI) methods for imaging and measuring ocular tear film layer thickness(es) Ocular surface interferometry (OSI) devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for measuring a tear film layer thickness (TFLT) of the ocular tear film, including lipid layer thickness (LLT) and/or aqueous layer thickness (ALT). The measured TFLT can be used to dia... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8070289 | Non-contact optical coherence tomography imaging of the central and peripheral retina A system for imaging of the central and peripheral retina, includes one of a concave mirror and an elliptical mirror having an axis and being configured to rotate around the axis and a scanner configured to using a spectral domain optical coherence tomography system... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8061840 | Ocular light stimulus apparatus An ocular light stimulus apparatus provides the ocular fundus of an examinee's eye under examination with observation light to observe the ocular fundus and provides localized background light and stimulus light to a retina of the ocular fundus to perform biological... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8057039 | Fundus imaging apparatus A fundus imaging apparatus comprises: an irradiation optical system comprising a light source which emits a laser beam and a scanner which two-dimensionally scans the laser beam on a fundus of an examinee's eye, the irradiation optical system being adapted to focus ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8057040 | Ophthalmologic photographing apparatus Upon detecting a selection of an examination start button, a start and completion management unit starts an examination. The control unit switches an observation state to an infrared light observation by an observation switching unit. Next, an examiner performs alig... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8025402 | Ophthalmic photographing apparatus To provide an ophthalmic photographing apparatus capable of checking a measurement (photographing) position of a tomographic (cross-sectional) image of a fundus on a front (surface) image of the fundus. The ophthalmic photographing apparatus has a first optic... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8016419 | Systems and methods for photoacoustic opthalmoscopy Various embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for multimodal functional imaging based upon photoacoustic and laser optical scanning microscopy. In particular, at least one embodiment of the present invention utilizes a contact lens in comb... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8007104 | Fundus camera A fundus camera includes an observation photographing unit having a focusing lens to perform focusing of an imaging unit on a fundus of a subject's eye, a lens driving unit configured to drive the focusing lens in an optical axis direction, and a focusing control un... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8002411 | Fundus camera A fundus camera includes a fundus photographing optical system including an image-recording image sensor for photographing a fundus image via a focusing lens, a focus target having a plurality of regions for forming light fluxes passing through a plurality of differ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7997729 | Method for correcting patient motion when obtaining retina volume using optical coherence tomography A computer-implemented method of correcting for motion of a sample during OCT imaging obtains a series of cross-sectional volume scans through the sample at different positions on a first coordinate axis, obtains at least two cross-sectional alignment scans in plane... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992999 | Automated assessment of optic nerve head with spectral domain optical coherence tomography A fully automated optic nerve head assessment system, based on spectral domain optical coherence tomography, provides essential disc parameters for clinical analysis, early detection, and monitoring of progression. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7980695 | Eye portion diagnosis support apparatus, method therefor, program, and recording medium There is provided a technique for efficiently acquiring a tomogram of an eye portion. A diagnosis support apparatus includes a wide-area image acquisition means for acquiring a wide-area image of an eye portion, a detection means for detecting a lesion candidate on ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7980696 | 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 wit... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7980694 | Functional imaging of the retina An apparatus and a method for obtaining, in vivo, a measurement of retinal response to an optical stimuli. Light sources provide optical stimuli to the retina in accordance with predetermined stimulation sequences, and images of the retina are obtained and correlate... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7967438 | System for obtaining a fundus image The present invention is related to a system for obtaining a fundus image, constituted by optical means implemented in an equipment to observe and photograph the image of the wall fundus (16), comprising a capturing optical means composed by high sensibility ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7959288 | Ophthalmologic imager An ophthalmologic imager comprises an illuminating optical system for projecting an illuminating light beam onto an ocular fundus, a light-receiving optical system having a focusing lens and serving to guiding the light reflected from the ocular fundus to an imaging... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959289 | Ophthalmological device and ophthalmological measuring method An opthalmologic device and an opthalmologic measuring method in accordance with an embodiment of the present application in which, cross-sectional images of cross-sectional portions illuminated from different instrument positions by a light projector are captured i... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959291 | Telecentric lens system and vision measuring instrument A telecentric lens optical system includes: a front lens group; a rear lens group having a front focal point coinciding with a rear focal point of the front lens unit; and diaphragm mechanisms, each of which is disposed at a position where the rear focal point of th... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959290 | Scanning ophthalmoscopes A scanning ophthalmoscope (10) and method is provided for scanning the retina of an eye comprising a source of collimated light (12), a first scanning element (14), a second scanning element (16), scan compensation means (18), wher... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954948 | Optical tomographic imaging method and apparatus An optical tomographic imaging method is provided in which light from a light source is split into a measuring beam and a reference beam, the measuring beam being moved by a scanning optical system and guided to an object to be examined, the reference beam being gui... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954947 | Image acquisition apparatus and image acquisition method using optical coherence tomography An image acquisition apparatus that uses optical coherence tomography includes a scanning unit provided within a light path that guides signal light to be incident on an examination object towards the examination object and configured to scan the signal light in a m... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954946 | Optical tomographic image photographing apparatus An apparatus has an optical system detecting spectral information and having an optical scanner and a driving unit changing the optical path length by moving an optical member, a monitor, and a unit controlling the driving unit, obtaining a tomographic image by perf... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7950801 | Device and method for measuring the contrast of the fringes in a michelson interferometer and system for examination of the eye comprising such a device The invention relates to a device, for measuring the contrast of fringes in a Michelson interferometer at full field, comprising a Wollaston prism for diverting two perpendicular incident polarizations into two different emergent directions, said diverting means bei... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7942527 | Compact adaptive optic-optical coherence tomography system Badal Optometer and rotating cylinders are inserted in the AO-OCT to correct large spectacle aberrations such as myopia, hyperopic and astigmatism for ease of clinical use and reduction. Spherical mirrors in the sets of the telescope are rotated orthogonally to redu... | 05/17/2011 |
