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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6939298 | Device and method for monitoring aqueous flow within the eye The present invention provides a device and method for monitoring the flow of aqueous humor within the eye. The invention provides that the aqueous flow rate and/or pattern within the anatomical structures of the eye can be determined by monitoring a traceable compo... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6933154 | Optimal windows for obtaining optical data for characterization of tissue samples The invention provides methods for determining a characteristic of a tissue sample, such as a state of health, using spectral data and/or images obtained within an optimal period of time following the application of a chemical agent to the tissue sample. The inventi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6923802 | System for generating ablation profiles for laser refractive eye surgery A laser eye surgery system and method include a laser for producing a laser beam capable of making refractive corrections, an optical system for shaping and conditioning the laser beam, a digital micromirror device (DMD) for reflecting the shaped and conditioned bea... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6918670 | System, apparatus, and method for correcting vision using an electro-active lens A spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens provides a vision correcting area for the correction of a wearer's refractive error. The viewing correction area provides correction for non-conventional refractive error to provide at least a part of the wearer's vi... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916096 | System and method for recording the retinal reflex image A system and method for eye examination by scanning light scattered from an area of the retina and projecting light into the eye includes a scanner, a receiver unit, and a projection unit. The scanner is constructed and arranged to scan an area on the retina. The re... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914721 | Prism construction for simultaneous zero-degree and oblique illumination of a stereoscopic surgical microscope The invention concerns an apparatus for simultaneous zero-degree and oblique illumination for an optical viewing device, in particular a stereoscopic surgical microscope, which contains a shiftable prism combination (3) for deflecting a first illumination sub... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6910770 | Eye refractor with active mirror wavefront sensor Methods and systems for measuring optical aberrations of an eye are provided. In one embodiment, the present invention provides transmitting light from the eye along an optical path to an aberration sensor. An adaptive optic is disposed along the optical path betwee... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912341 | Optical fiber link A system comprises at least one optical fiber that revolves around an axis when an array assembly that includes a radar array revolves around the axis. The optical fiber receives a light pattern that specifies information from the array assembly. A stationary device... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908196 | System and method for performing optical corrective procedures with real-time feedback A real-time refractory control system includes a laser refractive surgery instrument for modifying the refraction of the eye, an objective diagnostic apparatus for measuring the refraction and aberrations of the eye, and an aperture-sharing element to inject a refra... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908461 | Laser device for medical treatment system A laser device for medical treatment system, comprising at least a plurality of laser beam emitting sources, a laser beam multiplexing means for superimposing the laser beams emitted from the laser beam emitting sources, and a beam mixing means where the laser beams... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905641 | Delivery system for post-operative power adjustment of adjustable lens A method and instrument to irradiate a light adjustable lens, for example, inside a human eye, with an appropriate amount of radiation in an appropriate intensity pattern by first measuring aberrations in the optical system containing the lens; aligning a source of ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6905209 | Optical characteristics measuring device Measurement data (measured results) obtained under a plurality of conditions and image data and/or numerical data corresponding to the measured results are displayed collectively or selectively. An optical characteristics measuring device (100) measures/displ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6905210 | Methods and systems for measuring local scattering and aberration properties of optical media Methods, systems, and media relating the display of scattering and/or absorption characteristics of an optical medium. For scattering measurements, a Hartmann-Shack calibration image of a measurement system is acquired to define a first plurality of point spread fun... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6905390 | Skin application structure for robots and a robot having such a structure A skin application structure for bodies that gives a sense of closeness to human, does not cause damage to the surrounding environment, is easily maintained, and does not exert any load to the movable portion is provided. A flexible skin is detachably applied on the... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6902935 | Methods of monitoring effects of chemical agents on a sample The invention provides methods and systems for monitoring effects of chemical agents on optical signals produced by samples in response to the chemical agents. Preferred methods comprise application of multiple chemical agents that interact to alter an optical signa... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6890076 | Method and apparatus for using adaptive optics in a scanning laser ophthalmoscope A scanning laser ophthalmoscope incorporates adaptive optics to compensate for wavefront aberrations in the eye. Light from a light source is scanned onto the retina. Light reflected from the retina is detected for imaging and is also used for wavefront sensing. The... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6839132 | Aberration measuring method of projection optical system There is disclosed aberration measuring method of a projection optical system comprising collectively irradiating the finite region of the photomask in which a diffraction grating is formed with the illuminating light emitted from secondary light source having point... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6834958 | Instruments and methods for examining and quantifying cataracts A method is disclosed for quantifying the extent a cataract impairs vision in an eye having a pupil, an ocular lens, and a retina. The method includes illuminating a localized region of the retina such that light is reflected from the localized region and is transmi... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6834202 | Blood flow measuring apparatus A blood flow measuring apparatus includes a system control unit that sends outputs for controlling the start and end of the measurement to optimum gain calculation units, which calculate the optimum gains of photomultipliers for receiving the light reflected from th... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6832835 | Fundus image-taking apparatus and method A fundus image-taking and recording apparatus emits an appropriate amount of light at the time of taking an image by determining an appropriate light exposure from the amount of observation light during observation. In particular, even when the brightness varies dur... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6830335 | Ophthalmoscope laser attachment A binocular indirect laser ophthalmoscope is provided comprising binocular eyepieces each having an optical axis defining an optical plane, the ophthalmoscope having a central viewing axis lying in the optical plane; and an optical element adapted to position a lase... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6830334 | Anterior chamber diameter measurement system from limbal ring measurement A system (10) for measuring a diameter of a limbus of an eye (12). An image recorder (14) is at a known location apart from the eye and records an illuminated limbus image. An illumination source (16) at a known location relative to the i... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6814441 | Apparatus for measurement of polarized distribution, polarizing filter for using therein and polarizing filter assembly Disclosed are an apparatus for measurement of a polarized distribution, a polarizing filter for use of the apparatus and a polarizing filter assembly. The apparatus for measurement of polarized distribution comprises an illuminating optical system for illumin... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6802609 | Eye characteristic measuring apparatus The invention includes an eye characteristic measuring apparatus which achieves accurate measurement by taking a difference component with relation with measured data in a reference optical path when optical characteristics of an eye are measured. Specifically the m... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6789899 | Eye's optical characteristic measuring system The eye's optical characteristic measuring system of the present invention comprises a projection system 2 for projecting a primary index image on fundus of an eye under testing, a photodetection system 3 for forming a secondary index image on a photoe... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6789900 | Scanning laser ophthalmoscope optimized for selective retinal microphotocoagulation A combination of a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope and external laser sources is used for microphotocoagulation purposes. An opto-mechanical linkage device and beamsplitter is used to align the pivot point of the Maxwellian view of the scanning laser ophthalm... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6783239 | Glare tester attachment An ophthalmic glare tester for evaluating visual acuity under conditions of strong diffuse illumination is designed for convenient mounting on a conventional ophthalmic instrument such as a transilluminator or ophthalmoscope. The glare tester incorporates a generall... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6779891 | System and method for non-contacting measurement of the eye Combined equipment for non-contacting determination of axial length (AL), anterior chamber depth (VKT) and corneal curvature (HHK) of the eye are also important for the selection of the intraocular lens IOL to be implanted, particularly the selection of an intraocul... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6769769 | Optical mapping apparatus with adjustable depth resolution and multiple functionality The present invention relates to a multiple channel optical mapping apparatus which can deliver one or simultaneously at least two images of different depth resolutions or sequentially, images with different depth resolutions, or a combination of these images, or a ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6761455 | Ophthalmic apparatus The present invention intends to provide an ophthalmic apparatus which enables an examiner to diagnose a patient with cataract and the like in the early stage, and which can be used even for a screening examination and the like. The ophthalmic apparatus comprises an... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6761454 | Apparatus and method for determining objective refraction using wavefront sensing An apparatus for determining the objective refraction of a patient's eye includes a transparent window and a wavefront measurement device that determines aberrations in a return beam from the patient's eye after the beam passes through a corrective test lens in the ... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6758564 | Line-scan laser ophthalmoscope Systems and methods for providing a line-scanning laser ophthalmoscope (LSLO) are disclosed. The LSLO uses a substantially point source of light, such as an infrared laser or a super-luminescent diode. The point source is expanded to a line. The LSLO scans the line ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6742893 | Ophthalmological apparatus An ophthalmological apparatus includes an illuminator for illuminating an eye to be examined; an image pickup device for obtaining the image of the illuminated examined eye; a signal converter for converting a signal from the image pickup device into digital data; a... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6741359 | Optical coherence tomography optical scanner One embodiment of the present invention is a scanner for a beam of scanning optical coherence tomography (“OCT”) radiation that includes: (a) a source of OCT radiation; (b) a scanner; and (c) scanning optics whose image surface has a negative field curvature. | 05/25/2004 |
| 6736510 | Ophthalmic talbot-moire wavefront sensor A system for measuring the eye comprising a light source 10 which sends a narrow collimated beam of light 12, to reflect from a beam splitter 14. The beam of light 12 enters the eye 16 through the pupil 17 where it is focuse... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6736509 | Aberrometer illumination apparatus and method A wavefront-sensing device for measuring ocular aberrations includes, among other things, a retinal illumination component and a wavefront imaging component (e.g., a microlens array for a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor). The retinal illumination component includes ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6736507 | High resolution, multispectral, wide field of view retinal imager An ophthalmic instrument (for obtaining high resolution, wide field of area multi-spectral retinal images) including a fundus retinal imager, (which includes optics for illuminating and imaging the retina of the eye); apparatus for generating a reference beam couple... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6729727 | Ophthalmic photographing apparatus An ophthalmic photographing apparatus capable of photographing a fundus and a slit-sectioned anterior segment of an eye in non-mydriatic conditions. The apparatus is provided with a light source unit including an infrared light source optical system for observation ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6712469 | Video providing apparatus There is provided a video providing apparatus capable of giving clear video to a patient with an eye disease. The video providing apparatus comprises a parallel light source or a parallel light type LED as a light source. Video light obtained by passing light from t... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6709109 | Differential spectroscopic imaging of the human retina The present invention includes a method of detecting nerve cell damage representative of glaucoma including the steps of: imaging a human retina in vivo, measuring the reflected light intensity at a first predetermined wavelength wherein values returned from healthy... | 03/23/2004 |
