An ophthalmic apparatus includes a light source, an illumination optical system, an optical scanner, an imaging optical system, and a controller. The illumination optical system is configured to generate slit-shaped illumination light using light from the light source. The optical scanner is configured to deflect the illumination light to guide the illumination light to a fundus of a subject's eye. The imaging optical system is configured to guide returning light of the illumination light from the fundus to an image sensor. The controller is configured to control the image sensor using a rolling shutter method. The illumination optical system includes a slit with a slit-shaped aperture capable of being arranged at a position substantially conjugate optically to the fundus, an iris aperture arranged between the light source and the slit, and configured to be capable of being arranged at a position substantially conjugate optically to an iris of the subject's eye; and an optical element arranged between the light source and the iris aperture, and configured to deflect the light from the light source.

Provided is an ophthalmic apparatus for examining an examinee's eye, including: an examination device configured to examine the examinee's eye; an approacher in the examination device, configured to approach the examinee; a detector configured to detect approach of the approacher to the examinee; and a controller configured to switch an operation mode between a first mode where an avoidance operation for avoiding the approach is performed and a second mode where the avoidance operation is not performed, upon the detector detecting the approach.

Systems and methods for detecting physical characteristics of a multilayered tissue of a subject, such as a tear film including analyzing received detector-output indicative of optical properties of light reflected or deflected from the respective multilayered tissue, to determine spectral properties of the multilayered tissue; and determining physical characteristics of the multilayered tissue by using multiple spectral models of the of the multilayered tissue, each model being associated with spectral properties indicative of different tissue characteristics, wherein physical characteristics of the multilayered tissue are determined by hierarchal determination of a best-fit model from the multiple spectral models.

A reflectometry instrument includes a light source for emitting an illumination beam that illuminates the macula. A portion of the illumination beam is reflected from the macula and forms a detection beam. The detection beam is indicative of macular pigment in the macula. The instrument also includes a first mirror for reflecting the illumination beam toward the macula and for reflecting the detection beam from the macula. The instrument is configured so that the illumination beam and the detection beam remain separated between the macula and the first mirror.

An optical coherence tomography apparatus includes a control unit configured, before a tomographic image to be stored is obtained using the output from the light receiving unit during a period in which the measurement light is scanned in a first scanning pattern for scanning an image capturing region of the subject eye, to control the optical scanning unit so as to repeatedly scan the measurement light in a second scanning pattern for scanning the measurement light over at least part of the image capturing region in a scanning time shorter than a scanning time of the first scanning pattern and to control the driving unit so as to drive the focusing unit using the output from the light receiving unit during a period in which the measurement light is repeatedly scanned in the second scanning pattern.

A visual performance examination device includes a display control unit that displays an indicator at each of a plurality of positions in a display screen of a display device; an image data obtaining unit that obtains an image data of eyes of a test subject, which are irradiated with a detection light emitted from a light source; a position calculating unit that, based on the image data, calculates a position data of corneal reflexes of the eyes when each of a plurality of indicators displayed at the positions in the display screen is shown; and an evaluating unit that, based on relative positions of the indicators and relative positions of the corneal reflexes, outputs evaluation data about visual performance of the test subject.

A medical system of an aspect example includes a portable data storage, first information processing equipment, and telecommunication equipment. Medical information is stored in the portable data storage. The medical information includes authentication information of a subject who has undergone a medical examination and examination data acquired from the subject by the medical examination. The first information processing equipment is connected to a telecommunication network. The telecommunication equipment is configured to transmit at least part of the medical information stored in the portable data storage that has been moved to an available area of the telecommunication network, to the first information processing equipment via the telecommunication network.

A prism array light redistribution apparatus for an eye imaging system including light transmitting fibers, light receiving fibers, and a micro prism array optically coupled to bridge the light transmitting fibers and the light receiving fibers, configured to receive light having a bell-shaped angular distribution from the light transmitting fibers and refract light emitted by the light transmitting fibers to enter the light receiving fibers

An instrument includes a housing with a lower hand-held portion having a user-input button and a display for displaying an MPOD score for the user. The instrument further includes a viewing tube coupled to the hand-held portion. The viewing tube terminates in an eye cup. The viewing tube is transverse to the lower hand-held portion and transmits light from a first light source towards a reflector and is reflected off the reflector through an aperture in a blocking wall and in a direction toward the macula. The first light source is an LED and provides two colored lights alternating at a frequency to create a flicker. The frequency is used to determine an amount of macular pigment of the macula of the user. A second light source is located in the first portion of the viewing tube and configured to illuminate a surface of the blocking wall.

An ophthalmic device including an illumination module which scans light across a region of the retina of an eye when the pupil is disposed at a focal point of the illumination module. The ophthalmic device further comprises components (2, 3-1, 4-1) for: aligning the pupil with the focal point; monitoring a position of the pupil relative to the focal point and maintaining the alignment based on the monitored position; aligning a scan location of the illumination module on the retina to a target scan location while the alignment of the pupil with the focal point is being maintained, wherein the illumination module performs a scan at the target scan location. The ophthalmic device further maintains the scan location at the target scan location while the alignment of the pupil with the focal point is being maintained, using scan location correction information based on retinal feature information.