Patent classifications
A61B3/0091
VISUAL FUNCTION TEST DEVICE
A visual function test device 1 is provided with a housing 10 with a peephole; a visual target display 11 accommodated in the housing 10 to display a predetermined visual target; and virtual image optics accommodated in the housing 10, the virtual image optics being optics including lenses 121, 122 for forming a virtual image of the predetermined visual target at a position visible from the peephole, the virtual image optics having an exit pupil of a predetermined dimension. The visual function test device has an eye relief of 5 cm or more. By using the visual function test device 1, a visual function test can be performed without the need to mount equipment on a subject.
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE OCULAR ABERRATION
A device and a method for determining an ocular aberration of at least one eye of a user are disclosed. The device contains a wavefront sensing unit for measuring at least one optical wavefront with at least one light beam, from which an ocular aberration of the at least one eye of the user is determined. The device further contains at least one diffractive element for generating multiple diffraction orders in the light beam in two meridians in a manner that the multiple diffraction orders are spatially separated on the wavefront sensing unit and in the eye of the user. The device and the method allow generating an ocular defocus map in a one-shot assessment in real-time, especially by employing an automated measurement of the ocular aberrations with regard to different eccentricities of the eye of the user in two meridians.
GUIDING FIXATION METHOD APPLIED TO EYE EXAMINATION DEVICE
A guiding fixation method applied to an eye examination device is disclosed. The eye examination device at least includes a first default light source and a second default light source. The guiding fixation method includes steps of: (a) disposing at least one dummy light source between the first default light source and the second default light source; (b) when a distance between the eye examination device and an eye changes, the dummy light source emitting light to guide the eye to gaze at it; (c) when the distance between the eye examination device and the eye stops changing, switching to the first default light source and/or the second default light source to emit light to guide the eye to gaze at it.
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OCULAR EXAMINATION
A system is disclosed for capturing diagnostic eye information. The system includes at least one energy source for directing electromagnetic energy into an eye of a subject, a plurality of perception units, each perception unit being associated with an associated position in the visual field of the eye, and each perception unit being adapted to capture refractive information from the eye responsive to the electromagnetic energy, and a processing system for determining refractive error information associated with each position of each perception unit in the visual field of the eye, and for determining refractive error composite information regarding the eye responsive to the refractive error information associated with each perception unit and independent of a direction of gaze of the eye.
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
An information processing apparatus capable of executing calibration for improving accuracy of gaze detection without causing a user to feel stress. The information processing apparatus, includes a marker control unit that changes, during calibration of an eyewear terminal, a display position of a point-of-regard marker displayed on a display unit of the eyewear terminal; a computational processing unit that computes an optical axis vector expressing a gaze direction of a user by a pupil-corneal reflection method, on a basis of a captured image that includes a user's eye imaged when the eye of the user wearing the eyewear terminal is irradiated with light from a light source, and the point-of-regard marker is displayed at a calibration point; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a variation of the optical axis vector computed for a plurality of the calibration points.
Apparatus for diagnosis of ocular surface disease
An apparatus for diagnosis of ocular surface disease includes an electronic tablet with an electronic display and a forward-facing camera. The camera may be placed above the screen when the device is held in landscape mode. A software app executing on the electronic tablet displays a test screen to a patient, the test screen comprising a test image and an alignment indicator. Once alignment is achieved, the patient may read the test image for a period of time, during which blink quality and quantity are tabulated. A video recorded during the test may be reviewed by a physician to confirm or modify blink quality and quantity counts during the test to diagnose ocular surface disease.
Automated method for testing peripheral and expanded visual fields on limited field of view head-mounted device
An automated method for testing peripheral and expanded visual fields on limited field of view head-mounted device. The method has a fixation point that is placed in multiple locations of the field of view to test stimuli points that would be outside of the field of view of a head-mounted device if the fixation point were in the center. Stimuli points are grouped together and are associated with fixation points. Each stimulus appears individually on an opposite side of the fixation point in the field of view. The stimuli points may be static or dynamic. The method is applied as visual field diagnostic tool for Ptosis disorder, Esterman test, or any expanded peripheral Visual Field test.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED WIDEFIELD OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating wide-field optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images. In embodiments, multiple OCTA scans of a sample are automatically acquired at overlapping locations. The systems and methods include functionality to adaptively control the scanning procedure such that eye blink and eye motion events are detected in real time and accounted for during 3D scan acquisition. Also disclosed are methods for detecting and correcting motion-related artifacts in OCTA datasets which allow for the longer scan times over larger fields of view required for wide-field imaging. These methods may include division of en face angiogram images into a set of motion-free parallel strips, and application of gross and fine registration methods to align overlapping strips into a motion- corrected composite image. A series of overlapping motion-corrected composite images may be combined into a larger montage to enable wide-field OCTA imaging using multiple OCTA scans.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A MULTILAYERED TISSUE OF A SUBJECT
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.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING BINOCULAR ALIGNMENT
Embodiments of the invention include a method to determine a binocular alignment, the method comprising: measuring a disassociated phoria of a first eye and a second eye of a patient at an apparent distance; and determining an accommodative convergence of the first eye and the second eye at the apparent distance using the measured disassociated phoria. In other embodiments, a system to determine a binocular alignment comprises a stereo display, for a projection of images for a first eye and a second eye; an accommodation optics, to modify the projection of the images according to an apparent distance; an eye tracker, to track an orientation of the first eye and the second eye; and a computer, coupled to the stereo display, the accommodation optics and the eye tracker, to manage a determination of the binocular alignment.