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Ophthalmologic measuring apparatus

US7677728B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 21, 2007
Grant dateMar 16, 2010
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Expiry dateMar 5, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61B3/101
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A subject is placed in a more natural state or is encouraged to blink at specified intervals to obtain a measurement result under a fixed condition, and the judgment of the degree of dry eye is facilitated. A measurement part obtains, based on a reflected light flux from a subject eye, optical characteristic data of a two-dimensional vector form representing the time course of each optical characteristic of the subject eye in an blink interval from a certain blink to a next blink with respect to the first to the nth blink intervals. An analysis part one-dimensionally arranges each of the optical characteristic data with respect to the first to the nth blink intervals measured by the measurement part, and arranges the one-dimensional arrangement of the optical characteristic in a p-th blink interval at a p column to create a two-dimensional array, and performs a principal component analysis processing on the two-dimensional array.

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