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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2017
Applicants:

Optos Plc, Dunfermline, GB;

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Alan Anderson, Scotland, GB;

Praveen Ashok, Scotland, GB;

Tomoharu Fujiwara, Tokyo, JP;

Yasushi Tanabe, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Kintou, Tokyo, JP;

Mariko Hirokawa, Tokyo, JP;

Tadashi Umezaki, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

OPTOS PLC, Dunfermline, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); A61B 3/10 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 3/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/0061 (2013.01); A61B 3/0025 (2013.01); A61B 3/102 (2013.01); A61B 3/1025 (2013.01); A61B 3/145 (2013.01); A61B 3/152 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30041 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided an ocular image capturing device comprising an ocular image generating module operable to generate an image of a subject's eye based on light reflected from the eye, and a determination module arranged to determine whether or not at least a portion of a pupil region of the generated image is within a predetermined permissible region within the generated image, and to generate a signal that is indicative of the determination, the pupil region being an image of at least a portion of the pupil of the eye.


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