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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2018
Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Kowa Company, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Norihiko Yokoi, Kyoto, JP;
Yuka Sugiura, Higashimurayama, JP;
Katsumi Yabusaki, Higashimurayama, JP;
KYOTO PREFECTURAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, Kyoto, JP;
KOWA COMPANY, LTD., Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A method for dynamically evaluating a tear fluid layer using an interference fringe image of the tear fluid layer composed of a plurality of consecutive frames, and includes: an image creation step of creating at least one break detection image of a first break detection image, a second break detection image, a third break detection image, and a fourth break detection image, which are images for detecting a breaking site of the tear fluid layer; a determination step of determining whether the break detection image created by the image creation step corresponds to a predetermined breakup pattern; a tally step of tallying the determination results determined by the determination step; and an evaluation step of evaluating, on the basis of a tallied result by the tally step, a breakup pattern of the interference fringe image of the tear fluid layer.