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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1996
Shinichi Matsuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An eyeball detection apparatus has a light-receiving device, a first determination circuit, and a second determination circuit. The light-receiving device receives a reflection image from the cornea of an eyeball of a user or a person being tested. The first determination circuit determines whether the signal of the reflection image from the cornea received by the light-receiving device exceeds a specified level. The second determination circuit determines whether the size of the reflection image from the cornea received by the light-receiving device falls in a specified range only when the first determination circuit determines that the signal of the reflection image from the cornea received by the light-receiving device exceeds the specified level. It is determined that the eyeball of the user or the person being tested has approached the apparatus only when the second determination circuit determines that the size of the reflection image from the cornea received by the light-receiving device falls in the specified range.
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