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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2000
Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ophthalmological apparatus includes: a main unit section having a movable optical system housing which houses an optical system for shooting or examining an eye to be examined; a manual operation unit manually positioning the main unit section; an alignment chart projection unit projecting onto the eye an chart luminous flux for alignment; a chart detection unit detecting the reflected luminous flux of the chart luminous flux reflected on the eye; an alignment unit moving the optical system housing with respect to the main unit section on the basis of a detection result of the chart detection unit in a case where the main unit section is positioned by the manual operation unit so that the chart detection unit detects the reflected luminous flux; a position information detection unit detecting information about variations in position of the main unit section caused by the manual operation unit during the operation of the chart detection unit; and a correction unit correcting the moving amount of the optical system housing to be moved by the alignment unit on the basis of a detection result of the position information detection unit.