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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kyoji Sekiguchi, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/10 ;
Abstract
An ophthalmological apparatus includes an illuminator for illuminating an eye to be examined; an image pickup device for obtaining the image of the illuminated examined eye; a signal converter for converting a signal from the image pickup device into digital data; and a controller for controlling a system, which controller limits a predetermined operation of other than the image pickup device and the signal converter while the signal converter is performing a conversion operation. The ophthalmological apparatus can take a high-quality photographic image by preventing the occurrence of noise or by reducing noise.