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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2004
Naoki Ichikawa, Gamagori, JP;
Naoki Ichikawa, Gamagori, JP;
Nidek Co., Ltd, Gamagori, JP;
Abstract
A fundus camera that performs alignment easily and efficiently, and photographing a fundus favorably. A fundus camera has a photographing part in which a fundus photographing optical system is arranged, a fundus observation optical system having a first image-pickup element which picks up an image of the fundus, an anterior-segment observation optical system having a second image-pickup element which picks up an image of an anterior-segment of the eye, a display unit capable of displaying the image of the fundus picked up by the first image-pickup element and the image of the anterior-segment picked up by the second image-pickup element, and a control part which obtains information on alignment of the photographing part with the eye and decides which of the image of the fundus and the image of the anterior-segment is to be displayed on the display unit.