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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2006
Mutsutaka Ishihara, Itabashi-ku, JP;
Taisaku Kogawa, Itabashi-ku, JP;
Mutsutaka Ishihara, Itabashi-ku, JP;
Taisaku Kogawa, Itabashi-ku, JP;
Kabushiki Kasisha Topcon, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fundus camera which includes an illumination optical system for projecting an illumination light to a fundus of a subject's eye: a photographing device for photographing the fundus; and light-receiving optical systems, which include a focus lens disposed in a light-receiving optical path for focusing the photographing devices with respect to the fundus and diopter compensation lenses disposed for being inserted into or withdrawn from the light-receiving optical path for guiding reflected light from the fundus to the photographing devices; a controlling device for determining whether a feasible focusing range of the focus lens is surpassed; and driving devices for inserting the diopter compensation lenses into or withdrawing them from the light-receiving optical path. The controlling device controls the driving devices in a defined manner.