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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2005
Applicant:
Tomoyuki Iwanaga, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Tomoyuki Iwanaga, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 1/14 (2006.01); F16K 1/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is disclosed an ophthalmic apparatus including a detection unit which detects a vision fixation state of an eye to be examined, a projection unit which projects a fixation mark onto a fundus of the eye, and a fixation mark control unit which controls the projection unit. The projection unit includes a changing unit which changes a fixation mark to be projected onto the fundus, and when a vision fixation state detected by the detection unit does not satisfy a predetermined criterion, the fixation mark control unit controls the changing unit to change a fixation mark to be projected onto the fundus.