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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2013
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Nakahara, Kawasaki, JP;
Shigeaki Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Yukio Sakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To ensure display of a region of interest on a fundus image and a tomographic image of an eye to be inspected in a correspondence manner, an apparatus for processing images of an eye to be inspected includes: a unit that acquires a fundus image of an eye to be inspected; a unit that designates an arbitrary point on the fundus image; a unit that acquires a tomographic image of the eye to be inspected; a unit that calculates a point on the tomographic image corresponding to the arbitrary point; and a unit that converts a coordinate system for displaying the tomographic image and the fundus image in association with each other on the basis of positions of the arbitrary point and the corresponding point.