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Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Keiko Yonezawa, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/14 (2006.01); A61B 3/12 (2006.01); A61B 3/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/0025 (2013.01); A61B 3/0058 (2013.01); A61B 3/1025 (2013.01); A61B 3/12 (2013.01); A61B 3/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

An ophthalmic apparatus includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an eye fundus image of an eye to be examined, a candidate acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of candidate points for a photoreceptor cell in the eye fundus image based on brightness values of the eye fundus image, a first acquiring unit configured to acquire a first feature value of a first candidate point included in the plurality of candidate points based on a distance between the first candidate point and a second candidate point included in the plurality of candidate points, and a determining unit configured to determine whether the first candidate point is a point representing the photoreceptor cell or not based on the first feature value.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Yonezawa, Keiko. (2018). Ophthalmic apparatus, photoreceptor cell detection method and program (U.S. Patent No. 9918624). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9918624

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