US Patent Issued to TOPCON on July 8 for "Ophthalmic imaging apparatus and ophthalmic image processing appratus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,974, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ophthalmic imaging apparatus and ophthalmic image processing appratus" was invented by Shinnosuke Azuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the ophthalmic imaging apparatus of an aspect example, the first image collecting unit collects a series of Scheimpflug images by performing scanning of a three dimensional region of a subject's eye with slit light. The second image collecting unit collects a series of time series images by performing repetitive photography of the subject's eye in parallel with the scanning of the three dimensional region performed by the first ima...