US Patent Issued to TOPCON on July 14 for "Ophthalmic apparatus, method of controlling same, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,043, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ophthalmic apparatus, method of controlling same, and recording medium" was invented by Ryosuke Shimosawa (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Yamada (Tokyo) and Masaya Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic apparatus includes an illumination optical system that generates slit-shaped illumination light using a first light source; an optical scanner that deflects the illumination light to a fundus of a subject's eye; an imaging optical system that captures light from the fundus using a rolling shutter method; an acquisition unit that acquires a fundus image of the subject...