Ophthalmological apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKyoji Sekiguchi
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Abstract
An ophthalmological apparatus includes an illuminator for illuminating an eye to be examined; an image pickup device for obtaining the image of the illuminated examined eye; a signal converter for converting a signal from the image pickup device into digital data; and a controller for controlling a system, which controller limits a predetermined operation of other than the image pickup device and the signal converter while the signal converter is performing a conversion operation. The ophthalmological apparatus can take a high-quality photographic image by preventing the occurrence of noise or by reducing noise.
Claims10
An ophthalmological apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup device to generate an image signal of an eye to be examined;
- a signal converter connected to said image pickup device to receive said image signal and convert to digital signal;
- at least one additional element;
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- a controller to limit or prevent at least one of said additional element while said signal converter is performing the conversion operation.
An ophthalmological apparatus comprising:
- an observation illuminator to illuminate an eye to be examined while the eye to be examined is observed;
- an image pickup device to generate an image signal of the eye to be examined;
- a signal converter connected to said image pickup device to receive said image signal and convert to digital signal;
- a controller to limit or prevent operation of said observation illuminator while said signal converter is performing the conversion operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.