Vision testing device

• US 10,667,681 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2016
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CREWT Medical Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: CREWT Medical Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Inoue, Satoshi, Yamanaka, Kenzo, Kimura, Shinji
• Primary Examiner(s): Pichler, Marin
• Application Number:
  US15/579,875
• Publication Number:
  US 20180168443A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,482 Days
• Field of Search: 351201, 351211, 351222, 351223, 351237, 351238, 351239, 351240, 351243, 351246
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/0041 characterised by display arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/0075 provided with adjusting devices, e.g. operated by control lever manipulators B25J
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/0091 Fixation targets for viewing direction
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/024 for determining the visual field, e.g. perimeter types
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/032 Devices for presenting test symbols or characters, e.g. test chart projectors A61B3/036 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/06 for testing light sensitivity, e.g. adaptation; for testing colour vision
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/18 Arrangement of plural eye-testing or -examining apparatus

Abstract

A vision testing device capable of reducing a psychological sense of uneasiness, stress and the like given to a testee when a vision test is performed with a main body of the vision testing device mounted on a head portion of the testee, including: a device main body mounted on a head portion of a testee who undergoes a vision test, and having display devices for displaying a test image for the testee and a camera for photographing an external image; a switch operated by the testee; and a display control unit which performs switching of display images to be displayed on display devices between a test image and the external image photographed by the camera when the switch is operated under a predetermined operation condition in a state that the test image is displayed on the display devices.

Claims

1. A vision testing device comprising:

a housing configured to be mounted on a head of a testee, the housing including an internal space;

a set of display devices configured to display a test image for the testee to view within the internal space;

a camera installed on the housing, the camera being configured photograph an external image in a line of sight of the testee;

a processor configured to switch display images displayed on the set of display devices between the test image for a vision test and the external image photographed by the camera during the vision test; and

a switch configured to send an instruction signal to the processor to switch the display images.

2. The vision testing device according to claim 1, wherein the switch is configured be operated by the testee during the vision test.

3. The vision testing device according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to switch the display images displayed on the set of display devices from the test image to the external image in response to the test image being displayed on the set of display devices and the switch being operated with a first predetermined operation condition.

4. The vision testing device according to claim 3, wherein the switch is configured to receive a response from the testee based on the vision test, the response being operated with a second predetermined operation condition, and the first predetermined operation condition is different from the second predetermined operation condition.

5. The vision testing device according to claim 4, wherein the first predetermined operation condition includes a different length of time during which the switch is operated than a length of time of the second predetermined operation condition.

6. The vision testing device according to claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to switch the display images from the test image to the external image in response to the switch being operated with the first predetermined operation condition during the vision test.

7. The vision testing device according to claim 1, wherein the switch is also configured to be operated by a tester during the vision test.

8. The vision testing device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to notify a tester as to which one of the test image and the external image is displayed on the set of display devices.