PORTABLE PUPIL DETECTION DEVICE WITH MULTIBAND STIMULATING LIGHT AND INFRARED ILLUMINATION

• US 20150098059A1
• Filed: 02/27/2014
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Chiao Tung University (Government of The Republic of China), National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch
• Original Assignee: National Chiao Tung University (Government of The Republic of China), National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch
• Inventors: OU-YANG, MANG, CHIOU, JIN-CHERN, KO, MEI-LAN, HUANG, TING-WEI, JHUANG, JYUN-WEI, HU, CHUN-CHENG
• Application Number:
  US14/191,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20150098059A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 351/210
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/112 for measuring diameter of pupils
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/14 Arrangements specially adapted for eye photography apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs per se G03B

Abstract

The present invention discloses a portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination, which comprises at least one pupil detection module for detecting the variation of the pupil of the testee. Each pupil detection module includes an illuminating light source emitting invisible light beams; a stimulating light source emitting visible light beams; at least one beamsplitter corresponding to the illuminating light source, the stimulating light source and an eye of the testee, cooperating with the illuminating light source and the eye to form a first optical path, and cooperating with the stimulating light source and the eye to form a second optical path; a lens corresponding to the beamsplitter and receiving the invisible light beams sent out by the beamsplitter to form an image of the eye; and an imaging element receiving the image of the eye from the lens.

Claims

1. A portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination, which comprises at least one pupil detection module for detecting variation of a pupil of a testee, wherein each said pupil detection module includes

an illuminating light source emitting invisible light beams;

at least a stimulating light source emitting visible light beams;

at least one beamsplitter corresponding to said illuminating light source, said stimulating light source and an eye of said testee, cooperating with said illuminating light source and said eye to form a first optical path, and cooperating with said stimulating light source and said eye to form a second optical path;

a lens corresponding to said beamsplitter and receiving invisible light beams sent out by said beamsplitter to form an image of said eye;

an imaging element receiving said image of said eye from said lens; and

a control circuit controlling operations of said stimulating light source, said illuminating light source and said imaging element.

2. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said illuminating light source is realized by LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes), a laser device, a fluorescent lamp plus a filter, or an incandescent lamp plus a filter.

3. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein frequencies of invisible light beams emitted by said illuminating light source are in an infrared frequency band or an ultraviolet frequency band.

4. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein each of said illuminating light source and said stimulating light source is coated with a light-homogenizing element.

5. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 4, wherein said light-homogenizing element is glassine, a diffusion plate, or ground glass.

6. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said stimulating light source is realized by LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes), a laser device, a fluorescent lamp plus a filter, or an incandescent lamp plus a filter,

7. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said stimulating light source emits light beams having wavelengths of 350-850 nm.

8. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said beamsplitter is a beam-splitting mirror, a beam-splitting plate, a prism, or a filter.

9. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said beamsplitter reflects visible light beams emitted by said stimulating light source to said eye;

visible light beams reflected by said eye pass through said beamsplitter and return to said stimulating light source;

said beamsplitter reflects a portion of invisible light beams emitted by said illuminating light source to said eye, and another portion of said invisible light beams is allowed to pass through said beamsplitter and absorbed;

invisible light beams reflected by said eye is partly reflected by said beamsplitter back to said illuminating light source and partly allowed to pass through said beamsplitter and reach said imaging element.

10. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein visible light beams emitted by said stimulating light source pass through said beamsplitter and reach said eye, and said eye reflects visible light beams to pass through said beamsplitter and return to said stimulating light source;

invisible light beams emitted by said illuminating light source are partly allowed to pass through said beamsplitter and reach said eye and partly reflected and absorbed;

invisible light beams reflected by said eye are partly allowed to pass through said beamsplitter and return to said illuminating light source and partly reflected by said beamsplitter to said imaging element.

11. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein visible light beams emitted by said stimulating light source pass through said beamsplitter and reach said eye, and said eye reflects visible light beams to pass through said beamsplitter and return to said stimulating light source;

invisible light beams emitted by said illuminating light source directly reach said eye;

invisible light beams reflected by said eye are further reflected by said beamsplitter to said imaging element.

12. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said beamsplitter reflects visible light beams emitted by said stimulating light source to said eye, and said visible light beams reflected by said eye are further reflected by said beamsplitter back to said stimulating light source;

invisible light beams emitted by said illuminating light source directly reach said eye;

invisible light beams reflected by said eye are allowed to pass through said beamsplitter and reach said imaging element.

13. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said visible light beams and said invisible light beams are simultaneously projected to said eye and then simultaneously reflected to said imaging element by said eye.

14. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 13, wherein said beamsplitter is arranged before said imaging element or said lens to filter out said visible light beams.

15. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said imaging element is realized by CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) or CCD (Charge Coupled Device).

16. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said control circuit controls said stimulating light source to emit visible light beams of different frequency bands and different intensities and also controls said illuminating light source to emit invisible light beams of different intensities;

said invisible light beams of different intensities and said visible light beams of different frequency bands and different intensities form various combinations of light sources.

17. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1 comprising two pupil detection modules for detecting pupils of two eyes.

18. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 1, wherein said imaging element can vary focal length.

19. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 8 further comprising an absorptive pad absorbing a portion of said invisible light beams passing through said beamsplitter.

20. The portable pupil detection device with multiband stimulating light and infrared illumination according to claim 9 further comprising an absorptive pad absorbing a portion of said invisible light beams reflected by said beamsplitter.