Devices and methods for determining the inner pressure of an eye
First Claim
1. A device for determining intraocular pressure, comprising:
- a plurality of pressure-sensing elements; and
processing means for determining the intraocular pressure from a sum of the sensor pressure values measured by the individual pressure-sensing elements and from a number of the pressure-sensing elements contributing to the sum.
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Abstract
Proposed is a device and a method for determining the inner pressure of a human eye, in which a plurality of pressure sensing elements, placeable on the eye, are used for measurement, with spatial resolution, of pressure values, which pressure-sensing elements are preferably disposed in a pressure sensor array, in particular in a micro-electromechanical pressure sensor array with at least one line of pressure sensing elements. The intraocular pressure is determined from the sum of the measured sensor pressure values and the number of pressure-sensing elements contributing to the sum. Pressure distribution profiles with spatial resolution and pressure distribution matrices are able to be shown graphically.
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25 Claims
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1. A device for determining intraocular pressure, comprising:
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a plurality of pressure-sensing elements; and
processing means for determining the intraocular pressure from a sum of the sensor pressure values measured by the individual pressure-sensing elements and from a number of the pressure-sensing elements contributing to the sum. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for determining intraocular pressure, comprising:
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a measuring sensor for capturing measurement values for determining the intraocular pressure, comprising a plurality of pressure-sensing elements and an evaluation unit, comprising processing means for determining the intraocular pressure from the sum of the sensor pressure values measured by individual pressure-sensing elements and from the number of the pressure-sensing elements contributing to the sum; and
an interface for transmission of the sensor pressure values, measured by the individual pressure-sensing elements, to the evaluation unit. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24)
determining the intraocular pressure from a sum of the sensor pressure values measured by the individual pressure-sensing elements and from a number of the pressure-sensing elements contributing to the sum. -
19. The system according to claim 13, wherein the evaluation unit further comprises filter means for excluding those measured sensor pressure values from the sum which are above a sensor pressure value at least by a defined difference value, said latter sensor pressure value being measured by those pressure-sensing elements resting in an inner region of a contact area on which the measuring sensor rests directly or indirectly on an eye in an applied state of the measuring sensor.
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23. The method according to claim 13, wherein the intraocular pressure is determined from the sum of measured and weighted pressure values and from the number of pressure-sensing elements contributing to the sum.
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24. The method according to claim 23, wherein certain measured sensor pressure values are excluded, according to predefined criteria, from the summation.
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20. A method for determining intraocular pressure, comprising:
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at least one of placing directly and indirectly, a plurality of pressure-sensing elements on an eye; and
determining the intraocular pressure from a sum of the sensor pressure values measured by the individual pressure-sensing elements from a number of the pressure-sensing elements contributing to the sum. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 25)
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