Wireless scleral search coil including systems for measuring eye movement and methods related thereto
First Claim
1. A wireless scleral search device for use in detecting and measuring eye movement;
- said wireless scleral search device comprising;
a support member, one surface of which is shaped to facilitate locating the support member on an eye, wherein the support member is configured so that it moves with movement of the eye;
a resonating coil being mounted to said support member so as to extend about a circumference of the support member and wherein said resonating coil is configured such that when it is mounted to said support member elements thereof do not extend outwardly from the support member; and
wherein the resonating coil is configured so that signals at a resonance frequency are induced in the coil from externally supplied signals and so such resonance frequency signals are outputted by the resonance coil.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Featured is a wireless scleral search coil that includes one or more passive, resonant coils and in a particular embodiment two orthogonal, passive, resonant coils, where each coil resonates at a different frequency. Each resonant coil includes a coil-capacitor circuit, each circuit being configured to resonant at a different frequency. Such a wireless scleral search coil is disposed within a biocompatible material that is shaped to conform and rest upon the eye of a subject. Also featured are system including such a wireless scleral search coil, one or more transmitter coils, an assembly of one or more receiver coils and a calculating sub-system for processing signal data to obtain eye measurement information.
18 Citations
32 Claims
-
1. A wireless scleral search device for use in detecting and measuring eye movement;
- said wireless scleral search device comprising;
a support member, one surface of which is shaped to facilitate locating the support member on an eye, wherein the support member is configured so that it moves with movement of the eye; a resonating coil being mounted to said support member so as to extend about a circumference of the support member and wherein said resonating coil is configured such that when it is mounted to said support member elements thereof do not extend outwardly from the support member; and wherein the resonating coil is configured so that signals at a resonance frequency are induced in the coil from externally supplied signals and so such resonance frequency signals are outputted by the resonance coil. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
- said wireless scleral search device comprising;
-
8. A wireless scleral search device for use in detecting and measuring eye movement;
- said wireless scleral search device comprising;
a support member, one surface of which is shaped to facilitate locating the support member on an eye wherein the support member is configured so that it moves with movement of the eye; a first resonating coil and a second resonating coil, each coil being mounted to said support member so that each coil extends about a circumference of the support member and so that the coil moves with the movement of the support member and wherein each of said first and second coils is configured so elements thereof do not extend outwardly from the support member; and wherein the first and second resonating coils are configured so that signals at a resonance frequency are induced in the coil from externally supplied signals and so such resonance frequency signals are outputted by the resonance coil. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
- said wireless scleral search device comprising;
-
17. A system for detecting and measuring eye movement;
- said system including;
a coil assembly, said coil assembly including; a support member, one surface of which is shaped to facilitate locating the support member on an eye and so that the support member moves with eye movement, and at least one resonating coil being mounted to said support member such that the coil moves with movement of the support member and wherein said at least one resonating coil is configured such that elements thereof do not extend outwardly from the support member, where the resonating coil also is configured so that signals at a resonance frequency are outputted by the resonating coil; a transmitting apparatus including at least one antenna, the transmitting apparatus being configured so as to periodically output a signal(s) that is induced in the eye coil so as to cause resonance of the at least one resonating coil, and where the at least one antenna is disposed in a predetermined manner with respect to the coil assembly; a signal receiving apparatus, the signal reception apparatus being configured to receive a resonance signal(s) from the at least one resonating coil during a quiescent period between periodic signals outputted by the transmitting apparatus, and wherein the receiving apparatus includes at least a plurality of antennas that are arranged in groups that are orthogonal to each other; and a measurement determining apparatus, operably coupled to the signal receiving apparatus so as to determine a measurement corresponding to one of a horizontal, vertical or torsional movement of the eye. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
- said system including;
-
31. A method for measuring eye movement comprising the steps of:
-
providing a resonating coil assembly including a resonating coil and an array of two or more receiver coils, the two or more receiver coils being are arranged so as to be orthogonal to each other; disposing the resonating coil on an eye so that it moves with eye movement; stimulating the resonating coil so the coil continues to output signals after such stimulating is terminated; detecting and processing the signals being outputted by the resonating coil in a time sequence following termination of the stimulating; determining one of the position or orientation of the eye from the detected and processed signals. - View Dependent Claims (32)
-
Specification