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US 8,020,992 · App. 12/794,511 · Granted Sep 20, 2011

Human eye adaptive optical visual perception training method and apparatus thereof

Assignees: The Institute of Optics and Electronics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science and Technology of China
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Patent No.
US 8,020,992
App. No.
12/794,511
Granted
Sep 20, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention proposes a human eye adaptive optical visual perception training apparatus, comprising: a human eye wave aberration measurement sub-system for measuring the human eye wave aberration of a person to be tested; a human eye wave aberration correction sub-system for driving and controlling the wavefront corrector to correct the human eye wave aberration of the person to be tested based on the measured human eye wave aberration of the tested person; and a visual perception training sub-system for processing and displaying sighting targets of different spatial frequencies and different contrasts, and presenting the sighting targets to the tested person, to conduct a human eye visual function measurement process and a visual perception training process. The apparatus according to the present invention is capable of several functions including eye aberration correction, visual function measurement, visual perception training. Finer visual stimulus is obtained by correcting human eye aberration, and then the human eye acuity limit can be measured, and the visual perception training effect and visual function of the human eye can be efficiently improved by performing visual perception training with such apparatus.

Claims (24)

1. A human eye adaptive optical visual perception training method, comprising the step of:

a human eye wave aberration measurement step for measuring the human eye wave aberration of a person to be tested by using a near infrared reference light source, a wavefront corrector and a wavefront sensor;

a human eye wave aberration correction step for driving and controlling the wavefront corrector to correct the human eye wave aberration of the person to be tested based on the measured human eye wave aberration of the tested person; and

a visual perception training step for displaying on a sighting target display sighting targets of different spatial frequencies and different contrasts after they have been subjected to processing in a video processing circuit, and presenting the sighting targets to the tested person via the driven and controlled wavefront corrector, to conduct a human eye visual function measurement process and a visual perception training process,

wherein the video processing circuit combines the R channel and the B channel from a normal video output and obtains a grayscale of or higher than 14 bits.

2. The human eye adaptive optical visual perception training method according to claim 1 , wherein

the human eye visual function measurement process consists in a human eye contrast threshold measurement, where the difficulty of the stimulus is adjusted in real time in response to the reply from the tested person according to the adjustment method of psychophysics in such manner that the contrast of the sighting target to be displayed next is decreased if the number of continuous replies from the tested person that are correct reaches a first predetermined value, and the contrast is increased if the number of continuous replies that are wrong reaches a second predetermined value.

3. The human eye adaptive optical visual perception training method according to claim 2 , wherein

the correctness of the tested person during the whole measurement process maintains at a level through the adjustment and then a human eye contrast threshold of the tested person is obtained; and thereby a human eye contrast sensitivity is obtained by reversing the human eye contrast threshold.

4. The human eye adaptive optical visual perception training method according to claim 3 , wherein the visual perception training process comprises steps of:

measuring a human eye contrast threshold of the tested person respectively for gratings of different spatial frequencies;

selecting a spatial frequency corresponding to a predetermined human eye contrast threshold based on the difference of the contrast thresholds under different spatial frequencies; and

conducting the visual perception training process by using the grating with the selected spatial frequency.

5. The human eye adaptive optical visual perception training method according to claim 3 , wherein the visual perception training process comprises steps of:

selecting the spatial frequency measured after the preceding visual perception training process; and

conducting the visual perception training process by using the grating with the selected spatial frequency.

6. A human eye adaptive optical visual perception training apparatus, comprising:

a human eye wave aberration measurement sub-system including a near infrared reference light source, a wavefront corrector and a wavefront sensor, for measuring the human eye wave aberration of a person to be tested;

a human eye wave aberration correction sub-system including a control unit and said wavefront corrector, for driving and controlling the wavefront corrector to correct the human eye wave aberration of the person to be tested based on the measured human eye wave aberration of the tested person; and

a visual perception training sub-system including a video processing circuit, a sighting target display and said wavefront corrector, for displaying on the sighting target display sighting targets of different spatial frequencies and different contrasts after they have been subjected to processing in the video processing circuit, and presenting the sighting targets to the tested person via the driven and controlled wavefront corrector, to conduct a human eye visual function measurement process and a visual perception training process,

wherein the video processing circuit combines the R channel and the B channel from a normal video output and obtains a grayscale of or higher than 14 bits.

7. The human eye adaptive optical visual perception training apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the wavefront corrector is selected from a group consisted of a deformable reflective mirror, a liquid crystal wavefront corrector, a Micromachined membrane deformable mirror, a Microelectromechanical deformable mirror, a Bimorph deformable mirror and a liquid deformable mirror.

8. The human eye adaptive optical visual perception training apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the wavefront sensor is selected from a group consisted of a microlens-array-based Hartmann wavefront sensor, a microprism-array-based Hartmann wavefront sensor, a Curvature wavefront sensor and a Pyramid wavefront sensor.

9. The human eye adaptive optical visual perception training apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the sighting target display is selected from a group consisted of a CRT display, a commercial display, a liquid crystal display, a plasma display, an electro-luminescent display, and an organic luminescent display.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 8, 2010
From: ZHANG, YUDONG; ZHOU, YIFENG; DAI, YUN; RAO, XUEJUN; ZHAO, HAOXIN
To: THE INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS, THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
Reel/Frame 024499/0839 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2009 1 0262470 · Dec 18, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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