Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Measuring dark adaptation
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Application No.: US16971975Application Date: 2019-02-22
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Publication No.: US11937877B2Publication Date: 2024-03-26
- Inventor: Shrinivas Pundlik , Gang Luo
- Applicant: The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Boston
- Assignee: The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc.
- Current Assignee: The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Boston
- Agency: Quarles & Brady LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2019/019230 2019.02.22
- International Announcement: WO2019/165263A 2019.08.29
- Date entered country: 2020-08-21
- Main IPC: A61B3/06
- IPC: A61B3/06 ; A61B3/00 ; G02B27/01 ; G06F3/01

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for measuring dark adaptation of one or both eyes of a patient, and more particularly, for measuring dark adaptation with a mobile device application. An exemplary method includes exposing an eye of a patient to a light source to bleach a retinal location of the eye, displaying on a mobile device a figure with a luminance and waiting until the patient communicates with the mobile device to acknowledge that the patient can see the figure, measuring and recording a level of the luminance and a time period between first displaying the figure and the patient communicating with the mobile device, continuing to display additional figures with decreasing luminance one at a time, and determining by a processor dark adaptation measurements of the patent based on the measured and recorded luminance and time periods.
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