Optics: eye examining – vision testing and correcting – Eye examining or testing instrument – Subjective type
Patent
1982-07-29
1985-04-16
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting
Eye examining or testing instrument
Subjective type
351237, A61B 302
Patent
active
045112282
ABSTRACT:
This invention involves measurement of the visual contrast sensitivity (modulation transfer) function of a human subject by means of a linear or circular spatial frequency pattern on a cathode ray tube whose contrast is automatically decreasing or increasing depending on the subject pressing or releasing a hand-switch button. The threshold of detection of the pattern modulation is found by the subject by adjusting the contrast to values which vary about the subject's threshold thereby determining the threshold and also providing by the magnitude of the contrast fluctuations between reversals some estimate of the variability of the subject's absolute threshold. The invention also involves the slow automatic sweeping of the spatial frequency of the pattern over the spatial frequency spectrum of interest; or the stepwise switching to specific selected discrete frequencies after preset time intervals or after threshold has been defined at each frequency by a selected number of subject-determined threshold crossings; i.e., contrast reversals.
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Marko Adolf R.
von Gierke Henning E.
Bovernick Rodney B.
Franz Bernard E.
Singer Donald J.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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