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- Patent Title: Method of and apparatus for creating an all-in-focus image of a portion of an iridocorneal angle of an eye
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Application No.: US17602622Application Date: 2020-04-15
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Publication No.: US12079958B2Publication Date: 2024-09-03
- Inventor: Andrea Peroni , Andrea De Giusti , Michele Pascolini , Mattia Minozzi , Simone Pajaro
- Applicant: NIDEK CO. LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi
- Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi
- Agency: RANKIN, HILL & CLARK LLP
- Priority: IT 2019000006124 2019.04.19
- International Application: PCT/IB2020/053546 2020.04.15
- International Announcement: WO2020/212861A 2020.10.22
- Date entered country: 2021-10-08
- Main IPC: G06T7/13
- IPC: G06T7/13 ; G06T5/50 ; G06T5/70 ; G06T5/90 ; G06T7/30

Abstract:
The method is used for creating an all-in-focus image of a portion of an iridocorneal angle of an eye starting from a plurality of images (610), these images being shallow field-depth images of that portion taken with different focus planes but with a same image frame; the method comprises the steps of: A) pre-processing (620) said plurality of images so to obtain a plurality of single-channel images if the images of said plurality are color images, B) calculating (630) an initial focus map starting from said plurality of single-channel images, C) creating (640) an initial estimated all-in-focus image starting from said initial focus map and said plurality of single-channel images, D) calculating (650) an initial edge map starting from said initial focus map and said plurality of single-channel images, E) iterating (660) a regularization process until a stop regularization condition is met, wherein the regularization process comprises removing one or more edge points of the initial edge map by considering a reference model of an iridocorneal angle of an eye, F) creating (670) said all-in-focus image starting from said plurality of images and a focus map last calculated in step E; the reference model expresses at least one geometrical parameter of a surface of an iridocorneal angle of an eye.
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