Patent ID: 9721351
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A method of blink detection in a laser eye surgical system, comprising: providing a topography measurement structure having at least one geometric marker; placing the topography measurement structure into a position proximal to an eye of a patient such that light traveling from the at least one geometric marker is capable of reflecting off a refractive structure of the eye of the patient; detecting, with an image capture device, the light reflected from the eye of the patient for a predetermined time period while the topography measurement structure is at the proximal position; converting the light reflected from the surface of the eye in the predetermined time period into image data; and analyzing the image data to determine whether light corresponding to the geometric marker is detected in the reflected light, wherein if the geometric marker is determined not to be present, the patient is identified as having blinked during the predetermined time.