Patent ID: 9579015
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A method of capturing an ophthalmic image comprising: providing an ophthalmic lens having an ophthalmic lens frame; providing an imaging device having an image sensor; providing a processor in communication with the imaging device; manually aligning the ophthalmic lens and imaging device with a patient eye causing an image of a selected structure of the patient eye and an image of the ophthalmic lens frame to be focused on the image sensor; obtaining a video stream of image data with the imaging device; detecting within the image data, with the processor, data corresponding to the ophthalmic lens frame; detecting, with the processor, image data indicating that a portion of an eye care specialist's finger has obstructed a portion of the ophthalmic lens frame; and upon detecting with the processor data indicating that a portion of an eye care specialist's finger has obstructed a portion of the ophthalmic lens frame, triggering, with the processor, the capture of a still frame image with the imaging device.