Patent ID: 8939583
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. An ophthalmic apparatus comprising: a fundus image acquisition unit configured to acquire a first fundus image of an eye and a second fundus image of the eye which is captured at a time different from that of the first fundus image; a first generation unit configured to generate, by performing processing of enhancing contrast of a first characteristic region of a part of the first fundus image, an image which corresponds to the first characteristic region; a second generation unit configured to generate, by performing processing of enhancing contrast of a second characteristic region of a part of the second fundus image which corresponds to the first characteristic region, an image which corresponds to the second characteristic region; and a position correction unit configured to correct an acquisition position of a tomographic image of the eye based on a positional displacement between the image which corresponds to the first characteristic region and the image which corresponds to the second characteristic region.