Patent ID: 7854510

Claim:
Apparatus for imaging the posterior and anterior segments of a person's eye comprising: a light source; an optical system having optical elements that can be shifted for delivering light from said light source either on optical axis or slightly off axis from the center of the optical system and return imaging path from the retina or other eye features; control means coupled to sequentially turn said light source on and off in synchronization with image capture under each condition; and means for shifting at least one of said optical elements in said optical system; wherein two images having specular reflection artifacts located in two anatomically different areas of each sequentially acquired image of said segment of the eye are created, and whereby the artifacts in each image are detected by image processing; wherein images with artifacts are combined with one or more images to create a composite image or video stream that is free of artifacts; wherein only clear well-focused image sections are combined from one or more images to create a composite image.