Patent ID: 8398236

Claim:
A docking method for an ophthalmic system, the method comprising: aligning a docking unit of the ophthalmic system and an eye; generating an image of an internal structure of the eye by an optical coherence tomographic imaging system after aligning the docking unit and the eye; improving an alignment of the docking unit with the internal structure of the eye in relation to the generated image; and docking the docking unit to the eye with the improved alignment the generating the image step comprising: computing scanning data by a processor corresponding to a scanning pattern; storing the scanning data in a dedicated data buffer; transferring the scanning data by the dedicated data buffer to an output module partially under the control of a dedicated memory controller; outputting scanning signals by the output module to one or more scanners based on the scanning data; and scanning an imaging beam with the one or more scampers according to the scanning signals.