Patent ID: 7524063

Claim:
An ophthalmic apparatus comprising: a base; a face supporting unit which is fixed to the base; a chin rest being movable up/down with respect to the face supporting unit, on which a chin of an examinee is placed; a first moving unit having a motor, which puts the chin rest into up/down movement; an examination unit being movable up/down with respect to the base, which has an examination optical system for examining an eye of the examinee; a second moving unit having a motor, which performs alignment of the examination unit with respect to the eye of the examinee fixed to the face supporting unit by putting the examination unit into up/down movement; an image pickup unit which picks up an image of the eye of the examinee fixed to the face supporting unit; and a control unit which obtains a deviation amount of the eye in an up/down direction from a reference position of the examination unit in the up/down direction based on the image picked up by the image pickup unit, judges whether or not the obtained deviation amount is outside a predetermined possible range of the alignment in the up/down direction, which is narrower than a possible range of the up/down movement of the examination unit by the second moving unit, performs the alignment of the examination unit with respect to the eye by driving the motor of the second moving unit if the obtained deviation amount is not outside the predetermined possible range, drives the motor of the first moving unit so that the deviation amount is within the predetermined possible range if the obtained deviation amount is outside the predetermined possible range, and performs the alignment of the examination unit with respect to the eye by driving the motor of the second moving unit when the deviation amount is within the predetermined possible range.