Patent ID: 8814358

Claim:
A binocular adaptive optics visual simulator, comprising a left-eye light-path simulator and a right-eye light-path simulator configured identically to each other, wherein each of the left-eye light-path simulator and the right-eye light-path simulator comprises: a beacon light generator configured to emit beacon light; a scan mirror configured to direct the beacon light from the beacon light generator to a left eye or a right eye of a subject; a wavefront corrector configured to receive light resulting from reflection of the beacon light by an eyeground of the left or right eye of the subject and traveling in a first light path; a wavefront sensor configured to receive and sense the light from the wavefront corrector traveling in a second light path; a control unit configured to generate a drive signal for the wavefront corrector and a drive signal for the scan mirror based on a sensing result; a driver for the wavefront corrector configured to drive the wavefront corrector based on the drive signal for the wavefront corrector; and a driver for the scan mirror configured to drive the scan mirror based on the drive signal for the scan mirror in such a manner that in a case where a pupil of the subject is subjected to deflection, the beacon light is incident onto the pupil of the left or right eye of the subject at a substantially identical angle before and after the deflection of the pupil.