Patent ID: 7303280

Claim:
An apparatus for looking into an eye and the retina of the eye and obtaining retina images, the apparatus providing improved resolution retina images, comprising: an imaging camera directed to look into the eye for capturing and storing multiple short exposure wide-field, low-resolution retina images of the retina, a computer system operatively connected to said imaging camera, said computer system acquiring said multiple short exposure wide-field, low-resolution retina images of the retina, said computer system including processor means for image registration of said multiple short exposure wide-field, low-resolution retina images of the retina, processor means for image tiling of said multiple short exposure wide-field, low-resolution retina images of the retina producing tiles, processor means for applying apodization to said tiles, processor means for speckle processing said tiles, and processor means for assembling full results images from said tiles to provide the improved resolution of the retina images.