Patent ID: 7478909

Claim:
An ophthalmologic apparatus for effecting an alignment of an eye to be examined comprising: an eye examining portion unit for receiving a light beam reflected from the eye to be examined and effecting a measurement of the eye to be examined; an image pickup element for picking up an image of a front eye part of the eye to be examined; and a controller for determining whether an eyelid of the eye covers a pupil of the eye by comparing a pupil diameter of the eye obtained from an image of the eye with a predetermined value, for detecting a positional shift between a position of a vertex of a cornea of the eye and the eye examining portion unit in a case where the controller determines that the eyelid of the eye covers the pupil of the eye, for detecting the positional shift between a center of the pupil of the eye to be examined and the eye examining portion unit in a case where the controller determines that the eyelid of the eye does not cover the pupil of the eye, and for aligning the eye examining portion unit based on the detected positional shift.