Patent ID: 7438416

Claim:
An optometric apparatus for examining refractive power of an eye of an examinee subjectively, the optometric apparatus comprising: a test window through which the examinee looks at a presented optotype; a spherical-power applying unit, including at least three disks for spherical lenses in which a plurality of spherical lenses with different power are respectively arranged, which applies spherical power to the eye by rotating the disks respectively by a motor to change a combination of the spherical lenses to be arranged in the test window; a first cylindrical-power applying unit, including two cylindrical lenses having power of equal absolute values with opposite signs, which applies cylindrical power to the eye by rotating the cylindrical lenses respectively by a motor and changing a relative angle of a cylindrical axis of the respective cylindrical lenses to be arranged in the test window, or at least two disks in which a plurality of cylindrical lenses with different power are respectively arranged, which applies cylindrical power to the eye by rotating the disks respectively by a motor and changing a combination of the cylindrical lenses to be arranged in the test window; a second cylindrical-power applying unit, including a disk in which a cylindrical lens for correction with weaker power than step-change power of the cylindrical power applied by the first cylindrical-power applying unit is arranged, which applies cylindrical power to the eye by rotating the disk by a motor and arranging the cylindrical lens for correction in the test window; a control unit which outputs an instruction signal for instructing examination spherical power and examination cylindrical power; a memory which stores: combinations of the spherical lenses to be arranged in the test window, which are determined so that the sum of the power of the spherical lenses to be arranged in the test window is equal to the examination spherical power instructed by the control unit; and combinations of the cylindrical lenses to be arranged in the test window, which are determined so that a difference between the examination cylindrical power instructed by the control unit and resultant cylindrical power through conversion for a spectacles wearing reference position of the cylindrical lenses to be arranged in the test window by the first cylindrical-power applying unit falls within a permissible difference, where the combinations such that the difference between the examination cylindrical power and the resultant cylindrical power does not fall within the permissible difference are further combined with the cylindrical lens for correction of the second cylindrical-power applying unit; and a control unit which calls up combination information from the memory based on the instruction signal from the control unit, and controls driving of the motors of the respective power-applying units based on the called-up combination information.