Patent ID: 7364299

Claim:
A method of examining visual functions of at least one eye of a patient, said method comprising the steps of: providing an image to be viewed by the patient; projecting light at a first brightness level in the at least one eye of the patient; monitoring and measuring a first pupil size at said first brightness level and detecting aberrations at the first pupil size, said aberrations comprising: spherical aberrations, cylindrical aberrations, and higher-order aberrations; using a corrective arrangement comprising: adaptive optical elements to correct for refractive errors due to detected higher-order aberrations; and corrective lenses to correct for refractive errors due to at least one of: detected spherical aberrations and detected cylindrical aberrations; performing subjective testing of visual acuity to verify correction of said refractive errors, and, if correction of said refractive errors is not verified by the patient, further correcting said refractive errors and subjectively testing the visual acuity until correction of said refractive errors is verified by the patient; performing at least one of: subjective testing of contrast visual acuity and subjective testing of glare sensitivity; and detecting the influence on the visual perception of the patient of at least one of: the transparency of refractive media, including at least the cornea and the intraocular lens, and the neural visual functions, including at least the functions of the macula, of the patient.