Patent ID: 8449114

Claim:
A fundus imaging apparatus, comprising: an imaging unit for receiving reflected light from an eye to be inspected through an optical system to take an image of the eye to be inspected; a focusing unit for achieving a substantially conjugate relationship between the eye to be inspected and the imaging unit; a diopter adjustment unit for adjusting a diopter when the eye to be inspected is myopic or hyperopic; an imaging selecting unit capable of selecting one of a fundus imaging mode, in which a fundus of the eye to be inspected is imaged, and an anterior ocular segment imaging mode, in which an anterior ocular segment of the eye to be inspected is imaged; a diopter adjustment switching unit for switching the diopter adjustment unit in accordance with the one of the fundus imaging mode and the anterior ocular segment imaging mode selected by the imaging selecting unit; and a drive unit for driving the focusing unit in accordance with the one of the fundus imaging mode and the anterior ocular segment imaging mode selected by the imaging selecting unit.