Patent ID: 6921169

Claim:
In a digital eye camera for producing diagnostic-quality images of both the retina and cornea of the human eye, with the eye camera having an optical system including shared combination of components utilized for imaging both the retina and cornea, a retinal combination of components utilized only to image the retina, and a corneal combination of components utilized only to image the cornea, with the components disposed within a housing, an objective lens system comprising: a front non-changeable lens element used to seal the optical system; a first changeable lens element of said objective lens system, included in the retinal combination, for focusing, in combination with said first objective element, portions or all of said retinal region at or approximately at a common image plane; and a second changeable lens element of said objective lens system, included in the corneal combination of elements, focusing, in combination with said first objective element, portions or all of said cornea region at or approximately at a infinity.