Patent ID: 7296894

Claim:
An apparatus for obtaining an image of an eye, comprising: (a) an alignment section for aligning a pupil of the eye along an optical axis; (b) a pupil sensor for identifying location and dimensions of the pupil of the eye; (c) an illumination section for directing light through the pupil of the eye, comprising: (i) a light source for providing an illumination beam; (ii) a spatial light modulator for positioning and shaping the illumination beam according to the sensed location and dimensions of the pupil; (iii) an illumination beam partitioning mechanism for segmenting the illumination beam directed toward the pupil of the eye into at least one light-bearing segment and at least one blocked segment; (iv) an actuator coupled to the illumination beam partitioning mechanism for scanning the at least one light-bearing segment of the illumination beam across the pupil of the eye; and (d) an image sensor, aligned along the optical axis, for obtaining reflected light from the eye.