US 12,268,448 B1
Ophthalmic apparatus and systems for tele-ophthalmology and collaborative care
Sandeep Khanna, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by Sandeep Khanna, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/360,785.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/044,502, filed on Jun. 26, 2020.
Int. Cl. A61B 3/10 (2006.01); A61B 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/135 (2006.01); A61B 3/14 (2006.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 80/00 (2018.01)
CPC A61B 3/135 (2013.01) [A61B 3/0008 (2013.01); A61B 3/0041 (2013.01); A61B 3/14 (2013.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 80/00 (2018.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ophthalmic system for tele-ophthalmology and collaborative care, comprising:
a slit lamp configured to capture an image of an eye of a patient;
a digital camera coupled to the slit lamp and positioned to capture imagery from the light output of a beam splitter;
a video adapter coupled to the slit lamp to focus a light output from the slit lamp to the attached digital camera;
a communications cable connected between the digital camera and a first computing device, to forward the captured imagery to the first computing device;
a network connection configured to transmit the captured imagery from the first computing device to a remote computing device(s) connected wirelessly to the first computing device, wherein the transmitted captured imagery is seen in real-time as if remote user(s) at the remote computing device(s) were seeing the image of the eye of the patient on site in the presence of the patient;
wherein the network connection is configured to transmit the captured imagery alongside a face-to-face audio-visual communication; and
wherein the computer network connection is further configured to provide a camera feed function wherein a camera feed view is switchable between a perspective of either the slit lamp, a user's computing device camera, or an auxiliary camera in a room and pointing at the patient.