METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AN EYE DISORDER OF AN OBSERVER AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME

摘要

In one embodiment, the invention provides the use of an interocular inhibition procedure (IIP) for discriminating between anisometropic amblyopia and myopia, two disorders commonly confused in visual examination without proper optical correction. The inventors identified that opaque and translucent patching over the fellow (or untested) eye would result in different contrast sensitivities in the amblyopic (or tested) eye. In another embodiment, the invention provides a procedure for identifying amblyopia and myopia / hyperopia through the use of a pinhole aperture. Also disclosed are apparatus utilized in the procedures.