[A new technic for recording eye movements by image processing. Principle and method]

Nowadays, electro-oculography remains the only clinical method for ocular movement recording which is largely used in daily practise, but it has many drawbacks and limits. Till now the photo-oculographic technics have been only applied in laboratory conditions. A new differential photo-oculographic procedure is presented. This optical method is based upon the measurement of gaze direction and ocular movement amplitude from the relative pattern of five reflected corneal dots and pupil image which are located in two different optical plans. The authors relate in detail the recording devices and processing materials for the computerized analysis of video signals. The preliminary results confirm the real advantages of the method which allows to record all sorts of ocular movements in clinical conditions.