Patents Assigned to Nikon Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230348316
    Abstract: An optical glass contains: a P2O5 component of 30 to 60 mass % (exclusive of 30); an Al2O3 component of 2 to 10 mass % (exclusive of 2); a TiO2 component of 10 to 36 mass % (exclusive of 36); an Nb2O5 component of 0 to 5 mass %; a Ta2O5 component of 0 to 15 mass %; a Bi2O3 component of 0 to 5 mass % (exclusive of 5); and an Sb2O3 component of 0 to 1 mass %; and a BaO component of 1 to 20 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20230351746
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging portion that images a subject; a positional information acquisition portion that acquires positional information of an imaging position; a control portion which acquires information on the subject based on the positional information, and displays image data of the subject and the information on the subject on a display portion; and a hold control portion that outputs a hold control signal, which holds the image data of the subject and the information on the subject, to the control portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideya INOUE
  • Patent number: 11805318
    Abstract: A camera body with which it is possible to improve the effect of shake correction, a camera accessory, and an information transmission method wherein the camera body to which a camera accessory can be detachably mounted, and includes: a movable section which is movable to correct shaking of the camera body; a detection unit which detects the shake and outputs a detection signal; a calculation unit which, on the basis of the detection signal, calculates an amount of movement of the movable section; and a transmission unit which transmits, to the camera accessory, body-side information the calculation unit uses to calculate the amount of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sueyuki Ohishi
  • Patent number: 11803107
    Abstract: An interchangeable lens which is mountable in and removable from a camera body having an imaging part, includes an optical system in which an exit pupil distance changes according to a position of the imaging part on an imaging surface, an input part in which information on a position on the imaging surface is input from the camera body, and an output part which outputs first information regarding the exit pupil distance of the optical system based on the information input to the input part to the camera body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Kita, Akira Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20230341833
    Abstract: A data generation method includes: displaying, on a display apparatus, an input screen operable by a user to set a value of a parameter defining a shape of an object and an output screen on which a three-dimensional model based on the parameter set by the user using the input screen; displaying, on a display screen of the display apparatus, a display for prompting the user to set the parameter again, when the three-dimensional model based on the parameter set by the user using the input screen has a shape that cannot be built by a build apparatus; and generating model data representing the three-dimensional model of the object based on the parameter set by the user again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi SHIBAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230341679
    Abstract: An optical apparatus includes: a first optical system configured to guide light from a first area on a first plane to a second plane, the second plane being a pupil plane of the first optical system relative to the first plane; a second optical system disposed between the second plane and a third plane, the second plane being a pupil plane of the second optical system relative to the third plane; a first reflective member that is disposed on a first optical path at an entrance side of the first optical system and that has a first reflective surface that is swingable; and a second reflective member that is disposed on a second optical path between the first optical system and the second optical system and that has a second reflective surface that is swingable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NAGASAKA, Yoshio KAWABE
  • Patent number: 11800074
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display and a control unit. The display displays a plurality of images of a subject captured in a first image-capturing region of an image sensor. The control unit controls the image sensor so as to set image-capturing conditions for the first image-capturing region to be different from image-capturing conditions for a second image-capturing region of the image sensor by using an image selected from the plurality of images displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Tsuchiya, Yuuki Asano, Shuhei Yoshikawa, Aiko Namikawa
  • Patent number: 11800252
    Abstract: An image sensor includes: a readout circuit that reads out a signal to a signal line, the signal being generated by an electric charge resulting from a photoelectric conversion; a holding circuit that holds a voltage based on an electric current from a power supply circuit; and an electric current source including a transistor having a drain part connected to the signal line and a gate part connected to the holding circuit and the drain part, the electric current source supplying the signal line with an electric current generated by the voltage held in the holding circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Funamizu, Masahiro Juen, Atsushi Komai
  • Patent number: 11796776
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group having negative refractive power, a first intermediate lens group having positive refractive power, a second intermediate lens group having negative refractive power and a rear lens group; upon varying a magnification from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the first intermediate lens group being varied, a distance between the first intermediate lens group and the second intermediate lens group being varied, and a distance between the second intermediate lens group and the rear lens group being varied; the rear lens group comprising at least one focusing lens group which is moved upon carrying out focusing from an infinitely distant object to a closely distant object; and predetermined conditional expressions being satisfied, thereby the focusing lens group(s) being reduced in weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Machida
  • Publication number: 20230331623
    Abstract: An optical glass comprising: by mass%, 20% or more and 55% or less of a content rate of P2O5; 10% or more and 40% or less of a content rate of TiO2; 0% or more and 30% or less of a content rate of Nb2O5; 0% or more and 2% or less of a content rate of Al2O3; 0% or more and 10% or less of a content rate of B2O3; 3% or more and 30% or less of a content rate of BaO; 0% or more and 30% or less of a content rate of Bi2O3; 0% or more and 20% or less of a content rate of Ta2O5; and 0% or more and 25% or less of a content rate of WO3, wherein a ratio of a total content rate of Li2O, Na2O and K2O (?A2O; where, A = Li, Na and K) to a content rate of TiO2 (?A2O/TiO2) is 0.10 or more and 0.65 or less, and a ratio of a content rate of TiO2 to a total content rate of P2O5, B2O3, and Al2O3 (TiO2/(P2O5 + B2O3 + Al2O3) ) is 0.25 or more and 0.85 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20230330939
    Abstract: A data generation method includes: generating model data representing a three-dimensional model of a pipe based on a value of a parameter defining a shape of the pipe designated by a user using an input screen; and setting, as a value of a parameter defining a position of an intermediate part of the pipe, a value of a parameter defining a position away from a position of an edge part of the pipe by a first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori SUGISHITA, Motofusa ISHIKAWA, Toshimitsu KURAMI
  • Publication number: 20230333283
    Abstract: A calcium fluoride polycrystalline substance, in which the internal transmittance of light having a wavelength of 550 nm per thickness of 10 mm is 98% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko HIRAYAMA, Hitoshi ISHIZAWA, Takuro NAKAMURA, Yoshinobu EZURA, Yuya YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11789246
    Abstract: A zoom lens (ZL) comprises, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having negative refractive power; an aperture stop (S); a second lens group (G2) having positive refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having negative refractive power; and a fourth lens group (G4) having positive refractive power. In this zoom lens (ZL), upon zooming from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the aperture stop (S) and the first lens group (G1), a distance between the aperture stop (S) and the second lens group (G2), and a distance between the aperture stop (S) and the third lens group (G3) are changed and the aperture stop (S) is moved in an optical axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Saburo Masugi
  • Patent number: 11789245
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group having negative refractive power; upon varying a magnification from a wide angle end state to a tele photo end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group being varied, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied, and a distance between the third lens group and the rear lens group being varied; the third lens group or the rear lens group comprising a focusing lens group which is moved upon carrying out focusing from an infinitely distant object to a closely distant object; and predetermined conditional expression(s) being satisfied, thereby various aberrations being corrected superbly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Umeda
  • Patent number: 11791223
    Abstract: To improve the throughput of substrate bonding. A substrate bonding apparatus that bonds first and second substrates so that contact regions in which the first and second substrates contact are formed in parts of the first and second substrates and the contact regions enlarge from the parts, the apparatus including: a detecting unit detecting information about the contact regions; and a determining unit determining that the first and second substrates can be carried out based on the information detected at the detecting unit. In the substrate bonding apparatus, the information may be information, a value of which changes according to progress of enlargement of the contact regions, and the determining unit may determine that the first and second substrates can be carried out if the value becomes constant or if a rate of changes in the value becomes lower than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sugaya, Eiji Ariizumi, Yoshiaki Kito, Mikio Ushijima, Masanori Aramata, Naoto Kiribe, Hiroshi Shirasu, Hajime Mitsuishi, Minoru Fukuda, Masaki Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 11788833
    Abstract: Method and system for defining basis functions for fitting distortions of profiles of objects in a batch, that has undergone a fabrication process, in a manner adaptable to the fabrication process to reduce the errors between profiles approximated with the use of such basis functions and actual object profiles. Process-specific individual basis functions are defined based on spatially-dense measurement of objects from training sub-set of the batch and applying learning algorithm to results of such measurement. Advantages of process-adaptable basis functions over generic basis functions for fitting distortion shapes of objects include higher accuracy of fitting either at larger or a fewer locations across the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Travis D. Bow, Henry Pang, Fardad A. Hashemi
  • Patent number: 11786118
    Abstract: In an ophthalmic imaging system an image imaged by an imaging section for a right eye is formed as an imaging image on a display, and then displayed through a right-eye optical unit and a reflection member. An image imaged by an imaging section for a left eye is formed as an imaging image on a display, and then displayed through an optical unit and the reflection member. This thereby enables the object to be visually inspected as a three-dimensional image by the observer viewing the right-eye imaging image and the left-eye imaging image, which differ from each other according to the parallax therebetween, by viewing the respective images through right and left eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kawasaki, Masahiro Mizuta, Ryoichi Sataka, Toshiyuki Namikawa
  • Patent number: 11791363
    Abstract: An element includes a plurality of light-receiving elements to photoelectrically convert light received from an object, a convolution processing unit to perform convolution operation on signals that are output from the plurality of light-receiving elements, and a pooling processing unit to sample a signal that is output from the convolution processing unit, based on a predetermined condition. The convolution operation of the convolution processing unit and the sampling of the pooling processing unit are repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Sota Nakanishi, Tomohisa Ishida, Atsushi Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Uchikawa
  • Patent number: 11792533
    Abstract: An image sensor includes: a first and a second pixel, each of which includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light that has passed through a micro lens and generates a first charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light that has passed through the micro lens and generates a second charge, an accumulation unit that accumulates at least one of the first charge and the second charge, a first transfer unit that transfers the first charge to the accumulation unit, and a second transfer unit that transfers the second charge to the accumulation unit; and a control unit that outputs, to the first transfer unit of the first pixel and to the second transfer unit of the second pixel, a signal that causes the first charge of the first pixel and the second charge of the second pixel to be transferred to their accumulation units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Seo
  • Publication number: 20230328274
    Abstract: A video compression apparatus for compressing video data as a series of frames outputted from an imaging element that has a plurality of imaging regions for imaging a subject and for which imaging conditions can be set for the respective imaging regions, includes: a setting unit configured to set, based on an imaging condition set in a compression target region of a frame different from a reference frame, a search region for detecting a specific region in the reference frame; and a detection unit configured to detect, based on the compression target region, the specific region in the search region set by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisaku KOMIYA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI