Patents by Inventor Masakazu Endo

Masakazu Endo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10076243
    Abstract: An ophthalmic imaging device for capturing a tomographic image of an eye, includes: an OCT optical system detecting interference of reference light and measurement light; a measurement optical system including an optical scanner and an objective optical system, the optical scanner being configured to deflect the measurement light to perform scanning with the measurement light; a driver configured to displace a relative position of the optical scanner with respect to the objective optical system in an optical axis direction; and a controller configured to control the driver to adjust a turning position of the measurement light in the optical axis direction. The controller changes the turning position between a first position corresponding to a first depth band of the eye and a second position corresponding to a second depth band of the eye which is different from the first depth band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji Murata, Masaaki Hanebuchi, Masakazu Endo
  • Patent number: 9820645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ophthalmologic apparatus for acquiring depth information of an eye including a light source; a measurement optical path guiding measurement light; a reference optical path generating reference light; and a detector generating a detection signal containing an interference signal of the measurement light via the measurement optical path and the reference light coming from the reference optical path; an actuator driving at least part of the interference optical system to vary an optical path length difference between the measurement optical path and the reference optical path; a standard optical system including optical members disposed corresponding to the optical path length differences in one of the measurement optical path and the reference optical path. Optical members guide part of the measurement light or the reference light to the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Endo, Masaaki Hanebuchi, Yasuhiro Furuuchi
  • Patent number: 9687147
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography device includes an OCT optical system; a processor. The processor executes: an image generation processing of processing first OCT signals, and generating, based on the first OCT signals, a three-dimensional motion contrast image which is obtained by imaging a moving object in the scanning position; a Doppler shift detection processing of detecting Doppler shift in a scanning position specified on the three-dimensional motion contrast image, the plurality of second OCT signals being detected at timings different from the timings when the plurality of first OCT signals are detected; and a velocity obtaining processing of obtaining an absolute velocity of the moving object based on the Doppler shift detected by the Doppler shift detection processing and a three-dimensional structure of the test subject obtained from the three-dimensional motion contrast image generated by the image generation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Furuuchi, Masaaki Hanebuchi, Masakazu Endo, Hajime Namiki, Naoki Takeno
  • Patent number: 9615972
    Abstract: An ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus includes an irradiation optical system and including an objective lens, and treats a patient's eye by using a laser beam. The ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus includes a delivery unit that includes an irradiation end unit, includes at least a portion of the irradiation optical system, and optically guides the laser beam, a first movement unit that includes a first drive section and integrally moves the irradiation end unit and an eyeball fixing unit which is connected to the delivery unit and fixes the patient's eye, a second movement unit that includes a second drive section and moves the eyeball fixing unit by driving the second drive section, and drive control means for controlling driving of the first drive section and driving of the second drive section, and individually moving the first movement unit and the second movement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Shibata, Masakazu Endo, Tomohiro Miyagi, Michihiro Takii, Masaaki Hanebuchi
  • Publication number: 20160317028
    Abstract: An ophthalmic imaging device for capturing a tomographic image of an eye, includes: an OCT optical system detecting interference of reference light and measurement light; a measurement optical system including an optical scanner and an objective optical system, the optical scanner being configured to deflect the measurement light to perform scanning with the measurement light; a driver configured to displace a relative position of the optical scanner with respect to the objective optical system in an optical axis direction; and a controller configured to control the driver to adjust a turning position of the measurement light in the optical axis direction. The controller changes the turning position between a first position corresponding to a first depth band of the eye and a second position corresponding to a second depth band of the eye which is different from the first depth band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji MURATA, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Masakazu ENDO
  • Publication number: 20160150954
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomography device includes an OCT optical system; a processor. The processor executes: an image generation processing of processing first OCT signals, and generating, based on the first OCT signals, a three-dimensional motion contrast image which is obtained by imaging a moving object in the scanning position; a Doppler shift detection processing of detecting Doppler shift in a scanning position specified on the three-dimensional motion contrast image, the plurality of second OCT signals being detected at timings different from the timings when the plurality of first OCT signals are detected; and a velocity obtaining processing of obtaining an absolute velocity of the moving object based on the Doppler shift detected by the Doppler shift detection processing and a three-dimensional structure of the test subject obtained from the three-dimensional motion contrast image generated by the image generation processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro FURUUCHI, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Masakazu ENDO, Hajime NAMIKI, Naoki TAKENO
  • Publication number: 20160038023
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ophthalmologic apparatus for acquiring depth information of an eye including a light source; a measurement optical path guiding measurement light; a reference optical path generating reference light; and a detector generating a detection signal containing an interference signal of the measurement light via the measurement optical path and the reference light coming from the reference optical path; an actuator driving at least part of the interference optical system to vary an optical path length difference between the measurement optical path and the reference optical path; a standard optical system including optical members disposed corresponding to the optical path length differences in one of the measurement optical path and the reference optical path. Optical members guide part of the measurement light or the reference light to the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Masakazu ENDO, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Yasuhiro FURUUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150335479
    Abstract: An ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus includes an irradiation optical system and including an objective lens, and treats a patient's eye by using a laser beam. The ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus includes a delivery unit that includes an irradiation end unit, includes at least a portion of the irradiation optical system, and optically guides the laser beam, a first movement unit that includes a first drive section and integrally moves the irradiation end unit and an eyeball fixing unit which is connected to the delivery unit and fixes the patient's eye, a second movement unit that includes a second drive section and moves the eyeball fixing unit by driving the second drive section, and drive control means for controlling driving of the first drive section and driving of the second drive section, and individually moving the first movement unit and the second movement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Takayoshi SHIBATA, Masakazu ENDO, Tomohiro MIYAGI, Michihiro TAKII, Masaaki HANEBUCHI
  • Patent number: 9138138
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: an input unit configured to obtain corneal incision information that is information on a corneal incision to be formed on a cornea of an examinee's eye; an imaging device configured to image an examinee's eye image; and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate first wavefront aberration distribution that is wavefront aberration distribution of the cornea before incision on the examinee's eye based on the examinee's eye image, obtain incision aberration information corresponding to the corneal incision information; calculate second wavefront aberration distribution that is wavefront aberration distribution after formation of the incision based on the first wavefront aberration distribution and the incision aberration information, and output guide information that guides an intraocular lens surgery based on the second wavefront aberration distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Hanebuchi, Michihiro Takii, Masakazu Endo
  • Patent number: 9101300
    Abstract: An intraocular lens power determination apparatus for determining a highly precise IOL power, the apparatus including: an anterior segment imaging device for obtaining a cross-sectional image of an anterior segment by detecting reflection from the anterior segment of an examinee's eye; and a power calculation unit obtaining an offset distance from a front surface of a lens to a point of contact of a Zinn's zonule with the lens based on the anterior segment cross-sectional image obtained by the anterior segment imaging device and calculating a prospective postoperative anterior chamber depth by adding the offset distance to an anterior chamber depth of an eye so that the IOL power is calculated by using the prospective postoperative anterior chamber depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Endo, Masaaki Hanebuchi
  • Patent number: 9078601
    Abstract: An anterior segment measuring apparatus includes: a light projecting optical system for forming a light section on an anterior segment; a light receiving optical system for obtaining a cross-sectional image of the anterior segment by scattering of the light section at the anterior segment; a displacement detection unit for detecting displacement in a direction orthogonal to the light section between the position where the actual cross-sectional image is acquired and the position of the expected cross-sectional image; and a controller for forming the cross-sectional image of the anterior segment, processing the cross-sectional image to measure the anterior segment, and correcting a measurement result for the anterior segment based on a detection result by the displacement detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunio Suzuki, Noriji Kawai, Masakazu Endo
  • Patent number: 8783883
    Abstract: In a vehicle door mirror including a motor and an adjuster assembly driven by the motor for moving a mirror glass connected with the adjuster assembly, a method for controlling delivery of power to the motor is described. The method can include detecting a voltage being supplied by a vehicle battery of the vehicle that includes the vehicle door mirror, and controlling delivery of power to the motor based on the detected voltage. A memory mirror system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Weastec, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Tobin, Takayuki Furui, Timothy Edward Kiss, Ohito Takahashi, Masakazu Endo
  • Patent number: 8672481
    Abstract: An object of one aspect of the present invention is to obtain a measurement value in accordance with the condition of a crystalline lens of an examinee's eye. An apparatus for measuring ocular axial length includes: a measuring unit which irradiates measurement waves toward a fundus of the examinee's eye, and calculates the ocular axial length of the examinee's eye based on detection signals obtained from reflected waves including waves reflected from the fundus; and a determining unit which acquires reflection information related to an anterior segment of the examinee's eye, extracts reflection signals corresponding to a reflection object between a cornea and a posterior capsule of a crystalline lens based on the acquired reflection information, and determines whether the examinee's eye is a phakic eye or an IOL eye based on the extracted reflection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriji Kawai, Masakazu Endo
  • Patent number: 8562135
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: a light projecting optical system for projecting measurement light on a cornea of an examinee's eye; a first imaging optical system for imaging a cornea reflection image obtained by reflection of the measurement light at the cornea; a computing unit for obtaining a direction of a corneal astigmatic axis based on the cornea reflection image; an illuminating optical system for projecting illumination light toward a fundus of the examinee's eye; a second imaging optical system for imaging a retro-illumination image in a pupil of the examinee's eye obtained by reflection of the illumination light at the fundus; an image processing unit for combining a first target representing the direction of the astigmatic axis with the retro-illumination image; and an output unit for outputting the retro-illumination image with which the first target has been combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Endo
  • Patent number: 8485663
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes an imaging optical system for imaging an anterior segment image including a pupil of an examinee's eye, a pupil detection unit for detecting a size of the pupil of the examinee's eye based on the imaged result by the imaging optical system, and an output unit configured to obtain size information of a far vision zone and a near vision zone for a multifocal intraocular lens and output the obtained size information and the size of the pupil detected by the pupil detection unit to be comparable. Accordingly, applicability of the multifocal intraocular lens can be determined accurately and easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Endo, Noriji Kawai
  • Patent number: 8414125
    Abstract: An eye distance measurement apparatus according to one aspect of the invention includes an interfering optical system that projects at least one piece of split light toward an examinee's eye, combines the split light, guides the combined light to a light receiving device and moves an optical member in order to adjust an optical path difference between the two pieces of split light, a mode switching unit that issues a mode switching signal for switching between a first measurement mode for moving the optical member at a first scanning rate and a second measurement mode for moving the optical member at a second scanning rate slower than the first scanning rate, and a calculation and control unit that measures an eye distance, based on an output signal of the light receiving device, obtained in the measurement mode corresponding to the mode switching signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Endo, Noriji Kawai, Yasuhisa Murakami
  • Publication number: 20130050643
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: a light projecting optical system for projecting measurement light on a cornea of an examinee's eye; a first imaging optical system for imaging a cornea reflection image obtained by reflection of the measurement light at the cornea; a computing unit for obtaining a direction of a corneal astigmatic axis based on the cornea reflection image; an illuminating optical system for projecting illumination light toward a fundus of the examinee's eye; a second imaging optical system for imaging a retro-illumination image in a pupil of the examinee's eye obtained by reflection of the illumination light at the fundus; an image processing unit for combining a first target representing the direction of the astigmatic axis with the retro-illumination image; and an output unit for outputting the retro-illumination image with which the first target has been combined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masakazu ENDO
  • Publication number: 20130021577
    Abstract: An anterior segment measuring apparatus includes: a light projecting optical system for forming a light section on an anterior segment; a light receiving optical system for obtaining a cross-sectional image of the anterior segment by scattering of the light section at the anterior segment; a displacement detection unit for detecting displacement in a direction orthogonal to the light section between the position where the actual cross-sectional image is acquired and the position of the expected cross-sectional image; and a controller for forming the cross-sectional image of the anterior segment, processing the cross-sectional image to measure the anterior segment, and correcting a measurement result for the anterior segment based on a detection result by the displacement detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunio SUZUKI, Noriji KAWAI, Masakazu ENDO
  • Publication number: 20120197102
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical microscope comprises: an observation optical system for observing a patient's eye during surgery; a corneal shape measuring unit for measuring a corneal shape of the patient's eye placed in a surgical position; and a controller configured to output guide information for guiding a surgery with an intraocular lens based on a measurement result obtained by the corneal shape measuring unit to an output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Michihiro TAKII, Masakazu ENDO, Tsutomu SUNADA
  • Publication number: 20120050901
    Abstract: In a vehicle door mirror including a motor and an adjuster assembly driven by the motor for moving a mirror glass connected with the adjuster assembly, a method for controlling delivery of power to the motor is described. The method can include detecting a voltage being supplied by a vehicle battery of the vehicle that includes the vehicle door mirror, and controlling delivery of power to the motor based on the detected voltage. A memory mirror system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicants: WEASTEC, INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: William J. Tobin, Takayuki Furui, Timothy Edward Kiss, Ohito Takahashi, Masakazu Endo