Patents by Inventor Suguru Miyagawa

Suguru Miyagawa 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: 11941800
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus analyzes an image of a subject's eye formed by arranging a plurality of A-scan images acquired by performing OCT scan on inside the subject's eye with measurement light deflected around a scan center position. The ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a correcting unit, a region specifying unit, and a direction specifying unit. The correcting unit is configured to transform a pixel position in the image into a transformation position along a traveling direction of the measurement light passing through the scan center position. The region specifying unit is configured to specify a predetermined layer region by analyzing the image in which the pixel position has been transformed by the correcting unit. The direction specifying unit is configured to specify a normal direction of the layer region specified by the region specifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Suguru Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20230050680
    Abstract: An ophthalmic information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit and an image deforming unit. The specifying unit is configured to specify a three-dimensional position of each pixel in a two-dimensional front image depicting a predetermined site of a subject's eye, based on OCT data obtained by performing optical coherence tomography on the predetermined site. The image deforming unit is configured to deform the two-dimensional front image, by changing position of at least one pixel in the two-dimensional front image based on the three-dimensional position, to generate a three-dimensional front image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi HIROSE, Suguru MIYAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11363948
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic device includes: a visual target presenting unit configured to present a common visual target to be viewed with both subject's eyes; a presenting distance changing unit configured to change a presenting distance of the visual target presented by the visual target presenting unit from a predetermined far vision distance to a predetermined near vision distance; an ocular characteristic acquiring unit configured to objectively acquire an optical characteristic of the subject's eyes; an addition power adding unit configured to add the addition power to the both subject's eyes; and a control unit configured to cause the presenting distance changing unit to change the presenting distance and the ocular characteristic acquiring unit to continuously acquire the optical characteristic, in a state in which an addition power is added to the both subject's eyes by the addition power adding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikado, Yoko Hirohara, Makoto Saika, Suguru Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20220151486
    Abstract: The ophthalmologic device to be coupled to a correcting device for correcting subject eyes, the correcting device including a right-left pair of two examination windows and a right-left pair of arrangement mechanisms that each arrange first optical elements, includes: a coupling member configured to be detachably coupled to each of coupled members provided on a side surface of the correcting device on a side opposite to an eyepiece side for each subject eye; a second optical element arranged at a position facing a second examination window opposite to a first examination window which is an eyepiece window, when the coupling member is coupled to the coupled member, the second optical element configured to branch a second optical path from a first optical path along the optical axes; and an objective measuring system arranged on the second optical path and configured to acquire ocular characteristics of each subject eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Yoko TATARA, Suguru MIYAGAWA, Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI, Makoto SAIKA
  • Patent number: 11204243
    Abstract: Target point cloud data about a specific road are extracted from perimeter point cloud data acquired by moving a road surface measurement device along a measurement route and scanning the surroundings thereof. A data storage unit stores trajectory point sequence data that represent, as a plurality of trajectory points, the perimeter point cloud data and a trajectory of the movement of the road surface measurement device. A trajectory point sequence setting unit acquires a trajectory point sequence at equal intervals from the trajectory point sequence data. An extraction area setting unit sets, as extraction areas, a column area Ci and a parallelepiped area Hi that are geometric areas disposed at predetermined positions below a trajectory point Xi. An approximate nearest neighbor search processing unit and an extraction processing unit extract, as the target point cloud data, point data that belong to this extraction area of the perimeter point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: TOPCON CORPORATION, RIKEN
    Inventors: Shin Yoshizawa, Hideo Yokota, Suguru Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 10959615
    Abstract: An eye-fatigue examining device and an eye-fatigue examining method capable of examining eye fatigue of a subject's eye regardless of an age of a patient are provided. The eye-fatigue examining device includes: a light quantity difference adjusting unit that increases a light quantity difference between lights respectively incident on right and left subject's eyes; a gaze direction detecting unit that detects gaze directions of the respective subject's eyes while the light quantity difference adjusting unit increases the light quantity difference; and a light quantity difference deciding unit that decides a specific light quantity difference at which a change in the gaze directions due to the increase in the light quantity difference occurs, based on the detection result of the gaze direction detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: TOPCON CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takashi Fujikado, Masakazu Hirota, Kohji Nishida, Makoto Saika, Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Suguru Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20210073988
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus analyzes an image of a subject's eye formed by arranging a plurality of A-scan images acquired by performing OCT scan on inside the subject's eye with measurement light deflected around a scan center position. The ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a correcting unit, a region specifying unit, and a direction specifying unit. The correcting unit is configured to transform a pixel position in the image into a transformation position along a traveling direction of the measurement light passing through the scan center position. The region specifying unit is configured to specify a predetermined layer region by analyzing the image in which the pixel position has been transformed by the correcting unit. The direction specifying unit is configured to specify a normal direction of the layer region specified by the region specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi HIROSE, Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI, Suguru MIYAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200085293
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic device includes: a visual target presenting unit configured to present a common visual target to be viewed with both subject's eyes; a presenting distance changing unit configured to change a presenting distance of the visual target presented by the visual target presenting unit from a predetermined far vision distance to a predetermined near vision distance; an ocular characteristic acquiring unit configured to objectively acquire an optical characteristic of the subject's eyes; an addition power adding unit configured to add the addition power to the both subject's eyes; and a control unit configured to cause the presenting distance changing unit to change the presenting distance and the ocular characteristic acquiring unit to continuously acquire the optical characteristic, in a state in which an addition power is added to the both subject's eyes by the addition power adding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIKADO, Yoko HIROHARA, Makoto SAIKA, Suguru MIYAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190285410
    Abstract: Target point cloud data about a specific road are extracted from perimeter point cloud data acquired by moving a road surface measurement device along a measurement route and scanning the surroundings thereof. A data storage unit stores trajectory point sequence data that represent, as a plurality of trajectory points, the perimeter point cloud data and a trajectory of the movement of the road surface measurement device. A trajectory point sequence setting unit acquires a trajectory point sequence at equal intervals from the trajectory point sequence data. An extraction area setting unit sets, as extraction areas, a column area Ci and a parallelepiped area Hi that are geometric areas disposed at predetermined positions below a trajectory point Xi. An approximate nearest neighbor search processing unit and an extraction processing unit extract, as the target point cloud data, point data that belong to this extraction area of the perimeter point cloud data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicants: RIKEN, TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin YOSHIZAWA, Hideo YOKOTA, Suguru MIYAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10277006
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for suppressing variations in the waveform of a light emission pulse caused by various factors in a light-emitting device. A light-emitting device is provided with: a light source 101 in which relaxation oscillation occurs immediately after energization; a light source drive circuit 104 which includes a differentiation circuit 102 having a resistor and a capacitor connected in parallel, and in which a switching element 103 for voltage application is connected in series with the differentiation circuit; a power supply circuit 105; a light-reception element 107 which detects pulsed light emitted from the light source 101; and a voltage control unit 109 which controls an output voltage from the power supply circuit 105 in correspondence with the waveform of the detected pulsed light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Miyagawa, Yoshiaki Goto, Yoshikatsu Tokuda
  • Publication number: 20190099076
    Abstract: An eye-fatigue examining device and an eye-fatigue examining method capable of examining eye fatigue of a subject's eye regardless of an age of a patient are provided. The eye-fatigue examining device includes: a light quantity difference adjusting unit that increases a light quantity difference between lights respectively incident on right and left subject's eyes; a gaze direction detecting unit that detects gaze directions of the respective subject's eyes while the light quantity difference adjusting unit increases the light quantity difference; and a light quantity difference deciding unit that decides a specific light quantity difference at which a change in the gaze directions due to the increase in the light quantity difference occurs, based on the detection result of the gaze direction detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIKADO, Masakazu HIROTA, Kohji NISHIDA, Makoto SAIKA, Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI, Suguru MIYAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180109073
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for suppressing variations in the waveform of a light emission pulse caused by various factors in a light-emitting device. A light-emitting device is provided with: a light source 101 in which relaxation oscillation occurs immediately after energization; a light source drive circuit 104 which includes a differentiation circuit 102 having a resistor and a capacitor connected in parallel, and in which a switching element 103 for voltage application is connected in series with the differentiation circuit; a power supply circuit 105; a light-reception element 107 which detects pulsed light emitted from the light source 101; and a voltage control unit 109 which controls an output voltage from the power supply circuit 105 in correspondence with the waveform of the detected pulsed light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru MIYAGAWA, Yoshiaki GOTO, Yoshikatsu TOKUDA
  • Patent number: 8472096
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an oscillator device having first and second oscillators being driven at first and second driving resonance frequencies gf1 and gf2, the method including a first step for processing the two oscillators, wherein, when the two oscillators are going to be processed as oscillators having first and second resonance frequencies different from the two driving resonance frequencies with a certain dispersion range, the two oscillators are so processed that the first and second resonance frequencies different from the two driving resonance frequencies become equal to first and second resonance frequencies f1 and f2, respectively, which are included in adjustable resonance frequency ranges, respectively, and a second step for adjusting the first and second resonance frequencies f1 and f2 so that they become equal to the first and second driving resonance frequencies gf1 and gf2, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Fujii, Takahisa Kato, Yoshio Hotta, Suguru Miyagawa, Takahiro Akiyama
  • Patent number: 8305674
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an oscillator device having an oscillator supported relative to a fixed member by a torsion spring for oscillation around a torsion axis and arranged to be driven at a resonance frequency, which method includes a first step for determining an assumed value of an inertia moment weight of the oscillator, a second step for measuring the resonance frequency, a third step for calculating a spring constant of the torsion spring, from the assumed value of the inertia moment weight and the measured resonance frequency obtained at said first and second steps, a fourth step for calculating an adjustment amount for the inertia moment of the oscillator or for the spring constant of the torsion spring, based on the spring constant calculated at said third step and a target resonance frequency determined with respect to the resonance frequency of the oscillator, so as to adjust the resonance frequency to the target resonance frequency, and a fifth step for adjusting the resonance frequency of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suguru Miyagawa, Takahiro Akiyama, Kazutoshi Torashima, Takahisa Kato, Kazunari Fujii
  • Patent number: 8270057
    Abstract: An oscillator device including an oscillation system with oscillators and torsion springs, a driving member for driving the oscillation system, and a drive control member for supplying a driving signal to the driving member, the oscillation system having at least a first oscillation mode and a second oscillation mode, the second oscillation mode having an angular frequency approximately n-fold the angular frequency of the first oscillation mode where n is an integer, the driving member driving the oscillation system so that it simultaneously oscillates in the first and second oscillation modes, wherein a natural angular frequency calculating member calculates the natural angular frequency of the second oscillation mode based on an output signal from a photodetector, being outputted at a timing whereat the reflection light passes over the photodetector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Fujii, Suguru Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 8254006
    Abstract: An oscillator device includes at least one movable element supported for oscillatory motion around a rotational axis, and a damper member for applying a damping function to the oscillatory motion of the movable element, the damper member being provided along at least a portion of a locus plane defined by an edge of the movable element during oscillatory motion thereof, so that, based on a viscosity of a fluid which is present between the edge of the movable element and a portion of the damper member opposed to the edge of the movable element, the damping function is applied to applied to the oscillatory motion of the movable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suguru Miyagawa, Koichi Hara
  • Patent number: 8191994
    Abstract: Provided is a continuous-type charge deflection liquid ejection head that is suitable for higher-density and multiple nozzles. This liquid ejection head includes: an orifice plate having a plurality of nozzles arranged in a two-dimensional manner; a charging electrode plate having a charging electrode to charge ink droplets from each of the plurality of nozzles; and first and second deflection electrode plates each having a deflection electrode to deflect each of the ink droplets charged by the charging electrode, in which each of the charging member, the first deflection member, and the second deflection member has through-holes that ink droplets pass through, and the charging member, the first deflection member, and the second deflection member are laminated in this order in an ejecting direction of the ink droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Nakakubo, Takahisa Kato, Haruhito Ono, Suguru Miyagawa
  • Patent number: 8174746
    Abstract: An oscillator device includes at least one movable element supported for oscillatory motion around a rotational axis, and a first rectifying member for suppressing generation of a spiral airflow during oscillation of the movable element, the first rectifying member being provided to occupy a space of at least a portion of a spiral airflow generating region which might otherwise be created when the first rectifying member is not provided there.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suguru Miyagawa, Jun Nagatoshi, Yasuhiro Shimada
  • Patent number: 8159734
    Abstract: An oscillator device includes a supporting member, an oscillation system having plural oscillators and plural torsion springs, a driving device for oscillating the oscillation system, a drive control device for controlling the driving device, an oscillation detecting device for detecting a state of oscillation of an oscillator of the oscillation system, a resonance frequency calculating device for calculating a resonance frequency of the oscillation system based on an output of the oscillation detecting device, and a control parameter adjusting device for adjusting a control parameter of the drive control device, wherein the control parameter adjusting device adjusts a control parameter based on an output of the resonance frequency calculating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Fujii, Suguru Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20110249063
    Abstract: Provided is a continuous-type charge deflection liquid ejection head that is suitable for higher-density and multiple nozzles. This liquid ejection head includes: an orifice plate having a plurality of nozzles arranged in a two-dimensional manner; a charging electrode plate having a charging electrode to charge ink droplets from each of the plurality of nozzles; and first and second deflection electrode plates each having a deflection electrode to deflect each of the ink droplets charged by the charging electrode, in which each of the charging member, the first deflection member, and the second deflection member has through-holes that ink droplets pass through, and the charging member, the first deflection member, and the second deflection member are laminated in this order in an ejecting direction of the ink droplets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Nakakubo, Takahisa Kato, Haruhito Ono, Suguru Miyagawa