Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Utagawa
Tsutomu Utagawa 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).
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Publication number: 20210297573Abstract: An imaging device includes a first imaging unit that has a first infrared cut filter and can change an imaging area, a second imaging unit that has a second infrared cut filter, an insertion/removal unit that inserts or removes the first infrared cut filter and the second infrared cut filter into or from each of optical paths of the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit, and a control unit that controls insertion or removal of the first infrared cut filter of the first imaging unit based on image information of the second imaging unit if the imaging area of the first imaging unit is changed so as to overlap with an imaging area that the second imaging unit is capturing or changed to an area close to the imaging area that the second imaging unit is capturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 10607412Abstract: An image composition unit outputs a composition image of a physical space and virtual space to a display unit. The image composition unit calculates, as difference information, a half of the difference between an imaging time of the physical space and a generation completion predicted time of the virtual space. The difference information and acquired position and orientation information are transmitted to an image processing apparatus. A line-of-sight position prediction unit updates previous difference information using the received difference information, calculates, as the generation completion predicted time, a time ahead of a receiving time by the updated difference information, and predicts the position and orientation of a viewpoint at the calculated generation completion predicted time using the received position and orientation information. The virtual space based on the predicted position and orientation, and the generation completion predicted time are transmitted to a VHMD.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 10433721Abstract: Provided is an ophthalmic apparatus, including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a confocal image and a nonconfocal image of an eye to be inspected (E); a first detection unit configured to detect a photoreceptor cell of the eye to be inspected (E) from the confocal image; a second detection unit configured to detect a photoreceptor cell of the eye to be inspected (E) from the nonconfocal image; and a display unit configured to compare the photoreceptor cell detected by the first detection unit and the photoreceptor cell detected by the second detection unit with each other to display a result of the comparison on a screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsutomu Utagawa, Hiroshi Imamura
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Patent number: 10271726Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of imaging a confocal image and a nonconfocal image, in which an image intended by an examiner is provided easily and rapidly. The imaging apparatus includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a confocal image and a nonconfocal image of an eye to be inspected; a display unit configured to display at least one of the acquired confocal image and the acquired nonconfocal image; an analysis unit configured to analyze the acquired confocal image and the acquired nonconfocal image; and a display control unit configured to change a display form displayed on the display unit in accordance with an analysis result obtained by the analysis unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsutomu Utagawa, Hiroshi Imamura
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Publication number: 20170340203Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of imaging a confocal image and a nonconfocal image, in which an image intended by an examiner is provided easily and rapidly. The imaging apparatus includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a confocal image and a nonconfocal image of an eye to be inspected; a display unit configured to display at least one of the acquired confocal image and the acquired nonconfocal image; an analysis unit configured to analyze the acquired confocal image and the acquired nonconfocal image; and a display control unit configured to change a display form displayed on the display unit in accordance with an analysis result obtained by the analysis unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Tsutomu Utagawa, Hiroshi Imamura
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Patent number: 9782066Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of imaging a confocal image and a nonconfocal image, in which an image intended by an examiner is provided easily and rapidly. The imaging apparatus includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a confocal image and a nonconfocal image of an eye to be inspected; a display unit configured to display at least one of the acquired confocal image and the acquired nonconfocal image; an analysis unit configured to analyze the acquired confocal image and the acquired nonconfocal image; and a display control unit configured to change a display form displayed on the display unit in accordance with an analysis result obtained by the analysis unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsutomu Utagawa, Hiroshi Imamura
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Publication number: 20160262607Abstract: Provided is an ophthalmic apparatus, including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a confocal image and a nonconfocal image of an eye to be inspected (E); a first detection unit configured to detect a photoreceptor cell of the eye to be inspected (E) from the confocal image; a second detection unit configured to detect a photoreceptor cell of the eye to be inspected (E) from the nonconfocal image; and a display unit configured to compare the photoreceptor cell detected by the first detection unit and the photoreceptor cell detected by the second detection unit with each other to display a result of the comparison on a screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Tsutomu Utagawa, Hiroshi Imamura
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Publication number: 20160235294Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of imaging a confocal image and a nonconfocal image, in which an image intended by an examiner is provided easily and rapidly. The imaging apparatus includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a confocal image and a nonconfocal image of an eye to be inspected; a display unit configured to display at least one of the acquired confocal image and the acquired nonconfocal image; an analysis unit configured to analyze the acquired confocal image and the acquired nonconfocal image; and a display control unit configured to change a display form displayed on the display unit in accordance with an analysis result obtained by the analysis unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Tsutomu Utagawa, Hiroshi Imamura
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Patent number: 9339183Abstract: A fundus image photographing apparatus with adaptive optics generally corrects an aberration by feedback control using a wave front sensor and a wave front correction device. The reduction in the time required to correct the aberration to a high-resolution photographing level is demanded. Aberration correction information of last photographing is stored for each subject, and a stored correction value is used to correct the aberration to reduce the time before the completion of the aberration correction. If there is no stored information, a correction value for a preset reference aberration amount is used.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Publication number: 20160007845Abstract: A fundus imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that captures images of a plurality of regions of a fundus of a subject's eye, an initial value determination unit that determines an initial value of an aberration correction value of a target region based on an aberration correction value of at least one calculated region having a calculated aberration correction value from among the plurality of regions, a measurement unit that measures an aberration of the target region based on the initial value, a calculation unit that calculates an aberration correction value of the target region based on a measurement result of the measurement unit, and an aberration correction unit that corrects the aberration of the target region using the aberration correction value of the target region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 9119576Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmic device that includes a plurality of light sources including at least a light source for obtaining a return light of which aberration has been corrected with a correction unit from an eye under examination; and a control unit configured to control measurement lights from the plurality of light sources such that the measurement lights enter the eye under examination in a predetermined order when a photography of a second eye is started after a photography of a first eye has been completed.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 9113820Abstract: In order to solve the problem in that, when a fundus is irradiated with multiple beams, a load has been placed on a subject, an imaging apparatus for imaging an object to be inspected based on return light from a first area in the object to be inspected, which is irradiated with first light, including: a determination unit for determining a second area being narrower than the first area in the object to be inspected; and a control unit for restricting the irradiation with the first light in the second area, which is irradiated with second light.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Utagawa, Tomoyuki Makihira
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Publication number: 20150124217Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmic device that includes a plurality of light sources including at least a light source for obtaining a return light of which aberration has been corrected with a correction unit from an eye under examination; and a control unit configured to control measurement lights from the plurality of light sources such that the measurement lights enter the eye under examination in a predetermined order when a photography of a second eye is started after a photography of a first eye has been completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2015Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 9022566Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmic device that includes a plurality of light sources including at least a light source for obtaining a return light of which aberration has been corrected with a correction unit from an eye under examination; and a control unit configured to control measurement lights from the plurality of light sources such that the measurement lights enter the eye under examination in a predetermined order when a photography of a second eye is started after a photography of a first eye has been completed.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 8960907Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmic device that includes a plurality of light sources including at least a light source for obtaining a return light of which aberration has been corrected with a correction unit from an eye under examination; and a control unit configured to control measurement lights from the plurality of light sources such that the measurement lights enter the eye under examination in a predetermined order when a photography of a second eye is started after a photography of a first eye has been completed.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 8820933Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to the present invention can cause a display unit to display a scanning range of each of a plurality of measurement light beams in an intersection image (an image in a direction intersecting a direction in which an inspection object is irradiated with the plurality of measurement light beams) of the inspection object.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Utagawa, Makoto Sato, Yukio Sakagawa
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Publication number: 20140185008Abstract: A fundus image photographing apparatus with adaptive optics generally corrects an aberration by feedback control using a wave front sensor and a wave front correction device. The reduction in the time required to correct the aberration to a high-resolution photographing level is demanded. Aberration correction information of last photographing is stored for each subject, and a stored correction value is used to correct the aberration to reduce the time before the completion of the aberration correction. If there is no stored information, a correction value for a preset reference aberration amount is used.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 8760470Abstract: An image composition unit outputs a composition image of a physical space and virtual space to a display unit. The image composition unit calculates, as difference information, a half of the difference between an imaging time of the physical space and a generation completion predicted time of the virtual space. The difference information and acquired position and orientation information are transmitted to an image processing apparatus. A line-of-sight position prediction unit updates previous difference information using the received difference information, calculates, as the generation completion predicted time, a time ahead of a receiving time by the updated difference information, and predicts the position and orientation of a viewpoint at the calculated generation completion predicted time using the received position and orientation information. The virtual space based on the predicted position and orientation, and the generation completion predicted time are transmitted to a VHMD.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Patent number: 8708489Abstract: A fundus image photographing apparatus with adaptive optics generally corrects an aberration by feedback control using a wave front sensor and a wave front correction device. The reduction in the time required to correct the aberration to a high-resolution photographing level is demanded. Aberration correction information of last photographing is stored for each subject, and a stored correction value is used to correct the aberration to reduce the time before the completion of the aberration correction. If there is no stored information, a correction value for a preset reference aberration amount is used.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsutomu Utagawa
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Publication number: 20140111546Abstract: An image composition unit outputs a composition image of a physical space and virtual space to a display unit. The image composition unit calculates, as difference information, a half of the difference between an imaging time of the physical space and a generation completion predicted time of the virtual space. The difference information and acquired position and orientation information are transmitted to an image processing apparatus. A line-of-sight position prediction unit updates previous difference information using the received difference information, calculates, as the generation completion predicted time, a time ahead of a receiving time by the updated difference information, and predicts the position and orientation of a viewpoint at the calculated generation completion predicted time using the received position and orientation information. The virtual space based on the predicted position and orientation, and the generation completion predicted time are transmitted to a VHMD.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tsutomu UTAGAWA