Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
  • Patent number: 9295386
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes an examination part, a moving mechanism, an information obtaining part, and a controller. The examination part is configured to include an optical system for optically examining an eye. The moving mechanism is configured to move the optical system. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain information for carrying out position matching of the optical system to the eye. The controller is configured to carry out first control for the moving mechanism based on the information obtained by the information obtaining part to move the optical system, determine whether information optically obtained by the optical system after the first control is appropriate to the examination or not, and when it is determined that this information is not appropriate, carry out second control for the moving mechanism in response to a prescribed trigger to move the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Kanichi Tokuda, Taiki Aimi, Atsushi Kubota, Yusuke Ono
  • Publication number: 20160070981
    Abstract: A technique for efficiently calibrating a camera is provided. Reference laser scan data is obtained by scanning a building 131 by a laser scanner 115, which is fixed on a vehicle 100 and has known exterior orientation parameters, while the vehicle 100 travels. An image of the building 131 is photographed at a predetermined timing by an onboard camera 113. Reference point cloud position data, in which the reference laser scan data is described in a coordinate system defined on the vehicle 100 at the predetermined timing, is calculated based on the trajectory the vehicle 100 has traveled. Matching points are selected between feature points in the reference point cloud position data and in the image. Exterior orientation parameters of the camera 113 are calculated based on relative relationships between the reference point cloud position data and image coordinate values in the image of the matching points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: You SASAKI, Tadayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 9279679
    Abstract: A construction machine control system comprises a laser surveying instrument for projecting a laser beam in rotary irradiation at constant speed and a construction machine for operating in a photodetection range of the laser beam, and in the construction machine control system, the construction machine comprises a working mechanical unit for carrying out construction operation, a machine control device for controlling the working mechanical unit, and at least three beam detectors which are disposed at known positions with respect to a device reference position of the construction machine and have a photodetector for receiving the laser beam and a direction of the construction machine is calculated based on photodetection timing of each of the beam detectors and the machine control device controls the working mechanical unit so that direction of the construction machine is set to a condition as required based on a result of calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Jun-ichi Kodaira, Raymond M. O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20160063704
    Abstract: The position and the attitude of a device or a member are determined. A camera 115, in which exterior orientation parameters are not determined, is photographed by a camera 113, in which exterior orientation parameters in an IMU coordinate system are determined. The camera 115 is rotatable around a shaft, in which the direction of the rotational shaft is preliminarily set, and a distance between the camera 113 and the camera 115 is known. In this condition, by analyzing the image of the camera 115 photographed by the camera 113, the exterior orientation parameters of the camera 115 are calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: You SASAKI, Tadayuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20160063717
    Abstract: A technique for performing calibration of a laser scanner efficiently is provided. Point cloud position data of a building 131 is obtained by a laser scanner 141 in which exterior orientation parameters are already known. On the other hand, the building 131 is scanned by a laser scanner 115 while a vehicle 100 travels, and point cloud position data of the building 131 measured by the laser scanner 115 is obtained based on a trajectory the vehicle 100 has traveled. Then, exterior orientation parameters of the laser scanner 115 are calculated based on a correspondence relationship between these two point cloud position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: You Sasaki, Tadayuki Ito, Kazuhiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20160061595
    Abstract: A measuring device includes a base unit, a rotational unit rotatably provided on the base unit, a fluid container secured in the base unit, containing fluid forming a free surface, a light emitting system secured in the rotational unit to emit light to the free surface in the fluid container, a light receiving system secured in the rotational unit, including a light receiving element to receive the light reflected by the free surface and generate a light receiving signal, and an arithmetic controller which controls the light emitting system and the light receiving system and calculates a tilt of a rotational axis of the rotational unit according to the light receiving signal of the reflected light from the light receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Nobuyuki NISHITA, Satoshi YANOBE
  • Publication number: 20160063703
    Abstract: Exterior orientation parameters of a camera are easily determined by, for example, a reference image being obtained by photographing a building 131 with a camera 112, in which exterior orientation parameters are determined, while a vehicle 100 travels, and a comparative image being simultaneously obtained by photographing the building 131 with a camera 113, in which exterior orientation parameters are undetermined. Then, points that match between the reference image and the comparative image are selected, and relative orientation and scale adjustment using a predetermined scale are performed, whereby the exterior orientation parameters of the camera 113 are calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: You SASAKI, Tadayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 9273959
    Abstract: The invention provides a surveying instrument (1) which has a measuring unit comprises an operation control panel (4) rotatably mounted on the measuring unit with vertical axis as the center with respect to the measuring unit, and a relative angle detecting means for detecting a relative angle of the operation control panel and the measuring unit, wherein the operation control panel is so arranged that a command is issued to relatively rotate the measuring unit based on the relative angle detected by the relative angle detecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Jun-ichi Kodaira
  • Patent number: 9275283
    Abstract: To provide the status of the cribrosa lamina of an eye of a living body as diagnostic material. A tomographic image forming part 232 of a fundus observing device 1 forms a horizontal tomographic image Wi based on a three-dimensional image V of a fundus Ef. A cribrosa-lamina region specifying part 233 specifies a cribrosa-lamina region Uj by analyzing the horizontal tomographic image Wi. A hole region specifying part 234 specifies a hole region Pk in the cribrosa-lamina region Uj by analyzing the horizontal tomographic image Wi. The distribution information generating part 235 generates distribution information representing the distribution of the hole region Pk in the cribrosa-lamina region Uj based on the specifying results of the cribrosa-lamina region Uj and the hole region Pk. This distribution information is displayed by a display 240.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventor: Masahiro Shibutani
  • Patent number: 9273960
    Abstract: A laser surveying system includes a rotational light emitting unit to rotationally emit a laser beam, having a case and a beam emitter supported on the case with an optical axis of the laser beam rotatable relative to the case, and a light receiving unit to receive the laser beam from the rotational light emitting unit and perform surveying of a light-receiving position, wherein the laser surveying system is configured to determine whether or not the laser beam received by the light receiving unit has been properly emitted from the rotational light emitting unit on the basis of a rotational position of the optical axis of the laser beam relative to the case and an angle of site of the laser beam relative to a reference plane including the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Junichi Kodaira, Fumihiko Kamizono
  • Publication number: 20160056609
    Abstract: Light with a short pulse width is emitted using a simple structure. A light source 101, a differentiation circuit 102, and a switch 103 are connected in series. When the switch 103 is switched on, inrush current flows in a capacitor 102b forming the differentiation circuit 102, and accordingly the light source 101 is supplied with electric current and thereby emits light. When the capacitor 102b is charged, electric current flows in a resistor 102a, and voltage drops at the resistor 102a. Then, the voltage applied to the light source 101 is decreased, whereby the light source 101 stops emitting light. The values of the resistor 102a and the capacitor 102b are adjusted so that the above phenomenon occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yoshiaki GOTO, Yoshikatsu TOKUDA
  • Publication number: 20160051141
    Abstract: Provided is a slit lamp microscope capable of controlling irradiation of slit light and background illumination light interlockingly. Embodiment includes a main illumination system, background illumination system, observation system and controller. The main illumination system includes a first light source unit that outputs first light and slit forming unit that forms a slit with changeable width, and illuminates an eye with the first light having passed through the slit. The background illumination system includes a second light source unit that outputs second light, and illuminates a peripheral area of an eye area irradiated with the first light. The observation system includes an eyepiece lens, imaging device, and group of optical elements that guides reflected light of the first light and reflected light of the second light from the eye to the eyepiece lens and imaging device. The controller interlockingly controls the main illumination system and second light source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Toshiaki SATO, Takanori TAKEDA, Takahiro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20160056610
    Abstract: Light with a short pulse width is emitted using a simple structure. A light source 101, a differentiation circuit 102, and a switch 103 are connected in series. When the switch 103 is switched on, inrush current flows in a capacitor 102b forming the differentiation circuit 102, and accordingly the light source 101 is supplied with electric current and thereby emits light. When the capacitor 102b is charged, electric current flows in a resistor 102a, and voltage drops at the resistor 102a. Then, the voltage applied to the light source 101 is decreased, whereby the light source 101 stops emitting light. By using the inrush current at the capacitor 102b, light with a short pulse width can be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu TOKUDA, Yoshiaki GOTO
  • Patent number: 9261349
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for setting the characteristics of the light to be output from a light source unit for optical coherence tomography, using a computer. This method is performed by using relation information in which a representative wavelength, a wavelength range including said representative wavelength, and the light loss amount due to absorption by a medium are related to each other. This method includes the following steps: setting each value of a first parameter and a second parameter among the representative wavelength, the wavelength range, and the light loss amount; acquiring a value of a third parameter among the representative wavelength, the wavelength range, and the light loss amount other than said first parameter and said second parameter based on the set two values and said relation information; and outputting a value of said acquired third parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Zhenguo Wang, Zhijia Yuan, Kinpui Chan
  • Publication number: 20160040988
    Abstract: An absolute encoder includes a light-emitting mechanism including a light-emitting surface and emitting detection light from the light-emitting surface. A light-receiving mechanism including a scale plate having a scale area and receiving at a light-receiving area the detection light emitted from the light-emitting surface and passing through the scale area of the scale plate. The light-emitting mechanism and the light-receiving mechanism are set to a positional relationship that inclines an irradiation axis extending from the light-emitting surface through the scale area to the light-receiving area relative to a rotation axis direction of the scale plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventor: Satoshi YANOBE
  • Patent number: 9255796
    Abstract: A laser surveying device includes a rotatable and tiltable laser head in a housing to rotate about a rotational axis set in a certain direction and project a laser beam around and a tilt angle detector to detect a tilt angle of the laser head relative to the housing. The tilt angle detector includes a pattern plate on which a certain pattern is formed, provided in one of the laser head and the housing, light receiving elements arranged in the other of the laser head and the housing at different positions opposite to positions of the pattern plate to receive light beams reflected by the pattern plate, and a determiner to determine a direction and an amount of tilt of the laser head on the basis of a light receiving amount of each of the light receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Junichi Kodaira, Fumihiko Kamizono
  • Publication number: 20160033307
    Abstract: An angle detection device include photoemitters, photodetectors, a scale plate disposed therebetween, and a control section to control them. The control section includes an analog-front-end (AFE) to convert analog signals of the photodetectors to digital signals and an arithmetic processor to detect a rotating posture of the scale plate based on the digital signals. The control section simultaneously emits lights from the photoemitters and simultaneously receives the lights by the corresponding photodetectors. The control section then executes the following data processing for each photodetector one by one in sequence: outputting the analog signals representing an entire area of a light-receiving area of one of the photodetectors and outputting the digital signals converted by the AFE to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventor: Satoshi YANOBE
  • Patent number: 9251624
    Abstract: The device includes a unit obtaining an object's point cloud position data, a unit obtaining the object's image data, a unit in which co-relationship between point cloud position data obtained in the point cloud position data obtaining unit through a primary viewpoint or image data obtained in the image data obtaining unit through the primary viewpoint and image data obtained in the image data obtaining unit through a secondary (different from the primary) viewpoint are identified, a unit forming a three-dimensional model by the data obtained in the point cloud position data obtaining unit, and a unit controlling displaying of the model formed in the model forming unit on a displaying device. The model forming unit forms a three-dimensional model having direction seen from the secondary viewpoint, depending on the co-relationship identified in the co-relationship identifying unit. Operators see the model seen from the secondary viewpoint as an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Tadayuki Ito, Nobuo Kochi, Hitoshi Otani, Kazuo Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9243897
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring device includes a light source unit, a light projecting optical unit, a light receiving optical unit, a light receiving element, a scanning unit, an angle detector, an illumination light source unit, an image pickup unit and a control arithmetic unit. The control arithmetic unit comprises a distance data processing unit for controlling the scanning unit, for calculating a distance to the object to be measured based on a received light signal, and for calculating a three-dimensional data of the object based on a calculated distance and a detection signal from the angle detector, and an image data processing unit for acquiring an illuminated image and an unilluminated image, for acquiring a difference image based on both images, for detecting a retroreflective target based on the difference image and a detected intensity of a reflected light from the difference image, and for calculating a position of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Takahiro Inoue, Ken-ichiro Yoshino
  • Patent number: 9228858
    Abstract: A rotation angle detecting apparatus 6 comprises a shaft portion space 4 formed in a rotation shaft 1, a bearing holder space 5 formed in a bearing holder 3, a first condenser lens 7 accommodated in the shaft portion space, a second condenser lens 8 provided in the bearing holder space and provided to face the first condenser lens, a detection pattern 11 provided at a focal position of one of the first condenser lens and the second condenser lens, an image sensor 12 provided at a focal position of the other of the first condenser lens and the second condenser lens, and an arithmetic unit 14 for calculating an angle displacement of the rotation shaft based on a signal from the image sensor, wherein the detection pattern has an angle detection pattern 26 in which bar-like line segments extending in a radial direction are arranged at a predetermined angle pitch and a ring-like track is formed by bar-like line segments, and a reference designation pattern 27 for indicating a reference position of the angle detect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Kaoru Kumagai, Tetsuji Anai, Kazuki Osaragi