Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
  • Publication number: 20170347879
    Abstract: A scanner of a blood flow measurement apparatus of an embodiment alternately performs first scan and second scan for first and second cross sections both intersecting an interested blood vessel. An image forming unit forms one or more images of the first cross section including a phase image of the first cross section and an image of the second cross section. A blood vessel region specification unit specifies a first blood vessel region in any of the one or more images of the first cross section and a second blood vessel region in the image of the second cross section. A gradient calculation unit calculates a gradient of the interested blood vessel at the first cross section based on the first and second blood vessel regions. A blood flow information generation unit generates blood flow information based on the phase image and the gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventor: Masahiro Akiba
  • Patent number: 9829315
    Abstract: An omnidirectional image measuring instrument includes a horizontal rotary table, a horizontal rotary driving unit capable of rotating the horizontal rotary table, an electronic distance meter (EDM) device and an image pickup device provided on the horizontal rotary table, and a control device for synchronously controlling a distance measurement by the EDM device and an image pickup by the image pickup device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Hitoshi Otani, Tadayuki Ito, Kazuki Osaragi
  • Publication number: 20170325679
    Abstract: An ophthalmic imaging apparatus of an embodiment scans a subject's eye with OCT to acquire a cross sectional image. A measurement unit performs OCT. An imaging unit acquires a moving image of the subject's eye. A display controller controls a display device to display the moving image acquired by the imaging unit, and two or more scan pattern images corresponding to two or more scan lines representing scan positions and scan directions in the moving image and arranged such that at least two of the two or more scan pattern images intersect one another. An operation unit is used for changing a relative position between the two or more scan pattern images. A measurement controller controls the measurement unit to perform OCT based on the two or more scan lines corresponding to the two or more scan pattern images after the relative position have been changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Ryota ISHIAI, Masaki NAKANO
  • Patent number: 9816921
    Abstract: A material analytical sensor includes an emitter that irradiates a material with irradiation light including a wavelength region related to estimation of an amount of a component of the material, a controller that controls an irradiation cycle of the irradiation light, a receiver that receives reflected light from the material to output as a pulse signal and receives disturbance light to output as a noise signal, an integrator that samples N pulse signals during a predetermined period and integrates the sampled N pulse signals to obtain a first integrated value, and samples N noise signals during a same period as the predetermined period with a same cycle as the irradiation cycle and integrates the sampled N noise signals to obtain a second integrated value, and an extractor that deducts the second integrated value from the first integrated value to extract an amount of the reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Shugo Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9797719
    Abstract: The invention provides a measuring method for performing monitoring measurement on two or more objects to be measured by a measuring instrument, which comprises a telescope unit for sighting an object to be measured, a distance measuring unit for projecting a distance measuring light through the telescope unit and for measuring a distance to the object to be measured, an image pickup unit for taking an image by projecting a sighting light in sighting direction and for acquiring digital image, an angle detecting unit for detecting a directional angle in sighting direction of the telescope unit and an automatic sighting unit for carrying out automatic sighting on the object to be measured by the telescope unit, comprising a step of setting up a searching range, a light amount switch-over step of switching over a light amount of projected sighting light to a light amount for a short distance or for a long distance, a short distance searching step of searching the searching range as the light amount for short dis
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Nishita
  • Patent number: 9789312
    Abstract: A retinal prosthesis system according to an embodiment includes a converter, a retinal prosthesis, and a transmitter. The converter is placed in an eye, and transmits part of light incident on the eye therethrough while converting the energy of the other part of the light into electrical energy. The retinal prosthesis is placed in the eye and includes a photoelectric conversion element array configured to operate with the electrical energy received from the converter to detect the light having transmitted through the converter to generate an electrical signal. The transmitter is used to send the electrical signal generated by the retinal prosthesis to the visual cortex of the brain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Hisashi Tsukada
  • Patent number: 9788715
    Abstract: An optotype presenting apparatus that is capable of carrying out examinations accurately is provided. An optotype presenting apparatus includes a display and a controller. The display includes left eye optotype display regions and right eye optotype display regions. The left eye optotype display regions output light having a first polarization axis. The right eye optotype display regions output light having a second polarization axis orthogonal to the first polarization axis. The left eye optotype display regions and the right eye optotype display regions are alternately arranged along pixel lines. The controller is capable of displaying a plurality of optotypes selectively on the display. Further, the controller controls the display based on a type of an optotype displayed on the display to change display luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sakurada
  • Patent number: 9784842
    Abstract: The invention provides a surveying instrument, which comprises a control device having a reference clock signal generating unit for producing a reference clock signal. The control device produces a time signal to indicate a standard time from a signal acquired from the GNSS device, puts a time stamp on the time signal, associates the time signal with the reference clock signal, measures a horizontal angle at a moment when the telescope unit sights the sun and acquires an image signal, puts a time stamp on the image signal, calculates a standard time at a time of image acquisition, calculates an azimuth angle of the sun at the standard time based on a latitude and a longitude of a point where the surveying instrument is installed and a standard time at the time of image acquisition, and updates a horizontal angle by the azimuth angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Takeshi Ishida, Nobuyuki Nishita, Jumpei Kochi, Goro Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Nakabe
  • Patent number: 9782070
    Abstract: The fundus photographing apparatus of the present invention includes an illumination light source that generates illumination light flux for illuminating a fundus (of a subject eye), a scanning optical system that converts the illumination light flux from the illumination light source unit into spot light to scan the fundus in two-dimensional directions of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction by the spot light, a light receiver that receives reflected light from each portion of the fundus illuminated by the spot light, and a fundus image acquiring unit that acquires a fundus image based on a signal from the light receiver, wherein the scanning optical system is provided with a scanner including a reflection mirror plate that rotates about orthogonal two axes to simultaneously deflect the spot light in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction for scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Atsushi Utsunomiya, Hirotake Maruyama, Tomoyoshi Abe, Yasufumi Fukuma
  • Patent number: 9776320
    Abstract: A measurement and installation data indicating apparatus including a distance image sensor that obtains distance image data in a predetermined range, a projector that projects an image on a projection plane in a predetermined range, an inclination data obtaining part that obtains inclination data on a detection optical axis and a projection optical axis relative to a vertical direction, a positional data obtaining part that obtains coordinate data on a present position and a target position, and a terminal controller that generates, based on the coordinate data, a target information image related to the target position and seen from the present position. The terminal controller corrects the target information image to fit to a shape of the projection plane based on the distance image data and the inclination data, and projects the corrected target information image by the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Nishita
  • Publication number: 20170273557
    Abstract: A fundus analysis apparatus includes a storage, an area setting unit, and a morphological information generating unit. The storage is configured to store OCT information acquired by applying optical coherence tomography to the fundus of an eye. The area setting unit is configured to set a front area corresponding to a front surface of the lamina cribrosa and a rear area corresponding to a rear surface of the lamina cribrosa in the OCT information. The morphological information generating unit is configured to generate morphological information indicating the morphology of the lamina cribrosa based on at least the front area and the rear area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Toru NAKAZAWA, Kazuko OMODAKA, Akiko MATSUMOTO, Tsutomu KIKAWA, Masahiro AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20170273558
    Abstract: An ophthalmic imaging apparatus of an embodiment includes a measurement unit, an eye model generation unit, and a simulation execution unit. The measurement unit is configured to acquire a data set by applying optical coherence tomography to a three-dimensional region of a subject's eye including an area extending from an anterior surface of a cornea to a surface of a retina. The eye model generation unit is configured to acquire values of one or more parameters of the subject's eye by analyzing the data set acquired by the measurement unit, and to generate a three-dimensional eye model based on the values acquired. The simulation execution unit executes a simulation based on the three-dimensional eye model generated by the eye model generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventor: Takaichi TAMURA
  • Patent number: 9773420
    Abstract: The invention provides a measuring system comprising a remotely controllable flying vehicle system with a GPS device and a measuring device installed thereon, a position measuring device installed at an arbitrary position and able to measure distance and angle and to track, a ground base station for controlling a flight of a flying vehicle, a remote controller able to give and take data to and from the ground base station and able to perform wireless communication to and from the flying vehicle system, and a control unit provided on the flying vehicle system or the ground base station, and either one of the control units are configured to obtain an absolute coordinate or GPS coordinate of the installation point of the position measuring device based on the GPS coordinates of the two points and based on distance measurement results and on angle measurement results by the position measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Kaoru Kumagai, Kazuki Osaragi, Hitoshi Otani
  • Patent number: 9757026
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus which photographs an endothelial cell and measures a coat thickness of a cornea of an eye to be examined in a non-contact manner; comprising an image pickup unit (19) for photographing a corneal endothelium of the eye to be examined, a control unit (49) for detecting a cell wall of the endothelial cell from a corneal endothelial image photographed by the image pickup unit and for performing an image processing of hatching the cell wall with a boundary line, a display unit (54) for displaying an analytical image in which the cell wall hatched with the boundary line, and an operation unit (55), wherein the control unit changes the shading of the boundary line based on an input from the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventor: Hiroki Oe
  • Patent number: 9752876
    Abstract: A direction detecting apparatus provided at a known position from a lower end of a supporting pole, comprising an image pickup device with an optical axis orthogonal to an axis of the supporting pole and an arithmetic processing part for calculating based on an image from the image pickup device, wherein the image pickup device acquires an image so as to include an object for which a direction is to be detected, wherein the arithmetic processing part calculates and detects a direction and a tilt of the object from a relation between a position of the object in the image and an optical axis of the image pickup device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Kaoru Kumagai, Kazuki Osaragi
  • Publication number: 20170245756
    Abstract: A technology for achieving a reduction in size of an ophthalmic apparatus capable of performing a plurality of kinds of measurements performed before cataract surgery is provided. An ophthalmic apparatus is described that includes a refractive power measurement unit and an eyeball information measurement unit. The refractive power measurement unit is configured to project light from a light source onto a subject's eye and detect returning light thereof to determine refractive power of an ocular optical system of the subject's eye. The eyeball information measurement unit is configured to project light from the same light source onto the subject's eye and detect returning light thereof to determine eyeball information representing structure of the subject's eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Takefumi Hayashi, Shunichi Morishima, Yoko Tatara
  • Patent number: 9739610
    Abstract: A system including a pointing rod 4 positioned on a measurement point X, a prism 3 fixed at a position deviated by a first fixed length L1 from the measurement point X in an axial direction PP of the pointing rod 4, an inclination casing 5 for fixing an analysis pattern 41 located at a position deviated by a second fixed length L2 from the prism 3 in an axial direction of the pointing rod 4 and is perpendicular to a surface with respect to the axial direction of the pointing rod 4, and a survey machine 2 having an image-taking section 22, a section of measuring a distance to the prism, and a section of measuring an angle 11,12. The position of the measurement point is measured from a position of the prism 3, an inclination direction A of the pointing rod 4, and the first fixed length L1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nishita, Kaoru Kumagai
  • Patent number: 9733082
    Abstract: The invention provides a tilt detecting system comprising, a surveying instrument having a distance measuring function and a line laser projecting unit installed as horizontally rotatable for projecting a vertical line laser, and a photodetection device having at least two photodetection units provided at a known interval, a target with a retro-reflectivity and an arithmetic unit, wherein the line laser projecting unit is rotated, each of the photodetection units are made to scan the line laser and the arithmetic unit detects a tilting angle of the photodetection device based on a deviation between a photodetection time moment of each photodetection unit and the distance measurement result of the target of the surveying instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Fumio Ohtomo
  • Patent number: 9736360
    Abstract: An operation burden in confirming a corresponding relationship between multiple still images and a traveled route is reduced. A survey data processing device includes a storing unit 106 and a UI controlling unit 105. The storing unit 105 stores survey data, in which image data of multiple still images that are photographed from a mobile body while flying is correlated with a flight route of the mobile body. The UI controlling unit 105 displays the flight route and at least one of the multiple still images on a screen. The displayed flight route and the displayed still image are displayed on the same screen at the same time in a condition in which a corresponding relationship between the flight route and the multiple still images is determined, and a moving direction of the mobile body that photographed the displayed still image is indicated in the displayed still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Daisuke Sasaki, Nobuyuki Fukaya, Hitoshi Ootani, Kazuki Osaragi, Takeshi Sasaki, Tetsuji Anai
  • Patent number: 9733076
    Abstract: A rotary laser emitting apparatus that rotates and emits a laser beam comprises an emission-side control unit that controls an entire operation of the apparatus, a laser emitting mechanism that emits the laser beam while rotating an irradiation optical axis that is an emission direction of the laser beam, and a rotating direction detecting unit that detects a rotating direction of the irradiation optical axis. The emission-side control unit generates a rotating posture signal showing the rotating direction of the irradiation optical axis detected by the rotating direction detecting unit and drives the laser emitting mechanism for superimposing the rotating posture signal on the laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Junichi Kodaira, Fumihiko Kamizono