Patents Assigned to Nidek Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20220095908Abstract: A first information processing device acquires an instruction signal for instructing an operation of a subjective optometry device, and transmits a drive signal for causing the subjective optometry device to operate as instructed by the acquired instruction signal to the subjective optometry device. When the first information processing device is remote-accessed by a second information processing device, the first information processing device can acquire the instruction signal input to the second information processing device by a user via a network. The first information processing device can further acquire a response input by an examinee who visually recognizes a presented target, and can further generate an instruction signal instructing the operation of the subjective optometry device based on the acquired response.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirohisa Terabe, Taeko Horino
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Publication number: 20220095910Abstract: A subjective optometry system includes a plurality of subjective optometry devices and a database which stores at least any data of objective measurement data and previous glass data in association with each identifier. Each of the subjective optometry devices includes a calibration optical system, an information processor, and a reader which is connected to the information processor, reads an identifier prepared for each examinee, and outputs information about the read identifier to the information processor. The information processor acquires at least one of the objective measurement data and the previous glass data corresponding to the identifier from the database based on the identifier received from the reader, and sets an initial value of the calibration optical system used on an occasion of subjectively measuring optical characteristics of a subject eye based on at least one of the objective measurement data and the previous glass data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Taeko HORINO, Hirohisa TERABE, Jouji SEKO
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Publication number: 20220039650Abstract: A fundus imaging apparatus includes an OCT optical system for acquiring OCT data based on measurement light irradiated on a fundus of a subject eye and reference light, and a front imaging optical system for capturing a front image of the fundus of the subject eye by scanning light on the fundus. The scanning light scanned on the fundus of the subject eye in the front imaging optical system has a wavelength, which is longer than ?=850 nm, in a wavelength region in which a scanning light is unlikely to be visible for the subject eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya IWATA, Junpei NISHIYAMA, Norimasa SATAKE
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Patent number: 11226196Abstract: An eyeglass frame shape measurement device measures a shape of an eyeglass frame. The eyeglass frame shape measurement device includes a light projecting optical system that has a light source and emits measurement light from the light source toward a groove of a rim of an eyeglass frame, a light receiving optical system that has a detector and causes the detector to receive reflected light of the measurement light emitted toward the groove in the rim of the eyeglass frame by the light projecting optical system and reflected by the groove of the rim of the eyeglass frame, an acquisition section that acquires a cross-sectional shape of the groove of the rim of the eyeglass frame on the basis of the reflected light received by the detector, and a luminance control section that controls a luminance level of the reflected light to be received by the detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Michihiro Takii, Kunihito Mizukoshi, Tomoya Ishii, Kyoji Takeichi
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Patent number: 11219362Abstract: A fundus imaging apparatus acquires a fundus image based on a signal from a light receiving element that receives fundus reflection light of illumination light with which a fundus of a subject eye is irradiated through an objective lens. The fundus imaging apparatus includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a refractive power of a subject eye, and a process that executes an artifact suppressing process for suppressing occurrence of an artifact due to reflection of the illumination light at the objective lens. The processor switches an imaging mode based on the refractive power between an invalid mode in which the artifact suppressing process is not executed and a valid mode in which the artifact suppressing process is executed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Masayuki Yoshino
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Publication number: 20220000361Abstract: There are provided an ophthalmologic information analysis apparatus and an ophthalmologic information analysis program capable of efficiently performing follow-up observation of a subject eye. There is provided: a central processing unit configured to: acquire first analysis data obtained by analyzing an analysis region of the subject eye in first OCT data including the analysis region; acquire second OCT data captured on a day different from that of the first OCT data; perform an analysis comprising: specifying the analysis region corresponding to the first analysis data from the second OCT data; and acquiring second analysis data obtained by analyzing the analysis region in the second OCT data; and control a display to display the first analysis data and the second analysis data in a comparable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke SHIBA, Tetsuya KANO, Yukihiro HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11213199Abstract: A method of analyzing the degree of abnormality in the eye is provided, and in the method at least some portion of the functional evaluation of the eye's visual function is performed by presenting visual stimuli in mesopic conditions. A visual function examination device is provided, and in the device the spectral composition of the stimuli is generated by a projection or display device, and the said projection or display device can be adjusted so that individual receptor types can be excited by the said stimuli.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Gareguin Mikaelian
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Patent number: 11191431Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus to examine an examinee's eye includes: a first optometry unit to perform a first examination of the examinee's eye; a second optometry unit to perform a second examination of the examinee's eye; a drive unit to cause relative movement of the first and second optometry units in three-dimensional manner relative to the examinee's eye; a controller to control the drive unit; a selection receiving unit to receive a selection signal representing at least one selected from the first second examinations; and a face photographing unit to photograph a face image including at least one of examinee's right and left eyes. The controller switches, according to the selection signal, between a first path for alignment of the first optometry unit with the eye detected from the face image and a second path for alignment of the second optometry unit with the eye detected from the face image.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazunari Shimizu, Kenji Nakamura, Toru Arikawa
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Patent number: 11185219Abstract: A technical object is to provide an ophthalmic apparatus and an ophthalmic apparatus control program that are capable of appropriately performing alignment in a wide range.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Arikawa, Yoshihiro Ozaki, Hiroyuki Umano
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Publication number: 20210304427Abstract: A processor of an ophthalmologic image processing device acquires intermediate information from which an influence of a position shift with respect to a first direction at each position in a second direction is excluded, for each of a first ophthalmologic image and a second ophthalmologic image (S4). The processor performs alignment with respect to the second direction between the first ophthalmologic image and the second ophthalmologic image, based on the intermediate information (S5, S6). The processor performs alignment with respect to the first direction between pixels at the same position with respect to the second direction in the first ophthalmologic image and the second ophthalmologic image for which the alignment with respect to the second direction has been performed (S7).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiki KUMAGAI, Ryosuke SHIBA
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Publication number: 20210298599Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes a first optical system for acquiring information regarding an eye refractive power of a subject eye based on reflection light of measurement light reflected from a fundus of the subject eye, a second optical system for acquiring anterior segment information regarding a shape of an anterior segment of the subject eye, and a calculation controller that acquires an axial length of the subject eye based on an on-surface eye refractive power, which is the eye refractive power on a cross section on which an optical axis of the first optical system is arranged and the anterior segment information regarding the cross section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Michihiro TAKII
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Patent number: 11129528Abstract: An OCT apparatus includes an OCT optical system that splits light from an OCT light source into a measurement optical path and a reference optical path and detects a spectral interference signal between measurement light and reference light, an image processor that processes the spectral interference signal to acquire OCT data of an examinee's eye, an optical scanner that deflects the measurement light and performs scanning on tissue of the examinee's eye, and a light guiding optical system that includes an objective optical system curving a concentrating plane such that the concentrating plane has a convex shape toward a side of a fundus, and forms the concentrating plane of the measurement light in an anterior chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Keiji Murata
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Publication number: 20210290050Abstract: An ocular fundus image processing apparatus acquires a fundus image of an subject eye which is captured by a fundus capturing apparatus, acquires a correction image including artifact caused by illumination light without including a fundus of the subject eye as a capturing target, executes conversion processing of the correction image a plurality of times while changing processing content to acquire a plurality of conversion images, and acquires a difference image, as high-quality images, in which an influence of the artifact is suppressed to be less than or equal to a criterion, among a plurality of difference images acquired by taking a difference between each of the plurality of conversion images and the fundus image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke SHIBA, Yoshiki Kumagai, Masayuki Yoshino
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Publication number: 20210295508Abstract: In this invention, a control unit in an ophthalmic image processing device acquires an ophthalmic image captured by an ophthalmic image capture device (S11). The control unit, by inputting the ophthalmic image into a mathematical model that has been trained by a machine-learning algorithm, acquires a probability distribution in which the random variables are the coordinates at which a specific site and/or a specific boundary of a tissue is present within a region of the ophthalmic image (S14). On the basis of the acquired probability distribution, the control unit detects the specific boundary and/or the specific site (S16, S24).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke SHIBA, Sohei MIYAZAKI, Yusuke SAKASHITA, Yoshiki KUMAGAI, Naoki TAKENO
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Publication number: 20210259538Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus for examining an examinee's eye, comprising a face support member to support an examinee's face, a human detection member to detect whether or not the face is supported by the face support member, a notification member to give an announcement to an examinee or an examiner, and a control member to control the notification member based on a detection result of the human detection member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Toru ARIKAWA
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Patent number: 11071452Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical coherence tomography (OCT) including: an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling correlation between images to be easily performed; more specifically it relates to a case where a functional OCT image such as a motion contrast is acquired by using the OCT; acquiring the functional OCT image through a calculation process of an OCT signal is a time-consuming process, for this reason, a long time elapses until the point that a functional OCT image can be observed after OCT imaging is completed, and thus this causes stress to a subject and an examiner; the present disclosure provides an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling a functional OCT image to be rapidly acquired and enables an examiner to easily perform diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Norimasa Satake, Yukihiro Higuchi, Yuji Murase, Yasuhiro Furuuchi, Hajime Namiki, Naoki Isogai, Masaaki Hanebuchi, Naoki Takeno
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Patent number: 11064878Abstract: An OCT apparatus includes an OCT optical system that acquires an OCT signal based on measurement light applied to a subject and reference light, and a processor. The processor controls the OCT optical system based on a predetermined trigger to execute an imaging sequence in which a plurality of temporally different OCT signals are acquired in each of a first region on a subject and a second region adjacent to or partially overlapping with the first region, and imaging conditions are different from each other between the first region and the second region. The processor obtain OCT motion contrast data of the subject based on the plurality of OCT signals acquired through the imaging sequence in the first region and the second region.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Naoki Takeno
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Patent number: 11051690Abstract: An ophthalmological image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining portion for obtaining ophthalmological image data, which is captured by an imaging unit, of a subject eye, and an image processing portion for processing the ophthalmological image data. The image processing portion uses a first front image of the subject eye in a first depth region to correct a second front image of the subject eye captured in a second depth region which is different from the first depth region. The first front image and the second front image are constructed based on the ophthalmological image data. The ophthalmological image processing apparatus can reduce an artifact which is generated in an ophthalmological image.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke Shiba, Tetsuya Kano, Naoki Takeno
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Patent number: 11054240Abstract: A light interference unit includes a branching optical element, a multiplexing optical element, and at least one fiber device. The branching optical element branches a laser light with an emission wavelength temporally swept, into a measurement light and a reference light. The multiplexing optical element multiplexes the reference light and the measurement light reflected by a measured object, and causes them to interfere. The fiber device includes a reference light device. A transmission light path length is a light path length of the reference light transmitting the reference light device, from the reference light device to the multiplexing optical element. A reflection light path length is a light path length of the reference light reflected by a separation portion of the reference light device, from the reference light device to the multiplexing optical element. The transmission light path length is equal to or more than the reflection light path length.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignees: TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD., NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Takaya, Shinya Iwata
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Publication number: 20210186322Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmologic measurement apparatus for measuring a subject eye. The apparatus includes measurement means for objectively measuring eye refractive power of the subject eye, acquisition means for acquiring intraocular lens information relating to an intraocular lens inserted into the subject eye, and correction means for correcting a measurement result of the eye refractive power, based on the intraocular lens information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Michihiro TAKII, Masanori YATANI, Kazunari SHIMIZU, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO