Patents Assigned to Nikon Corporation
  • Patent number: 12225313
    Abstract: An image capturing device including a pixel chip having pixel blocks each including one or more pixels; and a signal processing chip having a first control block including a first converting unit for converting a signal from a pixel in at least a first pixel block into a digital signal, and a first storage unit storing the digital signal, and a second control block next to the first control block in a column direction and including a second converting unit for converting a signal from a pixel included in at least a second pixel block into a digital signal, and a second storage unit storing the digital signal, wherein the second converting unit and the second storage unit in the second control block are reversed vertically to the first converting unit and the first storage unit in the first control block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sota Nakanishi, Shigeru Matsumoto, Tomoki Hirata
  • Patent number: 12222478
    Abstract: An optical system (LS) has a lens (L11) that satisfies the following conditional expressions. ?0.010<ndLZ?(2.015?0.0068×?dLZ) 50.00<?dLZ<65.00 0.545<?gFLZ ?0.010<?gFLZ?(0.6418?0.00168×?dLZ) where ndLZ is the refractive index to the d line of the lens, ?dLZ is the Abbe number with respect to the d line of the lens, and ?gFLZ is the partial dispersion ratio of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Yamashita, Tomoki Ito, Tomonori Kuribayashi, Keigo Koida, Satoshi Miwa, Yoko Komatsubara, Katsuya Watanabe, Azuna Nonaka, Ayumu Makida
  • Patent number: 12222524
    Abstract: An ocular optical system including a Fresnel lens having a plurality of Fresnel zones formed on a lens surface on an observation object side, the plurality of Fresnel zones being arranged concentrically side by side along an aspherical surface having a shape which is rotationally symmetric with respect to a central axis of the Fresnel lens, the ocular optical system satisfying the conditional expression 0<PAE1/PAC1?0.50, where PAE1 represents an average pitch in a radial direction of Fresnel zones formed in a portion having a radius of 15 mm or more from the central axis of the Fresnel lens, and PAC1 represents an average pitch in the radial direction of Fresnel zones formed in a portion having a radius of 15 mm or less from the central axis of the Fresnel lens excluding a first Fresnel zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetsugu Takagi, Miho Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12222482
    Abstract: A zoom lens, comprises: in order from an object, a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group (G4) having negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group (G5) having positive refractive power, wherein, upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between each of lens groups and a lens group adjacent thereto changes to satisfy the following conditional expression: 2.90<|MV5/MV2|<11.50 where, MV5 denotes, upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a moving amount of the fifth lens group with an image surface as a reference; and MV2 denotes, upon zooming from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state, a moving amount of the second lens group with the image surface as the reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Saburo Masugi
  • Publication number: 20250044672
    Abstract: An accessory mount can be inserted through the camera body mount without any of the first through third tabs being hindered by any of three camera body-side tabs at the camera body mount, as long as the accessory mount is inserted into the camera body mount at a correct interlock phase. The first, second, and third tabs extend over varying lengths along the circumferential direction. The first tab extends over a greatest length and the third tab extends over a smallest length, along the circumferential direction. The accessory mount includes a restricting member, a fitting portion, and a lock pin hole. The restricting member is disposed at a position assumed on a side substantially opposite from the lock pin hole across the fitting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori HASUDA, Noriyasu KOTANI, Hideaki HOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250044566
    Abstract: A scanning optical system (SL) of this scanning microscope comprises a plurality of lens components and has positive refractive power as a whole, each lens component comprising one cemented lens composed of a plurality of lenses cemented to each other, or one lens. The scanning optical system satisfies the following conditional expression. 0.007<?(nd×tc/?d)/LA<0.021 where ?(nd×tc/?d) is the sum total of nd×tc/?d of lenses of the plurality of lens components when a refractive index for the d line of a lens constituting the plurality of lens components is denoted by nd, the center thickness of the lens is denoted by tc, and the Abbe's number of the lens is denoted by ?d, and LA is the distance on an optical axis from a lens surface on the scanning mechanism side of a lens component closest to a scanning mechanism to a lens surface on the objective optical system side of a lens component closest to an objective optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetsugu TAKAGI, Miwako YOSHIDA, Fumio SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20250044569
    Abstract: A microscope objective lens (OL) comprises a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, and a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, the third lens group (G3) having a cemented lens (CL31) including a positive lens and a negative lens. The microscope objective lens satisfies the following conditional expression. 0.1<tg/LA<0.4 ?35<vd3P?vd3N<0 where tg is the total sum of center thicknesses of lenses of the microscope objective lens (OL), LA is the distance on the optical axis from a lens surface closest to the object side to a lens surface closest to the image side of the microscope objective lens (OL), vd3P is the Abbe's number of the positive lens of the cemented lens (CL31), and vd3N is the Abbe's number of the negative lens of the cemented lens (CL31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Azuna NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20250044570
    Abstract: A microscope objective lens (OL) comprises a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, and a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, the first lens group (G1) having a cemented lens (CL11) including a negative lens. The microscope objective lens satisfies the following conditional expressions. 0.625<?gF1N<0.725 22.5<?d1N<30 where ?d1N is the Abbe's number of the negative lens in the cemented lens (CL11) of the first lens group (G1), and ?gF1N is the partial dispersion ratio of the negative lens in the cemented lens (CL11) of the first lens group (G1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Azuna NONAKA
  • Patent number: 12219266
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: an imaging unit including a region having a pixel group that has a plurality of first pixels, and second pixels that are fewer than the first pixels in the pixel group; and a control unit that reads out the signals based upon exposure of the second pixels during exposure of the plurality of first pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Gohara, Satoshi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20250039311
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUJINAWA, Setsu MITSUHASHI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI, Takashi KURIYAMA, Hiroto NAGAMINE, Masami TAKEMOTO, Motoki TOYAMA
  • Patent number: 12210269
    Abstract: A camera body, to which an accessory is mountable, includes a first communicator that transmits a first clock signal to the accessory to communicate with the accessory in synchronization with the first clock signal, and a second communicator that receives a second clock signal output from the accessory to communicate with the accessory in synchronization with the second clock signal. A value specifying a communication specification of the second communicator is transmitted between the first communicator and the accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Kawai
  • Patent number: 12211186
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire subject eye video data; an elimination unit configured to eliminate positional offset resulting from involuntary eye movement from the subject eye video data on the basis of the subject eye video data acquired by the acquisition unit; an emphasis unit configured to perform emphasis on the subject eye video data that was subjected to the elimination performed by the elimination unit; and an output unit configured to output the subject eye video data that was subjected to the emphasis by the emphasis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mariko Mukai
  • Patent number: 12208469
    Abstract: A processing apparatus has: a light irradiation apparatus that irradiates a surface of an object with a processing light; and a partition member that surrounds a space including an optical path between the surface of the object and an optical member that is disposed at the most object side in an optical system of the light irradiation apparatus that allows the processing light to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Shiraishi, Yosuke Tatsuzaki
  • Patent number: 12211878
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a first semiconductor substrate provided with a pixel, including a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light to generate an electric charge, an accumulation unit that accumulates the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, and a transfer unit that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit, and a second semiconductor substrate provided with a supply unit for the pixel, the supply unit supplying the transfer unit with a transfer signal to transfer the electric charge from the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Saruwatari, Shutaro Kato, Ryoji Ando, Yojiro Tezuka, Atsushi Komai
  • Patent number: 12211377
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a mobile communication device, where the mobile communication device is connected to a driving unit of the vehicle and controls a traveling speed of the vehicle, which is traveling toward an intersection, in order to avoid a collision of the vehicle at the intersection by receiving analysis result information, which is based on image information from an imaging apparatus provided near the intersection, from an information control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideya Inoue, Koji Yamagaki
  • Publication number: 20250029222
    Abstract: An image processing method performed by a processor includes: a step of acquiring an image captured of a choroid; a step of performing enhancement processing that enhances contrast in the acquired image; a step of performing binarization processing on the image that has been subjected to the enhancement processing; and a step of extracting a region corresponding to choroidal blood vessels in the choroid from the image that has been subjected to the binarization processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi TANABE, Hiroshi KASAI, Yuanting JI
  • Publication number: 20250029250
    Abstract: An image processing method, performed by a processor, includes: a step of acquiring OCT volume data including a choroid; a step of generating plural en-face images corresponding to plural planes having different depths, based on the OCT volume data; a step of deriving an image feature amount in each of the plural en-face images; and a step of identifying, as a boundary, an interval between en-face images in which the image feature amounts indicate a switch between presence and absence of choroidal blood vessels, based on the respective image feature amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuanting JI, Yasushi TANABE, Hiroshi KASAI
  • Publication number: 20250030943
    Abstract: A lens barrel of the invention includes: an imaging optical system including a focus adjustment lens; a driver that drives the focus adjustment lens in a direction of an optical axis; a transceiver that transmits and receives a signal to and from a camera body; and a controller that controls the transceiver to repeatedly transmit a first image plane transfer coefficient which is determined in correspondence with a position of the focus adjustment lens included in the imaging optical system and a second image plane transfer coefficient which does not depend on the position of the focus adjustment lens to the camera body at a predetermined interval, and, when the controller repeatedly transmits the second image plane transfer coefficient to the camera body, the controller varies the second image plane transfer coefficient over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki TOMITA
  • Patent number: 12203744
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a detector that detects an object from a first viewpoint; an information calculator that calculates first model information including shape information on the object from the first viewpoint by using detection results of the detector; a light source calculator that calculates light source information on the light source by using a first taken image obtained by imaging a space including a light source that irradiates the object with illumination light and including the object; and a position calculator that calculates a positional relation between the first viewpoint and the object by using the light source information as information used to integrate the first model information and second model information including shape information obtained by detecting the object from a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Takeaki Sugimura, Yoshiyuki Yamariku
  • Patent number: 12203063
    Abstract: A stirring apparatus including a stirring mechanism configured to execute a stirring process on cells in a culture vessel, and a control unit programmed to at least one of control the stirring mechanism, determine the stirring process of the stirring mechanism, and determine whether the stirring process is performed or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasujiro Kiyota