Patents Assigned to Topcon Corporation
  • Patent number: 11500096
    Abstract: A surveying instrument comprises a distance measuring module configured to perform a distance measurement of an objects to be measured, an optical axis deflector which is provided on a distance measuring optical axis and enables to two-dimensionally deflect the distance measuring optical axis, an arithmetic control module configured to control a deflecting action of the optical axis deflector and a distance measuring action of the distance measuring module, and a display module configured to display calculation results by the arithmetic control module, and wherein the arithmetic control module is configured to scan at least one plane of the objects to be measured in a predetermined scan pattern in at least one cycle by the optical axis deflector, to calculate parameters of the plane based on a measurement result of point cloud data acquired along a locus of a scan, and to display the calculated parameters on the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Nishita
  • Patent number: 11497397
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an objective lens, a refractive power measurement optical system, an inspection optical system, and a corneal shape measurement optical system. The refractive power measurement optical system projects light onto a subject's eye via the objective lens and detects returning light from the subject's eye. The inspection optical system includes an optical scanner. The inspection optical system deflects light from a light source, projects the light deflected by the optical scanner onto the subject's eye via the objective lens, and detects returning light from the subject's eye. The corneal shape measurement optical system projects an arc-like or circumferential measurement pattern from an outer edge side of the objective lens onto the subject's eye and detects returning light from a cornea of the subject's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Tatara, Michiko Nakanishi, Shunichi Morishima
  • Publication number: 20220354365
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes a light source, an illumination optical system, an optical scanner, an imaging optical system, and a controller. The illumination optical system is configured to generate slit-shaped illumination light using light from the light source. The optical scanner is configured to deflect the illumination light to guide the illumination light to a fundus of a subject's eye. The imaging optical system is configured to guide returning light of the illumination light from the fundus to an image sensor, the image sensor capturing light receiving result of a region on a light receiving surface corresponding to an illumination region of the illumination light on the fundus, the illumination region being moved by the optical scanner. The controller is configured to control a deflection angle of the illumination light of the optical scanner. The optical scanner is configured to output a scanner position signal corresponding to the deflection angle of the illumination light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11493611
    Abstract: The invention provides a laser scanner, which comprises a light source unit, a light receiving unit, a distance measuring unit, an angle measuring unit, a telescope unit capable of rotating in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, a rotation driving unit, a directional angle detector, and a control arithmetic unit, wherein the light source unit is an MOPA type and has an oscillator control circuit, a main oscillator, and an optical amplifier, wherein the oscillator control circuit has a repetition frequency setting component, a pulse peak output setting component, a pulse width setting component and an amplification factor calculating component and oscillates the main oscillator corresponding to a measured distance, and wherein the amplification factor calculating component calculates an amplification factor based on a repetition frequency, a pulse peak output, and a pulse width and amplifies the optical amplifier based on a calculated amplification factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyasu Kiryuu, Taizo Eno
  • Patent number: 11490802
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a data acquisition unit, a storage unit, and a correction unit. The data acquisition unit includes a concave mirror and an optical scanner configured to deflect light from a light source to guide to a reflective surface of the concave mirror. The data acquisition unit is configured to acquire a first data set group in an A-scan direction by performing optical coherence tomography on a subject's eye placed at a subject's eye position or a conjugate position of the subject's eye position using light reflected by the reflective surface. The storage unit is configured to store correction data for correcting an incident angle of the light at the subject's eye position depending on a deflection angle of the light by the optical scanner. The correction unit is configured to generate a second data set group by correcting at least a part of the first data set group based on the correction data stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11490805
    Abstract: A new technique is provided to easily grasp the form of the fundus and the like of the eye to be examined being depicted in a tomographic image. An ophthalmic information processing device includes an image rotation circuit and a display control circuit. The image rotation circuit rotates a tomographic image of the eye to be examined acquired by using optical coherence tomography while making a measurement optical axis be eccentric relative to a predetermined site of the eye to be examined, in accordance with an eccentric amount and an eccentric direction of the measurement optical axis relative to the predetermined site. The display control circuit causes a display device to display the tomographic image rotated by the image rotation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11486705
    Abstract: A remote operation system of a surveying instrument includes a surveying instrument including a survey unit, a control unit, a management server capable of communicating with the surveying instrument through the communication network, a remote terminal configured to command the management server to add a function of the surveying instrument through the communication network, and a billing system connected to the communication network, wherein the remote terminal commands the management server MS to consume a quantity of virtual currency corresponding to addition of the function, the management server adds the function of the surveying instrument when the quantity of virtual currency corresponding to addition of the function is consumed based on the command from the remote terminal, and the billing system executes a billing process based on billing data corresponding to the quantity of virtual currency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11486972
    Abstract: A laser scanner comprising a main base, a distance measuring optical assembly for measuring a distance to the object to be measured, a rotation irradiating assembly for performing the rotary irradiation of the distance measuring light, a case which accommodates the distance measuring optical assembly and the rotation irradiating assembly, and an adapter, wherein a case includes a case frame, a left case, and a right case, the case frame includes a lower frame portion, the lower frame portion includes a left partition and a right partition, a liquid-tight space to accommodate the distance measuring optical assembly is formed when the left case is mounted, and the distance measuring optical assembly is exposed when the left case is removed, liquid-tight space to accommodate the rotation irradiating assembly is formed when the right case is mounted, and the rotation irradiating assembly is exposed when the right case is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Takahashi, Yasushi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220336095
    Abstract: A medical system of an aspect example includes a portable data storage, first information processing equipment, and telecommunication equipment. Medical information is stored in the portable data storage. The medical information includes authentication information of a subject who has undergone a medical examination and examination data acquired from the subject by the medical examination. The first information processing equipment is connected to a telecommunication network. The telecommunication equipment is configured to transmit at least part of the medical information stored in the portable data storage that has been moved to an available area of the telecommunication network, to the first information processing equipment via the telecommunication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi SHIMIZU, Hisashi TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20220333926
    Abstract: A method of placing a slope staking tool including pickets, crossbeams, and a slope beam. The staking method includes: placing the pickets near an intersection C between a current ground and a plane S including a designed slope s; placing the crossbeams on the pickets placed, so as to cross the pickets; searching for a point where a height difference ?h between a predetermined point on the crossbeam and the plane S including the designed slope s, calculated by a surveying device, is zero; and placing, on the crossbeams, the slope beam inclined from the point where the height difference ?h is zero as found in the search step, toward the intersection C between the current ground and the plane including the designed slope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke SHIMIZU, Motohiro MIYAJIMA, Takashi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11471049
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus comprises eye information obtaining portions, each of the eye information obtaining portions corresponding to each of subject eyes of a subject and configured to obtain information on each of the subject eyes; imaging portions, each of the imaging portions corresponding to each of the eye information obtaining portions and configured to capture a subject eye image of each of the subject eyes; a reference calculator configured to obtain a three-dimensional reference position in each of the subject eye images captured by each of the imaging portions; an inclination calculator configured to obtain inclination information indicating inclination of relative positions of the subject eyes from the obtained three-dimensional reference positions in the subject eye images; and a notification portion configured to notify the obtained inclination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Yukimori, Shigeru Okikawa
  • Publication number: 20220322935
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes a light source, an illumination optical system, an optical scanner, an imaging optical system, and a controller. The illumination optical system is configured to generate slit-shaped illumination light using light from the light source. The optical scanner is configured to deflect the illumination light to guide the illumination light to a fundus of a subject's eye. The imaging optical system is configured to guide returning light of the illumination light from the fundus to an image sensor. The controller is configured to control the image sensor using a rolling shutter method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya SUZUKI, Masashi NAKAJIMA, Hitoshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11469001
    Abstract: A system that includes a clinical database that stores clinical data in association with an internal identifier of a patient. An identifier conversion processor converts internal identifier associated with clinical data to an external identifier. An anonymization processor anonymizes confidential data in clinical data. An anonymized database stores anonymized data including anonymized clinical data and an external identifier associated with the anonymized clinical data. A research database stores anonymized data provided from the anonymized database for individual research projects. A research data provision processor receives a request from a user, reads out from the research database at least part of anonymized data associated with a research project to which the user belongs, and provides it to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyasu Takeda
  • Publication number: 20220319023
    Abstract: A point cloud information processing device including: an image analyzer configured to analyze pieces of image information taken from different viewpoints, recognize different segments in each of the images, assign a label to each of the regions, and generate labeled image information; a point cloud labeling unit configured to assign, to each point of the pieces of point cloud information of the different viewpoints, a label of a corresponding segment in the labeled image information based on a positional information of each point, thereby generating pieces of labeled point cloud information; and a point cloud integration unit configured to align the pieces of labeled point cloud information by using a label common in the pieces of labeled point cloud information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Kaede YARIMIZU, Takeshi SASAKI, Tadayuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20220313075
    Abstract: A medical diagnostic apparatus includes a receiver circuit that receives three-dimensional data of an eye, and processing circuitry configured to segment the three-dimensional data into regions that include a target structural element and regions that do not include the target structural element to produce a segmented three-dimensional data set. The segmenting is performed using a plurality of segmentation algorithms. Each of the plurality of segmentation algorithms is trained separately on different two-dimensional data extracted from the three-dimensional data. The processing circuitry is further configured to generate at least one metric from the segmented three-dimensional data set, and evaluate a medical condition based on the at least one metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: Topcon Corporation, National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Zaixing MAO, Kyoko OHNO-MATSUI, Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Noriko NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20220313084
    Abstract: An ophthalmological imaging device includes illumination optics having an illumination light source that outputs an illumination light, a scanner that redirects the illumination light toward a portion of an object to be imaged, and an optical image capture device including a camera that receives backscattered light that is scattered from the illumination light by the object and captures first and second images of the backscattered light. The device also includes a control processor that controls the scanner and the optical image capture device to cause the optical image capture device to capture the first and second images of the object. The first and second images are captured by the camera at different times and extracted from different portions of the backscattered light. The device also includes an image processor that generates a stereoscopic image from the first and second images of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Jongsik KIM, Dawei LI, Toshihiro MINO, Zhenguo WANG, Kinpui CHAN
  • Patent number: 11460297
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus is provided that includes a distance measuring unit, a deflecting unit, and a calculation control unit which controls the distance measuring unit and the deflecting unit. The calculation control unit detects coordinates of a pair of intersection points of the object to be measured and a scan trajectory with the measurement light on the basis of a distance measurement result by the distance measuring unit and the direction of emission deflected by the deflecting unit. The calculation control unit controls a deflection operation of the deflecting unit so as to change the direction of emission on the basis of the coordinates of the pair of intersection points such that the scan trajectory with the measurement light and the object to be measured intersect with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Nishita
  • Patent number: 11460548
    Abstract: A surveying device body includes a distance measuring section to measure a distance to the measurement target, an optical axis deflector that deflects distance measuring light with respect to a reference optical axis, a measurement direction imaging section that obtains an observation image, and an attitude detector that detects an incline of the surveying device body. A computation controller displays a portion of the observation image on the display unit, computes a direction angle of the distance measuring optical axis on the basis of a detection result of the attitude detector and a deflection angle of the distance measuring optical axis with respect to the reference optical axis, and measures the measurement target on the basis of the direction angle and a distance measurement result of the distance measuring section using a reference point as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Kaoru Kumagai
  • Patent number: 11460299
    Abstract: Provided is a survey system capable of more highly accurately obtaining a product of a three-dimensional survey. A survey system includes a mobile body, a scanner including an emitting unit, a light receiving unit, a distance measuring unit, a first optical axis deflecting unit disposed on an optical axis of the distance measuring light and configured to deflect a distance measuring light, a second optical axis deflecting unit disposed on a light receiving optical axis of the reflected distance measuring light and configured to deflect a reflected distance measuring light at the same angle in the same direction as those of the first optical axis deflecting unit, and an emitting direction detecting unit to detect deflection angles and directions of the first and the second optical axis deflecting units, a posture detecting device of the scanner, and a position measuring device of the scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Nishita
  • Patent number: 11460561
    Abstract: A technique is provided to enable check of calibrated condition of a total station (TS) having a laser scanner at a surveying site. The TS includes an optical system, a laser positioning part, a plane equation calculator, a laser scanner, a separation amount calculator, and an exterior orientation parameter calculator. The laser positioning part emits laser light on an object via the optical system to position the object. The plane equation calculator calculates an equation of a specific plane on the basis of result from the laser positioning part. The laser scanner scans the specific plane with laser light to obtain scanning points. The separation amount calculator calculates a separation amount of the respective scanning points from the specific plane. The exterior orientation parameter calculator calculates exterior orientation parameters of one or both of the laser positioning part and the laser scanner so that the separation amount will be small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: You Sasaki