Patents Assigned to Topcon Corporation
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Publication number: 20220307832Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining the position of a laser scanner using one or more optical targets, each arranged at a known point. The apparatus includes: a ground control point position obtaining part which obtains information of arrangement positions of multiple optical reflection targets; a laser scanner approximate position data obtaining part which obtains an approximate position of a laser scanner; a laser scanning data obtaining part which obtains data of multiple luminescent points; a processing objective point extracting part which extracts multiple luminescent points having luminance exceeding a specific threshold value; and a laser scanner position calculating part which gives data of the arrangement position of the optical reflection target to each of the extracted multiple luminescent points so as to calculate position of the laser scanner.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Takeshi SASAKI, Hideki MORITA
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Publication number: 20220308183Abstract: The surveying device main unit includes: a distance-measuring light-emitting unit; a light-receiving unit; a distance-measuring unit; an optical axis-deflecting unit; an emitting direction-detecting unit; and an arithmetic control unit. The arithmetic control unit controls two-dimensional scanning with a scanning pattern having an intersection at which an outward passage and a return passage of the two-dimensional scanning intersect, updates three-dimensional data of the measurement target each time a light-receiving signal is detected during the two-dimensional scanning, generates weights for detecting a reference point of the measurement target and for detecting a rotation angle of the measurement target in accordance with the distance from the intersection, each time the three-dimensional data is updated, and tracks the measurement target based on the reference point position and the rotation angle of the measurement target calculated using the weights.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: Masae MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20220307646Abstract: The inclination sensor includes a gimbal mechanism rotatably supported around a first shaft and a second shaft, a first motor, a second motor, an acceleration sensor disposed in the gimbal mechanism with an origin point of coordinate axes being coincident with a point of intersection of a shaft center of the first shaft and a shaft center of the second shaft, and a control unit that simultaneously rotates the first shaft and the second shaft to continuously rotate the acceleration sensor around the first shaft and the second shaft and applies frequency analysis to the output values from the acceleration sensor to arithmetically determine the inclination angle with respect to the horizontal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Fumitoshi KASAHARA, Fumio OHTOMO, Naoki SHOJI, Masae MATSUMOTO, Jun ABE
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Publication number: 20220304767Abstract: An operating microscope includes an objective lens, a first illumination optical system, a deflector, and an observation optical system. The first illumination optical system is arranged coaxially with an optical axis of the objective lens and is configured to be capable of illuminating first illumination light onto an eye to be operated through the objective lens. The deflector is configured to deflect returning light of the first illumination light in a direction intersecting the optical axis, the returning light being incident from the eye to be operated through objective lens. The observation optical system is configured to be capable of guiding the returning light deflected by the deflector to an eyepiece lens or an imaging element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: Kazuhiro OHMORI
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Patent number: 11452445Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment example includes a front image acquiring device, a first search processor, and a second search processor. The front image acquiring device is configured to acquire a front image of a fundus of a subject's eye. The first search processor is configured to search for an interested region corresponding to an interested site of the fundus based on a brightness variation in the front image. The second search processor is configured to search for the interested region by template matching between the front image and a template image in the event that the interested region has not been detected by the first search processor.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Ono, Hiroyuki Aoki
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Publication number: 20220299665Abstract: A surveying information management system using an information display terminal and a surveying device configured to measure a point cloud in a three-dimensional space includes: a surveying information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the surveying device, the surveying information including point cloud data associated with position information; an area setting unit configured to set a display area for the point cloud; a segment setting unit configured to divide the display area into predetermined unit segments; a point cloud amount calculation unit configured to calculate a point cloud amount in a space of each of the unit segments; and a point cloud amount display unit configured to display, on the information display terminal, information according to the point cloud amount calculated for each of the unit segments of the display area by the point cloud amount calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Takeshi SASAKI, Norikatsu SHIBATA, Nobuyuki FUKAYA
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Publication number: 20220299318Abstract: A surveying system includes an information processing device and a surveying device and further includes a scanner unit configured to perform a measurement to acquire three-dimensional point cloud data on the surveying device, a measurement position specifying unit configured to specify a measurement position for which three-dimensional point cloud data needs to be acquired, a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a self-position of the surveying device, and a measurement computing unit configured to perform a computation to measure the measurement position from the self-position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: Takeshi SASAKI
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Patent number: 11448504Abstract: A technique for preventing decrease in accuracy of measuring a tilt angle of a surveying device is provided. A total station includes a rotating unit, a horizontal angle measuring unit, a tilt sensor, and a tilt amount calculating part. The rotating unit has a distance measuring unit that performs optical surveying, and the rotating unit horizontally rotates. The horizontal angle measuring unit measures a rotation angle of the horizontal rotation of the rotating unit. The tilt sensor measures a tilt of the rotating unit relative to the direction of gravity. The tilt amount calculating part calculates a tilt of the rotating unit on the basis of measured values of the horizontal angle measuring unit before and after the rotating unit rotates.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuyuki Nishita
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Publication number: 20220291043Abstract: A wavelength-swept light source is configured to generate light to be measured that is wavelength-swept coherent light with a wavelength periodically changed. The light to be measured is separated into a measurement section and a reference section that have different optical path lengths, and is then coupled in an interference section to generate interfering light. An analyzer performs a Fourier transform of interference signals of the interfering light, and acquires an actual measured noise floor value for each of the optical path length differences based on a point spread function. An estimated coherence time is determined so that an actual measured amplitude value of the noise floor value and a calculated amplitude value coincide with each other. Linewidth of the light emitted from the coherent light source is measured based on the estimated coherence time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: Akira TAKADA
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Patent number: 11439301Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a tissue specifying unit, and a specifying unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subject's eye. The tissue specifying unit is configured to acquire first shape data representing shape of a tissue of the subject's eye by performing segmentation processing on each of a plurality of tomographic images acquired by the acquisition unit. The specifying unit is configured to obtain second shape data representing shape of the tissue based on the plurality of first shape data acquired by the tissue specifying unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro Mino, Jonathan Liu
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Publication number: 20220283272Abstract: Synchronizing between multiple optical data using: an optical data obtaining part which obtains a laser scan point cloud obtained by a laser scanner mounted on a moving body and image data of an image photographed by a camera mounted on the moving body; a correspondence relationship determining part which determines correspondence relationship between point cloud image viewed from a specific viewpoint and the photographed image; a camera position and orientation calculating part which calculates camera position X1 in photographing of the photographed image by a single photograph orientation based on the correspondence relationships; and a delay time (?t) calculating part that calculates ?t when the camera photographs with a delay ?t when the camera is commanded to take a photograph at a time T, in which the ?t is calculated based on a difference of the time T1 corresponding to the camera position X1 and the time T.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: You SASAKI
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Publication number: 20220284608Abstract: Synchronizing between multiple optical data can be maintained by a facilitated method. An optical data processing operational unit 108 includes an optical data obtaining part 301 which obtains laser scan data by a laser scanner mounted on a moving body and image data of a photographed image photographed by a camera mounted on the moving body; and a delay time obtaining part 305 which calculates ?t when the point cloud image viewed from the viewpoint at time a specific time T made based on the laser scan data is obtained and the camera photographs with a delay ?t when the camera is ordered to photograph at time T; wherein relationships of exterior orientation elements of the laser scanner and the camera are known, and ?t is calculated in a condition in which difference in overlapping degree of the point cloud image and the photographed image is minimal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: You Sasaki
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Publication number: 20220280036Abstract: A slit lamp microscope of some aspect examples includes a scanner and a rendering processor. The scanner is configured to scan an anterior segment of a subject's eye with slit light to collect a plurality of cross sectional images. The rendering processor is configured to apply rendering to a three dimensional image created from the plurality of cross sectional images.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Jonathan LIU, Hitoshi SHIMIZU, Hisashi TSUKADA
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Patent number: 11435457Abstract: A surveying instrument comprises a projection optical system for irradiating a distance measuring light which is a linearly-polarized light to an object to be measured, a light receiving optical system for receiving a reflected distance measuring light from the object to be measured, a polarization selecting module for selecting a polarization of the reflected distance measuring light received by the light receiving optical system and an arithmetic control module for controlling a distance measurement based on a light receiving result of the reflected distance measuring light, wherein the arithmetic control module is configured to give a material information to a distance measurement result of the object to be measured based on a change in light receiving amounts caused due to a selection of the polarization by the polarization selecting module.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Ken-ichiro Yoshino, Taizo Eno, Hideki Morita, Kohei Fujita
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Publication number: 20220265136Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus according to the embodiments include a generator, an extractor, and a phase correction unit. The generator is configured to generate a phase difference profile by performing averaging processing in a depth direction on phase differences obtained by calculating for each depth position of A-lines between two adjacent B-frames of complex OCT data of a subject's eye. The extractor is configured to a phase drift from the phase difference profile generated by the generator. The phase correction unit is configured to correct a phase of first complex OCT data of any one of the two B-frames based on the phase drift extracted by the extractor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventor: Toshihiro MINO
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Publication number: 20220265135Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus according to the embodiments includes a search unit, a correction unit, and a display control unit. The search unit is configured to search for filter information for correcting an aberration in complex OCT data of a subject's eye so that a quality of the complex OCT data becomes a predetermined level. The correction unit is configured to correct the aberration in the complex OCT data based on the filter information searched by the search unit. The display control unit is configured to display, on a display means, aberration information on a pupil surface of the subject's eye corresponding to the filter information searched by the search unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro MINO, Yoshikiyo MORIGUCHI, Akiko ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11421989Abstract: A surveying instrument include a surveying instrument including a surveying instrument main body, a measuring direction image pickup module for acquiring a first image, a distance measuring unit for measuring a distance to the object, a projecting direction detecting module for detecting a projecting direction of the distance measuring light, a time detector for generating a signal of a reference time, a downward image pickup module for acquiring a second image, an attitude detector for detecting a tilt of the surveying instrument main body and an arithmetic control module, wherein the arithmetic control module is configured to detect a change between the first images or the second images, determine a measuring point of the object with respect to the vertical lower image based on the change between the images and the detection results of the distance measuring unit and the projecting direction detecting module and the reference time.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Tetsuji Anai, Kaoru Kumagai
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Patent number: 11415414Abstract: A surveying instrument comprises a monopod installed at a reference point, a surveying instrument main body provided at the monopod and having an attitude detector, wherein the surveying instrument main body carries out an image pickup and a scanning of an object to be measured at a pre-movement and a post-movement respectively, obtains at least three cross points of a locus of a scan pattern of the pre-movement and the post-movement, and calculates three-dimensional coordinates of an installation point of the post-movement based on three-dimensional coordinates of the cross points measured from the reference point, a measurement result of the cross points measured from the installation point of the post-movement and a detection result of the attitude detector.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Kaoru Kumagai, Tetsuji Anai
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Patent number: 11417185Abstract: In order to achieve the object described above, a communication management system includes: a surveying instrument including a survey unit, a GPS device, a control unit, and a communication unit; a management server capable of communicating with the surveying instrument; and a remote terminal capable of communicating with the management server, wherein the remote terminal sets a usable range of the surveying instrument, and sets determination on entrance and exit of the surveying instrument into and from the usable range, and an operation responsive to results of the determination, and makes the management server store these, the surveying instrument transmits own GPS information to the management server, and the management server compares entrance and exit of the surveying instrument into and from the usable range with the GPS information and executes the determination, and executes the operation based on results of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Kikuchi, Mitsutaka Kagata, Sora Otaguro
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Patent number: D962797Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Topcon CorporationInventor: Takeo Aoki