Patents Assigned to Topcon Corporation
  • Patent number: 11134840
    Abstract: An ophthalmological device of some embodiment examples includes a memory, detecting processor, identifying processor, transforming processor, and composing processor. The memory stores a plurality of angiograms acquired by applying optical coherence tomography to an eye fundus. The detecting processor is configured to detect a feature point from each of the angiograms. The identifying processor is configured to identify a plurality of feature point groups from among a plurality of feature points detected from the angiograms. Each feature point group corresponds to a same site of the eye fundus. The transforming processor is configured to transform at least part of the angiograms based on the feature point groups. The composing processor is configured to compose two or more angiograms of the angiograms at least part of which has been transformed, based on the feature point groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Aoki, Taiki Aimi
  • Patent number: 11132797
    Abstract: A multimodal imaging system and method is capable of taking fundus images, automatically identifying regions of interest (ROIs) of the eye from the fundus images, and performing OCT imaging in the identified ROIs, where the OCT images can provide clinically relevant information for screening purposes. By automatically identifying the ROIs, expert intervention is not required to perform specialized OCT imaging and thus, such imaging and analysis can be provided at more facilities and for more subjects for a lower cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zaixing Mao, Zhenguo Wang, Kinpui Chan, Jonathan Liu, Jongsik Kim
  • Patent number: 11129529
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a refractometry optical system, an OCT optical system, a fixation projection system, and a controller. The refractometry optical system is configured to project light onto a subject's eye and to detect returning light from the subject's eye. The OCT optical system is configured to split light from an OCT light source into measurement light and reference light, to project the measurement light onto the subject's eye, and to detect interference light between returning light of the measurement light from the subject's eye and the reference light. The fixation projection system is configured to simultaneously project a first fixation target and a second fixation target onto the subject's eye, a visual angle of the second fixation target being narrower than a visual angle of the first fixation target. The controller is configured to control the refractometry optical system and the OCT optical system to simultaneously perform a refractometry and an OCT measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoko Tatara
  • Publication number: 20210290437
    Abstract: A photocoagulation apparatus of some embodiment examples stores a first OCT image of a retina. The photocoagulation apparatus performs moving image photography of the retina to which aiming light is being applied, and repeatedly detects an aiming light image from a moving image. The photocoagulation apparatus moves a scan target area to include an aiming light application position. After treatment light application in response to user's instruction, the photocoagulation apparatus applies OCT scanning to the scan target area at a time of reception of the instruction, and constructs a second OCT image from acquired data. The photocoagulation apparatus compares the first and second OCT images to acquire change information representing a tissue change caused by the treatment light, and displays a change image based on the change information together with a retinal image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11126701
    Abstract: An object is to provide a surveying instrument and system to manage instrument setting and usage data for each personal user. The surveying instrument includes a personal authentication sensor, a control unit, and a storage unit. A personal information registration unit of the control unit acquires personal authentication information from the sensor and stores the personal authentication information in a personal identification information database of the storage unit in association with user information. A personal authentication execution unit of the control unit identifies a user based on whether authentication data acquired by the sensor matches personal authentication information stored in the personal identification information database. A personal setting application unit of the control unit refers to a personal setting information database in the storage unit, and when finding instrument setting saved by the authenticated user, applies the instrument setting and starts the surveying instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11122973
    Abstract: According to an ophthalmological apparatus of an embodiment example, a light beam projecting system includes an optical scanner and projects a light beam onto an eye fundus. A fixation system projects fixation light onto the eye fundus. A photographing device captures a moving image of the eye fundus onto which the fixation light is being projected, to acquire a front observation image. An analyzing circuitry analyzes the front observation image to specify the position of a predetermined site of the eye fundus. A controlling circuitry controls at least one of the fixation system and the optical scanner based on the positional relationship between the position of the predetermined site specified by the analyzing circuitry and a projection target area of the light beam from the light beam projecting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ono
  • Patent number: 11122974
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a reference data setting unit, a first region specifying unit, and a second region specifying unit. The reference data setting unit is configured to set, as first reference data, first fundus data among a plurality of fundus data of a fundus of a subject's eye acquired at different acquisition timings using optical coherence tomography. The first region specifying unit is configured to specify one or more first atrophy regions in the fundus by analyzing the first reference data. The second region specifying unit is configured to specify one or more second atrophy regions by analyzing second fundus data based on the one or more first atrophy regions, the second fundus data being acquired after the acquisition timing of the first reference data among the plurality of fundus data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanichi Tokuda, Tsutomu Kikawa, Hiroyuki Ueda
  • Publication number: 20210279960
    Abstract: The data set receiving unit 13 of the information processing apparatus 1 of an aspect example receives a data set that includes at least BIM data. The route setting processor 151 sets a route, which is arranged inside and/or outside a virtual building represented by the BIM data, based on the data set received. The virtual image set generating processor 152 generates a virtual image set of the virtual building along the route, based on the received data set and the set route. The inference model creating processor 153 creates an inference model by applying machine learning with training data that includes at least the generated virtual image set to a neural network. The inference model created is used to identify data of a building material from data acquired by measuring a building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Satoshi YANOBE
  • Patent number: 11112531
    Abstract: Provided is a method of creating a longitudinal section along an arbitrary line from three-dimensional point group data of terrain or a structure, and a survey data processing device and a survey system for the same. The method includes (a): setting an arbitrary longitudinal section creation line by sequentially designating a plurality of interval designation points on an X-Y plane of three-dimensional point group data (X, Y, Z), (b): projecting a Z point surveyed between a start point and an end point of a certain interval among a plurality of intervals defined by the interval designation points, onto a vertical virtual plane including the longitudinal section creation line, corresponding to (X, Y) coordinates of the longitudinal section creation line, and (c): performing the step (b) for all of the intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11109754
    Abstract: Provided is an ophthalmic measurement device with which it is possible to obtain an area in which a measurement can be taken without moving an optical system. With reference to an optical path length of an illumination optical system with which light is focused on the eyeground when the refraction value is 0 D, the positions of two light sources are set to achieve a setting in which the optical path length becomes slightly shorter. By doing so, it is possible to cope with measurement of refractive properties in a large area without employing structures that allow a lens system of the illumination optical system and the light sources thereof to be moved. In addition, by selecting one of the two light sources so that a clearer Hartmann image can be obtained, it is possible to further increase the precision of the refractive properties to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshifumi Mihashi
  • Publication number: 20210272283
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a captured image of a subject's eye. The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit is an analysis error image including a predetermined analysis error factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Guangzhou AN, Masahiro AKIBA, Tsutomu KIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210267801
    Abstract: A photocoagulation apparatus of some embodiment examples is configured to apply both treatment light for subthreshold coagulation and an OCT scan to a retina via a probe inserted in an eye. Upon receiving a user's instruction, the apparatus applies the treatment light to the retina, and applies an OCT scan to the retina at least after the treatment light application. The apparatus compares the first OCT image constructed from OCT data of the retina acquired prior to the treatment light application and the second OCT image constructed from OCT data of the retina acquired after the treatment light application, thereby acquiring change information that represents a tissue change in the retina caused by the treatment light. The apparatus displays a change image based on the change information together with a retinal image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11105901
    Abstract: Provided is a surveying instrument comprises a total station, a mounting base which is fixed on an upper surface of the total station at three points, and a two-dimensional laser scanner which is fixed on an upper surface of the mounting base at three points, wherein the total station is configured to perform a three-dimensional measurement of a measuring point by a first distance measuring light, wherein the two-dimensional laser scanner is configured to acquire point cloud data along a scanning line by a second distance measuring light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Takahashi, Yasushi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11105903
    Abstract: An electronic distance meter comprises a distance measuring light projecting module, a photodetector, a photodetection circuit, and a control arithmetic module, wherein the distance measuring light projecting module has a light emitter, the light emitter emits a distance measuring light, the photodetector receives a reflected distance measuring light from an object to be measured and produces photodetection signals, the photodetection circuit generates an intermediate frequency signal based on the photodetection signals, and the control arithmetic module controls the photodetection circuit and calculates a distance to the object to be measured based on each of the photodetection signals, and wherein the control arithmetic module coincides a frequency orthogonal to a frequency which a sampling signal has with a frequency of a feedback signal on a curve, which is acquired by performing a DFT processing on the sampling signal acquired by sampling the intermediate frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Shoji, Masae Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11105926
    Abstract: A phase difference frequency generating method comprising: cutting out a reference signal, which is a continuous signal with a predetermined frequency, in a predetermined time and at a predetermined time interval by a signal for intermitting and creating a first intermittent signal, shifting the signal for intermitting by a time corresponding to ?/a (a=natural number) of a fundamental frequency of the reference signal, cutting out the reference signal in the predetermined time and at the predetermined time interval by the signal for intermitting as shifted and creating a second intermittent signal, and carrying out a restoration processing for restoring the second intermittent signal by a time as shifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Masaho Kikuchi, Naoki Shoji, Masae Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11096324
    Abstract: A fertilization design device calculates a fertilization amount of a field to be fertilized and includes the following units. A database reception unit receives one or both of growth data indicating growth potential of the field and soil data indicating plant growth potential of soil in the field and receives position data as position coordinate information for the field. A designated position reception and retrieval unit receives a freely selected position designated by a user and retrieves information of the freely selected position from the position data. A user input fertilization amount value reception unit receives a fertilization amount value freely set by the user for the freely selected position or for a range including the freely selected position. A calibration curve generation unit generates a calibration curve, based on one or both of the growth data and the soil data, the position data, and the fertilization amount value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Noriko Saito, Ryosuke Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20210254975
    Abstract: Provided is a survey instrument installation device that can be easily installed at a measurement point or a reference point. A survey instrument installation device including at least one leg includes: a pole reception unit provided in the survey instrument installation device; and a pole configured to support a survey instrument, the pole being inserted into the pole reception unit, wherein a lower end of the pole functions as a shoe installed at a reference point, and the pole reception unit supports the pole tiltable in all directions and supports the pole movable in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyasu KIRYUU, Hideyuki MATSUMOTO, Nobuyuki NISHITA
  • Publication number: 20210256679
    Abstract: The system 1 of an aspect example is used for building photogrammetry. The design data 141 includes virtual material information, which includes virtual material position information, on attributes for each virtual material of a virtual building. The physical material data 142, which includes physical material position data, is generated based on measured data of a physical building constructed based on the design data 141, relates to the attributes for each physical material. The material associating processor 151 generates pairs of virtual and physical materials by determining an association between the virtual and physical materials based on the virtual material position information and the physical material position data. For each of the pairs, the attribute associating processor 152 determines an association between the virtual material information and the physical material data in accordance with the attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Mao ZAIXING, Satoshi YANOBE, Toshio YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11089956
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus is configured to control an optical scanner so as to perform a scan by measurement light in an intersecting direction which intersects a traveling direction of the measurement light, to specify a scan length based on a detection result of interference light corresponding to the scan, the detection result being acquired by an interference optical system, the scan length being a length of a scan range in the intersecting direction within a characteristic region in an anterior segment of the subject's eye, and to specify a movement amount of the subject's eye based on a reference value of the characteristic region and the scan length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto Saika
  • Patent number: 11085794
    Abstract: A surveying device 3 configured to perform a survey by tracking, as a survey target, a prism 13 attached to a camera 11 of a movable imaging device 2, includes an electronic distance meter 33 configured to measure a distance to the survey target; a horizontal angle detector 41 and a vertical angle detector 42 each configured to measure an angle; a main body 3a supporting these members; a time obtainer 47 configured to obtain a GPS time from a GPS satellite; a tilt sensor 48 configured to detect a posture of the main body 3a; a calibrator 49 configured to calibrate the tilt sensor 48; and a survey controller 40 that causes the calibrator 49 to perform calibration during a period in which the time obtainer 47 obtains the GPS time, as an advance preparation to be performed before the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Topcon Corporation
    Inventor: Motohiro Miyajima