Patents Assigned to Topcon Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240057862
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing system for selecting a subject at risk of glaucoma as a candidate includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires measurement information of an eye of the subject measured by an ophthalmologic apparatus; and a determination unit that determines whether the subject is a candidate at risk of glaucoma based on an anterior chamber depth of the subject included in the measurement information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitsugu TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240057861
    Abstract: A grade evaluation apparatus for blood vessel distribution image includes a control device. The control device is configured to: obtain a blood vessel distribution image, the blood vessel distribution image representing a distribution of blood vessels in an eyeball obtained by OCT-angiography; calculate a plurality of evaluation values from the blood vessel distribution image based on a plurality of criteria; and calculate a grade value based on the plurality of evaluation values, the grade value indicating a grade of the blood vessel distribution image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventor: Sho NITTA
  • Patent number: 11903646
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus of an embodiment example applies an OCT scan to an anterior segment and constructs an image from acquired data. Further, the ophthalmic apparatus analyzes the image to detect an artifact along an A-scan direction and moves an OCT optical system based on the artifact. Also, the ophthalmic apparatus analyzes the image to detect a corneal image and judges whether an intersection between the artifact and the corneal image is located within a predetermined area. In addition, the ophthalmic apparatus calculates an image quality evaluation value of the image, and controls the OCT optical system to perform an OCT scan of a predetermined pattern if the intersection is located within the area and the image quality evaluation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Ono
  • Publication number: 20240049962
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes an objective lens, an illumination optical system, an imaging optical system, and an optical path coupling member. The illumination optical system may illuminate a subject's eye with illumination light via the objective lens. The imaging optical system may guide returning light of the illumination light from the subject's eye to an imaging device via the objective lens. The optical path coupling member has a transparent member with a reflective region formed by evaporating a reflective film onto a part of a transmission region of its surface, and is configured to couple an optical path of the illumination optical system with an optical path of the imaging optical system. The transmission region may be arranged substantially conjugate optically to a subject's iris. The illumination light is reflected on the reflective region and the returning light is transmitted through the transmission region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi NAKAJIMA, Ryosuke SHIMOSAWA, Shigeru OKIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11896307
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a refractive power measurement optical system, a fixation projection system, an inspection optical system, and a controller. The refractive power measurement optical system includes a first focusing element capable of changing a focal position, and is configured to project first light onto a subject's eye and to detect returning light of the first light from the subject's eye via the first focusing element. The fixation projection system is configured to project fixation light target onto the subject's eye. The inspection optical system includes a second focusing element capable of changing a focal position in conjunction with the first focusing element, and is used for a predetermined inspection in which second light is projected onto at least the subject's eye via the second focusing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Tatara, Michiko Nakanishi, Shunichi Morishima
  • Patent number: 11896310
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes an analyzer, a storage unit, and a display controller. The analyzer is configured to specify an atrophy region in a fundus by analyzing data of the fundus of a subject's eye acquired using optical coherence tomography. The storage unit stores image data of the fundus. The display controller is configured to cause a fundus image of the subject's eye to be displayed on a display means based on the image data stored in the storage unit, and to cause a region corresponding to the atrophy region in the fundus image to be displayed on the display means so as to be identifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanichi Tokuda, Taiki Aimi
  • Publication number: 20240041316
    Abstract: An OCT apparatus of an exemplary aspect includes an OCT scanner, image data generating unit, registration unit, and image data composing unit. The OCT scanner is configured to acquire three dimensional data sets by applying an OCT scan to mutually different three dimensional regions of a sample. The image data generating unit is configured to generate a plurality of pieces of image data from the three dimensional data sets. The registration unit is configured to perform a first registration between the plurality of pieces of image data by applying an image correlation calculation to each of overlap regions in the plurality of pieces of image data. The image data composing unit is configured to compose the plurality of pieces of image data based on a result of the first registration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Hisashi TSUKADA, Atsushi KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20240041323
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an illumination system configured to project illumination light onto a subject's eye, and a photography system configured to perform photography of the subject's eye. The illumination system and the photography system are configured to satisfy a Scheimpflug condition. The illumination system includes a light source unit configured to output slit illumination light, and an illumination polarizer configured to extract an illumination polarization component from the slit illumination light. The illumination system is further configured to project the illumination polarization component onto the subject's eye. The photography system includes a photography polarizer configured to extract a photography polarization component from return light from the subject's eye with the slit illumination light projected, and an image sensor configured to detect the photography polarization component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI, Ryo BANDO
  • Publication number: 20240032787
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes an optical system having an illumination and imaging optical systems, a movement mechanism, and a controller. The illumination optical system may illuminate a fundus of a subject's eye with illumination light. The movement mechanism may relatively move the subject's eye and the optical system in an optical axis direction of the imaging optical system. When a corneal curvature radius is R and a distance from a corneal apex position to an imaging aperture conjugate position substantially conjugate optically to the imaging aperture is d, the controller may control the movement mechanism so that light amount of the returning light passing through the imaging aperture becomes less than when a distance in the optical axis direction between the imaging aperture conjugate position and a position of a corneal reflection image of the illumination light is (R/2?d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi NAKAJIMA, Jun SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11879976
    Abstract: A technique enables easy quantitative evaluation for drilling operations. A civil engineering work data processing device includes a positioning data receiving unit, a three-dimensional model estimating unit, and a drilled depth calculator. The positioning data receiving unit receives positioning data obtained by performing positioning using laser light, on a drilling rod. The three-dimensional model estimating unit estimates a three-dimensional model of the drilling rod, on the basis of the positioning data. The drilled depth calculator calculates a depth of a hole generated in a civil engineering work target by the drilling rod, on the basis of the estimated three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Topcon Corporation
    Inventor: You Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11880943
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Satoshi Yanobe
  • Publication number: 20240019552
    Abstract: A technique for solving problems related to intense light that is reflected back from a reflector target in laser scanning, is provided. A processing device controls laser scanning that is performed by a laser scanning apparatus having a light reception unit. The processing device includes a laser scanning apparatus controller, a saturation determination unit, and a variable optical attenuator controller. The laser scanning apparatus controller makes the laser scanning apparatus execute first laser scanning and second laser scanning. The saturation determination unit determines a state of saturation of the light reception unit, with respect to laser-scanned point clouds obtained in the first laser scanning. The variable optical attenuator controller adjusts an intensity of light to be received by the light reception unit in the second laser scanning, based on a result of determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11871994
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to develop an ophthalmologic microscope of a new method that increases the degree of freedom in the optical design in the Galilean ophthalmologic microscope provided with an OCT optical system. The present invention provides an ophthalmologic microscope, wherein an observation optical system, an objective lens, and an OCT optical system are placed in such a way that the optical axis of the OCT optical system does not penetrate through objective lens, and the optical axis of the observation optical system and the optical axis of the OCT optical system are non-coaxial, and wherein the ophthalmologic microscope further comprises a SLO optical system that scans a light ray which is a visible ray, a near infrared ray, or an infrared ray and guides the light to the subject's eye so as to become substantially coaxial with the optical axis of the OCT optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Kazuhiro Oomori
  • Publication number: 20240008741
    Abstract: An ophthalmic observation apparatus of an embodiment includes an illumination system, a photography system, and a focus processor. The illumination system includes a light source configured to emit illumination light and an indicator member having a plurality of indicators, and is configured to project the illumination light onto a subject's eye via the indicator member. The photography system includes an image sensor and is configured to perform photography of the subject's eye. The focus processor is configured to perform detection of a plurality of indicator images from an image acquired by the photography system, and perform a focus control of the photography system based on the plurality of indicator images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YAMADA, Kazuhiro OOMORI, Yasufumi FUKUMA
  • Patent number: 11868325
    Abstract: A management system of the present invention includes a design database storing member identification information, member coordinates, and member shapes of construction members constituting a construction object, a management member selecting unit configured to select a management member to be managed among the construction members stored in the design database, a related member selecting unit configured to select a related member adjacent to the management member from the design database, a boundary information creating unit configured to select an adjacent portion between the management member and the related member, and with respect to the adjacent portion, as boundary information, associate identification information, adjacent portion coordinates, an adjacent portion shape of the adjacent portion, member identification information of the management member, and member identification information of the related member with each other, and a comparison result database configured to store information associate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Doji, Toshio Yamada, Nobuyuki Nishita, Satoshi Yanobe
  • Publication number: 20240000310
    Abstract: An ophthalmic information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a normalizer. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire eye shape data or an intraocular distance of an eye of a subject. The normalizer is configured to normalize the eye shape data or the intraocular distance based on body data of the subject or a refractive power of the eye of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro MINO, Shuyun YEH, Masashi NAKAJIMA, Yasufumi FUKUMA
  • Patent number: 11859977
    Abstract: A technique that enables easily determining an attitude of a laser scanning apparatus is provided. A surveying device includes a sunlight incident direction measurement unit, a Sun direction acquisition unit, and an attitude calculator. The sunlight incident direction measurement unit measures an incident direction of sunlight that enters a laser scanning apparatus, based on a detected waveform of incident light entering the laser scanning apparatus. The Sun direction acquisition unit acquires a direction of the Sun as seen from the laser scanning apparatus, from astronomical data, based on a position of the laser scanning apparatus. The attitude calculator calculates an attitude of the laser scanning apparatus in an absolute coordinate system, based on the incident direction of sunlight and the direction of the Sun as seen from the laser scanning apparatus, which is acquired from the astronomical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: You Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20230419451
    Abstract: An embodiment is a method of processing an optical coherence tomography (OCT) image. The method is configured to acquire a plurality of images by applying a plurality of OCT scans corresponding to a plurality of different polarization conditions to a sample, and then generate a mean image with a reduced birefringence-derived artifact by applying averaging to the plurality of images corresponding to the plurality of different polarization conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Topcon Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke AZUMA
  • Patent number: 11849996
    Abstract: An OCT apparatus of an exemplary aspect includes an OCT scanner, image data generating unit, registration unit, and image data composing unit. The OCT scanner is configured to acquire three dimensional data sets by applying an OCT scan to mutually different three dimensional regions of a sample. The image data generating unit is configured to generate a plurality of pieces of image data from the three dimensional data sets. The registration unit is configured to perform a first registration between the plurality of pieces of image data by applying an image correlation calculation to each of overlap regions in the plurality of pieces of image data. The image data composing unit is configured to compose the plurality of pieces of image data based on a result of the first registration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Hisashi Tsukada, Atsushi Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230404389
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: an ophthalmological device 200 that is provided with a measurement unit 230; a measurement information processing unit 221 that converts measurement information, which has been obtained by the measurement unit 230, into image information and non-image information other than the image information; an ophthalmological device display unit 250 of the ophthalmological device 200 that displays the image information; a terminal device 400 that is arranged remotely from the ophthalmological device 200 and that is provided with a terminal display unit 340; a display unit imaging device 400 that is attached to the ophthalmological device 200 and that captures the entirety of the image which is displayed on the ophthalmological device display unit 250; an image transmission unit 480 that transmits, to the terminal device 300, the image which has been captured by the display unit imaging device 400; a measurement information transmission unit 222 of the ophthalmological device 200 that tr
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi NAKAMURA