Patents Assigned to Topcon Corporation
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Publication number: 20220414845Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus of an aspect example includes an image acquiring unit, a corneal shape estimating processor, and a first image correcting processor. The image acquiring unit is configured to acquire an anterior segment image constructed based on data collected from an anterior segment of a subject's eye by optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanning. The anterior segment image includes a missing part corresponding to a part of a cornea. The corneal shape estimating processor is configured to estimate a shape of the missing part of a cornea image by analyzing the anterior segment image acquired by the image acquiring unit. The first image correcting processor is configured to correct distortion of the anterior segment image based at least on the shape of the missing part estimated by the corneal shape estimating processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Kazunori ASANUMA, Yusuke ONO
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Publication number: 20220409040Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an optical scanner, an interference optical system, an intraocular distance calculator, an image correcting unit, and a controller. The optical scanner is disposed at an optically substantially conjugate position with a first site of a subject's eye. The interference optical system is configured to split light from a light source into reference light and measurement light, to project the measurement light onto the subject's eye via the optical scanner, and to detect interference light between returning light of the light from the subject's eye and the reference light via the optical scanner. The image forming unit is configured to form a tomographic image of the subject's eye corresponding a first traveling direction of the measurement light deflected by the optical scanner, based on a detection result of the interference light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI, Ryoichi HIROSE, Michiko NAKANISHI
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Patent number: 11534062Abstract: An eye chart presentation device includes a display to display an eye chart image on a screen, a reflection mirror to reflect light flux emitted from the display, and a convex lens system to form a virtual image of the eye chart image from the light flux reflected by the reflection mirror, the focal length of the convex lens system being greater than 800 mm. The screen is positioned within the focal length of the convex lens system, and the display emits the light flux from a lateral direction with respect to sightline of the eye. The reflection mirror includes a first mirror to directly reflect the light flux from the display and a second mirror to reflect the light flux reflected by the first mirror to the convex lens system.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventor: Eiichi Yanagi
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Patent number: 11536567Abstract: A surveying instrument comprises a light projecting optical system for projecting a distance measuring light to a predetermined measuring point, a light receiving optical system for receiving a reflected distance measuring light and an infrared light from the measuring point, and an arithmetic control module for controlling a distance measurement and a temperature measurement based on light receiving results of the reflected distance measuring light and the infrared light, and the arithmetic control module measures a distance to the measuring point based on light receiving results of the reflected distance measuring light received by a photodetector of the light receiving optical system, and measures a temperature of the measuring point based on light receiving results of the infrared light received by a temperature sensor of the light receiving optical system.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Taichi Yuasa, Ken-ichiro Yoshino
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Patent number: 11536841Abstract: A surveying system includes a target unit having a reflection target and an encoder pattern showing an angle of the target unit; a scanner configured to acquire three-dimensional point cloud data, measured coordinates of the target, and optically read the encoder pattern to acquire an encoder pattern read angle; and a leveling base configured to selectively allow either of the target unit and the scanner to be removably mounted. The scanner calculates a direction angle of the leveling base based on the encoder pattern read angle and the offset angle of the target unit, calculates coordinates of an installation point of the target unit based on the measured coordinates of the target and the direction angle of the target, and calculates a direction angle of the scanner based on the offset angle of the scanner and the direction angle of the leveling base on which the scanner is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Yasutomi, Takahiro Komeichi, Tadayuki Ito
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Patent number: 11536568Abstract: A surveying system comprises a laser scanner for scanning a distance measuring light and for acquiring point cloud data and a target instrument having a target for reflecting the distance measuring light, wherein the target is a sphere having a known diameter, the laser scanner comprises a distance measuring module for projecting the distance measuring light, for receiving a reflected distance measuring light and for performing a distance measurement, an optical axis deflector which enables to two-dimensionally deflect the distance measuring light, and an arithmetic control module for controlling the optical axis deflector, and wherein the arithmetic control module is configured to perform a circular scan on a surface of the target by the optical axis deflector, to obtain a center of the target based on the point cloud data acquired by the circular scan and the diameter, and to measure a distance of the center of the target.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventor: Nobuyuki Nishita
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Publication number: 20220404147Abstract: In order to monitor operation situations of site resources at a construction site efficiently, a measuring system uses a surveying apparatus 100 including a camera and a position-determining function using laser light, and the measuring system includes a photographing means for continuously photographing construction machines 201 to 204 which are site resources for performing operations at a construction site by the camera, a recognizing means recognizing the site resources in photographed images obtained by the photographing, a tracking means for tracking the image of the site resources recognized in the multiple photographed images obtained by the continuous photographing, and a position-determining means collimating to the site resources which are objects for the tracking, and determining the positions of site resources by the position-determining function, in which the determining of positions is performed multiple times at intervals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: You SASAKI
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Publication number: 20220400948Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes an illumination optical system, an optical scanner, an imaging optical system, a controller, and an image forming unit. The illumination optical system is configured to generate slit-shaped illumination light. 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 optical scanner. The image forming unit is configured to form an image of the fundus based on a light receiving result captured in an imaging target region on a light receiving surface of the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Akira TAKAHASHI, Kazuhiro YAMADA
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Publication number: 20220397481Abstract: A prism constant can be obtained more efficiently, using a laser positioning device including an image data obtaining portion obtaining an image data which is obtained by photographing a reflection prism device, a data storing portion storing a relationship of a prism constant of the reflection prism device and the image data, and a prism constant obtaining portion obtaining the prism constant of the reflection prism device based on the relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: You SASAKI
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Publication number: 20220395175Abstract: In an ophthalmologic apparatus, including: an objective lens that faces a subject's eye; an illumination optical system that irradiates a cornea of the subject's eye with illumination light through the objective lens; and a corneal measurement optical system including an interference image capturing camera that takes an image of a corneal reflection light, which is a reflection of the illumination light reflected from the cornea, through the objective lens, a numerical aperture G of the illumination optical system is larger than a numerical aperture g of the corneal measurement optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Zhenguo WANG, Zaixing MAO, Kazuhiro OOMORI, Makoto FUJINO
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Publication number: 20220386869Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Yusuke ONO, Hiroyuki AOKI
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Publication number: 20220386868Abstract: In the ophthalmic apparatus 1 of an aspect example, the image acquiring unit (the fundus camera unit 2, the OCT unit 100, the image data constructing unit 220) acquires an anterior segment image constructed based on data collected from an anterior segment of a subject's eye by OCT scanning. The part image identifying processor 231 performs identification of two or more part images respectively corresponding to two or more parts of the anterior segment from the anterior segment image acquired. The part image assessing processor 232 performs image quality assessment of each of the two or more part images. The anterior segment image assessing processor 233 performs image quality assessment of the anterior segment image based on two or more pieces of assessment data respectively obtained for the two or more part images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventor: Yusuke ONO
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Patent number: 11520015Abstract: A 3-dimensional measuring device includes: a light source unit; a projection optical system; a scanning mirror that is provided to be rotatable about a rotating shaft in a state of being inclined with respect to a shaft center of the rotating shaft to radiate a range-finding light within a plane crossing the rotating shaft in a rotary manner; a light-receiving optical system that receives a reflection range-finding light; a reference light optical system that is provided in a range outside a measuring range within a radiation range to receive and reflect the range-finding light as an internal reference light, the reference light optical system being capable of changing a light quantity of the internal reference light; and a light receiving element that receives the reflection range-finding light and the internal reference light.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi Tanaka, Takaaki Saito, Ken'ichiro Yoshino, Mitsuru Kanokogi
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Patent number: 11512957Abstract: A surveying instrument include a monopod installed on a reference point and a surveying instrument main body provided on the monopod, wherein the surveying instrument main body includes a measuring direction image pickup module which acquires first image including an object, a distance measuring unit which measures a distance to the object, a measuring direction detecting module which detects a measuring direction, a time detector which generates a reference time signal and an arithmetic control module, the arithmetic control module associates a distance measurement result with the reference time signal, associates a measuring direction with the reference time signal, and associates the first image with the reference time signal, associates an image change, the measuring direction, and a distance measurement result with each other based on the reference time signal, calculates a measuring direction in the distance measurement and determines a position of a measurement part of the object.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Tetsuji Anai, Kaoru Kumagai
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Patent number: 11513084Abstract: A non-destructive inspection system 1 includes a neutron detecting unit 4 and an arithmetic unit 60. The neutron detecting unit 4 includes a collimator 30 and a neutron detector 20 integrated together. The collimator 30 has a wall defining a through passage P. The wall is made from a material that absorbs neutrons produced via an inspection object. The neutron detector 20 is capable of detecting neutrons that have passed through the collimator 30. The arithmetic unit 60 generates information on a position and composition of the inspection object, based on information on the neutrons detected by the neutron detector 20, positional information indicating the position of the neutron detecting unit 4, and posture information indicating the posture of the neutron detecting unit 4. The positional information and the posture information are detected by a position and posture detecting unit 5.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: Topcon Corporation, RIKENInventors: Shigenori Nagano, Hanako Aikoh, Yoshie Otake, Yuichi Yoshimura, Hideyuki Sunaga
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Patent number: 11503995Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes: an objective lens that faces a subject's eye; a first illumination optical system that irradiates a cornea of the subject's eye with illumination light; and a corneal measurement optical system having an imaging element that takes an image of a corneal reflection light, which is a reflection of the illumination light, through the objective lens, and outputs an imaging signal. The corneal measurement optical system includes a first mirror arranged near the objective lens and a second mirror arranged near the imaging element. The first and second mirrors and are configured such that the corneal reflection light that enters and is reflected from the first mirror, and then enters and is reflected from the second mirror exits toward an incident side from which the corneal reflection light enters a reflection surface of the first mirror.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Topcon CorporationInventors: Zhenguo Wang, Zaixing Mao, Kazuhiro Oomori, Makoto Fujino
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Patent number: 11506759Abstract: A distance measuring light projecting module comprises a light receiving module for receiving a reflected distance measuring light and a background light, a distance measuring unit for receiving the reflected distance measuring light and performs a distance measurement, an image pickup module for receiving the background light and for acquiring a background image, an optical axis deflector for integrally deflecting an optical axis of the distance measuring light and an optical axis of the background light, and an arithmetic control module for controlling the optical axis deflector, wherein the optical axis deflector has a rotary driving module for rotating a pair of disk prisms individually, and a projecting direction detecting module for detecting a rotation angle of each of the disk prisms.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Ikuo Ishinabe, Kaoru Kumagai
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Patent number: 11503996Abstract: 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 1 comprising; an illuminating optical system 300, an observation optical system 400; an objective lens 2; and an OCT optical system 500, characterized in that the optical axis O-500 of the OCT optical system does not penetrate through the objective lens 2, it comprises objective lens for OCT 507 through which the optical axis O-500 of the OCT optical system penetrates, and deflection optical elements 503a, 503b for scanning of the OCT optical system and the objective lens for OCT 507 are in a substantially optically conjugate positional relation.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Topcon CorporationInventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Kazuhiro Oomori
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Patent number: 11500096Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventor: Nobuyuki Nishita
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Patent number: 11497397Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoko Tatara, Michiko Nakanishi, Shunichi Morishima