Patents by Inventor Akihiro Fujishiro

Akihiro Fujishiro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7794081
    Abstract: A scanning laser ophthalmoscope comprises: a laser source that emits a laser beam; an irradiation optical system that scans the laser beam over a fundus two-dimensionally; a photoreceptor optical system that receives reflection from the fundus by using a photoreceptor element; an image processor that obtains an image of the fundus based on an output signal from the photoreceptor element; a monitor; and a controller that causes the monitor to display the obtained fundus image, wherein the image processor comprises a subtractive processing circuit that performs time-subtractive processing on the output signal from the photoreceptor element in a state where the output signal is input as an analog signal, and forms the fundus image based on the signal subjected to the subtractive processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Fujishiro, Junichi Akita
  • Patent number: 7484849
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic observation apparatus of a confocal laser scanning microscopy system for photographing and observing a target site of an eye of an examinee, includes a controller that, based on a number of image lines of one frame of a motion image to be displayed, a number of reflection faces of a polygon mirror, and a detection result of a photo sensor, controls a galvano mirror and an image forming unit so as to form each image line of each frame of the motion image based on the photo-receiving signals of a laser beam reflected on same reflection face of the polygon mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Akihiro Fujishiro
  • Publication number: 20080225226
    Abstract: A scanning laser ophthalmoscope comprises: a laser source that emits a laser beam; an irradiation optical system that scans the laser beam over a fundus two-dimensionally; a photoreceptor optical system that receives reflection from the fundus by using a photoreceptor element; an image processor that obtains an image of the fundus based on an output signal from the photoreceptor element; a monitor; and a controller that causes the monitor to display the obtained fundus image, wherein the image processor comprises a subtractive processing circuit that performs time-subtractive processing on the output signal from the photoreceptor element in a state where the output signal is input as an analog signal, and forms the fundus image based on the signal subjected to the subtractive processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Fujishiro, Junichi Akita
  • Patent number: 7416304
    Abstract: An apparatus for observing an eye of an examinee, comprises: an irradiation optical system for irradiating and two-dimensionally scanning a laser beam onto an observational objective part of the eye; an observation optical system having a photo-receiving element, for photo-receiving the laser beam reflected by the objective part to obtain an image of the objective part, the observation optical system sharing at least a part of the irradiation optical system; a display which displays the obtained image; a polarizing member arranged on an optical axis of the observation optical system, an arrangement angle of the polarizing member with respect to the optical axis being changeable to change a polarized component to be transmitted by the polarizing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Katsuyasu Mizuno, Akihiro Fujishiro
  • Publication number: 20080079900
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic observation apparatus of a confocal laser scanning microscopy system for photographing and observing a target site of an eye of an examinee, includes a controller that, based on a number of image lines of one frame of a motion image to be displayed, a number of reflection faces of a polygon mirror, and a detection result of a photo sensor, controls a galvano mirror and an image forming unit so as to form each image line of each frame of the motion image based on the photo-receiving signals of a laser beam reflected on same reflection face of the polygon mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Akihiro Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 7306336
    Abstract: An apparatus for observing a fundus of an eye of an examinee has an observation optical system having an image-pickup element which obtains a time-series fundus image, a display part which displays the obtained fundus image on its monitor as a moving image, a determination part which determines a standard fundus image based on the displayed image, a memory part which stores the determined image, a calculation part which digitizes the image based on a threshold luminance level to obtain a digitized image thereof, digitizes a present fundus image obtained after the determination of the standard image based on the threshold luminance level to obtain a digitized image thereof and compares the obtained digitized images two-dimensionally to obtain their positional difference, and a display control part for correcting a display position of the present fundus image based on the obtained positional difference to display the corrected image on the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Akihiro Fujishiro, Toshifumi Sumiya, Naoyuki Kondo
  • Patent number: 7198367
    Abstract: A fundus imaging apparatus comprises: a beam emitter which simultaneously emits a first laser beam and a second laser beam having a different wavelength from the first beam; an irradiation optical system having a beam scanner which scans the emitted first and second beams in two dimensions on a fundus, the irradiation optical system being adapted to irradiate the emitted first and second beams onto the fundus; a first filter which intercepts the first and second beams reflected by the fundus and second fluorescence from the fundus by irradiation of the second beam and transmits first fluorescence from the fundus by irradiation of the first beam; a second filter which intercepts the first and second beams reflected by the fundus and the first fluorescence from the fundus and transmits the second fluorescence from the fundus; an imaging optical system having a photo-receiving element which receives the first fluorescence having passed through the first filter and the second fluorescence having passed through th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Naoyuki Kondo, Akihiro Fujishiro, Katsuyasu Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20060197912
    Abstract: A fundus imaging apparatus comprises: a beam emitter which simultaneously emits a first laser beam and a second laser beam having a different wavelength from the first beam; an irradiation optical system having a beam scanner which scans the emitted first and second beams in two dimensions on a fundus, the irradiation optical system being adapted to irradiate the emitted first and second beams onto the fundus; a first filter which intercepts the first and second beams reflected by the fundus and second fluorescence from the fundus by irradiation of the second beam and transmits first fluorescence from the fundus by irradiation of the first beam; a second filter which intercepts the first and second beams reflected by the fundus and the first fluorescence from the fundus and transmits the second fluorescence from the fundus; an imaging optical system having a photo-receiving element which receives the first fluorescence having passed through the first filter and the second fluorescence having passed through th
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Naoyuki Kondo, Akihiro Fujishiro, Katsuyasu Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20050231685
    Abstract: An apparatus for observing an eye of an examinee, comprises: an irradiation optical system for irradiating and two-dimensionally scanning a laser beam onto an observational objective part of the eye; an observation optical system having a photo-receiving element, for photo-receiving the laser beam reflected by the objective part to obtain an image of the objective part, the observation optical system sharing at least a part of the irradiation optical system; a display which displays the obtained image; a polarizing member arranged on an optical axis of the observation optical system, an arrangement angle of the polarizing member with respect to the optical axis being changeable to change a polarized component to be transmitted by the polarizing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Katsuyasu Mizuno, Akihiro Fujishiro
  • Publication number: 20050195360
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus for examining an eye of a patient, comprises: a light projecting optical system for projecting examination light onto the eye, the optical system including: a light source; and a projection shape forming device which is electrically controlled to change a reflecting area of a reflecting surface or a transmitting area of a transmitting surface and is arranged to reflect or transmit the examination light emitted from the light source while forming a projection shape of the examination light into a desired shape so that the examination light of the desired shape is projected onto the eye; and a selection unit for selecting the projection shape of the examination light; and a control part which drivingly controls the forming device based on the selected projection shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Naoyuki Kondoh, Toshifumi Sumiya, Susumu Oshima, Akihiro Fujishiro, Toshiaki Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20050157259
    Abstract: An apparatus for observing a fundus of an eye of an examinee has an observation optical system having an image-pickup element which obtains a time-series fundus image, a display part which displays the obtained fundus image on its monitor as a moving image, a determination part which determines a standard fundus image based on the displayed image, a memory part which stores the determined image, a calculation part which digitizes the image based on a threshold luminance level to obtain a digitized image thereof, digitizes a present fundus image obtained after the determination of the standard image based on the threshold luminance level to obtain a digitized image thereof and compares the obtained digitized images two-dimensionally to obtain their positional difference, and a display control part for correcting a display position of the present fundus image based on the obtained positional difference to display the corrected image on the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Akita, Akihiro Fujishiro, Toshifumi Sumiya, Naoyuki Kondo