Patents by Inventor Etsuro Wada

Etsuro Wada 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: 10244942
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine, using the detected information, whether or not an imaging area for imaging an eye is beyond an edge of a predetermined range of movement of the eye to be examined, and a tracking control unit configured to track the imaging area using the detected information, in a case where an imaging mode different from a follow-up imaging mode is selected and the imaging area is determined not to be beyond the edge, to not track the imaging area, in a case where an imaging mode different from the follow-up imaging mode is selected and the imaging area is determined to be beyond the edge, and to track, using the detected information, the imaging area without making the determination by the determination unit, in a case where the follow-up imaging mode is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Etsuro Wada, Hiroki Uchida
  • Publication number: 20170258327
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine, using the detected information, whether or not an imaging area for imaging an eye is beyond an edge of a predetermined range of movement of the eye to be examined, and a tracking control unit configured to track the imaging area using the detected information, in a case where an imaging mode different from a follow-up imaging mode is selected and the imaging area is determined not to be beyond the edge, to not track the imaging area, in a case where an imaging mode different from the follow-up imaging mode is selected and the imaging area is determined to be beyond the edge, and to track, using the detected information, the imaging area without making the determination by the determination unit, in a case where the follow-up imaging mode is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Etsuro Wada, Hiroki Uchida
  • Patent number: 9076064
    Abstract: For each of a plurality of second images other than a first image in an image group having a plurality of images, a feature point pair is generated by associating a second feature point of the second image with a first feature point of the first image based on a feature amount of the second feature point. A feature point pair is detected from the generated feature point pairs, where a position of the second feature point in the detected feature point pair is located within a predetermined region. A region including first feature points of the first image is extracted, where in the extracted region, detection counts of the feature point pairs exceed a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Etsuro Wada
  • Publication number: 20140254940
    Abstract: For each of a plurality of second images other than a first image in an image group having a plurality of images, a feature point pair is generated by associating a second feature point of the second image with a first feature point of the first image based on a feature amount of the second feature point. A feature point pair is detected from the generated feature point pairs, where a position of the second feature point in the detected feature point pair is located within a predetermined region. A region including first feature points of the first image is extracted, where in the extracted region, detection counts of the feature point pairs exceed a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Etsuro Wada