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).

  • Publication number: 20260060542
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a transformation unit configured to transform a first region and a second region in a fundus image so that an angle formed between a first straight line and a second straight line approaches 180 degrees, the first and second regions being defined by the first straight line and the second straight line, the second region being larger than the first region, the first straight line passing through a first feature portion related to a macula in the fundus image and being located on a temporal side, the second straight line passing through the first feature portion and a second feature portion related to an optic disc in the fundus image and being located on a nasal side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2025
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Inventors: ETSURO WADA, YOSHIHIKO IWASE, TSUKASA SAKO
  • Publication number: 20250113995
    Abstract: One of information processing apparatuses according to the technique disclosed herein includes an examination unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The examination unit is configured to examine an eye of an examinee. The storage unit is configured to store a plurality of examination protocols, each of the plurality of examination protocols including a plurality of examinations. The control unit is configured to control a display unit such that information that represents a plurality of examinations included in each of at least two examination protocols among the plurality of examination protocols stored is displayed on a protocol-by-protocol basis for the at least two examination protocols, and is configured to control the examination unit in accordance with one examination protocol selected according to an instruction given from an examiner from among the at least two examination protocols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: YOSHIHIKO IWASE, ETSURO WADA, HIROKI UCHIDA, RIUMA TAKAHASHI
  • 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