Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Ooban

Hideyuki Ooban 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: 9782072
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures an image of a subject's eye is provided. The apparatus includes a focusing unit configured to focus light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of a first wavelength, onto an imaging unit, and a moving unit configured to move the focusing unit based on an optical path length difference between the light of the first wavelength and the light of a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength when light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of the second wavelength is focused onto the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ooban, Yasuhiro Nakahara, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20160228002
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures an image of a subject's eye is provided. The apparatus includes a focusing unit configured to focus light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of a first wavelength, onto an imaging unit, and a moving unit configured to move the focusing unit based on an optical path length difference between the light of the first wavelength and the light of a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength when light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of the second wavelength is focused onto the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ooban, Yasuhiro Nakahara, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 9332906
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures an image of a subject's eye is provided. The apparatus includes a focusing unit configured to focus light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of a first wavelength, onto an imaging unit, and a moving unit configured to move the focusing unit based on an optical path length difference between the light of the first wavelength and the light of a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength when light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of the second wavelength is focused onto the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ooban, Yasuhiro Nakahara, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 8585203
    Abstract: When an observation state by an infrared LED 10 is changed to a photographing state by a xenon lamp 3, a movable mirror 16 is pulled upward and an optical path is switched to an image sensor 17 side. A light guide 22a is shifted by an alignment index drive motor 23 so that an incident portion of an alignment index is shifted from a visible LED 22b to direct to an infrared LED 22c. An outgoing portion of the light guide 22a is set at a position where an image is formed on the image sensor 17 by a wavelength of the infrared LED 22c when an operation distance is appropriate. While changing a luminescent color, a position of a luminescent point of the alignment index is changed by switching the LED by the shift of the light guide 22a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Aikawa, Hideyuki Ooban, Tomoyuki Iwanaga, Toshifumi Masaki
  • Patent number: 8449115
    Abstract: An opthalmologic apparatus changes the wavelength of index light, which is projected on an eye to be examined, by selecting the light emission of a visible LED and an infrared LED, and changes the position of a split unit along an optical axis based on the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Aikawa, Hideyuki Ooban, Tomoyuki Iwanaga
  • Publication number: 20120057128
    Abstract: When an observation state by an infrared LED 10 is changed to a photographing state by a xenon lamp 3, a movable mirror 16 is pulled upward and an optical path is switched to an image sensor 17 side. A light guide 22a is shifted by an alignment index drive motor 23 so that an incident portion of an alignment index is shifted from a visible LED 22b to direct to an infrared LED 22c. An outgoing portion of the light guide 22a is set at a position where an image is formed on the image sensor 17 by a wavelength of the infrared LED 22c when an operation distance is appropriate. While changing a luminescent color, a position of a luminescent point of the alignment index is changed by switching the LED by the shift of the light guide 22a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Aikawa, Hideyuki Ooban, Tomoyuki Iwanaga, Toshifumi Masaki
  • Publication number: 20110170063
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures an image of a subject's eye is provided. The apparatus includes a focusing unit configured to focus light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of a first wavelength, onto an imaging unit, and a moving unit configured to move the focusing unit based on an optical path length difference between the light of the first wavelength and the light of a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength when light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of the second wavelength is focused onto the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ooban, Yasuhiro Nakahara, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20100123872
    Abstract: An opthalmologic apparatus changes the wavelength of index light, which is projected on an eye to be examined, by selecting the light emission of a visible LED and an infrared LED, and changes the position of a split unit along an optical axis based on the selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Aikawa, Hideyuki Ooban, Tomoyuki Iwanaga