Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Yogo

Hirofumi Yogo 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: 20240108215
    Abstract: An OCT device includes a controller configured to: acquire OCT data of a tissue of a subject in a depth direction that is generated by processing interference signal detected by a light receiving element; and perform a correction process to reduce an effect by a noise floor in the OCT data using a plurality of correction amounts each of which is set in accordance with depth at a corresponding data acquisition position. Strength of the noise floor varies depending on the depth of the data acquisition position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ryosuke SHIBA, Hirofumi YOGO, Yukihiro HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11883100
    Abstract: Provided are ophthalmologic image processing method, including an acquisition step of acquiring OCT data of an eye to be examined based on a spectral interference signal output from an OCT optical system, a setting step of setting a depth region including an image position of a tissue as an extraction region for data on one-direction side from a zero delay position in the OCT data, and a display control step of extracting extracted OCT data corresponding to the extraction region from the OCT data and displaying the extracted OCT data in a display region set in advance on a monitor, and an OCT apparatus that executes the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Shiba, Yukihiro Higuchi, Shinya Iwata, Junpei Nishiyama, Hideki Aono, Hirofumi Yogo
  • Publication number: 20240008739
    Abstract: An OCT device includes an OCT optical system, a controller which acquires OCT data based on a signal from the OCT optical system and controls the OCT optical system to execute an OCT data acquisition operation, a light guide optical system, and an adjuster adjusting a three-dimensional position of the light guide optical system with respect to a subject eye. The light guide optical system includes an optical scanner scanning the subject eye with the measurement light, and an objective optical system which is disposed between the optical scanner and the subject eye and forms a pivot point around which the measurement light passing through the optical scanner is pivoted. The controller guides the three-dimensional position such that the pivot point is arranged at a target position set between the subject eye and the objective optical system, and further executes the OCT data acquisition operation at the target position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi YOGO, Seiji Masegi
  • Publication number: 20220313079
    Abstract: An OCT apparatus has a wavelength sweep light source changing a sweep frequency between a first sweep frequency and a second sweep frequency, an OCT optical system, an image processor, an FPN generation optical system generating a first FPN and a second FPN generated at a position separated from a zero delay position with respect to the first FPN, a detector, and a controller. The controller acquires first correction information based on the first FPN detected in a case of the first sweep frequency, and second correction information based on the second FPN detected in a case of the second sweep frequency. The controller applies the first correction information to an arithmetic process on a spectral interference signal obtained in the case of the first sweep frequency, and the second correction information to the arithmetic process on the spectral interference signal obtained in the case of the second sweep frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirofumi YOGO
  • Publication number: 20210093186
    Abstract: Provided are ophthalmologic image processing method, including an acquisition step of acquiring OCT data of an eye to be examined based on a spectral interference signal output from an OCT optical system, a setting step of setting a depth region including an image position of a tissue as an extraction region for data on one-direction side from a zero delay position in the OCT data, and a display control step of extracting extracted OCT data corresponding to the extraction region from the OCT data and displaying the extracted OCT data in a display region set in advance on a monitor, and an OCT apparatus that executes the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Shiba, Yukihiro Higuchi, Shinya Iwata, Junpei Nishiyama, Hideki Aono, Hirofumi Yogo