Patents by Inventor Katsuyasu Mizuno

Katsuyasu Mizuno 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: 20230034573
    Abstract: An eyeglasses lens measurement device measures an eyeglasses lens of eyeglasses. The eyeglasses lens measurement device includes a light source that emits a measurement light flux toward the eyeglasses lens, a transmissive display that transmits the measurement light flux from the light source and displays an index pattern formed by arranging a plurality of indexes, a detector that detects the measurement light flux passing through the eyeglasses lens and the transmissive display, and a controller. The controller is configured to control a display of the index pattern, acquire an optical characteristic of the eyeglasses lens, based on a detection result of the detector, and acquire lens information different from the optical characteristic of the eyeglasses lens, based on a detection result of the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyasu MIZUNO, Toshihiro KOBAYASHI, Yujiro TOCHIKUBO, Yuichi MATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 9398849
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: a light projecting optical system to project light to each point on a fundus of an examinee's eye; a light receiving optical system including a light receiving element to receive light from the fundus emitted from each point on the fundus resulting from the light projected from the light projecting optical system; and a controller for controlling the ophthalmic apparatus, wherein the controller is configured to: acquire intensity information representing intensity of the light from the fundus corresponding to each point on the fundus based on a result of received light of the light receiving element; and analyze a degree of opacity in an optic media of the examinee's eye based on the intensity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tokio Ueno, Katsuyasu Mizuno, Junichi Akita
  • Patent number: 8967807
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes: an illuminating optical system for irradiating an examinee's eye with illuminating light; an imaging optical system including an imaging device for receiving a reflected light flux from the eye, the imaging optical system having an imaging optical axis inclined with respect to an optical axis of the illuminating optical system; and a first optical member for reducing an imaging incidence angle, the imaging incidence angle being defined as an angle between a normal direction of an imaging surface of the imaging device and a principal ray of the reflected light flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyasu Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20140333896
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: a light projecting optical system to project light to each point on a fundus of an examinee's eye; a light receiving optical system including a light receiving element to receive light from the fundus emitted from each point on the fundus resulting from the light projected from the light projecting optical system; and a controller for controlling the ophthalmic apparatus, wherein the controller is configured to: acquire intensity information representing intensity of the light from the fundus corresponding to each point on the fundus based on a result of received light of the light receiving element; and analyze a degree of opacity in an optic media of the examinee's eye based on the intensity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tokio UENO, Katsuyasu MIZUNO, Junichi AKITA
  • Publication number: 20130321770
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus includes: an illuminating optical system for irradiating an examinee's eye with illuminating light; an imaging optical system including an imaging device for receiving a reflected light flux from the eye, the imaging optical system having an imaging optical axis inclined with respect to an optical axis of the illuminating optical system; and a first optical member for reducing an imaging incidence angle, the imaging incidence angle being defined as an angle between a normal direction of an imaging surface of the imaging device and a principal ray of the reflected light flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyasu MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 7416303
    Abstract: An ophthalmic observation apparatus for observing an object region to be observed of an examinee's eye, comprises: an illumination optical system which has a laser source, a polygon mirror, and a galvano mirror, and which irradiates the object region with a laser beam emitted from the laser source by scanning the laser beam in two dimensions by use of the polygon mirror and the galvano mirror; a photo-receiving optical system which has a beam splitter placed on an optical path between the eye and the polygon mirror, and a photo-receiving element placed in a conjugate position with a pupil of the eye, the photo-receiving element being arranged to receive the laser beam reflected from the object region via the beam splitter, not via the polygon mirror; and an image processing part which processes an output signal from the photo-receiving element in sync with scanning operations of the polygon mirror and the galvano mirror to generate an observation image of the object region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Nidek Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyasu Mizuno
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7192425
    Abstract: A laser treatment apparatus comprises: an optical guiding body which guides a treatment laser beam omitted from a laser source; an irradiation optical system for irradiating the treatment beam guided by the optical guiding body; a first beam splitter placed in the irradiation optical system to split the treatment beam guided thereto; a photo-detector which detects output of one of the split treatment beams; and a depolarizer placed in an optical path between the optical guiding body and the first beam splitter to spatially disturb a polarization state of the guided treatment beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: 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: 20060055885
    Abstract: An ophthalmic observation apparatus for observing an object region to be observed of an examinee's eye, comprises: an illumination optical system which has a laser source, a polygon mirror, and a galvano mirror, and which irradiates the object region with a laser beam emitted from the laser source by scanning the laser beam in two dimensions by use of the polygon mirror and the galvano mirror; a photo-receiving optical system which has a beam splitter placed on an optical path between the eye and the polygon mirror, and a photo-receiving element placed in a conjugate position with a pupil of the eye, the photo-receiving element being arranged to receive the laser beam reflected from the object region via the beam splitter, not via the polygon mirror; and an image processing part which processes an output signal from the photo-receiving element in sync with scanning operations of the polygon mirror and the galvano mirror to generate an observation image of the object region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: 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: 20050096641
    Abstract: A laser treatment apparatus comprises: an optical guiding body which guides a treatment laser beam omitted from a laser source; an irradiation optical system for irradiating the treatment beam guided by the optical guiding body; a first beam splitter placed in the irradiation optical system to split the treatment beam guided thereto; a photo-detector which detects output of one of the split treatment beams; and a depolarizer placed in an optical path between the optical guiding body and the first beam splitter to spatially disturb a polarization state of the guided treatment beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 6501552
    Abstract: An oblique incidence interferometer in which laser light from a laser light source is transmitted through a reference plane and is made incident upon a measurement surface from an oblique direction. The shape of the measurement surface is measured on the basis of interference fringes formed by reflected light reflected from the reference plane and reflected light reflected from the measurement surface. A deflecting element for deflecting the laser light emitted from the laser light source in order to decrease the coherence of the laser light is disposed in an optical path leading to the reference plane, the deflecting element being adapted to continuously change the direction of deflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 5734497
    Abstract: A confocal scanning microscope comprises rotational disk having numerous pinholes arranged at positions that are conjugate with respect to an object to be observed, illumination optical system for implementing the pinhole-illumination for the object to be observed through the rotational disk, and observation optical system for conducting a reflected light beam from the illuminated object to be observed through the rotational disk and focuses the light beam to form an image for observation at a position that is conjugate with respect to the rotational disk, wherein the pinholes of the rotational disk are in equiangular arrangement on a parabolic spiral. The number of loops M of the parabolic spiral and the number of equiangular divisions in one round of the parabolic spiral at which the pinholes are located have any of relations: M:N=1:2, 3:2, 5:2, . . . , (2i-1):2, where i is an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Nidek Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Yano, deceased, Katsuyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 5442487
    Abstract: A lens system disposed between the emitting area of a laser diode and a focal plane for focusing the output beam of the laser diode on the focal plane is disclosed, in which system, as regards a direction parallel to the lengthwise direction of the emitting area of the laser diode, the emitting area and the focal plane are conjugate, and a telescopic optical system is formed of the lens system to form a telescopic image indicative of the exit pupil of the lens system at an infinite distance and to make small the convergent angle of the laser beam incident on the focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 5226903
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing an ophthalmic operation on an eye by photocoagulation using a laser beam while allowing continuous observation of the eye to be treated, includes a light source for producing the laser beam, an observing system having a first inherent optical path including a slit-lamp microscope, a laser optical system having a second inherent optical path, means for transmitting the laser beam from the light source to the laser optical system, means for introducing the laser beam from the second optical path of the laser optical system to the first optical path of the observing system, a contact lens having predetermined characteristics positioned in front of and contacting the eye to be treated, first optical means provided in the first inherent optical path of the observing system for adjusting an objective plane observable from the slit-lamp microscope, means for shifting the objective plane to a desired position along the optical path while observing the objective plane, and second optical me
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyasu Mizuno