Patents by Inventor Masaaki Hanebuchi
Masaaki Hanebuchi 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).
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Patent number: 9351638Abstract: A hand-held ophthalmological device includes: a main unit having an ophthalmoscopic optical system configured to project ophthalmoscopic light to an examinee's eye and receive reflection light therefrom to examine or measure an examinee's eye; a detector placed in the main unit and configured to detect a relative deviation between an optical axis of the ophthalmoscopic optical system and the examinee's eye; a deviation compensating optical system placed as a part of the ophthalmoscopic optical system and configured to compensate the deviation; and a drive part configured to drive the deviation compensating optical system based on output from the detector.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaaki Hanebuchi
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FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS WITH WAVEFRONT COMPENSATION AND METHOD FOR PHOTOGRAPHING FUNDUS IMAGE
Publication number: 20160089016Abstract: A method for photographing a fundus image includes: acquiring photographing condition data on a first captured image being a cell image of a fundus as reference data for follow-up image capture related to the cell image, and storing the photographing condition data; and selecting, based on an operation input from an examiner, reference data for the follow-up image capture from one or more pieces of the reference data stored in advance, and reproducing a photographing condition in accordance with the selected reference data to newly acquire the cell image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Naohisa SHIBATA, Yuji YAMAZAKI, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Yuki YOSHIHARA -
Publication number: 20160038023Abstract: The present invention relates to an ophthalmologic apparatus for acquiring depth information of an eye including a light source; a measurement optical path guiding measurement light; a reference optical path generating reference light; and a detector generating a detection signal containing an interference signal of the measurement light via the measurement optical path and the reference light coming from the reference optical path; an actuator driving at least part of the interference optical system to vary an optical path length difference between the measurement optical path and the reference optical path; a standard optical system including optical members disposed corresponding to the optical path length differences in one of the measurement optical path and the reference optical path. Optical members guide part of the measurement light or the reference light to the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Masakazu ENDO, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Yasuhiro FURUUCHI
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Publication number: 20150374228Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical coherence tomography (OCT) including: an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling correlation between images to be easily performed; more specifically it relates to a case where a functional OCT image such as a motion contrast is acquired by using the OCT; acquiring the functional OCT image through a calculation process of an OCT signal is a time-consuming process, for this reason, a long time elapses until the point that a functional OCT image can be observed after OCT imaging is completed, and thus this causes stress to a subject and an examiner; the present disclosure provides an OCT device, an OCT calculation method, and an OCT calculation program, enabling a functional OCT image to be rapidly acquired and enables an examiner to easily perform diagnosis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Norimasa SATAKE, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Yuji MURASE, Yasuhiro FURUUCHI, Hajime NAMIKI, Naoki ISOGAI, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Naoki TAKENO
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Publication number: 20150335479Abstract: An ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus includes an irradiation optical system and including an objective lens, and treats a patient's eye by using a laser beam. The ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus includes a delivery unit that includes an irradiation end unit, includes at least a portion of the irradiation optical system, and optically guides the laser beam, a first movement unit that includes a first drive section and integrally moves the irradiation end unit and an eyeball fixing unit which is connected to the delivery unit and fixes the patient's eye, a second movement unit that includes a second drive section and moves the eyeball fixing unit by driving the second drive section, and drive control means for controlling driving of the first drive section and driving of the second drive section, and individually moving the first movement unit and the second movement unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Takayoshi SHIBATA, Masakazu ENDO, Tomohiro MIYAGI, Michihiro TAKII, Masaaki HANEBUCHI
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Publication number: 20150327762Abstract: A method of observing a three-dimensional image of an examinee's eye to be examined, includes: obtaining a first three-dimensional image which is a three-dimensional image of an anterior segment of the examinee's eye by optical coherence tomography for obtaining a tomographic image by converging a measurement light on the anterior segment of the examinee's eye; obtaining a second three-dimensional image which is a three-dimensional image of a fundus of the examinee's eye by optical coherence tomography for obtaining a tomographic image by converging the measurement light on the fundus of the examinee's eye by a timing different from a timing of obtaining the first three-dimensional image; constructing a three-dimensional eyeball image of the examinee's eye through image processing based on the obtained first and second three-dimensional images; and displaying the constructed three-dimensional eyeball image on a monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Naoki ISOGAI, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Toshio MURATA
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Patent number: 9138138Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes: an input unit configured to obtain corneal incision information that is information on a corneal incision to be formed on a cornea of an examinee's eye; an imaging device configured to image an examinee's eye image; and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate first wavefront aberration distribution that is wavefront aberration distribution of the cornea before incision on the examinee's eye based on the examinee's eye image, obtain incision aberration information corresponding to the corneal incision information; calculate second wavefront aberration distribution that is wavefront aberration distribution after formation of the incision based on the first wavefront aberration distribution and the incision aberration information, and output guide information that guides an intraocular lens surgery based on the second wavefront aberration distribution.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Hanebuchi, Michihiro Takii, Masakazu Endo
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Patent number: 9125593Abstract: A method of observing a three-dimensional image of an examinee's eye to be examined, includes: obtaining a first three-dimensional image which is a three-dimensional image of an anterior segment of the examinee's eye by optical coherence tomography for obtaining a tomographic image by converging a measurement light on the anterior segment of the examinee's eye; obtaining a second three-dimensional image which is a three-dimensional image of a fundus of the examinee's eye by optical coherence tomography for obtaining a tomographic image by converging the measurement light on the fundus of the examinee's eye by a timing different from a timing of obtaining the first three-dimensional image; constructing a three-dimensional eyeball image of the examinee's eye through image processing based on the obtained first and second three-dimensional images; and displaying the constructed three-dimensional eyeball image on a monitor.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Isogai, Masaaki Hanebuchi, Toshio Murata
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Patent number: 9101300Abstract: An intraocular lens power determination apparatus for determining a highly precise IOL power, the apparatus including: an anterior segment imaging device for obtaining a cross-sectional image of an anterior segment by detecting reflection from the anterior segment of an examinee's eye; and a power calculation unit obtaining an offset distance from a front surface of a lens to a point of contact of a Zinn's zonule with the lens based on the anterior segment cross-sectional image obtained by the anterior segment imaging device and calculating a prospective postoperative anterior chamber depth by adding the offset distance to an anterior chamber depth of an eye so that the IOL power is calculated by using the prospective postoperative anterior chamber depth.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Masakazu Endo, Masaaki Hanebuchi
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Publication number: 20150182380Abstract: An ophthalmic laser surgery apparatus for treating an eye of a patient includes: a laser light source configured to emit the pulse laser light; an objective lens configured to condense the pulse laser light emitted from the laser light source on the tissue to cause a photodistuption of the tissue; a scanner configured to scan a condensing position of the pulse laser light condensed by the objective lens; and a controller configured to control the scanner to adjust speed of scanning the condensing position depending on a size of the photodisruption which fluctuates in according to an aberration which fluctuates according to a change in the condensing position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro MIYAGI, Takayoshi SHIBATA, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Naho MURAKAMI, Shinya IWATA
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Publication number: 20150168127Abstract: There is provided an optical coherence tomography device provided with: an OCT optical system configured to output OCT signal; and an analysis processing unit configured to process the OCT signal and generate motion contrast data of the specimen. The analysis processing unit is provided with: a first image data generation unit configured to process multiple OCT signals to generate first image data representing phase difference information of the multiple OCT signals, and a second image data generation unit configured to process the OCT signal to generate second image data representing amplitude information of the OCT signal. The analysis processing unit generates the motion contrast data based on the phase difference information in the first image data and the amplitude information in the second image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki TAKENO, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Yasuhiro FURUUCHI, Hajime NAMIKI
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Patent number: 9058652Abstract: A method for reducing noise in a tomographic image, includes: acquiring phase information of a noise component signal, the signal being provided as a signal corresponding to a noise component of the tomographic image and included in a spectrum interference signal output from a detector of a swept source optical coherence tomography device; acquiring a tomographic image in response to a spectrum interference signal with a corrected phase deviation based on the acquired phase information; and reducing the noise component of this tomographic image.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Hanebuchi, Norimasa Satake, Yasuhiro Furuuchi, Hajime Namiki
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Publication number: 20150094978Abstract: An optical coherence tomography device includes an SS-OCT optical system which includes a wavelength swept optical source which sweeps an emission wavelength, an optical splitter which splits an interference signal light caused by interference between a measurement light and a reference light into a first interference signal light and a second interference signal light having a phase difference from the first interference signal light, a balance detector which includes a first detector configured to detect the first interference signal light and a second detector configured to detect the second interference signal light, and which processes detection signals from the first and second detectors to perform balance detection, and an optical member which is disposed between the optical splitter and one of the first detector and the second detector to generate a fixed pattern noise by one of the first interference signal light and the second interference signal light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Yasuhiro FURUUCHI
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Publication number: 20150051591Abstract: An ophthalmic laser surgical apparatus includes an XY scan unit, a light guiding optical element, an objective lens, and a Z scan unit. The XY scan unit includes a deflecting device for deflecting the pulsed laser beam, and scans the pulsed laser beam in a direction crossing an optical axis. The light guiding optical element is provided downstream of the deflecting device on the optical path of the pulsed laser beam. The light guiding optical element has refractive power, and guides the pulsed laser beam. The objective lens causes the pulsed laser beam through the XY scan unit and the light guiding optical element to converge in a tissue of a patient's eye. The Z scan unit varies the optical path length between the light guiding optical element and the objective lens while the objective lens is fixed in position on the optical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Naho MURAKAMI, Takayoshi SHIBATA, Shinya IWATA
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Publication number: 20150002812Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an analyzer configured to process a plurality of examinee's eye images taken from a same examinee's eye, at least a part of the examinee's eye images being overlapped with each other, and output an analysis result of a cell of the examinee's eye for each of the examinee's eye images; and an instruction receiving unit configured to receive an instruction regarding a target to be analyzed by the analyzer in the plurality of examinee's eye images from an examiner, wherein the analyzer outputs the analysis results in which the instruction received by the instruction receiving unit is reflected for each of the plurality of examinee's eye images.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Yuki YOSHIHARA, Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Naohisa SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20140375952Abstract: A hand-held ophthalmological device includes: a main unit having an ophthalmoscopic optical system configured to project ophthalmoscopic light to an examinee's eye and receive reflection light therefrom to examine or measure an examinee's eye; a detector placed in the main unit and configured to detect a relative deviation between an optical axis of the ophthalmoscopic optical system and the examinee's eye; a deviation compensating optical system placed as a part of the ophthalmoscopic optical system and configured to compensate the deviation; and a drive part configured to drive the deviation compensating optical system based on output from the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2011Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaaki Hanebuchi
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Patent number: 8801178Abstract: A fundus photographing apparatus includes a wavefront detecting optical system having a wavefront sensor for receiving reflection light from a fundus and measuring wavefront aberration of an eye, a wavefront compensating device for compensating the wavefront aberration, and a deviation detecting part for detecting deviation information corresponding to deviation between an effective region in which aberration compensation by the wavefront compensating device is effective, and a wavefront measuring region in which the wavefront aberration is measured by the wavefront detecting optical system, with respect to a direction perpendicular to an optical axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Mukai, Yoshihiko Yamada, Masaaki Hanebuchi
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Patent number: 8777410Abstract: A fundus photographing apparatus with wavefront compensation, includes: a fundus photographing optical system for capturing a fundus image by receiving a reflected light from fundus of an examinee's eye; a wavefront compensation device placed in an optical path of the fundus photographing optical system to compensate a wavefront aberration of the examinee's eye by controlling an incident light wavefront; a wavefront aberration detection optical system for projecting a measurement light on the fundus of the examinee's eye to detect a reflected light of the measurement light from the fundus using a wavefront sensor; and a controller for controlling an effective region formed on the wavefront compensation device so as to correct a difference between the effective region formed on the wavefront compensation device where an aberration correction control is effective and a wavefront measurement region of the wavefront aberration detection optical system where the wavefront aberration is measured.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaaki Hanebuchi
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Patent number: 8696125Abstract: An eye refractive power measurement apparatus includes: a measuring optical system for projecting measurement light onto a fundus of an examinee's eye, and causing a two-dimensional imaging device to capture the measurement light to be reflected from the fundus as a plurality of target pattern images at different distances from a measurement optical axis; a light deflecting member arranged at a position out of a conjugate position with a pupil of the examinee's eye on an optical path of the measuring optical system; a rotor for rotating the light deflecting member about an optical axis of the measuring optical system to allow a plurality of pattern light beams to be eccentrically rotated on the pupil; and a calculator for measuring an eye refractive power of the examinee's eye based on a target pattern image to be captured by the two-dimensional imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Hamaguchi, Mitsuhiro Gono, Masaaki Hanebuchi, Hisashi Ochi
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Publication number: 20130338649Abstract: An ophthalmic laser surgical apparatus includes: a laser irradiation optical system configured to irradiate a patient's eye with surgical laser; a fixation unit configured to fix the patient's eye on the laser irradiation optical system; an interface unit including an optical member configured to cover at least the cornea of the patient's eye; a tomography unit configured to capture a tomographic image of the anterior segment of the patient's eye; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor a position of the fixation unit and/or the interface unit with respect to the patient's eye based on the tomographic image captured by the tomography unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki HANEBUCHI, Masaki TANAKA