Patents by Inventor Masahiro Ohishi
Masahiro Ohishi 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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Publication number: 20240087594Abstract: Provided is a technique for accurately estimating a scene even when the number of input signals increases. A scene estimation method includes: when S is the number of scenes and M is the number of input acoustic signals, an acoustic signal encoding step of generating, by a scene estimation device, an integrated acoustic feature amount from an m-th input acoustic signal (m=1, . . . , M) and a position where the m-th input acoustic signal is acquired (hereinafter referred to as an m-th input acoustic signal acquisition position) (m=1, . . . , M); and a scene selection step of selecting, by the scene estimation device, a scene from which M input acoustic signals are acquired from among S scenes, using the integrated acoustic feature amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro YASUDA, Yasunori OHISHI, Shoichiro SAITO
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Publication number: 20230349695Abstract: In a surveying instrument including an instrument height measuring unit the instrument height measuring unit includes a light transmitting unit configured to emit light, a beam splitter configured to be incident with light emitted from the light transmitting unit, split the incident light into reference light and distance-measuring light, send the reference light to a reference light path, and send the distance-measuring light to a distance-measuring light path, a first light receiving unit configured to receive the reference light, a second light receiving unit configured to receive light being the distance-measuring light that has been emitted toward a position below the vertical axis of the surveying instrument main body and returned by being reflected by a distance-measuring object, and an arithmetic unit configured to calculate the instrument height based on a difference between light reception signals generated by the first light receiving unit and the second light receiving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Masaho KIKUCHI, Masahiro OHISHI
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Patent number: 10732267Abstract: An electro-optical distance meter comprises a light source for emitting a distance measuring light, a distance measuring optical system for leading a distance measuring light to a photodetector, an internal reference optical system for leading a part of the distance measuring light as an internal reference light to the photodetector, and an arithmetic processing unit for performing a distance measurement based on light receiving results of the distance measuring light and the internal reference light, wherein the internal reference optical system comprises a condenser lens, a scattering plate for scattering the internal reference light and for forming a secondary light source, and an optical fiber for leading the internal reference light to the photodetector and the internal reference optical system is constituted in such a manner that a light component of the internal reference light emitted from an arbitrary point within a whole surface of the secondary light source enters the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Akinobu Sugiura, Masahiro Ohishi
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Patent number: 10663296Abstract: Provided is a surveying instrument including a light emitting section for emitting distance measuring light having an intensity distribution in which an intensity is high at the center and it became lower as approaching the periphery, a light receiving section for receiving the distance measuring light via a measurement object; and a distance-measurement optical system for guiding the light to the light receiving section via the measurement object. The surveying instrument performs a prism-mode and non-prism-mode measurements. The optical system includes an aperture diaphragm arranged in a distance-measurement optical path during the prism-mode-measurement. An opening of the aperture diaphragm has widths of greater than 0 and not greater than 0.5 times the full width at half maximum of the intensity distribution in a cross-section of non-prism-distance-measurement beam in the horizontal and vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Akinobu Sugiura, Masahiro Ohishi
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Publication number: 20180245917Abstract: Provided is a surveying instrument including a light emitting section for emitting distance measuring light having an intensity distribution in which an intensity is high at the center and it became lower as approaching the periphery, a light receiving section for receiving the distance measuring light via a measurement object; and a distance-measurement optical system for guiding the light to the light receiving section via the measurement object. The surveying instrument performs a prism-mode and non-prism-mode measurements. The optical system includes an aperture diaphragm arranged in a distance-measurement optical path during the prism-mode-measurement. An opening of the aperture diaphragm has widths of greater than 0 and not greater than 0.5 times the full width at half maximum of the intensity distribution in a cross-section of non-prism-distance-measurement beam in the horizontal and vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Akinobu SUGIURA, Masahiro OHISHI
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Publication number: 20180011177Abstract: An electro-optical distance meter comprises a light source for emitting a distance measuring light, a distance measuring optical system for leading a distance measuring light to a photodetector, an internal reference optical system for leading a part of the distance measuring light as an internal reference light to the photodetector, and an arithmetic processing unit for performing a distance measurement based on light receiving results of the distance measuring light and the internal reference light, wherein the internal reference optical system comprises a condenser lens, a scattering plate for scattering the internal reference light and for forming a secondary light source, and an optical fiber for leading the internal reference light to the photodetector and the internal reference optical system is constituted in such a manner that a light component of the internal reference light emitted from an arbitrary point within a whole surface of the secondary light source enters the optical fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Akinobu Sugiura, Masahiro Ohishi
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Patent number: 9161691Abstract: Provided is a scanning laser ophthalmoscope capable of accurately superposing multiple photographed images. The scanning laser ophthalmoscope comprises an image generating unit that generates first images based on the light reflected from first laser light and second images based on the light reflected from second laser light. An associating unit associates the first images and the second images based on the first laser light and the second laser light parallelly scanned by the scanning unit. A displacement calculating unit calculates displacements between images regarding multiple first images. The position matching unit matches the positions of multiple second images based on the processing results from the associating unit and the displacements. The superposing unit superposes the multiple second images that have undergone the position matching. The display unit displays an image obtained by superposing the multiple second images.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCONInventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Hitoshi Shimizu
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Patent number: 8781780Abstract: The present invention provides an electro-optical distance measurement, wherein a light from a light source (6) is projected toward an object to be measured (2), a reflection light reflected by the object to be measured is received at a photodetection unit (8), the light from the light source is received by the photodetection unit as an inner light via an inner optical path (11), and a distance to the object to be measured is measured according to the result of photodetection of the reflection light and the inner light of the photodetection unit, and wherein a correction information is acquired based on the inner light, the acquired correction information is stored, a correction value is obtained from the correction information based on the reflection light and the inner light, and a distance is calculated from the correction value and the result of photodetection of the reflection light and the inner light.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCONInventors: Mitsuru Kanokogi, Masahiro Ohishi
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Patent number: 8610880Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus and method that enable high-precision and high-speed measurement by canceling variations of a delay circuit in the apparatus are provided. Pulsed light is branched into first and second reference light, and transmitted measurement light, and the difference in detection time among the first reference light along a first path with no optical variations, the second reference light along a second path with an optical delay, and received measurement light from an object to be measured is measured. The received measurement light and the first reference light are temporally separate, distance is calculated from the difference in detection time between the received measurement light and the first reference light.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Topcon CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Yoshikatsu Tokuda
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Publication number: 20130242261Abstract: Provided is a scanning laser ophthalmoscope capable of accurately superposing multiple photographed images. The scanning laser ophthalmoscope comprises an image generating unit that generates first images based on the light reflected from first laser light and second images based on the light reflected from second laser light. An associating unit associates the first images and the second images based on the first laser light and the second laser light parallelly scanned by the scanning unit. A displacement calculating unit calculates displacements between images regarding multiple first images. The position matching unit matches the positions of multiple second images based on the processing results from the associating unit and the displacements. The superposing unit superposes the multiple second images that have undergone the position matching. The display unit displays an image obtained by superposing the multiple second images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCONInventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Hitoshi Shimizu
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Patent number: 8179522Abstract: A distance measuring device measures a distance from a phase difference of beaten down processing signals even when fluctuations occur in a frequency of an oscillator. The distance measuring device includes a laser unit, a dividing device, a reference light receiving unit, and a measuring light receiving unit. The distance measuring device further includes an oscillator, a first mixer, a second mixer, a fourth filter, a fifth filter, a third mixer, a sixth filter, a second filter, a phase difference measuring unit, and a distance measuring unit. The phase difference measuring unit measures a phase difference of the two beat signals extracted by the sixth filter and the second filter. The distance measuring unit measures a distance based on the phase difference measured by the phase difference measuring unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TopconInventors: Isao Minegishi, Masahiro Ohishi, Naoto Miki, Yuichi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20120033197Abstract: A distance measuring device measures a distance from a phase difference of beaten down processing signals even when fluctuations occur in a frequency of an oscillator. The distance measuring device includes a laser unit, a dividing device, a reference light receiving unit, and a measuring light receiving unit. The distance measuring device further includes an oscillator, a first mixer, a second mixer, a fourth filter, a fifth filter, a third mixer, a sixth filter, a second filter, a phase difference measuring unit, and a distance measuring unit. The phase difference measuring unit measures a phase difference of the two beat signals extracted by the sixth filter and the second filter. The distance measuring unit measures a distance based on the phase difference measured by the phase difference measuring unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Isao Minegishi, Masahiro Ohishi, Naoto Miki, Yuichi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20110310377Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus and a distance measuring method that enable high-precision and high-speed measurement by canceling variations of a delay circuit in the distance measuring apparatus are provided. In the apparatus and the method, light emitted by a light source section 10 in a pulsed manner is branched into first reference light r1, second reference light r2, and transmitted measurement light mt, and the difference in detection time among the first reference light r1 having propagated through a first reference light path R1 which causes substantially no optical variations, the second reference light r2 having propagated through a second reference light path in which an optical delay generating section 50 is inserted, and received measurement light mr returning from an object to be measured 160 as a result of radiating the transmitted measurement light to the object to be measured 160 is measured to measure the distance from the object to be measured 160.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2009Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Yoshikatsu Tokuda
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Publication number: 20110270563Abstract: The present invention provides an electro-optical distance measurement, wherein a light from a light source (6) is projected toward an object to be measured (2), a reflection light reflected by the object to be measured is received at a photodetection unit (8), the light from the light source is received by the photodetection unit as an inner light via an inner optical path (11), and a distance to the object to be measured is measured according to the result of photodetection of the reflection light and the inner light of the photodetection unit, and wherein a correction information is acquired based on the inner light, the acquired correction information is stored, a correction value is obtained from the correction information based on the reflection light and the inner light, and a distance is calculated from the correction value and the result of photodetection of the reflection light and the inner light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCONInventors: Mitsuru Kanokogi, Masahiro Ohishi
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Patent number: 7945821Abstract: In measuring a certain time lag between generations of two pulse signals, a time lag measuring device prevents errors in measurement results even with an error in two reference signals for measuring the time lag. The device measures a time lag between a start signal M1 and a stop signal M2 and includes a reference signal generating section 41 generating two reference signals S1, S2 having a phase difference ?/2, and an amplitude detecting section 42 detects amplitudes A11, A12 and A21, A22 of the reference signals S1, S2 at generation timings for the start signal M1 and the stop signal M2, a phase difference detecting section 43 calculating a phase _ of the reference signals S according to each set of the amplitudes (A11, A12) and (A21, A22), and a correcting section 46 correcting the calculated phase using correction data for error correction in the reference signals S1, S2.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCONInventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Yoshikatsu Tokuda, Fumio Ohtomo
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Patent number: 7903235Abstract: A surveying instrument and a surveying method for further minimizing a measurement error when the surveying instrument casts a light to a measuring object and receives the reflected light and measures a delay time or a distance. A reference pulse light r and a measurement pulse light o1 are received as a received light signal by a light receiving section 9, and a damping signal S3U is formed from the received light signals r, o1, and an amplification rate of a minute level signal in the proximity of a zero cross point Q0 of the damping signal S3U is greatly amplified, and timing signals r?, o1? are formed by using an amplified signal. Therefore, the measurement error can be minimized.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Topcon CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Isao Minegishi
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Patent number: 7849371Abstract: In measuring a certain time lag between generations of two pulse signals, a time lag measuring device prevents errors in measurement results even with an error in two reference signals for measuring the time lag. The device measures a time lag between a start signal M1 and a stop signal M2 and includes a reference signal generating section 41 generating two reference signals S1, S2 having a phase difference ?/2, and an amplitude detecting section 42 detects amplitudes A11, A12 and A21, A22 of the reference signals S1, S2 at generation timings for the start signal M1 and the stop signal M2, a phase difference detecting section 43 calculating a phase _ of the reference signals S according to each set of the amplitudes (A11, A12) and (A21, A22), and a correcting section 46 correcting the calculated phase using correction data for error correction in the reference signals S1, S2.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TopconInventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Yoshikatsu Tokuda, Fumio Ohtomo
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Patent number: 7777865Abstract: A time difference measuring device can accurately measure a time difference between two pulse signals generated with a predetermined time difference by measuring the two pulse signals by one measurement. The time difference measuring device measures a time difference between a start signal (M1) and a stop signal (M2). The device has a reference signal generation unit (41) for generating two reference signals (S1, S2) having a ?/2 phase difference. According to corresponding amplitude values (A11, A12) and (A21, A22) of the reference signals (S1, S2) at each generation timing of the start signal (M1) and the stop signal (M2), a phase difference detection unit (42) calculates a phase difference ?? (=?stop??start) between the generation timings of the pulse signals (M1, M2). According to the detected phase difference ?? and the cycle (Ts) of the reference signals (S1; S2), a time difference calculation unit (44) calculates the generation time difference ?t between the pulse signals (m1, M2).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCONInventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Fumio Ohtomo
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Patent number: 7626686Abstract: To provide a surveying instrument for measuring difference in required time of light or distance to an object to be measured while covering a wide dynamic range without adjusting light amount. A light pulse emanating from a light emitting section 1 is divided into a reference light cast to a reference light path F1 and a measurement light cast to a measurement light path F2 through which the measurement light travels to and is reflected back from the object to be measured. These two light beams are received with a light receiving section 9. With a multiplex reflection optical fiber Mp1 interposed in the middle of the measurement light path F2, the measurement light comes out as a row of multiplex light pulses attenuating successively in light amount at a constant rate. From this row of pulses, a measurement light of approximately the same in received light level as the reference light may be selected.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Topcon CorporationInventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Yoshikatsu Tokuda
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Publication number: 20090268193Abstract: A surveying instrument and a surveying method for further minimizing a measurement error when the surveying instrument casts a light to a measuring object and receives the reflected light and measures a delay time or a distance. A reference pulse light r and a measurement pulse light o1 are received as a received light signal by a light receiving section 9, and a damping signal S3U is formed from the received light signals r, o1, and an amplification rate of a minute level signal in the proximity of a zero cross point Q0 of the damping signal S3U is greatly amplified, and timing signals r?, o1? are formed by using an amplified signal. Therefore, the measurement error can be minimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2006Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Masahiro Ohishi, Isao Minegishi