Patents by Inventor Masashi Kotoku

Masashi Kotoku 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: 20210065370
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors and a memory storing instructions which cause the information processing apparatus to: acquire a first image including at least a portion of an inspection device, and a second image including at least a portion of a subject; predict, as a first prediction, a position of the inspection device based on the first image; predict, as a second prediction, position/orientation information regarding the subject based on the second image. The instructions cause the apparatus to identify an inspection part of the subject based on the first prediction and the second prediction. Based on a learning model trained in advance using a plurality of images, the second prediction is performed and a result of the second prediction is an output of the position/orientation information regarding the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Jun Odagiri
  • Patent number: 10769789
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an information obtaining unit configured to obtain three-dimensional polarization sensitive tomographic information and three-dimensional motion contrast information about a subject based on tomographic signals of lights having different polarizations, the lights being obtained by splitting a combined light obtained by combining a returned light from the subject illuminated with a measurement light with a reference light corresponding to the measurement light, an obtaining unit configured to obtain a lesion region of the subject using the three-dimensional polarization sensitive tomographic information, and an image generation unit configured to generate an image in which the lesion region is superimposed on a motion contrast image generated using the three-dimensional motion contrast information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Yoshihiko Iwase, Makoto Sato
  • Patent number: 10470653
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a tomographic signal obtaining unit that obtains tomographic signals of light beams, the light beams respectively having a different polarization from each other and being obtained by splitting combined light obtained by combining return light and reference light, the return light being from an object to be inspected that is irradiated with measuring light, and an information obtaining unit that obtains three-dimensional polarization tomographic information, and three-dimensional motion contrast information of the object to be inspected, by commonly using at least one of the obtained tomographic signals. In addition, an extracting unit extracts a specific region of the object to be inspected using the obtained three-dimensional polarization tomographic information, and an image generating unit generates a motion contrast enface image of the extracted specific region using the obtained three-dimensional motion contrast information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isao Komine, Masashi Kotoku, Nobuhiro Tomatsu, Yukio Sakagawa, Tomoyuki Makihira
  • Patent number: 10123698
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate 3D blood vessel data indicating a blood vessel in a fundus based on a plurality of tomographic image data indicating cross sections of the fundus, a boundary obtaining unit configured to obtain layer boundary data indicating at least one layer boundary based on 3D tomographic image data including the plurality of tomographic image data indicating the cross sections of the fundus, and a determination unit configured to determine a blood vessel intersecting with the layer boundary by comparing the 3D blood vessel data with the layer boundary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Nobuhiro Tomatsu
  • Publication number: 20170316567
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an information obtaining unit configured to obtain three-dimensional polarization sensitive tomographic information and three-dimensional motion contrast information about a subject based on tomographic signals of lights having different polarizations, the lights being obtained by splitting a combined light obtained by combining a returned light from the subject illuminated with a measurement light with a reference light corresponding to the measurement light, an obtaining unit configured to obtain a lesion region of the subject using the three-dimensional polarization sensitive tomographic information, and an image generation unit configured to generate an image in which the lesion region is superimposed on a motion contrast image generated using the three-dimensional motion contrast information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Yoshihiko Iwase, Makoto Sato
  • Publication number: 20170231484
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus, including: an information acquiring unit configured to acquire three-dimensional polarization tomographic information and three-dimensional motion contrast information of an object to be inspected using tomographic signals of light beams having polarizations different from each other, which are obtained by splitting combined light obtained by combining return light from the object to be inspected irradiated with measuring light and reference light corresponding to the measuring light; an extracting unit configured to extract a specific region of the object to be inspected using the three-dimensional polarization tomographic information; and an image generating unit configured to generate a motion contrast enface image of the extracted specific region using the three-dimensional motion contrast information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Isao Komine, Masashi Kotoku, Nobuhiro Tomatsu, Yukio Sakagawa, Tomoyuki Makihira
  • Publication number: 20170055830
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate 3D blood vessel data indicating a blood vessel in a fundus based on a plurality of tomographic image data indicating cross sections of the fundus, a boundary obtaining unit configured to obtain layer boundary data indicating at least one layer boundary based on 3D tomographic image data including the plurality of tomographic image data indicating the cross sections of the fundus, and a determination unit configured to determine a blood vessel intersecting with the layer boundary by comparing the 3D blood vessel data with the layer boundary data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Nobuhiro Tomatsu
  • Publication number: 20170025292
    Abstract: Provided is a lithography apparatus that performs a patterning on a substrate. The lithography apparatus includes a processor configured to perform processing of assigning, to each of a plurality of substrates sequentially carried in from a first external apparatus, order information indicating an carrying-in order of the plurality of substrates; a plurality of units configured to respectively perform patternings of the plurality of substrates in parallel; and a transmitting device configured to transmit, to a second external apparatus, the order information corresponding to a substrate, of the plurality of substrates, carried out after being patterned thereon by one of the plurality of units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Kuniyasu Haginiwa
  • Publication number: 20150364298
    Abstract: There is provided a lithography apparatus advantageous in a process on a substrate, on which patterning has been performed thereby, that an external apparatus performs (in a succeeding step). The apparatus includes a controller and a transmitter. The controller extracts log information to be transmitted to the external apparatus that performs a process on the substrate, on which the patterning has been performed, among log information associated with the patterning. The transmitter transmits the extracted log information to the external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Kuniyasu Haginiwa
  • Publication number: 20140347643
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithography apparatus which forms a pattern on a substrate, the apparatus including a first dosing device configured to apply a first dose to the substrate based on data corresponding to the pattern, an acquiring device configured to acquire information of an error of a dimension of a pattern formed on the substrate via application of the first dose thereto, and a second dosing device configured to apply a second dose to the substrate based on the acquired information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi KOTOKU, Tomoyuki MIYASHITA, Hiromi KINEBUCHI
  • Patent number: 8779396
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drawing apparatus which performs drawing on a substrate with a charged particle beam based on drawing data generated from pattern data representing a circuit pattern to be drawn on the substrate, and mark data representing a mark to be drawn on the substrate, the apparatus including an obtaining unit configured to obtain information associated with a positioning accuracy of the charged particle beam relative to the substrate, a determination unit configured to determine a drawing region for the mark based on the obtained information, and a generation unit configured to generate the drawing data by combining the pattern data and the mark data such that the mark is drawn in the determined drawing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Kuniyasu Haginiwa
  • Publication number: 20090147364
    Abstract: An exposure mirror includes a substrate and an effective region for EUV light including an aperiodic multilayer film formed on the substrate. The exposure mirror is provided with a first evaluation region composed of a periodic multilayer film formed in a region different from the effective region on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Kotoku, Jun Ito, Fumitaro Masaki, Akira Miyake, Seiken Matsumoto