Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Yokota
Masayoshi Yokota 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: 20140071257Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion portion having an elongated shape, an imaging unit provided at a distal portion of the insertion portion and configured to acquire an image of a specimen, a lighting unit configured to illuminate an observation field of view of the imaging unit, and a pattern projector having a light source configured to emit projection light to project a light and dark pattern on the specimen. The pattern projector generates a region, in which the light and dark pattern is not projected, in at least one end of a direction in which stripes of the light and dark pattern are arranged in an imaging field of view of the imaging unit, in a state in which the light and dark pattern is projected on the specimen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventor: Masayoshi YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20140066784Abstract: An endoscope configured to measure a specimen using a pattern projection image of the specimen on which a light and shade pattern of light is projected, the endoscope may include: an insertion unit; an image capturing unit installed at a tip section of the insertion unit and configured to acquire an image of the specimen; an illumination unit having a first light source configured to emit illumination light to illuminate an observation field of vision of the image capturing unit; a pattern projection unit having a second light source configured to emit projection light to project the light and shade pattern on the specimen; and a control unit configured to control an operation of acquiring the image by the image capturing unit, an operation of emitting the illumination light from the illumination unit, and an operation of emitting the projection light from the pattern projection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Masayoshi YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20140052005Abstract: An endoscope apparatus and a measuring method measure a subject using a pattern projection image obtained by projecting a fringe pattern onto a subject. The endoscope apparatus includes an elongated insertion section, an imaging section at a tip portion of the insertion section to acquire the image of a subject, an illumination section at the tip portion of the insertion section to emit the illumination light that illuminates an observation visual field of the imaging section, and a pattern projection section at the tip portion of the insertion section to project a fringe pattern onto the subject. A tip surface of the insertion section includes an objective optical system that forms the image of the subject on the imaging section, one or more illumination windows through which illumination light is emitted, and one projection window through which a fringe pattern is projected onto the subject from the pattern projection section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventor: Masayoshi YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20140002630Abstract: An endoscopic apparatus includes an image generation unit generates an image including subject images, a display unit displays the image and a control unit controls measurement of a size of a subject based on the image, the control unit performs first processing of displaying a moving image including one subject image on the display unit, second processing of, after the first processing, displaying all of subject images used for the measurement or all of images based on one subject image used for the measurement on the display unit as still images, and third processing of, after the second processing, designating a measurement point based on an instruction of a user, and measuring the size of the subject at the designated measurement point based on either an image based on all of subject images used for the measurement or all of the plurality of images based on the one subject image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Masayoshi YOKOTA
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Patent number: 8531479Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an imaging portion imaging a subject to generate image data; a designation portion designating a position in an image based on the image data; an image processing portion processing the image data such that an enlarged image obtained by enlarging an image in a second region including the designated position overlaps a first region including the designated position designated by the designation portion; a display portion displaying the enlarged image and the image of the subject based on the image data processed by the image processing portion and displays a cursor at the designated position on the enlarged image; and a measurement processing portion performing measurement on the basis of a measurement position indicated by the cursor by using the image data generated by the imaging portion. The enlarged image displayed on the display portion moves according to movement of the cursor.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takahiro Doi, Saichi Sato, Masayoshi Yokota, Kiyotomi Ogawa, Sumito Nakano, Yuusuke Kuwa
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Publication number: 20120131667Abstract: A nondestructive testing apparatus includes a display section and a storage section which stores predetermined executable functions. Each of the predetermined functions is initially set to one of a permitted state and a disabled state, and one of a display state and a non-display state on the display section. In an initial state, at least one of the predetermined functions is set to the disabled state and the non-display state. The nondestructive testing apparatus can receive permission information which unlocks at least one of the predetermined functions initially set to the disabled state so as to be set to the permitted state, and unlocks at least one of the predetermined functions initially set in the non-display state so as to be in the display state. The apparatus displays an operation icon only with respect to all of the predetermined functions set to the display state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi YOKOTA, Sumito NAKANO
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Publication number: 20120062724Abstract: Provided is an endoscope apparatus for measuring a subject. The endoscope apparatus including: an elongated insertion unit; an image capturing unit being provided on a distal end part of the insertion unit, the image capturing unit configured to obtain an image of the subject: an illumination unit comprising a first light source and configured to illuminate an observation viewing field of the image capturing unit; and a fringe projection unit comprising a second light source configured to emit a light, which differs from a light of the first light source and a fringe pattern generation unit configured to form the fringe pattern and configured to project the fringe pattern on the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Masayoshi YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20100317920Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an imaging portion imaging a subject to generate image data; a designation portion designating a position in an image based on the image data; an image processing portion processing the image data such that an enlarged image obtained by enlarging an image in a second region including the designated position overlaps a first region including the designated position designated by the designation portion; a display portion displaying the enlarged image and the image of the subject based on the image data processed by the image processing portion and displays a cursor at the designated position on the enlarged image; and a measurement processing portion performing measurement on the basis of a measurement position indicated by the cursor by using the image data generated by the imaging portion. The enlarged image displayed on the display portion moves according to movement of the cursor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takahiro Doi, Saichi Sato, Masayoshi Yokota, Kiyotomi Ogawa, Sumito Nakano, Yuusuke Kuwa
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Patent number: 7850606Abstract: An endoscope device of the present invention has an insertion portion capable of attachment and detachment of a plurality of optical adapters. The endoscope device comprises a resistor for detecting attachment and detachment of the optical adapter as well as an attachment and detachment detection portion, a ROM for storing a setting table as a specific set value for each of the plurality of optical adapters, an LCD for displaying a list of the optical adapters on the basis of the setting table, and an operation switch for selecting one optical adapter from the list of the optical adapters.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Masayoshi Yokota
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Publication number: 20070049802Abstract: An endoscope device of the present invention has an insertion portion capable of attachment and detachment of a plurality of optical adapters. The endoscope device comprises a resistor for detecting attachment and detachment of the optical adapter as well as an attachment and detachment detection portion, a ROM for storing a setting table as a specific set value for each of the plurality of optical adapters, an LCD for displaying a list of the optical adapters on the basis of the setting table, and an operation switch for selecting one optical adapter from the list of the optical adapters.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventor: Masayoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 6945930Abstract: A measurement endoscope system includes: an image pick-up device, an endoscope insertion portion to which a plurality of stereo measurement optical adaptors and a normal measurement adaptor are detachably attachable, a control unit for accommodating the endoscope insertion portion, a face mounted display for stereoscopically viewing a normal endoscope image or stereoscopically viewing the endoscope image as a pseudo stereo image, and the like. The control unit includes a CPU for controlling the execution of various functions based on a main program, a ROM, a RAM, a PC card, a USB port, an RS-232 port, an audio signal processing circuit, and a video signal processing circuit. The control unit can be connected externally to a PC. The measurement endoscope system allows taking image re-measurements under a correct measurement environment simple operation, with the re-measurements being performed promptly without consideration of the measurement environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2002Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Masayoshi Yokota
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Publication number: 20030060681Abstract: The instrumentation endoscope apparatus mainly includes an image pick-up device, an endoscope insertion portion to which a plurality of stereo instrumentation optical adaptors and a normal instrumentation adaptor are detachable, a control unit for accommodating the endoscope insertion portion, a face mounted display for stereoscopically viewing a normal endoscope image or stereoscopically viewing the endoscope image as a pseudo stereo image, and the like. The control unit includes a CPU for controlling the execution of various functions based on a main program, a ROM, a RAM, a PC card I1F, a USB I/F, an RS-232CI/F, an audio signal processing circuit, and a video signal processing circuit. The control unit can be connected externally to a PC. By re-instrumentation under a correct instrumentation environment with simple operation, the re-instrumentation can promptly be performed without consideration of the instrumentation environment and the operability can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayoshi Yokota
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Patent number: 6063023Abstract: A measuring endoscope system including an optical adaptor freely attachable or detachable to or from a distal portion of an endoscope and having two objective lenses. Two images are taken by the two objective lenses and are formed at different positions on an imaging device incorporated in a main endoscope unit. A measuring unit for reading information from a recording medium on which optical data specific to the optical adaptor is recorded, correcting the optical data on the basis of an error in position of an imaging system in the main endoscope unit, performing coordinate conversion on images used for measurement on the basis of the corrected optical data, and calculating three-dimensional coordinates of any points by matching the two images having undergone coordinate conversion.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1998Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsunori Sakiyama, Masayoshi Yokota