Patents by Inventor Tatsuo Yamaguchi
Tatsuo Yamaguchi 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: 12167892Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus corrects an image of a subject's eye formed by arranging a plurality of A-scan images acquired by scanning inside the subject's eye with measurement light deflected around a scan center position. The ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit and a transforming unit. The specifying unit is configured to specify a transformation position along a traveling direction of the measurement light passing through the scan center position, the transformation position corresponding to a pixel position in the image. The transforming unit is configured to transform the pixel position into the transformation position.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2024Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 12133684Abstract: The ophthalmic imaging apparatus (1) of an embodiment example performs motion contrast imaging by applying OCT scanning to an eye (E). The data acquiring unit (2, 100) acquires a plurality of pieces of time-course data respectively corresponding to a plurality of scan points, by conducting repetitive A-scan application to individual scan points. The image constructing unit (220) constructs a motion contrast image from the plurality of pieces of time-course data acquired. The controller (211) controls the data acquiring unit such that data acquisition time intervals of first time-course data corresponding to a first scan point of the plurality of scan points and data acquisition time intervals of second time-course data corresponding to a second scan point become substantially equal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Toshihiro Mino, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20240350003Abstract: The ophthalmic imaging apparatus of an embodiment example performs motion contrast imaging by applying OCT scanning to an eye. The data acquiring unit acquires a plurality of pieces of time-course data respectively corresponding to a plurality of scan points, by conducting repetitive A-scan application to individual scan points. The image constructing unit constructs a motion contrast image from the plurality of pieces of time-course data acquired. The controller controls the data acquiring unit such that data acquisition time intervals of first time-course data corresponding to a first scan point of the plurality of scan points and data acquisition time intervals of second time-course data corresponding to a second scan point become substantially equal to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Ryoichi HIROSE, Toshihiro MINO, Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240318292Abstract: A coating material and a surface coating method for an in-furnace structure, and an in-furnace structure that are excellent in resistance to corrosion by the sulfur group. The coating material for an in-furnace structure used in a high-temperature corrosive environment including a sulfur group element includes as component composition, by mass, Co: 45% to 72%, both inclusive, Mo: 20% to 35%, both inclusive, Cr: 8% to 25%, both inclusive, and Si: 0.1% to 5%, both inclusive, and substantially without Ni. In the surface coating method used in a high-temperature corrosive environment including a sulfur group element, a coating is formed on a surface of the in-furnace structure by overlay welding or thermal spraying of the above-described coating material. In the in-furnace structure used in a high-temperature corrosive environment including a sulfur group element, a coating using the above-described coating material is formed on a surface of the in-furnace structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, TOCALO CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsumichi YAMADA, Chihiro KONDO, Ichiro TANOKUCHI, Shinichi OKUNO, Masayasu UENO, Tatsuo SUIDZU, Kei YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 12096983Abstract: In an ophthalmic imaging apparatus of some aspect examples, a data acquiring unit acquires data by applying an OCT scan to an eye. An image constructing unit constructs an image from the data acquired. A focal position changing unit is provided to the measurement arm. A scan controller controls the data acquiring unit according to a scan pattern including first and second partial patterns that are continuous patterns for central and peripheral regions of an OCT scan application area, respectively. A focus controller controls the focal position changing unit such that a first focal position is applied in parallel with an OCT scan of at least part of the first partial pattern and a second focal position is applied in parallel with an OCT scan to at least part of the second partial pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Hirose
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Publication number: 20240269839Abstract: A power assist system according to the present disclosure includes: a robot that is worn by a user, the robot including a drive source that assists action of the user; an interference force estimation unit that estimates an interference force given from the user to the robot; an admittance model that generates a target velocity in a virtual object having a predetermined dynamic characteristic, the target velocity corresponding to the interference force estimated by the interference force estimation unit; and a control unit, in which the interference force estimation unit includes: a disturbance observer that detects a disturbance based on the momentum of the robot; and an estimation unit that estimates the interference force depending on the disturbance detected by the disturbance observer, using an ESN learning model for which learning about the interference force depending on the disturbance is performed while weights in a reservoir layer are stochastically assigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONInventors: Masashi YAMASHITA, Yuhei YAMAGUCHI, Hitoshi YAMADA, Tatsuo NARIKIYO
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Patent number: 11986239Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an fixation projection system, an interference optical system, and a controller. The fixation projection system is configured to project fixation light flux onto a fundus of a subject's eye. The interference optical system includes an optical scanner and is configured to split light from light source into measurement light and reference light, to irradiate the subject' eye with the measurement light deflected by the optical scanner, and to detect interference light between returning light of the measurement light from the subject's eye and the reference light. The controller is configured to perform OCT measurement on a first scan region and a second scan region, which are different from each other in the subject's eye, by controlling the interference optical system in a state where a projected position of the fixation light flux on the fundus is fixed.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Manabu Sakaihara, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11980416Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus corrects an image of a subject's eye formed by arranging a plurality of A-scan images acquired by scanning inside the subject's eye with measurement light deflected around a scan center position. The ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit and a transforming unit. The specifying unit is configured to specify a transformation position along a traveling direction of the measurement light passing through the scan center position, the transformation position corresponding to a pixel position in the image. The transforming unit is configured to transform the pixel position into the transformation position.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20240130612Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus corrects an image of a subject's eye formed by arranging a plurality of A-scan images acquired by scanning inside the subject's eye with measurement light deflected around a scan center position. The ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit and a transforming unit. The specifying unit is configured to specify a transformation position along a traveling direction of the measurement light passing through the scan center position, the transformation position corresponding to a pixel position in the image. The transforming unit is configured to transform the pixel position into the transformation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi HIROSE, Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 11941800Abstract: An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus analyzes an image of a subject's eye formed by arranging a plurality of A-scan images acquired by performing OCT scan on inside the subject's eye with measurement light deflected around a scan center position. The ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a correcting unit, a region specifying unit, and a direction specifying unit. The correcting unit is configured to transform a pixel position in the image into a transformation position along a traveling direction of the measurement light passing through the scan center position. The region specifying unit is configured to specify a predetermined layer region by analyzing the image in which the pixel position has been transformed by the correcting unit. The direction specifying unit is configured to specify a normal direction of the layer region specified by the region specifying unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Suguru Miyagawa
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Publication number: 20240041323Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an illumination system configured to project illumination light onto a subject's eye, and a photography system configured to perform photography of the subject's eye. The illumination system and the photography system are configured to satisfy a Scheimpflug condition. The illumination system includes a light source unit configured to output slit illumination light, and an illumination polarizer configured to extract an illumination polarization component from the slit illumination light. The illumination system is further configured to project the illumination polarization component onto the subject's eye. The photography system includes a photography polarizer configured to extract a photography polarization component from return light from the subject's eye with the slit illumination light projected, and an image sensor configured to detect the photography polarization component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Topcon CorporationInventors: Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI, Ryo BANDO
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Patent number: 11806077Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an optical scanner, an interference optical system, an intraocular distance calculator, an image correcting unit, and a controller. The optical scanner is disposed at an optically substantially conjugate position with a first site of a subject's eye. The interference optical system is configured to split light from a light source into reference light and measurement light, to project the measurement light onto the subject's eye via the optical scanner, and to detect interference light between returning light of the light from the subject's eye and the reference light via the optical scanner. The image forming unit is configured to form a tomographic image of the subject's eye corresponding a first traveling direction of the measurement light deflected by the optical scanner, based on a detection result of the interference light.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Hirose, Michiko Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11759104Abstract: In a scanning imaging apparatus of some aspect examples, a scanner applies an optical scan to a sample to acquire data. A scan controller controls the scanner to sequentially apply, to the sample, pattern scans according to a two-dimensional pattern including cycles. A movement unit relatively moves a scan area corresponding to the two-dimensional pattern and the sample. A movement controller controls the movement unit such that cycles in first and second scans of the pattern scans cross each other. An image constructing unit constructs an image based on data acquired under controls performed by the scan controller and the movement controller. The scan controller and the movement controller perform controls of the scanner and the movement unit respectively such that first and second cycles in a pattern scan cross each other at least at one point.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Yasuno, Shuichi Makita, Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Mino
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Patent number: 11717150Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an optical scanner, an interference optical system, an intraocular distance calculator, an image correcting unit, and a controller. The optical scanner is disposed at an optically substantially conjugate position with a first site of a subject's eye. The interference optical system is configured to split light from a light source into reference light and measurement light, to project the measurement light onto the subject's eye via the optical scanner, and to detect interference light between returning light of the light from the subject's eye and the reference light via the optical scanner. The image forming unit is configured to form a tomographic image of the subject's eye corresponding a first traveling direction of the measurement light deflected by the optical scanner, based on a detection result of the interference light.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Hirose, Michiko Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11684252Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an optical scanner, an interference optical system, an intraocular distance calculator, an image correcting unit, and a controller. The optical scanner is disposed at an optically substantially conjugate position with a first site of a subject's eye. The interference optical system is configured to split light from a light source into reference light and measurement light, to project the measurement light onto the subject's eye via the optical scanner, and to detect interference light between returning light of the light from the subject's eye and the reference light via the optical scanner. The image forming unit is configured to form a tomographic image of the subject's eye corresponding a first traveling direction of the measurement light deflected by the optical scanner, based on a detection result of the interference light.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Ryoichi Hirose, Michiko Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11607123Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes: an optical system configured to acquire data of a subject's eye; a housing unit configured to house the optical system; and an attachment member including a holding member configured to hold a face of the subject movably in a state where a peripheral site of the subject's eye is in contact with the holding member, a passing part through which an optical axis of the optical system passes being formed in the holding member, and the attachment member configured to be detachable between the housing unit and the subject's eye.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Michiko Nakanishi, Taichi Yuasa
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Patent number: 11540711Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus, includes: a first concave mirror and a second concave mirror having a concave surface-shaped first reflective surface and a concave surface-shaped second reflective surface; an SLO optical system configured to project light from an SLO light source onto a subject's eye via the first concave mirror and the second concave mirror, and to detect returning light from the subject's eye; a first optical scanner configured to deflect the light from the SLO light source to guide the light to the first reflective surface; a second optical scanner configured to deflect light reflected by the first reflective surface to guide the light to the second reflective surface; an OCT optical system including a third optical scanner, and configured to split light from an OCT light source into measurement light and reference light, to project the measurement light deflected by the third optical scanner onto the subject's eye, and to detect interference light between returning light of the measurement lType: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20220409040Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an optical scanner, an interference optical system, an intraocular distance calculator, an image correcting unit, and a controller. The optical scanner is disposed at an optically substantially conjugate position with a first site of a subject's eye. The interference optical system is configured to split light from a light source into reference light and measurement light, to project the measurement light onto the subject's eye via the optical scanner, and to detect interference light between returning light of the light from the subject's eye and the reference light via the optical scanner. The image forming unit is configured to form a tomographic image of the subject's eye corresponding a first traveling direction of the measurement light deflected by the optical scanner, based on a detection result of the interference light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI, Ryoichi HIROSE, Michiko NAKANISHI
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Patent number: 11490802Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus includes a data acquisition unit, a storage unit, and a correction unit. The data acquisition unit includes a concave mirror and an optical scanner configured to deflect light from a light source to guide to a reflective surface of the concave mirror. The data acquisition unit is configured to acquire a first data set group in an A-scan direction by performing optical coherence tomography on a subject's eye placed at a subject's eye position or a conjugate position of the subject's eye position using light reflected by the reflective surface. The storage unit is configured to store correction data for correcting an incident angle of the light at the subject's eye position depending on a deflection angle of the light by the optical scanner. The correction unit is configured to generate a second data set group by correcting at least a part of the first data set group based on the correction data stored in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11490805Abstract: A new technique is provided to easily grasp the form of the fundus and the like of the eye to be examined being depicted in a tomographic image. An ophthalmic information processing device includes an image rotation circuit and a display control circuit. The image rotation circuit rotates a tomographic image of the eye to be examined acquired by using optical coherence tomography while making a measurement optical axis be eccentric relative to a predetermined site of the eye to be examined, in accordance with an eccentric amount and an eccentric direction of the measurement optical axis relative to the predetermined site. The display control circuit causes a display device to display the tomographic image rotated by the image rotation circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Hirose, Tatsuo Yamaguchi