Patents by Inventor Teruhito Kuroda

Teruhito Kuroda 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).

  • Patent number: 7241012
    Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmologic apparatus which can be effectively used for the clinic of a dry eye by using, as a basic principle, that when a tear film dries up, a corneal shape is changed and/or a wavefront aberration becomes large. When a measurement is started, the ophthalmologic apparatus is aligned. An arithmetic part performs an initial setting of a measurement interval of the apparatus, a measurement time and the like by a wavefront measurement part. An input part or the arithmetic part triggers a measurement start, and the arithmetic part repeats a measurement of the corneal shape and corneal wavefront aberrations by a measurement part until time reaches a measurement end time. When the time reaches the measurement end time, a judgment part analyzes a breakup state as one index for judgment of a state of a dry eye. The judgment part obtains values relating to the breakup to output them, and performs an automatic diagnosis about dry eye on the basis of the values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Toshifumi Mihashi, Yoko Hirohara, Teruhito Kuroda, Naoyuki Maeda, Takashi Fujikado
  • Publication number: 20040212781
    Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmologic apparatus which can be effectively used for the clinic of a dry eye by using, as a basic principle, that when a tear film dries up, a corneal shape is changed and/or a wavefront aberration becomes large. When a measurement is started, the ophthalmologic apparatus is aligned. An arithmetic part performs an initial setting of a measurement interval of the apparatus, a measurement time and the like by a wavefront measurement part. An input part or the arithmetic part triggers a measurement start, and the arithmetic part repeats a measurement of the corneal shape and corneal wavefront aberrations by a measurement part until time reaches a measurement end time. When the time reaches the measurement end time, a judgment part analyzes a breakup state as one index for judgment of a state of a dry eye. The judgment part obtains values relating to the breakup to output them, and performs an automatic diagnosis about dry eye on the basis of the values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Toshifumi Mihashi, Yoko Hirohara, Teruhito Kuroda, Naoyuki Maeda, Takashi Fujikado