Patents by Inventor Yasufumi Fukuma

Yasufumi Fukuma 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: 9295387
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes an acquiring part, a first optical system, a forming part and a controller. The acquiring part acquires a first front image of an eye fundus. The first optical system scans the fundus by signal light and detects interference light of returned light of the signal light and reference light. The forming part repeatedly forms a second front image of the fundus and a cross sectional image showing a cross section perpendicular to the second front image based on the detection results repeatedly obtained by the first optical system. The controller displays the first front image on a display means, displays, as a moving image, the second front images repeatedly formed by the forming part over the first front image, and displays, as a moving image, the cross sectional images repeatedly formed by the forming part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Kanichi Tokuda, Taiki Aimi, Atsushi Kubota, Yusuke Ono
  • Patent number: 9295386
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes an examination part, a moving mechanism, an information obtaining part, and a controller. The examination part is configured to include an optical system for optically examining an eye. The moving mechanism is configured to move the optical system. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain information for carrying out position matching of the optical system to the eye. The controller is configured to carry out first control for the moving mechanism based on the information obtained by the information obtaining part to move the optical system, determine whether information optically obtained by the optical system after the first control is appropriate to the examination or not, and when it is determined that this information is not appropriate, carry out second control for the moving mechanism in response to a prescribed trigger to move the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Kanichi Tokuda, Taiki Aimi, Atsushi Kubota, Yusuke Ono
  • Publication number: 20150320308
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus includes: a first optical system that applies an accommodation stimulus to a subject's eye; a tomographic image forming unit that includes a second optical system that splits light from a light source into signal light and reference light, and detects interference light between the signal light having travelled via the subject's eye and the reference light, and creates a tomographic image of the subject's eye based on a detection result of the interference light; and an analyzer that compares a first tomographic image with a second tomographic image to acquire change information indicating a change in a tissue of the subject's eye due to an accommodation stimulus change. The first and second tomographic images are respectively created by the tomographic image forming unit for the subject's eye, to which first and second accommodation stimuli are respectively applied by the first and second optical systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro AKIBA, Yasufumi FUKUMA, Hiroshi AKIYAMA, Hisashi TSUKADA, Eiichi YANAGI
  • Patent number: 8970848
    Abstract: A motion detector 220 calculates the Doppler frequency shift amount based on the movement velocity of an eye E. A drive controller 230 calculates the modulation frequency of the intensity of output light M based on this Doppler frequency shift amount. A light source unit 201 outputs the light M in which the intensity is modulated with this modulation frequency. The light M is divided into a signal light S and a reference light R. Interference light L is generated by superimposing the signal light S passing through the eye E and the reference light R. Two polarized components of the interference light L have a phase difference of 180°, resulting from a quarter-wave plate 207. The polarized components L1, L2 which are divided by a polarization beam splitter 211 are detected by CCD 212, 213. A computer 250 forms a tomographical image based on these detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Masahiro Akiba, Kinpui Chan
  • Publication number: 20140320810
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes an acquiring part, a first optical system, a forming part and a controller. The acquiring part acquires a first front image of an eye fundus. The first optical system scans the fundus by signal light and detects interference light of returned light of the signal light and reference light. The forming part repeatedly forms a second front image of the fundus and a cross sectional image showing a cross section perpendicular to the second front image based on the detection results repeatedly obtained by the first optical system. The controller displays the first front image on a display means, displays, as a moving image, the second front images repeatedly formed by the forming part over the first front image, and displays, as a moving image, the cross sectional images repeatedly formed by the forming part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Kanichi TOKUDA, Taiki AIMI, Atsushi KUBOTA, Yusuke ONO
  • Publication number: 20140320809
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes an examination part, a moving mechanism, an information obtaining part, and a controller. The examination part is configured to include an optical system for optically examining an eye. The moving mechanism is configured to move the optical system. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain information for carrying out position matching of the optical system to the eye. The controller is configured to carry out first control for the moving mechanism based on the information obtained by the information obtaining part to move the optical system, determine whether information optically obtained by the optical system after the first control is appropriate to the examination or not, and when it is determined that this information is not appropriate, carry out second control for the moving mechanism in response to a prescribed trigger to move the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Kanichi TOKUDA, Taiki AIMI, Atsushi KUBOTA, Yusuke ONO
  • Publication number: 20140300866
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes an examination part, moving mechanism, two or more imaging parts, extracting part and controller. The examination part includes an optical system for optically examining an eye. The moving mechanism moves the optical system. The two or more imaging parts obtain moving images of the eye from two or more different directions. The extracting part extracts a partial image from each of two or more images substantially simultaneously obtained by the two or more imaging parts. The controller carries out display control for displaying in real time two or more partial images extracted by the extracting part with an arrangement in accordance with the positional relationship thereof on a display means and movement control for controlling the moving mechanism based on an instruction input from an operation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Kanichi TOKUDA, Taiki AIMI, Atsushi KUBOTA, Yusuke ONO
  • Publication number: 20140300863
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes an examination part, a moving mechanism, an information obtaining part, and a controller. The examination part is configured to include an optical system for optically examining an eye. The moving mechanism is configured to move the optical system. The information obtaining part is configured to obtain information for carrying out position matching of the optical system to the eye. The controller is configured to carry out first control for the moving mechanism based on the information obtained by the information obtaining part to move the optical system, determine whether information optically obtained by the optical system after the first control is appropriate to the examination or not, and when it is determined that this information is not appropriate, carry out second control for the moving mechanism in response to a prescribed trigger to move the optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Kanichi TOKUDA, Taiki AIMI, Atsushi KUBOTA, Yusuke ONO
  • Publication number: 20140300864
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic apparatus of an embodiment includes an acquiring part, a first optical system, a forming part and a controller. The acquiring part acquires a first front image of an eye fundus. The first optical system scans the fundus by signal light and detects interference light of returned light of the signal light and reference light. The forming part repeatedly forms a second front image of the fundus and a cross sectional image showing a cross section perpendicular to the second front image based on the detection results repeatedly obtained by the first optical system. The controller displays the first front image on a display means, displays, as a moving image, the second front images repeatedly formed by the forming part over the first front image, and displays, as a moving image, the cross sectional images repeatedly formed by the forming part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi FUKUMA, Kanichi TOKUDA, Taiki AIMI, Atsushi KUBOTA, Yusuke ONO
  • Patent number: 8488126
    Abstract: An optical image measurement device 1 causes an interference light generator to split a low-coherence light into a signal light and a reference light, and superimposes the signal light propagated through a measured object 5000 and the reference light propagated through the reference mirror 9 to generate an interference light. Two-dimensional photosensor arrays 14 and 15 detect the interference light. A computer 16 forms an image of the measured object 5000 based on the detection result. By inserting the optical fiber bundle 5 into the measured object 5000 to perform a measurement, a tomographic image of a deep tissue of the measured object 5000 can be obtained. Furthermore, the optical image measurement device 1 can form a high-resolution image of the deep tissue of the measured object 5000 because performing a measurement using the OCT technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Kinpui Chan, Yasufumi Fukuma
  • Patent number: 8348426
    Abstract: An optical image measurement device is configured to form a tomographic image at each of a plurality of cross sections of a measurement object, and the optical image measurement device comprises: an image processor configured to execute an arithmetic operation based on a tomographic image at one cross section of the plurality of cross sections and another tomographic image at each of one or more cross sections other than the one cross section, thereby forming a new tomographic image at the one cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Hisashi Tsukada, Hiroyuki Aoki, Yasufumi Fukuma, Tsutomu Kikawa
  • Publication number: 20120113431
    Abstract: A motion detector 220 calculates the Doppler frequency shift amount based on the movement velocity of an eye E. A drive controller 230 calculates the modulation frequency of the intensity of output light M based on this Doppler frequency shift amount. A light source unit 201 outputs the light M in which the intensity is modulated with this modulation frequency. The light M is divided into a signal light S and a reference light R. Interference light L is generated by superimposing the signal light S passing through the eye E and the reference light R. Two polarized components of the interference light L have a phase difference of 180°, resulting from a quarter-wave plate 207. The polarized components L1, L2 which are divided by a polarization beam splitter 211 are detected by CCD 212, 213. A computer 250 forms a tomographical image based on these detection results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Masahiro Akiba, Kinpui Chan
  • Patent number: 8009297
    Abstract: Provided is an optical image measuring apparatus capable of obtaining a high-accuracy image without being influenced by a movement of an object to be measured. Flash light is emitted from a xenon lamp (2) and converted into broad band light by an optical filter (2A). A polarization characteristic of the flash light is converted into linear polarization by a polarizing plate (3). Then, the flash light is divided into signal light (S) and reference light (R) by a half mirror (6). A polarization characteristic of the reference light (R) is converted into circular polarization by a wavelength plate (7). The signal light (S) and the reference light (R) are superimposed on each other by the half mirror (6) to produce interference light (L). A CCD (23) detects interference light having the same characteristic as that of the produced interference light (L).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Kinpui Chan, Masahiro Akiba, Yasufumi Fukuma, Hisashi Tsukada
  • Patent number: 7982880
    Abstract: A fundus oculi observation device acts as an optical image measurement device capable of measuring an OCT image such as a tomographic image of a fundus oculi, or the like, and is configured so as to calculate the signal level of the formed OCT image, determine whether the signal level exceeds a threshold value, and change the position of a reference mirror so that the signal level is determined to exceed the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kikawa, Hiroaki Okada, Takefumi Hayashi, Hisashi Tsukada, Yasufumi Fukuma
  • Patent number: 7980697
    Abstract: A fundus oculi observation device comprises: a first image forming part configured to form a 2-dimensional image of a surface of a fundus oculi of an eye; a second image forming part configured to form a tomographic image having a cross-sectional position in a measurement region of the fundus oculi corresponding to a partial region of the 2-dimensional image; a display; a storage configured to store imaging condition information including characteristic information showing a characteristic of the eye; and a controller configured to match display sizes of the formed 2-dimensional image and a measurement range image showing a range of the measurement region with each other, based on the stored imaging condition information, and cause the display to display the 2-dimensional image and the measurement range image whose display sizes are matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Hisashi Tsukada, Yasufumi Fukuma
  • Patent number: 7952722
    Abstract: An optical image measurement device comprises: a light source configured to output a light having low temporal coherence and low spatial coherence; an optical system configured to split the light into a signal light and a reference light and superimpose the signal light having passed through a measured object and the reference light, thereby generating an interference light; a light receiver configured to receive the interference light and output an electric signal; and a forming part configured to form an image of the measured object based on the electric signal, wherein: the light receiver has a light receiving face on which a plurality of light receiving elements are arranged 2-dimensionally; and the optical system projects the interference light onto the light receiving face so that a size of the spatial coherent region of the interference light becomes equal to or larger than a size of the light receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Kinpui Chan, Masahiro Akiba, Yasufumi Fukuma
  • Patent number: 7905596
    Abstract: First image forming part forms a two-dimensional surface image of a fundus oculi of an eye based on optically obtained data. Second image forming part forms tomographic images of fundus oculi based on data obtained by optically scanning a region of the surface of fundus oculi corresponding to at least part of two-dimensional image. Accumulated image generating part generates an accumulated image by accumulating the formed tomographic images in a depth-wise direction. Extracting part extracts first vascular territory corresponding to a fundus oculi vessel from two-dimensional image formed by first image forming part, and also extracts second vascular territory corresponding to a fundus oculi vessel from accumulated image generated by accumulated image generating part. Specification part specifies a position of a vascular cross sectional region corresponding to a cross section of a fundus oculi vessel in the tomographic image based on extracted first vascular territory and extracted second vascular territory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Aoki, Takashi Fujimura, Yasufumi Fukuma, Hisashi Tsukada, Tsutomu Kikawa
  • Patent number: 7905597
    Abstract: A fundus observation device comprises: an image forming part comprising a first image forming part and a second image forming part, the first image forming part forming a 2-dimensional surface image of fundus oculi of an eye through optical processing, the second image forming part optically scanning a surface region of the fundus oculi corresponding to at least a part of the 2-dimensional surface image to form a tomographic image of the fundus oculi; a controller configured to control the image forming part; and a storage configured to store control information including control instructions to be sent from the controller to the image forming part, when one of the 2-dimensional surface image and the tomographic image is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Hisashi Tsukada, Tsutomu Kikawa, Yasufumi Fukuma
  • Patent number: 7837328
    Abstract: Light is split into a signal light LS directed toward the fundus oculi Ef and a reference light LR directed toward a reference mirror 174, and interference light LC generated by superimposing the signal light LS passing through the fundus oculi Ef and the reference light LR passing through the reference mirror 174 using a spectrometer 180 is detected to form tomographic images. A reference mirror drive mechanism 243 shifts the reference mirror 174 toward the optical path direction of the reference light LR and an information storage part 225 storing the reference mirror 174 position information based on previous tomographic images. The controlling part 210 controls the reference mirror drive mechanism 243 so that the reference mirror 174 shifts into a position based on reference mirror position information stored in the information storage part 225.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Yasufumi Fukuma, Hisashi Tsukada, Tsutomu Kikawa
  • Patent number: 7828437
    Abstract: A fundus oculi observation device comprises: an image forming part configured to optically acquire data and form a tomographic image of a fundus oculi of an eye; a storage configured to store optical information representing a state of an ocular optical system of the eye; a calculator configured to calculate a magnification of the ocular optical system, based on the optical information; and an analyzer configured to analyze the tomographic image, based on the magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushi Kaisha Topcon
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kikawa, Takashi Fujimura, Hiroyuki Aoki, Jun Suehiro, Yasufumi Fukuma