Patents by Inventor Yosuke OKUDAIRA
Yosuke OKUDAIRA 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: 11972325Abstract: A determination method includes causing the state in each of the plurality of pixels to correspond to a plurality of states of a plurality of bits of an Ising model, and setting an evaluation function for evaluating a degree of coincidence between the target image and the formed image as a function of the plurality of bits, and determining which one of the plurality of states is to be set for each of the plurality of pixels on the basis of states of the plurality of bits included in a result obtained by evaluating the evaluation function by an Ising machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Yosuke Okudaira
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Patent number: 11703329Abstract: Provided is a surveying instrument configured so that the optical axis of a guide light irradiation unit that irradiates guide light for guiding a survey operator and the optical axis of a lens barrel portion of a distance-measuring optical system become parallel to each other on a horizontal plane. The guide light irradiation unit is not disposed above the lens barrel portion that substantially matches a collimation direction is horizontally shifted with respect to the lens barrel portion. The horizontal shift distance D is configured so that a horizontal distance D between the optical axis of guide light and the optical axis of the lens barrel portion satisfies tan(?/2)×Cmin>D provided that ? is an irradiation angle of the guide light in the horizontal direction, and Cmin is a shortest use distance of the surveying instrument.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Okudaira, Akinobu Sugiura, Yasutoshi Aoki
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Publication number: 20230048772Abstract: A mask data generation method including: calculating first evaluation value of projection image based on first mask data in which first value or second value different from first value is set for each of a plurality of unit elements that constitute 2-dimensional grid; generating second mask data by changing value of first unit element to which first value is set to second value and by changing value of second unit element which is disposed close to first unit element on 2-dimensional grid and to which second value is set to first value, among the plurality of unit elements included in the first mask data; calculating second evaluation value of projection image based on the second mask data; and comparing the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value and selecting either the first mask data or the second mask data as output mask data based on the comparison result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke OKUDAIRA, Satoshi YASHIKI
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Publication number: 20220092463Abstract: A determination method includes causing the state in each of the plurality of pixels to correspond to a plurality of states of a plurality of bits of an Ising model, and setting an evaluation function for evaluating a degree of coincidence between the target image and the formed image as a function of the plurality of bits, and determining which one of the plurality of states is to be set for each of the plurality of pixels on the basis of states of the plurality of bits included in a result obtained by evaluating the evaluation function by an Ising machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Yosuke OKUDAIRA
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Publication number: 20220050283Abstract: An acquiring unit of a structured illuminating microscopy apparatus acquires at least two modulated images having the same wave number vector and the different phases; and a calculating unit of the structured illuminating microscopy apparatus, in a spatial frequency spectrum of each of at least the two modulated images acquired by the acquiring unit, separates a 0th-order modulating component and ±first-order modulating components of observational light fluxes superimposed on arbitrary two observation points based on at least four observation values regarding the two observation points which are mutually displaced by an amount of the wave number vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi OHKI, Tomoya NODA, Yosuke OKUDAIRA
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Patent number: 11187883Abstract: An acquiring unit of a structured illuminating microscopy apparatus acquires at least two modulated images having the same wave number vector and the different phases; and a calculating unit of the structured illuminating microscopy apparatus, in a spatial frequency spectrum of each of at least the two modulated images acquired by the acquiring unit, separates a 0th-order modulating component and ±first-order modulating components of observational light fluxes superimposed on arbitrary two observation points based on at least four observation values regarding the two observation points which are mutually displaced by an amount of the wave number vector.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ohki, Tomoya Noda, Yosuke Okudaira
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Publication number: 20210063153Abstract: Provided is a surveying instrument configured so that the optical axis of a guide light irradiation unit that irradiates guide light for guiding a survey operator and the optical axis of a lens barrel portion of a distance-measuring optical system become parallel to each other on a horizontal plane. The guide light irradiation unit is not disposed above the lens barrel portion that substantially matches a collimation direction is horizontally shifted with respect to the lens barrel portion. The horizontal shift distance D is configured so that a horizontal distance D between the optical axis of guide light and the optical axis of the lens barrel portion satisfies tan(?/2)×Cmin>D provided that ? is an irradiation angle of the guide light in the horizontal direction, and Cmin is a shortest use distance of the surveying instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Yosuke OKUDAIRA, Akinobu SUGIURA, Yasutoshi AOKI
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Patent number: 10792147Abstract: An ophthalmic lens to be attached in or near an eyeball includes a first region that is near an optical axis; a second region that is farther from the optical axis than the first region; and a third region that is farther from the optical axis than the second region, the first region applies a first phase difference of 3 rad or more of a third phase difference with respect to the third region; the second region applies a second phase difference continuously connecting phase differences of the first region and the third region, and continuously changing in accordance with a distance from the optical axis; and the third region applies the third phase difference varying in accordance with the distance from the optical axis around a reference value, wherein a variation amplitude of the third phase difference is not less than 0.1 rad and less than the first phase difference.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Yosuke Okudaira
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Publication number: 20200197163Abstract: An ophthalmic lens to be attached in or near an eyeball includes a first region that is near an optical axis; a second region that is farther from the optical axis than the first region; and a third region that is farther from the optical axis than the second region, the first region applies a first phase difference of 3 rad or more of a third phase difference with respect to the third region; the second region applies a second phase difference continuously connecting phase differences of the first region and the third region, and continuously changing in accordance with a distance from the optical axis; and the third region applies the third phase difference varying in accordance with the distance from the optical axis around a reference value, wherein a variation amplitude of the third phase difference is not less than 0.1 rad and less than the first phase difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Yosuke OKUDAIRA
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Patent number: 10522735Abstract: The invention provides a surveying instrument, in which an output shaft of an ultrasonic motor is attachably and detachably connected by a bolt to a lower end of a horizontal shaft of a frame unit supported rotatably in a horizontal direction, a rotating plate is fixed to the output shaft, a vibration generating component is formed on an outer circumferential portion of the rotating plate, a stator in close contact with the vibration generating component via a predetermined friction torque T1 is rotatably provided on the output shaft, the stator is restricted on a rotation by a whirl-stop unit, ultrasonic vibration is generated in the vibration generating component and the output shaft is rotated.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura, Yosuke Okudaira
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Publication number: 20190196171Abstract: An acquiring unit of a structured illuminating microscopy apparatus acquires at least two modulated images having the same wave number vector and the different phases; and a calculating unit of the structured illuminating microscopy apparatus, in a spatial frequency spectrum of each of at least the two modulated images acquired by the acquiring unit, separates a 0th-order modulating component and ±first-order modulating components of observational light fluxes superimposed on arbitrary two observation points based on at least four observation values regarding the two observation points which are mutually displaced by an amount of the wave number vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi OHKI, Tomoya NODA, Yosuke OKUDAIRA
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Patent number: 10323940Abstract: The invention provides a tilt angle measuring device, which comprises a discoid container for including a liquid forming a free liquid surface, a light emitting source for allowing a detection light to enter the free liquid surface, a photodetector for receiving the detection light reflected on the free liquid surface and a signal processing unit for detecting a tilt of the free liquid surface based on a detection signal from the photodetector, wherein the signal processing unit sets a detection light storage time of the photodetector so that an error incidence rate of the detection signal is a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Masaki Kamiki, Goro Iwasaki, Shinji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Yanobe, Eiji Takeuchi, Yosuke Okudaira
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Patent number: 10281271Abstract: The invention provides a surveying instrument, which comprises a frame unit provided capable of rotating horizontally via a horizontal rotation shaft, a telescope unit provided capable of rotating vertically via a vertical rotation shaft in a recessed portion formed in the frame unit, a vertical rotation driving unit in which a vertical output shaft is connected to the vertical rotation shaft, and a whirl-stop unit provided on an outer side of a side plate of the frame unit along the side plate and connecting the vertical rotation driving unit and the frame unit to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura, Yosuke Okudaira
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Patent number: 10261304Abstract: An acquiring unit of a structured illuminating microscopy apparatus acquires at least two modulated images having the same wave number vector and the different phases; and a calculating unit of the structured illuminating microscopy apparatus, in a spatial frequency spectrum of each of at least the two modulated images acquired by the acquiring unit, separates a 0th-order modulating component and ±first-order modulating components of observational light fluxes superimposed on arbitrary two observation points based on at least four observation values regarding the two observation points which are mutually displaced by an amount of the wave number vector.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ohki, Tomoya Noda, Yosuke Okudaira
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Patent number: 10139224Abstract: The present invention provides a measuring device, which comprises a leveling unit, a measuring device main body provided on the leveling unit, a control unit, a first tilt angle measuring device for detecting a horizontality with high accuracy, and a second tilt angle measuring device for detecting a tilt angle in a wider range than a range of the first tilt angle measuring device and having a higher responsiveness than a responsiveness of the first tilt angle measuring device, wherein the control unit, the first tilt angle measuring device and the second tilt angle measuring device are provided in the measuring device main body and wherein the control unit drives the leveling unit based on a detection result of the second tilt angle measuring device, performs a rough leveling until a tilt angle detected by the second tilt angle measuring device reaches within a range in which the first tilt angle measuring device is capable of detecting and levels the measuring device main body horizontally based on a detecType: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Masaki Kamiki, Goro Iwasaki, Shinji Yamaguchi, Satoshi Yanobe, Eiji Takeuchi, Yosuke Okudaira
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Patent number: 10067331Abstract: A structured illumination microscope device includes acquisition unit that repeats a series of processing steps including controlling a combination of a wave vector and phase of fringes and acquiring N images; and computing unit in which processing for demodulating the image of the sample using a required M types of images from an image set of consecutive P images. The M types of images include: Q types (where Q?3) of modulated images; and one type of modulated image having the wave vector in common with and the phase differing from at least one among the Q types of modulated images, or one unmodulated image. An arrangement of the N images satisfies the uniformity condition, meaning “intensity distribution of the fringes is spatially uniform when accumulated between the N images” and the refresh condition, meaning “the M types of images are always included in the image set”.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Okudaira, Hisao Osawa
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Patent number: 9919341Abstract: The invention provides an ultrasonic motor, which is an ultrasonic motor provided on a shaft end of a rotation shaft. An output shaft of the ultrasonic motor is connected to the rotation shaft, a stator is rotatably provided on the output shaft, a rotor is fixed to the rotation shaft, a vibration generating component for generating an ultrasonic vibration is provided on either one of the rotor or the stator. A whirl-stop unit is provided between the stator and a fixed side for supporting the rotation shaft: the whirl-stop unit has a joint holder provided on the fixed side and a connection element provided on the stator: the joint holder has a ball holder for pressing a metal ball to the connection element in a circumferential direction and a connection pin holding the connection element between the ball holder and the connection pin, spanning over the joint holder and capable of tilting.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura, Yosuke Okudaira
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Publication number: 20170207384Abstract: The invention provides a surveying instrument, in which an output shaft of an ultrasonic motor is attachably and detachably connected by a bolt to a lower end of a horizontal shaft of a frame unit supported rotatably in a horizontal direction, a rotating plate is fixed to the output shaft, a vibration generating component is formed on an outer circumferential portion of the rotating plate, a stator in close contact with the vibration generating component via a predetermined friction torque T1 is rotatably provided on the output shaft, the stator is restricted on a rotation by a whirl-stop unit, ultrasonic vibration is generated in the vibration generating component and the output shaft is rotated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Yoshihiko Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura, Yosuke Okudaira
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Publication number: 20170203332Abstract: The invention provides an ultrasonic motor, which is an ultrasonic motor provided on a shaft end of a rotation shaft. An output shaft of the ultrasonic motor is connected to the rotation shaft, a stator is rotatably provided on the output shaft, a rotor is fixed to the rotation shaft, a vibration generating component for generating an ultrasonic vibration is provided on either one of the rotor or the stator. A whirl-stop unit is provided between the stator and a fixed side for supporting the rotation shaft: the whirl-stop unit has a joint holder provided on the fixed side and a connection element provided on the stator: the joint holder has a ball holder for pressing a metal ball to the connection element in a circumferential direction and a connection pin holding the connection element between the bail holder and the connection pin, spanning over the joint holder and capable of tilting.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Yoshihiko Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura, Yosuke Okudaira
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Publication number: 20170205229Abstract: The invention provides a surveying instrument, which comprises a frame unit provided capable of rotating horizontally via a horizontal rotation shaft, a telescope unit provided capable of rotating vertically via a vertical rotation shaft in a recessed portion formed in the frame unit, a vertical rotation driving unit in which a vertical output shaft is connected to the vertical rotation shaft, and a whirl-stop unit provided on an outer side of a side plate of the frame unit along the side plate and connecting the vertical rotation driving unit and the frame unit to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Yoshihiko Tokuda, Satoshi Nakamura, Yosuke Okudaira