1367 patents
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Utility
Remote image interpretation management apparatus, remote image interpretation system and storage medium
21 Dec 21
Naokazu Kuwayama
Filed: 17 May 19
Utility
Radiographic image analysis apparatus and radiographic image analysis system
14 Dec 21
A radiographic image analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor that calculates an area of a lung field from a chest image obtained by radiation imaging of a chest in one direction, and estimates a residual volume, a functional residual capacity, a total lung capacity or a residual volume ratio of the lung field, based on the calculated lung field area.
Kazuo Kasahara, Isao Matsumoto, Rie Tanaka, Masaya Tamura, Noriyuki Ohkura, Junsei Horii, Shintaro Muraoka
Filed: 22 Apr 19
Utility
X-ray imaging system
14 Dec 21
An X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray Talbot imaging device and an image processing device.
Yuko Shinden
Filed: 26 Mar 18
Utility
Monitoring system
14 Dec 21
Monitoring system includes: a light projecting and receiving unit including an emitting section to emit a light flux, a scanning section to make the light flux scan within a monitoring space, and a light receiving section to receive a light flux reflected from an object within the monitoring space; a processing section to measure a distance to the object by processing signals from the light projecting and receiving unit and to output a measurement point marker group provided with three-dimensional distance information for each measurement point; a user interface that sets a monitoring region in a virtual space by an operation of a user; and a display device that, when the monitoring region has been set via the user interface, displays the set monitoring region together with the measurement point marker group, wherein the processing section outputs an alarm signal when an object invades within the monitoring region during monitoring.
Junichi Fujita
Filed: 9 May 17
Utility
Moving image reproduction apparatus, candidate jump destination display method, and computer program
14 Dec 21
A moving image reproduction apparatus for reproducing a moving image for explaining a work including a plurality of steps, includes: a reproducer that reproduces the moving image; a progress display that displays an indicator indicating a progress of reproduction of the moving image and a position on the indicator where the moving image is being currently reproduced; and a candidate display that displays a candidate image corresponding to at least one jump destination included in the moving image when a predetermined operation is performed on the indicator.
Zhenhuan Qu, Atsushi Tomita, Yoichi Kurumasa, Shoko Haba, Ryosuke Nishimura, Mie Kawabata, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu
Filed: 9 Nov 17
Utility
Driving device, image forming apparatus, and control program
14 Dec 21
A driving device includes: a first motor that transmits power to a rotation shaft of a conveyance roller for conveying a paper sheet; a second motor that transmits power to the rotation shaft of the conveyance roller; and a motor controller that controls rotational speeds of the first and second motors by changing a control value, wherein the motor controller controls the control value of the first motor at multiple steps at a time of acceleration or deceleration and changes the control value of the second motor according to a change range of the control value of the first motor in synchronization with a timing when the control value of the first motor is changed.
Keigo Ogura, Takumi Shirakuma, Kenji Izumiya, Hidenori Mine, Hirokatsu Kodama
Filed: 19 Jun 19
Utility
Gas detection device, information processing device, and program
7 Dec 21
Provided are a gas detection device, an information processing device, and a program which enable a user himself/herself to easily determine whether a gas leak has occurred.
Saori Hirata
Filed: 4 Mar 19
Utility
Zoom lens, image pickup optical device, and digital apparatus
30 Nov 21
Hiroaki Tanaka
Filed: 5 May 20
Utility
Method of producing blade, blade, image forming apparatus, and image forming method
30 Nov 21
There is provided a method of producing a blade for cleaning a toner image retainer, the method including: binding an abutting layer that abuts against the toner image retainer and a supporting layer that supports the abutting layer, wherein the maximum value D of a difference between a first loss tangent at 1 Hz and a second loss tangent at 100 Hz of the blade that includes the abutting layer and the supporting layer satisfies the formula: 0.2≤D≤0.7, wherein the maximum value D is a maximum value of a difference between the first loss tangent and the second loss tangent at temperatures within a range of 0° C. to 50° C.
Kunihiro Ogura, Yukio Hosoya, Taiki Amemiya, Teruo Sasaki
Filed: 6 Apr 21
Utility
Moving body risk assessment device, and moving body monitoring system
30 Nov 21
There is provided a moving body risk assessment device including a moving body detection unit that detects presence or movement of a moving body within an imaging range on the basis of image information imaged in a wavelength region different from a visible region, and a risk assessment unit that assesses a risk to the detected moving body from the image information and a result of the moving body detection obtained by the moving body detection unit.
Takashi Morimoto, Motohiro Asano, Seiichi Tsuzuki, Hiroaki Suzuki, Teruo Hioki, Hideaki Hotta, Akifumi Toki
Filed: 9 Apr 18
Utility
Dynamic image analysis apparatus, dynamic image analysis method, and recording medium
30 Nov 21
A dynamic image analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor that acquires an X-ray dynamic image including continuous frame images acquired by continuously capturing a living body having a heartbeat in time series; performs logarithmic conversion for a pixel value of the acquired X-ray dynamic image to create a logarithmically converted image; sets, as a reference frame image, one frame image based on a heartbeat phase in at least one of the X-ray dynamic image and the logarithmically converted image; calculates (i) a difference or ratio between the X-ray dynamic image as the reference frame image and the X-ray dynamic image as a comparative frame image which is another frame image or (ii) a difference or ratio between the logarithmically converted image as the reference frame image and the logarithmically converted image as the comparative frame image; and generates a blood flow analysis image.
Kenta Shimamura
Filed: 16 Jul 19
Utility
Control device of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method for ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
30 Nov 21
Control device 10 of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a hardware processor that sets, among a plurality of operation modes in which pulse waveforms of ultrasound pulses to be transmitted are different from one another, at least first and second operation modes for which observation results are to be simultaneously displayed on a screen, sets at least one operation type that defines transmission timing of ultrasound pulses, and sets a switching frequency of a switching signal.
Mutsuhiro Akahane, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yosuke Kimura, Kazuya Osada
Filed: 23 Oct 17
Utility
Sheet conveyance apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus
30 Nov 21
Provided is a sheet conveyance apparatus armored with a housing, the sheet conveyance apparatus includes: a sheet conveyor that feeds a sheet to a downstream side in a direction of conveyance; a conveyance guide that guides the sheet to be conveyed; an ultrasonic sensor that detects the sheet guided by the conveyance guide; and a shield member that is conductive, wherein the ultrasonic sensor includes: a transmitter that transmits an ultrasonic wave having a predetermined frequency; and a receiver that receives the ultrasonic wave, the transmitter and the receiver are arranged along the conveyance guide, and the shield member is disposed between the housing and the receiver in a sheet-face perpendicular direction at an ultrasonic-irradiation position of the sheet being conveyed, the shield member covering an entirety of the receiver in plan view in the sheet-face perpendicular direction.
Masahiro Nonoyama, Masahiro Kamiya, Katsuhide Sakai, Junichi Masuda, Taku Kimura
Filed: 30 Mar 20
Utility
Projection optical system and projector
23 Nov 21
A projection optical system that projects, while enlarging, an image displayed on an image display surface includes in order from an enlargement side: a first negative refractive power lens group; a second negative refractive power lens group; at least one positive or negative refractive power lens group; a stop; and a first positive refractive power lens group.
Atsuo Masui, Katsuhiro Takamoto, Yusuke Imai
Filed: 26 Jul 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus and detecting method of image density failure
23 Nov 21
An image forming apparatus includes: a developer carrier; a screw-shaped developer feeder that feeds developer to the developer carrier; an image carrier on which an image is imaged with toner of the developer; a developing current detector that detects developing current between the image carrier and the developer carrier during imaging; and a controller that detects image density failure that is periodic and oblique to a rotation direction of the image carrier.
Kei Okamura, Tomohiro Kawasaki, Kazutoshi Kobayashi, Keiki Katsumata
Filed: 21 May 21
Utility
Image forming apparatus and voice input control
23 Nov 21
An apparatus includes: an operation panel that displays an operation screen and accepts an operation from a user; a hardware processor that accepts an operation from a user by voice, turns off the operation panel in a case where an interval between operations received by the operation panel exceeds a first set time, and resets a setting content stored in the storage in a case where an interval between operations received by the operation panel or the hardware processor exceeds a second set time; a storage that stores a setting content corresponding to an operation received by the operation panel or the hardware processor; and a changer that changes a set time of a timer.
Takeo Katsuda
Filed: 27 Apr 20
Utility
Paper stacking device and image forming system
16 Nov 21
A paper stacking device includes: a stacker on which paper is stacked; a paper ejector that ejects the paper toward the stacker; an aligning plate that is provided on a side of the paper stacked on the stacker, and aligns a side end of the paper; and a paper floating member that is provided in the aligning plate, and supports, from below, the side end of the paper ejected from the paper ejector, wherein the paper floating member is switched, in conjunction with a movement in upward and downward directions of the aligning plate, between: a paper floating position that advances from a side of the side end of the paper to an ejection route of the paper, and causes the paper ejected from the paper ejector to float from uppermost paper stacked on the stacker; and a retreat position that retreats from the ejection route.
Tsuyoshi Tsuchiya
Filed: 13 Nov 19
Utility
Paper feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus
16 Nov 21
A paper feeding apparatus includes a tray, an air blower, a floating detector, and a hardware processor.
Nobuhiko Okano
Filed: 3 Jul 19
Utility
Image processing method and image processing system
16 Nov 21
An image processing method includes: a fluorescent image capturing step of capturing a fluorescent image of a fluorescently labeled tissue specimen; a creating step of creating a fluorescent whole slide image based on the captured fluorescent image; and a storing step of storing the created fluorescent whole slide image.
Hiroaki Kemmochi, Yasuyuki Motokui, Noboru Koyama
Filed: 18 Dec 17
Utility
Information processing apparatus and recording medium
16 Nov 21
An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor which (i) performs learning by a learning data set associated with a correct answer label for a preset problem and creates a machine learning model for estimating a correct answer to the preset problem for input data, (ii) estimates the correct answer to the preset problem for the input data by using the machine learning model, (iii) in response to a user operation, determines a label indicating a result of the estimation as a correct answer label of the input data or corrects the label to determine the corrected label as a correct answer label of the input data, and (iv) additionally registers the determined correct answer label as learning data in association with the input data in the learning data set.
Hirotake Minami
Filed: 8 Oct 19