Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Amano
Hirokazu Amano 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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Publication number: 20230394785Abstract: Evidence of a discrimination result of a drug can be presented, and various marks can be dealt with. A computer includes a feature extraction unit and a discrimination unit. The feature extraction unit generates an extraction mark image in which a mark appearing on a captured image is extracted, based on an output value obtained by inputting the captured image of a target drug whose type is unidentified to a trained model constructed to extract the mark formed on the drug. The discrimination unit discriminates the type of the target drug, based on a collation result between the extraction mark image and a registration mark image registered in advance for each type of the drug.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Hirokazu AMANO, Tsuyoshi ABE, Naoki KITAMURA
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Patent number: 11504747Abstract: A medicine sorting device includes: a discrimination part for discriminating a type of a medicine based on an image captured by a first camera; and a conveyance/sorting unit for sorting, by each type, a plurality of types of medicines accommodated in a mixed state in a first accommodating part based on a discrimination result of the discrimination part, and storing the medicines in a second accommodating part.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Amano, Tomohiro Sugimoto, Yasuyuki Yoshikawa, Maki Matsunaga, Koji Ito, Yuta Higuchi
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Publication number: 20210205179Abstract: Drugs can be sorted irrespective of whether or not drug data is registered. A drug sorting device includes a conveying/sorting unit configured to: accommodate drugs determined to have drug data corresponding to image data into a confirmed area of a second accommodating portion for each type; and accommodate drugs determined to have no drug data corresponding to the image data into a temporarily determined area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Hirokazu AMANO, Tomohiro SUGIMOTO, Tasuku KONO, Shinki KOJIMA, Hiromichi TSUDA
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Patent number: 10969218Abstract: Provided is a medicine identifying system which enables automatization of medicine identification. A medicine identifying system is constituted of a medicine photographing device and a computer. Medicine identifying software is installed in the computer. At the time of performing medicine identification, a user first sets a medicine to be identified in the medicine photographing device. Next, the medicine photographing device starts to photograph the medicine by using an operation of the user with respect to the computer as a trigger. A photographed image of the medicine is transmitted to the computer as data. Then, the medicine identifying software refers to a database based on this image data to search the medicine.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Amano, Koji Ito
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Patent number: 10961004Abstract: To provide a medicine inspection system capable of appropriately outputting an inspection result while minimizing damage and the like to a packaging bag and a medicine. A medicine inspection system 10 includes an inspection device 20 which inspects a numerical quantity and/or a type of a medicine contained in a packaging bag p based on an image photographed of the packaging bag p to be inspected, and a marking device 50 which records an inspection result from the inspection device on the packaging bag p. After the packaging bag p, which has a seal section S formed by pressure bonding an overlapping portion of a packaging paper, is inspected at the inspection device 20, a stamp which indicates the inspection result thereof is output by a marking device 50 onto the seal section S.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Amano, Hiromichi Tsuda, Yasuyuki Yoshikawa, Hirokazu Chihara, Dai Shimizube
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Patent number: 10858134Abstract: To provide a medicine inspection system capable of appropriately outputting an inspection result while minimizing damage and the like to a packaging bag and a medicine. A medicine inspection system 10 includes an inspection device 20 which inspects a numerical quantity and/or a type of a medicine contained in a packaging bag p based on an image photographed of the packaging bag p to be inspected, and a marking device 50 which records an inspection result from the inspection device on the packaging bag p. After the packaging bag p, which has a seal section S formed by pressure bonding an overlapping portion of a packaging paper, is inspected at the inspection device 20, a stamp which indicates the inspection result thereof is output by a marking device 50 onto the seal section S.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Amano, Hiromichi Tsuda, Yasuyuki Yoshikawa, Hirokazu Chihara, Dai Shimizube
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Patent number: 10829256Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a drug packaging device including a printing unit configured to perform printing by jetting ink and being capable of performing the printing on a packaging paper with high printing quality without including a support base or the like for the packaging paper. A drug packaging device (10) includes a drug supply unit (20), a packaging unit (30), a packaging paper conveying unit (40), and a printing unit (60). The printing unit (60) includes an ink ejection unit (62) capable of ejecting ink downward.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Amano, Koji Ito, Takayuki Fujikawa, Yasuyuki Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10762614Abstract: Provided is an inspection apparatus, an inspection method and a computer program product which can easily remove an improper target object. An inspection apparatus (1000) includes a base (700) for placing target objects thereon, a photographing part (100) which can photograph the target objects placed on the base (700), an inspection part for performing an inspection for the target objects placed on the base (700) based on an image photographed by the photographing part (100), and a distinguishing process part for performing a process of making a specific target object placed on the base (700) visually distinguishable from other target objects placed on the base (700) based on a result of the inspection performed by the inspection part.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: YUYAMA MFG, CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yuyama, Hirokazu Amano
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Publication number: 20200156120Abstract: A medicine sorting device includes: a discrimination part for discriminating a type of a medicine based on an image captured by a first camera; and a conveyance/sorting unit for sorting, by each type, a plurality of types of medicines accommodated in a mixed state in a first accommodating part based on a discrimination result of the discrimination part, and storing the medicines in a second accommodating part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Hirokazu AMANO, Tomohiro SUGIMOTO, Yasuyuki YOSHIKAWA, Maki MATSUNAGA, Koji ITO, Yuta HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10226399Abstract: An object of the present invention is to automatically identify a direction, a posture and characteristics such as a shape, a size, a type and an expiration date of a medicine and store the medicine with ensuring a high degree of freedom. A medicine supplying apparatus 1 includes an identifying part and a storing part. A storing area is defined at the time of storing the medicine according to a size of a medicine contained in characteristics of the medicine identified by the identifying part. The medicine is stored in the storing part in a state that identification information of the medicine is associated with the storing area. Further, the medicine supplying apparatus has a determination processing part which can determine whether or not the medicine is a target to be treated based on the characteristics of the medicine identified by the identifying part.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Amano, Akitomi Kohama, Masatoshi Warashina, Junichi Iwaya, Hiromichi Tsuda, Takashi Ueno, Hidenori Tsuji, Keigo Nakamura, Mei Zhang
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Publication number: 20180312285Abstract: To provide a medicine inspection system capable of appropriately outputting an inspection result while minimizing damage and the like to a packaging bag and a medicine. A medicine inspection system 10 includes an inspection device 20 which inspects a numerical quantity and/or a type of a medicine contained in a packaging bag p based on an image photographed of the packaging bag p to be inspected, and a marking device 50 which records an inspection result from the inspection device on the packaging bag p. After the packaging bag p, which has a seal section S formed by pressure bonding an overlapping portion of a packaging paper, is inspected at the inspection device 20, a stamp which indicates the inspection result thereof is output by a marking device 50 onto the seal section S.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Amano, Hiromichi Tsuda, Yasuyuki Yoshikawa, Hirokazu Chihara, Dai Shimizube
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Publication number: 20180286031Abstract: Provided is an inspection apparatus, an inspection method and a computer program product which can easily remove an improper target object. An inspection apparatus (1000) includes a base (700) for placing target objects thereon, a photographing part (100) which can photograph the target objects placed on the base (700), an inspection part for performing an inspection for the target objects placed on the base (700) based on an image photographed by the photographing part (100), and a distinguishing process part for performing a process of making a specific target object placed on the base (700) visually distinguishable from other target objects placed on the base (700) based on a result of the inspection performed by the inspection part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki YUYAMA, Hirokazu AMANO
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Publication number: 20180194505Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a drug packaging device including a printing unit configured to perform printing by jetting ink and being capable of performing the printing on a packaging paper with high printing quality without including a support, base or the like for the packaging paper. A drug packaging device (10) includes a drug supply unit (20), a packaging unit (30), a packaging paper conveying unit (40), and a printing unit (60). The printing unit (60) includes an ink ejection unit (62) capable of ejecting ink downward.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Hirokazu AMANO, Koji ITO, Takayuki FUJIKAWA, Yasuyuki YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9994347Abstract: A system for individually packaging medicine is provided with a medicine inspection device that is capable of performing inspection of medicine that is individually packaged using a device for individually packaging medicine or the like. The control device of the medicine inspection device is provided with an inspection database in which images of medicine are stored as master images and is capable of carrying out an inspection task using image matching processing that involves an image acquired by imaging. The control is also capable of performing similarity determination for determining whether a medicine that is similar to a medicine that is packaged in an individual wrapper is present in the inspection database in a state in which the reference scope of the inspection database is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yuyama, Hirokazu Amano, Hiromichi Tsuda, Dai Shimizube
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Patent number: 9870611Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a high accuracy medicament inspection device and system to inspect medicaments enclosed in a package with a printing area. The medicament inspection device implements a medicament information detection process that includes: a medicament candidate area extraction step extracting a dark colored area in a back side illuminated image as a medicament candidate area A (assumed presence of medicament); a print candidate area extraction step extracting an area containing the print on the package based on a front side illuminated image as a print candidate area B; a print area identification step specifying an area corresponding to the print contained in the print candidate area B based on the brightness distribution of the back side illuminated image as a print area C; and a medicament area identification step identifying a medicament area X by subtracting the print area C from the medicament candidate area A.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Ito, Hiromichi Tsuda, Hirokazu Amano, Yasuyuki Yoshikawa, Mei Zhang
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Publication number: 20170264867Abstract: Provided is a medicine identifying system which enables automatization of medicine identification. A medicine identifying system is constituted of a medicine photographing device and a computer. Medicine identifying software is installed in the computer. At the time of performing medicine identification, a user first sets a medicine to be identified in the medicine photographing device. Next, the medicine photographing device starts to photograph the medicine by using an operation of the user with respect to the computer as a trigger. A photographed image of the medicine is transmitted to the computer as data. Then, the medicine identifying software refers to a database based on this image data to search the medicine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu AMANO, Koji ITO
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Publication number: 20170246083Abstract: An object of the present invention is to automatically identify a direction, a posture and characteristics such as a shape, a size, a type and an expiration date of a medicine and store the medicine with ensuring a high degree of freedom. A medicine supplying apparatus 1 includes an identifying part and a storing part. A storing area is defined at the time of storing the medicine according to a size of a medicine contained in characteristics of the medicine identified by the identifying part. The medicine is stored in the storing part in a state that identification information of the medicine is associated with the storing area. Further, the medicine supplying apparatus has a determination processing part which can determine whether or not the medicine is a target to be treated based on the characteristics of the medicine identified by the identifying part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu AMANO, Akitomi KOHAMA, Masatoshi WARASHINA, Junichi IWAYA, Hiromichi TSUDA, Takashi UENO, Hidenori TSUJI, Keigo NAKAMURA, Mei ZHANG
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Patent number: 9626822Abstract: A preparation task for medicine, which must be manually prepared in advance, is efficiently performed without error. A medicine supply device includes: a medicine supply means having a plurality of medicine receiving portions, the medicine supply means being configured to receive a medicine per a dosing time and appropriately discharge the received medicine; a display means including a plurality of display portions, the display portions being provided in association with the medicine receiving portions respectively; and a display control means configured to allow the display portion of the medicine receiving portion, which receives a corresponding medicine among the medicine receiving portions, to operate based on a prescription data. The display portion of the display means is configured to display a number corresponding to the dosing time of each medicine included in the prescription data.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yuyama, Hirokazu Amano
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Publication number: 20170008655Abstract: To provide a medicine inspection system capable of appropriately outputting an inspection result while minimizing damage and the like to a packaging bag and a medicine. A medicine inspection system 10 includes an inspection device 20 which inspects a numerical quantity and/or a type of a medicine contained in a packaging bag p based on an image photographed of the packaging bag p to be inspected, and a marking device 50 which records an inspection result from the inspection device on the packaging bag p. After the packaging bag p, which has a seal section S formed by pressure bonding an overlapping portion of a packaging paper, is inspected at the inspection device 20, a stamp which indicates the inspection result thereof is output by a marking device 50 onto the seal section S.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Amano, Hiromichi Tsuda, Yasuyuki Yoshikawa, Hirokazu Chihara, Dai Shimizube
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Publication number: 20160114925Abstract: A system for individually packaging medicine is provided with a medicine inspection device that is capable of performing inspection of medicine that is individually packaged using a device for individually packaging medicine or the like. The control device of the medicine inspection device is provided with an inspection database in which images of medicine are stored as master images and is capable of carrying out an inspection task using image matching processing that involves an image acquired by imaging. The control is also capable of performing similarity determination for determining whether a medicine that is similar to a medicine that is packaged in an individual wrapper is present in the inspection database in a state in which the reference scope of the inspection database is restricted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Hiroyuki YUYAMA, Hirokazu AMANO, Hiromichi TSUDA, Dai SHIMIZUBE