Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Nishimura
Hirokazu Nishimura 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: 20180325356Abstract: A playback processing unit causes a display device to display an endoscopic image recorded in an endoscopic image recording unit. A display time setting unit sets a display time of endoscopic images displayed by the playback processing unit on the display device in the order of imaging. A display time measurement unit measures the display time of each endoscopic image. A time information storage unit stores information related to the display time measured by the display time measurement unit. An acknowledgment unit acknowledges a user operation input. The playback processing unit causes the display device to display the endoscopic image in accordance with the user operation input acknowledged by the acknowledgment unit. The time information storage unit stores information related to a cumulative display time of each endoscopic image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Isao TATESHITA, Kei KIKUCHI, Hirokazu NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20180198887Abstract: Group chat communication can include receiving, using a processor, a first message in a group chat having members, wherein the first message is from a first member of the group chat and specifies a second member of the group chat, distributing, using the processor, the first message to the members of the group chat, and, in response to receiving the first message and using the processor, causing a group chat window of the second member to display a first callout. The group chat window of the second member is configured to display a plurality of chronologically ordered messages posted by the members of the group chat. The first callout identifies the first member and indicates a position of the first message within the plurality of chronologically ordered messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Hirokazu Nishimura, Munehiko Sato
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Publication number: 20180102189Abstract: An examination schedule management unit manages an examination schedule of a plurality of endoscopic examinations, including an examination room where an endoscopic examination is to be performed, information on scheduled examination start time, that on scheduled examination end time, and examination type information on an examination content of an endoscopic examination. A cleaning schedule management unit manages a cleaning schedule of a plurality of endoscopes, including a cleaning machine, information on scheduled cleaning start time, and that on scheduled cleaning end time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takaharu HOSOI, Hirokazu NISHIMURA, Kohei YADA, Katsuyoshi ISHIBASHI, Toshiro BABA, Yasuyuki HORI, Hiromi AKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20180086301Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an airbag-use non-coated woven fabric that achieves light in weight, compact in size, and low air permeability, and an airbag-use woven fabric having low air permeability, being flexible, and exhibiting good package ability without impairing mechanical strength of the woven fabric, and an airbag that uses the airbag-use woven fabric. The airbag-use woven fabric including a base fabric, wherein a yarn widening ratio of unwoven weaving yarn of fibers that constitute the base fabric is not less than 2.4 and not more than 3.5, or including single yarn fibers having a substantially triangular cross sectional shape and a modification degree of 1.3 to 2.2; having a tear strength of not less than 120 N; and having an air permeability under a pressure difference of 20 kPa of not more than 0.65 L/cm2/min.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Hirokazu Nishimura, Yusuke Kojyo, Ryuji Kamimura
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Patent number: 9889816Abstract: A non-coated woven fabric for air bag according to the present invention comprises a synthetic fiber containing 90% by weight or more of Nylon 66, characterized in that crimping rate of warp of the fabric is 10.0 to 13.0% while crimping rate of woof of the fabric is 6.0% or less, relative viscosity of Nylon 66 constituting the synthetic fiber in sulfuric acid is 3.15 to 3.7, the synthetic fiber contains 40 ppm to 200 ppm of phosphorus component and, when dynamic air permeability of the fabric is measured at a maximum pressure of 80±5 kPa based on ASTM D 6476 under the environment of 20° C.×65% RH, biaxial elongation strain hysteresis of the fabric during a transition from increased pressure to reduced pressure at 50 kPa is 0.69% to 1.0%.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Nishimura, Toshio Owari, Shingo Sogabe, Miho Yamamoto, Yusuke Kojyo, Yoshihiro Matsui, Kenichi Funaki
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Publication number: 20170270259Abstract: An examination schedule management unit manages an examination schedule of a plurality of endoscopic examinations, including an examination room, information on scheduled examination start time, that on scheduled examination end time, and examination type information on examination contents. A cleaning schedule management unit manages a cleaning schedule of a plurality of endoscopes, including a cleaning machine, information on scheduled cleaning start time, and that on scheduled cleaning end time. An endoscope assignment unit assigns an endoscope to an endoscopic examination. A cleaning machine assignment unit assigns a cleaning machine for cleaning an endoscope assigned to the endoscopic examination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takaharu HOSOI, Hirokazu NISHIMURA, Yasushi OKOSHI, Kohei YADA, Katsuyoshi ISHIBASHI, Toshiro BABA
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Publication number: 20170236093Abstract: An assigned endoscope information holding unit holds preferential endoscope information on an endoscope to be preferentially assigned to a doctor. An endoscope assignment unit determines an endoscope to be assigned to an endoscopic examination, based on the preferential endoscope information held in the assigned endoscope information holding unit and the information on a doctor of an endoscopic examination that the examination schedule management unit manages. A history recording unit records usage history information on an endoscope used in the performed endoscopic examination, and a display processing unit displays the usage history information on a plurality of endoscopes in a comparable format.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei YADA, Yasushi OKOSHI, Hirokazu NISHIMURA, Takaharu HOSOI, Katsuyoshi ISHIBASHI, Toshiro BABA
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Patent number: 9672596Abstract: A filtering unit applies a filter for suppressing a high-frequency component to a second image generated by performing image processing including at least enlargement processing on a first image captured by using an endoscope. An image reducing unit generates a third image by performing reduction processing on the second image to which the filter has been applied. A filter setting unit sets a characteristic of a filter based on information on a maximum frequency component that can be reproduced in at least the first image and information on a maximum frequency component that should be reproduced in the third image.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hirokazu Nishimura
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Publication number: 20170107642Abstract: It is provided that a multifilament and a braid that are capable of being processed into products in a wide range of temperature and are excellent in dimensional stability and abrasion resistance. A multifilament comprising 5 or more monofilaments, wherein the multifilament contains polyethylene having an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 5.0 dL/g or more and 40.0 dL/g or less and substantially including ethylene as a repeating unit, and shows 1000 times or more in number of reciprocating abrasions at break in an abrasion resistance test measured at a load of 5 cN/dtex in accordance with JIS L-1095.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori Fukushima, Masayuki Shirako, Hirokazu Nishimura
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Publication number: 20170101727Abstract: It is provided that a multifilament and a braid that are capable of being processed into products in a wide range of temperature and are excellent in dimensional stability and abrasion resistance. A multifilament comprising 5 or more monofilaments, wherein the multifilament contains polyethylene having an intrinsic viscosity [?] of 5.0 dL/g or more and 40.0 dL/g or less and substantially including ethylene as a repeating unit, and wherein a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value in a ratio of a diffraction peak intensity of orthorhombic crystal (200) plane to a diffraction peak intensity of orthorhombic crystal (110) plane in a monofilament cross section is 0.22 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasunori Fukushima, Masayuki Shirako, Hirokazu Nishimura
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Publication number: 20160332258Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tube, and a tube, the method comprising the steps of: coupling in position a first tube body and a second tube body by inserting a first insert portion of a connecting pin into an end portion of a first hole of the first tube body and inserting a second insert portion into an end portion of a first hole of the second tube body; welding all around an outer circumferential portion of the coupled portion of the first tube body and the second tube body and all around an inner circumferential portion of the first holes in which the connecting pin is inserted; and removing the connecting pin remaining inside the first hole of the first tube body and the first hole of the second tube body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2015Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Tadakazu SAKAGUCHI, Hirokazu NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20160321785Abstract: A filtering unit applies a filter for suppressing a high-frequency component to a second image generated by performing image processing including at least enlargement processing on a first image captured by using an endoscope. An image reducing unit generates a third image by performing reduction processing on the second image to which the filter has been applied. A filter setting unit sets a characteristic of a filter based on information on a maximum frequency component that can be reproduced in at least the first image and information on a maximum frequency component that should be reproduced in the third image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hirokazu NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 9386761Abstract: In order to reduce the amount of an organism attractant substance remaining inside concrete that tends be used wastefully and also to allow the organism attractant substance to effectively flow out gradually in a long period of time, an environmentally active, preserving and repairing-use concrete block is provided in which the air content and flowability of the concrete are increased, and the congregating and growing effects for fishes and shellfishes and the adhering and growing effects for algae are maintained so that a high attractant effect by odor of the organism attractant substance is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Nikken Kogaku Co., LTDInventors: Takaki Yukimoto, Yasuhiro Kaneko, Seishi Tokunaga, Hirokazu Nishimura, Tatsuru Tabohashi, Masaki Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Sato, Chizuru Tara
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Patent number: 9279200Abstract: There is disclosed a non-coated base fabric for air bag characterized in that maximum value of inner pressure of a woven fabric in measurement of dynamic air permeability at 50 to 65° C. is 70 to 100 kpa and biaxial strain rate of the base fabric at that time is 2.9 to 4.0%. Preferably, a yarn which constitutes the woven fabric is Nylon 66 fiber, content of an oil component remaining in the woven fabric is 0.04 to 0.60% by weight to the woven fabric, main ingredient of the oil component is an olefin type polymer having a melting point of 60° C. or lower, and the woven fabric contains 20 to 200 ppm of a phosphorus component.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsui, Toshio Owari, Shingo Sogabe, Miho Yamamoto, Yusuke Kojyo, Hirokazu Nishimura
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Patent number: 9262687Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a feature value calculating section that calculates a feature value from an image picked up of a living mucous membrane, an extraction section that extracts a structure corresponding to the feature value, and a region division section that divides the structure into partial regions according to a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Tomoto, Hirokazu Nishimura, Kenichi Tanaka, Sawako Shibata
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Patent number: 9129384Abstract: A medical image processing device includes an input section to which a biological mucous membrane image obtained by picking up an image of a biological mucous membrane is inputted, a region extracting section that extracts a mucous membrane microstructure region corresponding to a mucous membrane microstructure from the inputted biological mucous membrane image, a closed region identifying section that identifies at least one closed region regarded as being surrounded by the mucous membrane microstructure region, and a unit region setting section that sets a biologically histological unit region on the basis of the mucous membrane microstructure region and the closed region.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Kenichi Tanaka, Sawako Shibata, Yusuke Tomoto, Hirokazu Nishimura
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Patent number: 8994801Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided with: a first feature value calculating section calculating a first feature value for each of pixels constituting an image obtained by picking up an image of a subject; a region dividing section dividing the image into multiple regions on the basis of the first feature values; a second feature value calculating section calculating a second feature value for each of the divided regions; a classification section performing classification with regard to which of multiple kinds of attributes each region of the multiple regions has, on the basis of the second feature value; a judgment section judging whether a region having a predetermined attribute exists or not; and a diagnostic support information calculating section correcting an attribute value of the region having the predetermined attribute to calculate diagnostic support information for supporting a diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Kenichi Tanaka, Hirokazu Nishimura
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Publication number: 20150084319Abstract: There is disclosed a non-coated base fabric for air bag characterized in that maximum value of inner pressure of a woven fabric in measurement of dynamic air permeability at 50 to 65° C. is 70 to 100 kpa and biaxial strain rate of the base fabric at that time is 2.9 to 4.0%. Preferably, a yarn which constitutes the woven fabric is Nylon 66 fiber, content of an oil component remaining in the woven fabric is 0.04 to 0.60% by weight to the woven fabric, main ingredient of the oil component is an olefin type polymer having a melting point of 60° C. or lower, and the woven fabric contains 20 to 200 ppm of a phosphorus component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsui, Toshio Owari, Shingo Sogabe, Miho Yamamoto, Yusuke Kojyo, Hirokazu Nishimura
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Publication number: 20150079864Abstract: A non-coated woven fabric for air bag according to the present invention comprises a synthetic fiber containing 90% by weight or more of Nylon 66, characterized in that crimping rate of warp of the fabric is 10.0 to 13.0% while crimping rate of woof of the fabric is 6.0% or less, relative viscosity of Nylon 66 constituting the synthetic fiber in sulfuric acid is 3.15 to 3.7, the synthetic fiber contains 40 ppm to 200 ppm of phosphorus component and, when dynamic air permeability of the fabric is measured at a maximum pressure of 80±5 kPa based on ASTM D 6476 under the environment of 20° C.×65% RH, biaxial elongation strain hysteresis of the fabric during a transition from increased pressure to reduced pressure at 50 kPa is 0.69% to 1.0%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Nishimura, Toshio Owari, Shingo Sogabe, Miho Yamamoto, Yusuke Kojyo, Yoshihiro Matsui, Kenichi Funaki
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Publication number: 20150003715Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a feature value calculating section that calculates a feature value from an image picked up of a living mucous membrane, an extraction section that extracts a structure corresponding to the feature value, and a region division section that divides the structure into partial regions according to a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Yusuke TOMOTO, Hirokazu NISHIMURA, Kenichi TANAKA, Sawako SHIBATA