Patents by Inventor Konosuke Temmei

Konosuke Temmei 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: 9530198
    Abstract: To provide a method for controlling an X-ray image diagnostic apparatus and an X-ray generation device equipped with an ABS system tracking movement of an object position without an operator performing setting operation for a region of interest (ROI), the determination condition storage unit (6i) storing ROI position determination conditions in which image statistical information is used for defining conditions to determine a position of an ROI in an X-ray image out of plural blocks generated by dividing the X-ray image into plural regions, the first block statistical information calculation unit (6f) calculating the image statistical information for each of plural blocks, and the region-of-interest position selection unit (6g) selecting a block that serves as an ROI from among plural blocks using the ROI position determination conditions and the image statistical information of each block are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Konosuke Temmei, Yuji Sakai, Tadashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9384547
    Abstract: In order to follow the ABS conditions when the movement of the object position, such as the movement of an object or the movement of an X-ray tube, occurs during fluoroscopy, an X-ray image diagnostic apparatus includes a histogram generation unit 6b that generates a histogram showing the distribution of brightness values of an X-ray image of an object; an object region detection unit 6c that detects an object region, which is a region where the object is imaged, in the X-ray image on the basis of the histogram; and an X-ray condition determination unit 2a that determines X-ray conditions defining an output of X-rays so that a brightness value representing the object region approaches a target brightness value of the object region set in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Konosuke Temmei, Tadashi Nakamura, Yuji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20150201899
    Abstract: In order to provide a technique for simplifying pre-examination input tasks for a medical image imaging apparatus, an imaging support system includes the medical image imaging apparatus 1 generating a medical image of the object 4, the position calculation unit 111 detecting a current position of the medical image imaging apparatus 1, the object candidate search unit 116 searching object candidates to be examined based on the current position, the operation unit 31 receiving a selection operation of an object to be examined from among object candidates, and the imaging condition setting unit 93 setting imaging conditions of the object to be examined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Uchinomiya, Tadashi Nakamura, Konosuke Temmei, Masakazu Okabe, Yuji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20150071406
    Abstract: To provide a method for controlling an X-ray image diagnostic apparatus and an X-ray generation device equipped with an ABS system tracking movement of an object position without an operator performing setting operation for a region of interest (ROI), the determination condition storage unit (6i) storing ROI position determination conditions in which image statistical information is used for defining conditions to determine a position of an ROI in an X-ray image out of plural blocks generated by dividing the X-ray image into plural regions, the first block statistical information calculation unit (6f) calculating the image statistical information for each of plural blocks, and the region-of-interest position selection unit (6g) selecting a block that serves as an ROI from among plural blocks using the ROI position determination conditions and the image statistical information of each block are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Konosuke Temmei, Yuji Sakai, Tadashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140140606
    Abstract: In order to follow the ABS conditions when the movement of the object position, such as the movement of an object or the movement of an X-ray tube, occurs during fluoroscopy, an X-ray image diagnostic apparatus includes a histogram generation unit 6b that generates a histogram showing the distribution of brightness values of an X-ray image of an object; an object region detection unit 6c that detects an object region, which is a region where the object is imaged, in the X-ray image on the basis of the histogram; and an X-ray condition determination unit 2a that determines X-ray conditions defining an output of X-rays so that a brightness value representing the object region approaches a target brightness value of the object region set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Konosuke Temmei, Tadashi Nakamura, Yuji Sakai