Patents by Inventor Manami Hikosaka

Manami Hikosaka 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).

  • Publication number: 20240135535
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus communicably connected to an imaging apparatus obtains first examination data including image information about a medical image obtained by imaging by the imaging apparatus and first attendant information added to the image information, performs processing of the image information included in the first examination data, and generates second examination data including processing result information obtained by the processing and second attendant information that includes at least part of the first attendant information and is added to the processing result information. The image information and the processing result information are associated by at least part of the first attendant information commonly included in the first attendant information and the second attendant information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventor: Manami HIKOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20230084622
    Abstract: Disclosed is a medical information processing apparatus for smoothly and appropriately grouping a plurality of medical images. The apparatus comprises: a setting acquisition unit which acquires grouping settings indicating grouping conditions for a plurality of radiation images obtained by imaging an object; and a grouping processing unit which performs a grouping of the plurality of radiation images by imparting series information identifying groups to each of the plurality of radiation images in accordance with the acquired grouping settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 11464476
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a setting information storage that stores setting information to be used for radiation imaging, a setting information backup unit configured to back up the setting information stored in the setting information storage, and an operation control unit configured to restore, in a case the setting information storage has failed, the setting information in the setting information storage based on the setting information backed up in the setting information backup unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Publication number: 20220311956
    Abstract: A radiation imaging control apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a subject, a foreign matter detection unit configured to detect, in a case where a radiation image of the subject is to be acquired, a foreign matter which is likely to appear in the radiation image from the captured image acquired by the image acquisition unit, a warning information generation unit configured to generate warning information regarding image capturing of a radiation image based on the foreign matter detection unit having detected a foreign matter in the captured image, and a display control unit configured to issue a notification based on the warning information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Manami Hikosaka, Yuichi Ikeda, Yasutomo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20210280300
    Abstract: An image capturing control unit in a medical information processing apparatus acquires a medical image and related information, which are associated with each other, from a storage apparatus, such as a Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), in which the medical image obtained by capturing an image of a subject and the related information about the medical image are stored in association with each other, and the image capturing control unit limits an output of edited related information to the storage apparatus, in accordance with setting information set in the acquired related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 10945698
    Abstract: Provided is a radiation imaging apparatus, including: a radiation detector configured to detect radiation; a first detector designation unit configured to designate a first radiation detector; a second detector designation unit configured to designate a second radiation detector registered in the radiation imaging apparatus in advance; and an information control unit configured to associate setting information on the second radiation detector with the first radiation detector after the first radiation detector and the second radiation detector are designated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Publication number: 20200170609
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a setting information storage that stores setting information to be used for radiation imaging, a setting information backup unit configured to back up the setting information stored in the setting information storage, and an operation control unit configured to restore, in a case the setting information storage has failed, the setting information in the setting information storage based on the setting information backed up in the setting information backup unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Publication number: 20190159746
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a plurality of radiation imaging apparatuses configured to perform radiation imaging. The radiation imaging apparatus comprises: a protocol storage unit configured to store an imaging protocol which includes characteristic information for controlling the radiation imaging; an association unit configured to associate characteristic information of another imaging protocol of another radiation imaging apparatus with the characteristic information of the stored imaging protocol; and a control unit configured to control, based on the association, registration of the characteristic information of the other imaging protocol in the protocol storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 9936927
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an X-ray imaging system obtains examination information including a plurality of imaging techniques and a plurality of imaging conditions corresponding to the plurality of imaging techniques. When the content of a condition item of the imaging condition selected from the plurality of imaging conditions is changed in accordance with an operation input from the operator, the control apparatus applies the change to an imaging condition other than the selected imaging condition of the plurality of imaging conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Publication number: 20180008226
    Abstract: Provided is a radiation imaging apparatus, including: a radiation detector configured to detect radiation; a first detector designation unit configured to designate a first radiation detector; a second detector designation unit configured to designate a second radiation detector registered in the radiation imaging apparatus in advance; and an information control unit configured to associate setting information on the second radiation detector with the first radiation detector after the first radiation detector and the second radiation detector are designated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Publication number: 20150272526
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an X-ray imaging system obtains examination information including a plurality of imaging techniques and a plurality of imaging conditions corresponding to the plurality of imaging techniques. When the content of a condition item of the imaging condition selected from the plurality of imaging conditions is changed in accordance with an operation input from the operator, the control apparatus applies the change to an imaging condition other than the selected imaging condition of the plurality of imaging conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka
  • Publication number: 20140029833
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus comprises an examination information input unit configured to input examination information necessary for an examination; an examination dividing operation reception unit configured to receive an instruction to divide the examination into a first examination associated with the examination information and a second examination unassociated with the examination information, during an interval between a start of the examination and an end of the examination; and an image distribution instruction reception unit configured to receive an instruction to distribute images which have been captured in the examination in association with one of the first examination and the second examination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventor: Manami Hikosaka