Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kubo

Masahiro Kubo 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: 20230317236
    Abstract: A rehabilitation assistance apparatus 1 includes: an acquisition unit 211 configured to acquire at least one of an image of a subject who is doing exercise for rehabilitation, audio of the subject, and biological information of the subject; a calculation unit 212 configured to calculate a fatigue level of the subject based on at least one of the image, the audio, and the biological information; a generation unit 213 configured to generate feedback information related to the rehabilitation, based on the fatigue level; and an output unit 23 configured to output the feedback information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji OHNO, Makoto Yasukawa, Yuki Kosaka, Masahiro Kubo
  • Publication number: 20230230682
    Abstract: A facility presentation apparatus (1) includes: a selection unit (121) for selecting, as a recommended facility, at least one medical checkup facility recommended to a medical checkup target person from a plurality of medical checkup facilities based on a medical checkup information indicating a medical checkup that is related to a healthcare and that is intended to be taken by the medical checkup target person, a medical checkup facility information (1110) related to the plurality of medical checkup facilities in each of which the medical checkup can be performed and medical chart data (1220) of the medical checkup target person; and a presentation unit (122) for presenting, to a presentation target person, a recommended facility information related to the recommended facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.,
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayashitani, masahiro Kubo, Akihiko Shibano, Takayuki Banno, Junichi Yahara, Akira Yamauchi, Hideyuki Taketa, Kento Soma
  • Publication number: 20230197285
    Abstract: A patient condition prediction apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that obtains patient data, which are information about a patient; a selection unit that selects one predictive model from a plurality of predictive models for predicting a change in a patient condition that is a condition of the patient, on the basis of the patient data; and a prediction unit that predicts a change in the patient condition in the future by using the one predictive model. This makes it possible to predict a change in the patient condition by using an appropriate predictive model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro HAYASHITANI, Eiji YUMOTO, Toshinori HOSOI, Masahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20230166314
    Abstract: This manufacturing method of a hot press-formed article includes a heating step of heating an Al-plated steel sheet and a forming step of obtaining a hot press-formed article using a die after the heating step, the Al-plated steel sheet has a base steel sheet, an Al plating layer, and a coating layer, the coating layer is a metal layer containing at least one metal of Mg, Ca, V, Ti, and Zn, a metal oxide layer containing an oxide of one or more of Mg, Ca, V, Ti, and Zn, or a mixed layer including the metal layer and the metal oxide layer, the die has a hard layer on a surface, HVDie that is a surface hardness of the die at a position of the hard layer is HV1500 or more and HV3800 or less, and a temperature Tm of the Al-plated steel sheet at a start of forming and an average movement velocity V of the die in the forming step satisfy 800?(HVDie/40)?Tm?850?(V/4)?(HVDie/100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soshi FUJITA, Yuki SUZUKI, Masahiro FUDA, Hideaki IRIKAWA, Masahiro KUBO, Naruhiko NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11660025
    Abstract: An identification device including a generation unit and an information identification unit. The generation unit generates factor information relating to pulse-wave information with respect to an identification target in accordance with biological model information representing a relevance between pulse-wave information representing a pulse wave and the factor information representing a factor of pulse wave. The information identification unit selects certain list information satisfying a predetermined determination criterion of the factor information generated by the generation unit out of list information associating the factor information generated based on the pulse-wave information representing a pulse wave of a biological subject to be an identification target with identification information for identifying the biological subject, and identifies the identification information in the selected certain list information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuri Ariyama, Terumi Umematsu, Yuji Ohno, Katsumi Abe, Mineto Satoh, Takeshi Akagawa, Masahiro Kubo, Tan Azuma, Kenichiro Fujiyama, Soichiro Araki
  • Patent number: 11633772
    Abstract: A method of producing a hot press-formed product, in which a die includes a hard layer having a skewness (Rsk), as measured in a direction from the outside of a die hole toward an inside of the die hole, of from ?5.0 to 1.2, and a hardness Hv_Die of from HV 1,000 to 1,800, over the entirety of a region of a steel sheet contact surface that is adjacent to a die shoulder portion. The steel sheet contact surface is a surface located outside of the die hole and configured to contact a hot-dip galvannealed steel sheet that is to be subjected to hot press forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kubo, Naruhiko Nomura, Toshiya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11574730
    Abstract: A data management system is provided with: a storage unit for storing examination information including at least an examination item, an examination location, a consultation location, and a required examination time, the examination item including examination names of a plurality of examinations; an acquisition unit for acquiring patient information relating to severity and an identifier for identifying the patient to be examined; a calculation unit for calculating, in accordance with the patient, the necessary travel time for traveling from the examination location or consultation location at which a completed examination or consultation was performed to the next examination location or consultation location at which the next examination or consultation subsequent to the examination or consultation is to be performed, based on the patient information and the examination information; and a generating unit for generating a patient examination schedule based on the examination information, the patient informati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayashitani, Kosuke Homma, Masahiro Kubo, Shigemi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20220414885
    Abstract: A medical image processing device a reference image that is a medical image with which boundary line information related to a boundary line that is a boundary between an abnormal region and a normal region and landmark information related to a landmark that is a characteristic structure of the subject are associated and a captured image that is the medical image captured in real time, detects the landmark from the captured image, calculates a ratio of match between the landmark included in the reference image and the landmark included in the captured image, estimates a correspondence relationship between the reference image and the captured image on the basis of the ratio of match and information regarding the landmarks included in the reference image and the captured image, and generates a superimposition image in which the boundary line associated with the reference image is superimposed on the captured image on the basis of the correspondence relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220400930
    Abstract: A first illumination light beam is switched to a second illumination light beam and the second illumination light beam is emitted for a period of at least one frame, during a period in which the first illumination light beam is emitted. A first image or a second image obtained by imaging an observation target illuminated with the first illumination light beam or the second illumination light beam is acquired for each frame. At least one first image and at least one second image that satisfy a preset selection condition are selected and stored from a plurality of the first images and a plurality of the second images acquired in a preset period prior to a time of a processing start operation of image storage processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220399122
    Abstract: A risk prediction apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that obtains risk transition data indicating a transition of a risk of deterioration of symptoms from a target patient; an accumulation unit that accumulates the risk transition data of a past about a plurality of patients; a prediction unit that predicts a future change in the risk of the target patient on the basis of the risk transition data about the target patient obtained by the acquisition unit and the risk transition data of the past accumulated in the accumulation unit; and a determination unit that determines whether or not to take a measure for the target patient on the basis of the change in the risk predicted by the prediction unit. This makes it possible to appropriately determine whether or not to take a measure for the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro HAYASHITANI, Masahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220398522
    Abstract: A medical facility evaluation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that obtains a quantitatively measured evaluation information about a medical facility that is a candidate of a transfer destination of a patient; and a calculation unit that calculates a score indicating goodness of fit of the medical facility as the transfer destination with respect to the patient, on the basis of the evaluation information. According to this medical facility evaluation apparatus, scoring based on the quantitatively measured evaluation information makes it possible to find a medical facility with high goodness of fit as a transfer destination of a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro HAYASHITANI, Masahiro KUBO
  • Patent number: 11523733
    Abstract: A plurality of kinds of illumination light are emitted while being switched according to a specific light emission pattern. A plurality of observation images, which are obtained from image pickup of an object to be observed illuminated with each illumination light, are acquired. Control to display the plurality of observation images on a display unit while switching the plurality of observation images according to a specific display pattern is performed. The specific light emission pattern is fixed and the specific display pattern is changeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kubo
  • Patent number: 11517954
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressed component including an elongated top plate, a wall having one end connected to a short direction end portion of the top plate, that curves with a convex shape bowing toward an opposite side to the top plate as viewed from an upper side of the top plate, and that includes a sharp curve portion, and a flange that is connected to another end of the wall, and that extends in a plate thickness direction of the wall toward the opposite side to the top plate side. The manufacturing method includes pressing to form an intermediate formed component including a preliminary flange and pressing to deform the preliminary flange to form the preliminary flange into the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kubo, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takashi Miyagi
  • Patent number: 11510559
    Abstract: An image processing unit includes a shake amount calculation section and a static image-storage control section, and the shake amount calculation section includes a shake amount-calculation processing section and an algorithm switching section. The algorithm switching section applies an algorithm varying for each image, and selects images of which the shake amounts calculated by the shake amount-calculation processing section are small. A first image and a second image, which are selected as the images of which the shake amounts are small, are stored in a static image-storage unit. A display control unit displays static images for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kubo
  • Publication number: 20220375568
    Abstract: A rehabilitation planning apparatus, a rehabilitation planning system, a rehabilitation planning method, and a program capable of efficiently creating a rehabilitation plan are provided. A rehabilitation planning apparatus (1) includes a rehabilitation pattern selection unit (2), an ability value prediction unit (3) that predicts a physical ability value after a target patient performs rehabilitation indicated in a selected rehabilitation pattern, a repetition control unit (4) that performs control so that the selection by the rehabilitation pattern selection unit (2) and the prediction by the ability value prediction unit (3) are repeated, and a determination unit (5) that determines a rehabilitation pattern for, among combinations of rehabilitation patterns and physical ability values obtained through the repetition of the selection and the prediction, a combination of which the physical ability value satisfies a predetermined condition as a rehabilitation plan for the target patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori HOSOI, Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO
  • Publication number: 20220375567
    Abstract: A rehabilitation planning apparatus includes: a similarity calculation unit that calculates a degree of similarity between each of a plurality of pieces of past information and target patient information, each of the plurality of pieces of past information being information about a respective one of a plurality of past patients who performed rehabilitation in a past, and the target patient information being information about a target patient; a ranking unit that extracts at least one piece of past information from the plurality of pieces of past information based on the degree of similarity, and ranks the at least one piece of past information according to a predetermined ranking rule; and a determination unit that determines, as a rehabilitation plan for the target patient, a rehabilitation history of the past patient associated with the past information according to a result of the ranking of the pieces of past information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori HOSOI, Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO, Shigemi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220354351
    Abstract: In a case where a predetermined mono-light emission switching condition is satisfied and a mode is thus automatically switched to the mono-light emission mode from the multi-light emission mode, a mode is automatically switched to the multi-light emission mode from the mono-light emission mode in a case where a preset multi-light emission restart condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro KUBO
  • Patent number: 11491528
    Abstract: A method of producing a hot press-formed product, in which a die includes a hard layer having a skewness (Rsk), as measured in a direction from the outside of a die hole toward the inside of the die hole, of from ?5.0 to 1.2, and a hardness Hv_Die of from HV 1,000 to 1,550, over the entirety of a region of a steel sheet contact surface that is adjacent to a die shoulder portion. The steel sheet contact surface is a surface located outside of the die hole and configured to contact a plated steel sheet (a plated steel sheet including at least one kind of plating layer selected from the group consisting of a hot-dip galvanizing layer and a zinc nickel plating layer) that is to be subjected to hot press forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kubo, Naruhiko Nomura, Toshiya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220351853
    Abstract: An environment management system, an environment management method, and a program that are capable of reducing the load imposed on a responder are provided. An environment management system includes: a determination unit configured to determine, based on a feature value of biological information of a target patient to be input, identification information indicating a condition of the target patient; an estimation unit configured to estimate environment control information for the target patient based on the identification information and an environment control prediction parameter that has been learned in advance; and an environment control unit configured to automatically change a surrounding environment of the target patient based on the environment control information for the target patient estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji OHNO, Toshinori HOSOI, Masatake TAKAI, Masahiro KUBO, Shigemi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220330880
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a calculating unit configured to calculate, based on subject information including a first assessment value representing an assessment of a subject at a predetermined moment for each of a plurality of items set in FIM (Functional Independence Measure), a prediction value representing an assessment of the subject predicted after the predetermined moment; and a control unit configured to set the prediction value as a provisional assessment value representing a provisional assessment of the subject for a predetermined item of the FIM, and control to output so as to display in a correctable manner on an information processing device operated by an assessor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Kosaka, Masahiro Kubo, Toshinori Hosoi