Patents by Inventor Masaki Watanabe

Masaki Watanabe 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: 11826203
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a shear wave propagating in an object. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate an index value that indicates viscosity within the object and that is not dependent on any physical model related to viscoelasticity, by analyzing the detected shear wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Honjo, Masaki Watanabe, Tetsuya Kawagishi
  • Publication number: 20230363916
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shaped object can achieve both of a property in the case of a high dense degree and a property in the case of a low dense degree, and have a high strength. The three-dimensional shaped object includes a dense portion formed on one side so as to be dense, and a porous portion formed on an opposite side so as to be porous. The dense portion and the porous portion are formed by a reaction product of a ceramic material with a chelating agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: RIKEN
    Inventors: Hideo YOKOTA, Kenji YAMAZAWA, Yuki TSUJIMURA, Shintaro OYAMA, Masaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11759165
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate moving speed information indicating a moving speed of an ultrasound probe, on the basis of a predetermined number of pieces of medical image data among a plurality of pieces of medical image data in a time series obtained from an ultrasound scan performed by the ultrasound probe. The processing circuitry is configured to cause a display to display the moving speed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuko Takada, Masaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230290522
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor, in which the memory stores address information representing an address of an institution that has received a prescription, and the processor is configured to, in a case where an abnormality is detected in biological information acquired from a patient, transmit identification information of the patient and information including the fact that the abnormality is detected in the biological information to the address represented by the address information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryo MATSUMOTO, Yusuke TAGUCHI, Satoshi MARUYAMA, Masaki WATANABE, Ayumi TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20230287685
    Abstract: A building includes an outer wall, a roof arranged so as to be orthogonal to the outer wall and inclined with respect to the ground, and a flashing arranged at a boundary between the roof and the outer wall. The flashing includes an attachment configured to extend along the outer wall, a guide connected to the attachment and arranged above the roof, and a water draining portion arranged so as to intersect the attachment and the guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Sekisui House, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Osada, Masaki Watanabe, Mitsuharu Yachi
  • Publication number: 20230280955
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where a print instruction to form an image by plural image forming apparatuses is received from a terminal apparatus and a pre-confirmation image of a print result is requested and in a case where an image forming apparatus is not possible to execute a printing process according to setting content designated in the print instruction, generate a pre-confirmation image corresponding to an image, which is obtained in a case where the printing process is executed in a state in which the setting content designated in the received print instruction is changed to setting content that is executable in the image forming apparatus to transmit the generated pre-confirmation image to the terminal apparatus that has transmitted the print instruction, and change the setting content of the received print instruction to the setting content that is executable in the image forming apparatus to transmit the changed setting content to another image forming
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ayumi TSUJI, Satoshi MARUYAMA, Masaki WATANABE, Yusuke TAGUCHI, Ryo MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11730444
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to perform a speckle noise reducing process on each of a plurality of images that were acquired by using an ultrasound wave and are in a time series. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate an index value indicating fluttering of image signal intensities in each of multiple positions within a region of interest, on the basis of the plurality of images resulting from the speckle noise reducing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Honjo, Masaki Watanabe, Tetsuya Kawagishi, Koichiro Kurita
  • Patent number: 11715202
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a tissue characteristic parameter value with respect to each of a plurality of positions within a region of interest, by analyzing a result of a scan performed on a patient. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a measurement region in the region of interest by performing an analysis while using the tissue characteristic parameter values. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a statistic value of the tissue characteristic parameter values in the measurement region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Honjo, Yu Igarashi, Masaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230225709
    Abstract: A medical image processing device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a contrast-enhanced image of a subject at least after a portal vein dominant phase among contrast-enhanced images of the subject to which a contrast medium has been administered in a process of reaching a post-vascular phase from an artery dominant phase via the portal vein dominant phase, and detect a site where the contrast medium has been washed out as a defective part in the contrast-enhanced image after the portal vein dominant phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki YOSHIARA, Masaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11701091
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured to generate a harmonic signal and a fundamental wave signal based on a reception signal that is collected by an ultrasound probe, the harmonic signal corresponding to a harmonic component of a reflected wave of a ultrasound generated in the subject, the fundamental wave signal corresponding to a fundamental wave component of the reflected wave, calculate a first index value indicating tissue properties of the subject based on the harmonic signal, and calculate a second index value indicating the tissue properties based on the fundamental wave signal, and display an analysis result based on the first index value and the second index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Honjo, Masaki Watanabe, Tetsuya Kawagishi, Keita Yonemori
  • Publication number: 20230182231
    Abstract: A thermal radiation light detection device includes: a housing including a plurality of wall portions; a light entrance unit attached to a wall portion and configured to cause thermal radiation light to enter the housing; a light extraction unit disposed inside housing and configured to extract light of a first wavelength and light of a second wavelength from the thermal radiation light, the second wavelength being different from the first wavelength; a first light detection unit attached to a wall portion and configured to detect the light of the first wavelength; a second light detection unit attached to a wall portion and configured to detect the light of the second wavelength; and a first temperature detection unit attached to a wall portion, the wall portion to which the first temperature detection unit is attached being different from the wall portion to which the first light detection unit is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Katsuhisa ITOH, Masaki WATANABE, Satoshi MATSUMOTO, Takenori OHMIYA
  • Patent number: 11651485
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires an input image based on reception data collected by transmitting/receiving ultrasound by using an ultrasound probe including a plurality of vibration elements driven in accordance with a delay profile, stores a plurality of trained models for generating, based on an input image, an output image in which noise is reduced according to a wavefront shape of when the ultrasound is transmitted in an input image, selects a trained model corresponding to a type of the ultrasound probe or the delay profile from the plurality of trained models, and generates an output image by inputting an input image to the selected trained model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Honjo, Keita Yonemori, Masaki Watanabe, Yuko Takada
  • Publication number: 20230144314
    Abstract: An analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to obtain quantitative values of a plurality of types of tissue properties relating to a region of interest of a subject, and generate a diagram of the region of interest based on the quantitative values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori HONJO, Masaki WATANABE, Yu IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 11628617
    Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional object formation method for forming a three-dimensional object by at least repeating: forming a powder material layer using a powder material for three-dimensional object formation containing a base material coated with an organic material; and hardening a predetermined region of the powder material layer by delivering a hardening liquid to the powder material layer formed in the formation of a powder material layer, where the hardening liquid contains a cross-linking agent cross-linkable with the organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Teruki Kusahara, Masaki Watanabe, Keiko Osaka, Mitsuru Naruse, Mariko Kojima, Yasuyuki Yamashita, Yoshihiro Norikane
  • Publication number: 20230080726
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a transmission unit, a reception unit, a generator, and a display controller. The transmission unit causes an ultrasonic probe to transmit a displacement-producing ultrasonic wave and causes the probe to transmit a displacement-observing ultrasonic wave. The reception unit generates reflected-wave data based on a reflected wave received by the probe. The generator calculates displacement at each of a plurality of positions in the scan area over a plurality of time phases, based on the reflected-wave data, determines a time phase when the calculated displacement is substantially maximum, for each of the positions, and generates image data representing positions where the determined time phases are substantially the same as each other, among the positions. The display controller superimposes an image based on the image data on a medical image corresponding to an area including the scan area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki WATANABE, Yuko KANAYAMA, Tetsuya KAWAGISHI, Yoshimi MUTO, Eiji GOTO, Koichiro KURITA, Shogo FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 11594756
    Abstract: The sintered body has an average particle size in the range of 0.1 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less, includes gamet-type oxide base material particles having at least Li, La, and Zr, has 8% by volume or more of voids, and has an ionic conductivity of 1.0×10?5 S/cm or more at temperature of 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamakawa, Shingo Ohta, Masaki Watanabe, Naohiro Hayashi, Keita Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11568535
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to generate an output data set apparently expressing a second data set obtained by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound wave, for each scanning line, as many times as a second number that is larger than a first number, by inputting a first data set to a trained model that generates the output data set on a basis of the first data set obtained by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound wave as many times as the first number for each scanning line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Honjo, Keita Yonemori, Masaki Watanabe, Yuko Takada
  • Patent number: 11553899
    Abstract: An analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to obtain quantitative values of a plurality of types of tissue properties relating to a region of interest of a subject, and generate a diagram of the region of interest based on the quantitative values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Honjo, Masaki Watanabe, Yu Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20230003040
    Abstract: To provide a building for an apartment house that allows a vehicle to be parked adjacent to a residential part efficiently. A building includes: a plurality of housing parts formed on one floor of a building body, in each of which a resident H resides, and each including two or more residential floors and including a resident entrance part that allows entry and exit of the resident H and a service entrance part disposed on a residential floor that is different from the residential floor on which the resident entrance part is disposed; a housing-part parking part that communicates with the service entrance part of each housing part, the housing-part parking part being disposed adjacent to the housing part to enable a vehicle C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Masaki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11534142
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a transmission unit, a reception unit, a generator, and a display controller. The transmission unit causes an ultrasonic probe to transmit a displacement-producing ultrasonic wave and causes the probe to transmit a displacement-observing ultrasonic wave. The reception unit generates reflected-wave data based on a reflected wave received by the probe. The generator calculates displacement at each of a plurality of positions in the scan area over a plurality of time phases, based on the reflected-wave data, determines a time phase when the calculated displacement is substantially maximum, for each of the positions, and generates image data representing positions where the determined time phases are substantially the same as each other, among the positions. The display controller superimposes an image based on the image data on a medical image corresponding to an area including the scan area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Watanabe, Yuko Kanayama, Tetsuya Kawagishi, Yoshimi Muto, Eiji Goto, Koichiro Kurita, Shogo Fukuda