Patents by Inventor Masato Ninomiya

Masato Ninomiya 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: 11622688
    Abstract: A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires a tomographic image of skin by processing an optical interference signal from an optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic image; and a display device that displays an image of the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit sets a reference profile obtained by function approximation of an intensity profile in a depth direction of the acquired tomographic image, calculates a difference between an intensity value on the reference profile and an actual intensity value as an outlier V, the intensity values being those in the depth direction in the tomographic image, determines, as blood vessels or blood vessel candidates, coordinates with the outliers V within a predetermined blood vessel determination range, and calculates the network of blood vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD., MEIJO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yusuke Hara, Toyonobu Yamashita, Masato Ninomiya, Souichi Saeki
  • Patent number: 11238584
    Abstract: A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism that guides light from a light source to skin tissue to scan the skin tissue; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires tomographic images of the skin by processing optical interference signals from the optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic images; and a display device that displays the network of blood vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: Shiseido Company, Ltd., University Public Corporation Osaka
    Inventors: Yusuke Hara, Toyonobu Yamashita, Masato Ninomiya, Souichi Saeki
  • Publication number: 20200237230
    Abstract: A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires a tomographic image of skin by processing an optical interference signal from an optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic image; and a display device that displays an image of the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit sets a reference profile obtained by function approximation of an intensity profile in a depth direction of the acquired tomographic image, calculates a difference between an intensity value on the reference profile and an actual intensity value as an outlier V, the intensity values being those in the depth direction in the tomographic image, determines, as blood vessels or blood vessel candidates, coordinates with the outliers V within a predetermined blood vessel determination range, and calculates the network of blood vessels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke HARA, Toyonobu YAMASHITA, Masato NINOMIYA, Souichi SAEKI
  • Publication number: 20200237293
    Abstract: A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires a tomographic image of the skin by processing an optical interference signal from the optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic image; and a display device that displays the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit expresses thicknesses of the network of blood vessels by defining, as a blood vessel radius, a radius from a set of blood vessel corresponding coordinates determined to be a blood vessel in the calculation of the network of blood vessels and within which other sets of blood vessel corresponding coordinates are present and, superimposing distinctions based on magnitudes of blood vessel radii from the respective sets of blood vessel corresponding coordinates onto the image of the network of blood vessels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke HARA, Toyonobu YAMASHITA, Masato NINOMIYA, Souichi SAEKI
  • Publication number: 20200226756
    Abstract: A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism that guides light from a light source to skin tissue to scan the skin tissue; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires tomographic images of the skin by processing optical interference signals from the optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic images; and a display device that displays the network of blood vessels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke HARA, Toyonobu YAMASHITA, Masato NINOMIYA, Souichi SAEKI
  • Patent number: D711885
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Jun Ohshima, Masato Ninomiya
  • Patent number: D771884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Ninomiya
  • Patent number: D780388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Ninomiya
  • Patent number: D823563
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Ninomiya
  • Patent number: D876736
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Ninomiya, Toshiyuki Yamanouchi