Patents by Inventor Michiyo Tanii

Michiyo Tanii 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: 9138146
    Abstract: The biological optical measurement instrument is provided with a mobile position sensor that can move in a 3-dimensional space and that detects spatial position in the 3-dimensional space, a head-surface image creating unit that creates a head-surface image of an object and a head-surface point creating unit that creates, on the head-surface image, a head-surface point corresponding to the spatial position of the mobile position sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Michiyo Tanii, Shingo Kawasaki, Michiyuki Fujiwara, Joerg Schnackenberg, Akihiko Toda
  • Publication number: 20140206962
    Abstract: Result data indicating distribution of a biological metabolite concentration of a subject are generated by using biophotonic measurement data obtained with a biophotonic measurement device, whether the result data satisfy an arbitrary extraction condition concerning biophotonic measurement data set beforehand or not is judged, the result data are distinguishably displayed according to the results of the judgment, and thereby failure of extraction of measurement data of characteristic channels from result data obtained from as many as several tens of channels is prevented without depending on subjectivity of measurement operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michiyo Tanii
  • Patent number: 8666474
    Abstract: To provide a highly reliable inspection device that prevents a loss in reliability of inspection that uses information from a position detector as a result of the influence of magnetic bodies or the like that are present in the environment, the inspection device includes biological information measurement units that measure biological information of an inspected target and form an image containing the biological information, a magnetic position detector that detects the position of at least one of the biological information measurement units and the inspection target, and a control unit that controls the biological information measurement units and the magnetic position detector; and further includes the control unit being provided with an environmental magnetic field measurement unit that uses the output of the magnetic position detector to measure distortion of the magnetic field in the measured space in which the biological information measurement units are placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Michiyo Tanii, Shingo Kawasaki, Michiyuki Fujiwara, Takashi Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20120209105
    Abstract: In order to provide a highly reliable inspection device that prevents a loss in reliability of inspection that uses information from a position detector as a result of the influence of magnetic bodies or the like that are present in the environment, the inspection device is characterized by being provided with biological information measurement units (10, 12) that measure biological information of an inspected target and form an image containing said biological information, a magnetic position detector (50) that detects the position of at least one of the aforementioned biological information measurement units and the inspection target, and a control unit (14) that controls the aforementioned biological information measurement units and the aforementioned magnetic position detector (50); and is further characterized by the aforementioned control unit (14) being provided with an environmental magnetic field measurement unit (301) that uses the output of the aforementioned magnetic position detector (50) to mea
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiyo Tanii, Shingo Kawasaki, Michiyuki Fujiwara, Takashi Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20120203088
    Abstract: The biological optical measurement instrument is provided with a mobile position sensor that can move in a 3-dimensional space and that detects spatial position in the 3-dimensional space, a head-surface image creating unit that creates a head-surface image of an object and a head-surface point creating unit that creates, on the head-surface image, a head-surface point corresponding to the spatial position of the mobile position sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiyo Tanii, Shingo Kawasaki, Michiyuki Fujiwara, Joerg Schnackenberg, Akihiro Toda
  • Patent number: D805092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiyo Tanii, Tsukasa Funane, Stephanie Sutoko, Shingo Kawasaki
  • Patent number: D805093
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiyo Tanii, Tsukasa Funane, Stephanie Sutoko, Shingo Kawasaki