Patents by Inventor Satoshi Naito
Satoshi Naito 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).
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Publication number: 20240075463Abstract: Particles for an exhaust gas purification catalyst including: inorganic oxide particles; and an inorganic coating layer covering the inorganic oxide particles. The particles for an exhaust gas purification catalyst have reduced cumulative pore volume in a pore diameter range of 0.1-20 ?m compared to a cumulative pore volume in a pore diameter range of 0.1-20 ?m of inorganic oxide particles before being coated with the inorganic coating layer. Accordingly, the particles for an exhaust gas purification catalyst have a higher thermal conductivity than the inorganic oxide particles before being coated with the inorganic coating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Yukiko YAMASHITA, Satoshi MATSUEDA, Isao NAITO
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Patent number: 11911341Abstract: Provided is a multilayer vessel excellent in gas barrier performance and transparency and its application. The multilayer vessel contains a layer (X) that contains at least one type of polyolefin resin as the major ingredient; and a layer (Y) that contains a polyamide resin (A) as the major ingredient, the polyamide resin (A) being composed of a structural unit derived from diamine, and a structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid, 70 mol % or more of the structural unit derived from diamine being derived from metaxylylenediamine, meanwhile 30 to 60 mol % of the structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid being derived from straight chain aliphatic ?,?-dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, and 70 to 40 mol % being derived from isophthalic acid.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Shota Arakawa, Toshiya Naito, Satoshi Okada, Kenichiro Usuda, Takumi Toida, Haruka Okazaki, Fumihiro Ito
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Publication number: 20220016390Abstract: Provided are a catheter device and a catheter package which are capable of preventing a bend from being formed in a catheter body. The catheter body includes a wire state discrimination portion which discriminates a protruding state and a non-protruding state, in which the wire state discrimination portion includes a stopper which allows a transition from the protruding state to the non-protruding state, and blocks a transition from the non-protruding state to the protruding state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takumi DEJIMA, Tomohiro OHKI, Satoshi NAITO
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Publication number: 20210125724Abstract: There are provided a medical image processing apparatus, a medical image processing method, a machine learning system, and a program that can reduce the volume of communication and can reduce the processing load of retraining or additional training that is performed by a machine learning apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Misaki KAWAHARA, Goro MIURA, Satoshi NAITO, Shumpei KAMON, Masaaki OOSAKE
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Patent number: 10630993Abstract: An apparatus includes a first holding unit configured to hold, in a reference image, first reference pixels in a search range including a block corresponding to a first block as a coding target in the input image, a first search unit configured to search for a motion vector of a prediction block included in the first block, using the first reference pixels, a second holding unit configured to hold, in the reference image, second reference pixels in a search range including a block corresponding to a second block as a coding target, a second search unit configured to search for a motion vector of a prediction block included in the second block, using the second reference pixels, and a transfer unit configured to read, from among the first reference pixels, a reference pixel to be used by the second search unit for the search.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Satoshi Naito
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Patent number: 10595038Abstract: A moving image coding apparatus includes a feature amount derivation unit configured to derive a feature amount of a block having a reference size smaller than the block unit, the block included in a subject frame being a processing subject of the frames included in the moving image, a decision unit configured to, in a case where the feature amount, derived by the feature amount derivation unit, of the block having the reference size is matched with a first condition, decide the reference size as a block size for inter-prediction and decide a size equal to or smaller than the block size for inter-prediction as a block size for intra-prediction, and a selection unit configured to perform a predetermined evaluation and select one of inter-prediction and intra-prediction as a prediction method for the block having the block size decided by the decision unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Kimura, Reiko Fujino, Satoshi Naito
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Patent number: 10397566Abstract: An image coding apparatus which codes an image using intra prediction determines a size of a prediction block to be a unit of processing for performing intra prediction. The image coding apparatus derives a prediction error by performing intra prediction on the prediction block, derives a coding cost of a prediction mode when performing the intra prediction using a reference according to the determined size, and determines the coding cost of the prediction mode based on the coding cost of the prediction mode and the prediction error. The image coding apparatus determines a prediction mode of the prediction block from among a plurality of prediction modes based on the coding cost.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Susumu Igarashi, Satoshi Naito
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Patent number: 10275647Abstract: An image obtaining section obtains a radiation image that includes a periodic pattern of a grid. A frequency analyzing section performs frequency analysis on the radiation image to obtain a frequency spectrum of the radiation image. A peak determining section determines a peak within the frequency spectrum to be a target of processing. A first judging section measures the width of the peak which is the target of processing, and judges the quality of the grid based on the measured width of the peak.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Satoshi Naito
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Patent number: 10258305Abstract: It is detected whether a grid stripe is present in a radiographic image. In a case in which the grid stripe is detected, a process of removing the grid stripe from the radiographic image is performed and the radiographic image is displayed. In a case in which the grid stripe is not detected, a process of removing a scattered component from the radiographic image is performed and a radiographic image subjected to the scattered radiation removal process and a radiographic image before the process are displayed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Jun Enomoto, Takashi Tajima, Takeshi Koishi, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Hirofumi Sawada, Daiki Harada, Takahiro Kawamura, Satoshi Naito, Hideki Yamagishi, Noriaki Ida
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Patent number: 10235766Abstract: A subject image is acquired. A virtual model of the subject having a predetermined body thickness distribution is acquired. A composite image of an estimated primary X-ray image, which is obtained by estimating a primary X-ray image of the virtual model obtained by radiography from the virtual model, and an estimated scattered X-ray image, which is obtained by estimating a scattered X-ray image of the virtual model obtained by radiography from the virtual model, is generated as an estimated image which is obtained by estimating a radiographic image of the subject obtained by radiography. The body thickness distribution of the virtual model is corrected such that a difference between the estimated image and the subject image is reduced. The corrected body thickness distribution of the virtual model is determined as the body thickness distribution of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Satoshi Naito
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Patent number: 10231688Abstract: The distance between the radiation source and an object (SOD value) is acquired, distance dependent information which is obtained from a radiation image and changes with the distance between a radiation source and a radiation detector (SID value) is acquired, a temporary thickness of the object is determined by a first function representing the correspondence relationship of first information having at least one piece of the distance dependent information, the SID value, and the thickness of the object, and the temporary SID value is determined by adding the SOD value to the determined value. The thickness of the object is determined by a second function representing the correspondence relationship of second information having at least one piece of the distance dependent information, the SID value, and the thickness of the object, and the SID value is determined by adding the SOD value to the determined value.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Satoshi Naito, Takahiro Kawamura
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Patent number: 10219770Abstract: A radiographic image captured by irradiating a subject with radiation is acquired. A scattered radiation removal unit removes a scattered component from the radiographic image using at least imaging conditions. A correction information acquisition unit acquires correction information for correcting the degree of removal of the scattered component and changes the imaging conditions on the basis of the correction information. The scattered radiation removal unit performs a process of removing the scattered component from the radiographic image on the basis of the changed imaging conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Jun Enomoto, Takashi Tajima, Takeshi Koishi, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Hirofumi Sawada, Daiki Harada, Takahiro Kawamura, Satoshi Naito, Hideki Yamagishi, Noriaki Ida
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Publication number: 20180332299Abstract: A moving image coding apparatus includes a feature amount derivation unit configured to derive a feature amount of a block having a reference size smaller than the block unit, the block included in a subject frame being a processing subject of the frames included in the moving image, a decision unit configured to, in a case where the feature amount, derived by the feature amount derivation unit, of the block having the reference size is matched with a first condition, decide the reference size as a block size for inter-prediction and decide a size equal to or smaller than the block size for inter-prediction as a block size for intra-prediction, and a selection unit configured to perform a predetermined evaluation and select one of inter-prediction and intra-prediction as a prediction method for the block having the block size decided by the decision unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Makoto Kimura, Reiko Fujino, Satoshi Naito
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Publication number: 20180316915Abstract: An image coding apparatus which codes an image using intra prediction determines a size of a prediction block to be a unit of processing for performing intra prediction. The image coding apparatus derives a prediction error by performing intra prediction on the prediction block, derives a coding cost of a prediction mode when performing the intra prediction using a reference according to the determined size, and determines the coding cost of the prediction mode based on the coding cost of the prediction mode and the prediction error. The image coding apparatus determines a prediction mode of the prediction block from among a plurality of prediction modes based on the coding cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Susumu Igarashi, Satoshi Naito
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Publication number: 20180262761Abstract: An apparatus includes a first holding unit configured to hold, in a reference image, first reference pixels in a search range including a block corresponding to a first block as a coding target in the input image, a first search unit configured to search for a motion vector of a prediction block included in the first block, using the first reference pixels, a second holding unit configured to hold, in the reference image, second reference pixels in a search range including a block corresponding to a second block as a coding target, a second search unit configured to search for a motion vector of a prediction block included in the second block, using the second reference pixels, and a transfer unit configured to read, from among the first reference pixels, a reference pixel to be used by the second search unit for the search.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventor: Satoshi Naito
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Patent number: 9996910Abstract: A frequency resolution unit performs frequency resolution of a radiographic image to generate band images representing frequency components in a plurality of frequency bands. A reference image generation unit generates a reference image representing information associated with scattered radiation included in the radiographic image, and generates a plurality of band reference images corresponding to a plurality of frequency bands from the reference image. A band image conversion unit performs conversion between the corresponding pixels of the band reference images and the band images in the corresponding frequency bands to generate converted band images. A synthesis unit synthesizes the converted band images to generate a processed radiographic image with converted contrast.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Satoshi Naito, Takahiro Kawamura
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Publication number: 20180122094Abstract: A subject image is acquired. A virtual model of the subject having a predetermined body thickness distribution is acquired. A composite image of an estimated primary X-ray image, which is obtained by estimating a primary X-ray image of the virtual model obtained by radiography from the virtual model, and an estimated scattered X-ray image, which is obtained by estimating a scattered X-ray image of the virtual model obtained by radiography from the virtual model, is generated as an estimated image which is obtained by estimating a radiographic image of the subject obtained by radiography. The body thickness distribution of the virtual model is corrected such that a difference between the estimated image and the subject image is reduced. The corrected body thickness distribution of the virtual model is determined as the body thickness distribution of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Satoshi NAITO
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Publication number: 20180047142Abstract: A frequency resolution unit performs frequency resolution of a radiographic image to generate band images representing frequency components in a plurality of frequency bands. A reference image generation unit generates a reference image representing information associated with scattered radiation included in the radiographic image, and generates a plurality of band reference images corresponding to a plurality of frequency bands from the reference image. A band image conversion unit performs conversion between the corresponding pixels of the band reference images and the band images in the corresponding frequency bands to generate converted band images. A synthesis unit synthesizes the converted band images to generate a processed radiographic image with converted contrast.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Satoshi NAITO, Takahiro KAWAMURA
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Patent number: 9886765Abstract: A subject image is acquired. A virtual model of the subject having a predetermined body thickness distribution is acquired. A composite image of an estimated primary X-ray image, which is obtained by estimating a primary X-ray image of the virtual model obtained by radiography from the virtual model, and an estimated scattered X-ray image, which is obtained by estimating a scattered X-ray image of the virtual model obtained by radiography from the virtual model, is generated as an estimated image which is obtained by estimating a radiographic image of the subject obtained by radiography. The body thickness distribution of the virtual model is corrected such that a difference between the estimated image and the subject image is reduced. The corrected body thickness distribution of the virtual model is determined as the body thickness distribution of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Satoshi Naito
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Patent number: 9836830Abstract: A frequency resolution unit performs frequency resolution of a radiographic image to generate band images representing frequency components in a plurality of frequency bands. A reference image generation unit generates a reference image representing information associated with scattered radiation included in the radiographic image, and generates a plurality of band reference images corresponding to a plurality of frequency bands from the reference image. A band image conversion unit performs conversion between the corresponding pixels of the band reference images and the band images in the corresponding frequency bands to generate converted band images. A synthesis unit synthesizes the converted band images to generate a processed radiographic image with converted contrast.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Satoshi Naito, Takahiro Kawamura