Patents by Inventor Yasunori Morita
Yasunori Morita 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: 20240114781Abstract: The present invention is to provide a photoelectric conversion element with an excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency, an imaging element, an optical sensor, and a compound. The photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes, in the following order, a conductive film, a photoelectric conversion film, and a transparent conductive film, in which the photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by Formula (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masaki MORITA, Ryo FUJIWARA, Hiroki SUGIURA, Yasunori YONEKUTA, Hiyoku NAKATA
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Publication number: 20240079643Abstract: A method for producing a compact of an electrolyte containing a sulfonyl imide compound represented by the general formula (1) includes compressing of performing compression-granulating of the electrolyte in a powder form to obtain a sheet-shaped or strip-shaped electrolyte, and pulverizing the sheet-shaped or strip-shaped electrolyte to obtain a granular electrolyte compact, or tableting the electrolyte in a powder form to obtain a tablet-shaped electrolyte compact. LiN(R1SO2)(R2SO2) (wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different from each other and each represent a fluorine atom, an alkyl group with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a fluoroalkyl group with 1 to 6 carbon atoms) (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro MORITA, Yasunori OKUMURA, Katsuhiko SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230360298Abstract: An endoscope processor includes a processor. The processor discriminates, in first image information acquired by applying first illumination light, between first region image information constituted of an object of an interest subject and second region image information constituted of an object of a non-interest subject, generates third region image information of a region in second image information acquired by applying second illumination light, the region including at least a part of a region of the second region image information, the second illumination light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the first illumination light and passing through the object of the non-interest subject, and combines the first region image information and the third region image information, to generate a partial transparent image in which the object of the non-interest subject of the first image information is made transparent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Akihiro KUBOTA, Yamato KANDA, Yasunori MORITA, Naohisa TAKABATAKE, Takashi KONO, Hiroki TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11717144Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an illumination device generating illumination light including a first light, a second light, and a third light, an imaging device capturing an image based on return light from biological tissue, and a processor configured to perform image processing based on first, second, and third images respectively corresponding to the first light, the second light, and the third light. The first light has a peak wavelength within a predetermined wavelength range including a wavelength achieving a largest value of a hemoglobin absorption coefficient. The second light has a peak wavelength between a wavelength achieving a smallest value of the hemoglobin absorption coefficient and a wavelength achieving a first maximum value of the hemoglobin absorption coefficient on a shorter wavelength side of the wavelength achieving the smallest value. The third light has a peak wavelength between the peak wavelengths of the first light and the second light.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori Morita
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Publication number: 20220022739Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes comprises a processor. The processor causes the light source device to produce narrow band light as illumination light, and the narrow band light has a peak wavelength between a wavelength band including a local maximum of a hemoglobin absorption characteristic and a wavelength band including a local minimum of the hemoglobin absorption characteristic. The processor receives an image signal from the imaging device that outputs the image signal based on return light. The processor uses an image produced in response to the image signal to identify a state of the living body by identifying at least one of whether or not stomach mucosa is in a sterilized state, or whether or not the stomach mucosa is inflamed mucosa, outputs state identifying information indicating the state of the living body, and controls wavelength characteristics of the illumination light based on the state identifying information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Seigo ON, Yasunori MORITA, Masashi HIROTA
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Publication number: 20210401268Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes a processor. An image signal includes a first image signal corresponding to first light and a second image signal corresponding to second light. The processor determines at least one of whether or not a submucosa region or a bleeding region is included in an image based on the image signal. In a case where the submucosa region is included, the processor performs conversion processing that increases a combination ratio of the second image signal to the first image signal in an image region including the submucosa region, and allocates a combined image signal to a G-channel. In a case where the bleeding region is included, the processor performs conversion processing that increases a combination ratio of the first image signal to the second image signal in an image region including the bleeding region, and allocates the combined image signal to the G-channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Jumpei TAKAHASHI, Masashi HIROTA, Yasunori MORITA
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Publication number: 20210145266Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: a light source device alternately emitting a first illumination light group including green light and a second illumination light group not including the green light; an image sensor including color filters of a plurality of colors; and a processing circuit. The processing circuit generates a display image on the basis of an image obtained with the first illumination light group and an image obtained with the second illumination light group. The first illumination light group further includes blue narrowband light together with the green light. The processing circuit generates a green channel image in the display image on the basis of a green image and a blue narrowband image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Seigo ON, Yasunori MORITA, Masashi HIROTA, Jumpei TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20210100439Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an illumination device emitting a plurality of lights with different wavelength bands at least two different timings in time series, and a processor including hardware. The plurality of lights includes a first light and a second light. The processor is configured to generate a highlighted image in which a specific structure under a mucus membrane is highlighted, based on a plurality of images obtained by the emission of the plurality of lights. The illumination device emits the first light and the second light continuously. The first light has a first wavelength band corresponding to a luminance component of the highlighted image. The second light has a second wavelength band that enables capturing of an image of the specific structure with higher contrast than the first light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi HIROTA, Jumpei TAKAHASHI, Yasunori MORITA
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Publication number: 20210088772Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an illumination device emitting first and second lights; an imaging section capturing an image of return light from a subject based on emission by the illumination device; and a processor including hardware. The first light has a peak wavelength within a first wavelength range including a wavelength at which absorbance of a biological mucosa reaches a largest value. The second light has a peak wavelength within a second wavelength range including a wavelength at which absorbance of a muscle layer reaches a maximum value, and absorbance of the second light by fat is lower than that by the muscle layer. The processor displays the biological mucosa and the muscle layer in an identifiable manner based on a first image corresponding to the first light, and displays the muscle layer and the fat in an identifiable manner based on a second image corresponding to the second light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori MORITA, Jumpei TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20210052153Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an illumination device generating illumination light including a first light, a second light, and a third light, an imaging device capturing an image based on return light from biological tissue, and a processor configured to perform image processing based on first, second, and third images respectively corresponding to the first light, the second light, and the third light. The first light has a peak wavelength within a predetermined wavelength range including a wavelength achieving a largest value of a hemoglobin absorption coefficient. The second light has a peak wavelength between a wavelength achieving a smallest value of the hemoglobin absorption coefficient and a wavelength achieving a first maximum value of the hemoglobin absorption coefficient on a shorter wavelength side of the wavelength achieving the smallest value. The third light has a peak wavelength between the peak wavelengths of the first light and the second light.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori MORITA
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Patent number: 10856805Abstract: For the purpose of allowing fat to be stably distinguished irrespective of individual differences, so as to prevent damage to nerves that surround a target organ, an image processing device includes: a fat-image-region extracting unit that extracts a fat-image region that indicates a region, in a living-tissue image, where fat exists; a fat-color-component detecting unit that detects a fat-color-component amount that determines the color of fat, from the fat-image region extracted by the fat-image-region extracting unit; and a correction unit that corrects the signal intensity of the fat-image region extracted by the fat-image-region extracting unit on the basis of the fat-color-component amount detected by the fat-color-component detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori Morita
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Publication number: 20200121175Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor including hardware. The processor performs a color attenuation process on regions other than a yellow region in a captured image including a subject image to relatively enhance the visibility of the yellow region in the captured image. The processor detects a blood region that is a region of blood in the captured image based on color information of the captured image. The processor suppresses or stops an attenuation process on the blood region based on detection result of the blood region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori MORITA
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Patent number: 10165934Abstract: An endoscope apparatus has an image pickup device having a first pixel having a sensitivity in a predetermined wavelength band, and a second pixel having a sensitivity in a wavelength band including a part of the predetermined wavelength band, a light source section configured to generate a light for irradiating a subject, an intensity of which reaches a peak in the part of the predetermined wavelength band to which the second pixel has a sensitivity, and an addition section configured to generate an addition signal obtained by adding a first image pickup signal obtained by receiving a return light from the subject at a time of the subject being irradiated in the first pixel, and a second image pickup signal obtained by receiving a return light from the subject in the second pixel.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Igarashi, Yasunori Morita, Kazuhiro Takizawa
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Patent number: 10159404Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: a light source that emits white light or narrow-band light; an image sensor having pixels; a color filter including a filter unit having a plurality of filters in which the number of filters for passing green wavelength band light and the number of filters for passing blue wavelength band light satisfy predetermined conditions; a first gain adjustment unit that adjusts a gain of an electric signal generated by the image sensor; a demosaicing processing unit that generates an image signal of a color component passing through a filter based on the electric signal whose gain has been adjusted by the first gain adjustment unit; a color conversion processing unit that performs color separation on an image signal when the light source unit emits the white light; and a second gain adjustment unit that adjusts a gain of each image signal subjected to the color conversion processing.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori Morita
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Publication number: 20180033142Abstract: Provided is an image-processing portion including: a fat-region setting portion that detects fat-region information that indicates a fat region in which fat exists in a biological-tissue image; a blood-region-information detecting portion that detects blood-region information that indicates a blood region in which blood exists in the biological-tissue image; a confidence-calculating portion that calculates a confidence for the fat-region information on a basis of the fat-region-information detected by the fat-region setting portion and the blood-region-information detected by the blood-region-information detecting portion; and a display-form setting portion that manipulates the fat region indicated by the fat-region information for which the calculated confidence calculated by the fat-region confidence-calculating portion is lower than a reference confidence that serves as a reference so as to have a display form that can be distinguished from a peripheral region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori MORITA
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Publication number: 20180008134Abstract: An endoscope system includes an image acquisition section, an attention area setting section, and a dimming control section. The image acquisition section acquires a captured image that includes an object image. The attention area setting section sets an attention area within the captured image based on information from the endoscope system. The dimming control section performs a dimming control process that controls the intensity of illumination light based on the attention area set by the attention area setting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori MORITA, Seigo ON, Jumpei TAKAHASHI, Naoya KURIYAMA, Keiji HIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20170340273Abstract: For the purpose of allowing fat to be stably distinguished irrespective of individual differences, so as to prevent damage to nerves that surround a target organ, an image processing device includes: a fat-image-region extracting unit that extracts a fat-image region that indicates a region, in a living-tissue image, where fat exists; a fat-color-component detecting unit that detects a fat-color-component amount that determines the color of fat, from the fat-image region extracted by the fat-image-region extracting unit; and a correction unit that corrects the signal intensity of the fat-image region extracted by the fat-image-region extracting unit on the basis of the fat-color-component amount detected by the fat-color-component detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori MORITA
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Patent number: 9826884Abstract: An image processing device includes an image acquisition section that acquires a captured image that includes an image of an object, the captured image being an image captured by an imaging section, a distance information acquisition section that acquires distance information based on the distance from the imaging section to the object when the imaging section captured the captured image, an irregularity information acquisition section that acquires extracted irregularity information from the acquired distance information, the extracted irregularity information being information that represents irregular parts extracted from the object, and an enhancement section that performs an enhancement process on an enhancement target, the enhancement target being an irregular part that is represented by the extracted irregularity information and agrees with characteristics specified by known characteristic information, the known characteristic information being information that represents known characteristics relatingType: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS COPORATIONInventor: Yasunori Morita
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Patent number: 9801531Abstract: An endoscope system includes an image acquisition section, an attention area setting section, and a dimming control section. The image acquisition section acquires a captured image that includes an object image. The attention area setting section sets an attention area within the captured image based on information from the endoscope system. The dimming control section performs a dimming control process that controls the intensity of illumination light based on the attention area set by the attention area setting section.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Morita, Seigo On, Jumpei Takahashi, Naoya Kuriyama, Keiji Higuchi
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Patent number: 9629525Abstract: An image processing device includes a normal light image acquisition section that acquires a normal light image that includes an object image and includes information within a wavelength band of white light, a special light image acquisition section that acquires a special light image that includes an object image and includes information within a specific wavelength band, a correction section that performs a correction process on the special light image, and a blending section that performs a blending process that blends the normal light image and a corrected special light image that is the special light image corrected by the correction section. The blending section blends a component G of the normal light image and a component G of the corrected special light image, and blends a component B of the normal light image and a component B of the corrected special light image.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori Morita