Patents Assigned to ANSeeN, INC.
  • Patent number: 12153173
    Abstract: An object is to improve the reliability of output information by simplifying a wiring route. A radiation image sensor includes a radiation detector in which a plurality of pixels of a charge generator for generating a charge corresponding to energy or the number of particles of incident radiation and a plurality of read circuits for outputting a digital value based on the charge generated by each pixel of the charge generator are mutually stacked and two-dimensionally disposed, and a circuit board on which a plurality of radiation detectors is disposed, in which the plurality of read circuits of one radiation detector is configured to transfer data indicating a digital value in the plurality of read circuits and then output the data to another adjacent radiation detector in response to a control signal from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, ANSEEN INC
    Inventors: Toru Aoki, Katsuyuki Takagi, Akifumi Koike
  • Patent number: 12111431
    Abstract: An object is to provide intensity information and energy information while reducing processing load and power consumption. In a radiation detector, a radiation detection element, in which a plurality of pixels each configured to generate an electric charge corresponding to energy of X-rays penetrating a subject is two-dimensionally arranged, and a plurality of read circuits each configured to output an intensity signal of transmitted X-rays based on the electric charge generated by each of the plurality of pixels are stacked with each other, and some read circuits thinned out from a plurality of read circuits each generate a spectral signal related to a spectrum of a transmitted X-ray based on the electric charge and output the spectral signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, ANSEEN INC.
    Inventors: Toru Aoki, Katsuyuki Takagi, Kosuke Kimura, Akifumi Koike
  • Patent number: 11921057
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging device that includes an X-ray source, an X-ray sensor that acquires intensity information of X-rays, a distance sensor that obtains distance information to a surface of an imaging object, and an information processing device that obtains imaging information by using the intensity information and the distance information. The information processing device includes an extraction unit that extracts information used in generation of the imaging information from the intensity information by using at least the distance information, and a reconstruction unit that generates the imaging information by using the intensity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, ANSEEN INC.
    Inventors: Toru Aoki, Katsuyuki Takagi, Akifumi Koike
  • Patent number: 11179133
    Abstract: Provided are a collimator, a radiation detection device, and a radiation inspection device that are capable of further removing scattered radiation. This collimator 20 comprises: a radiation blocking section 22; and a radiation transmission section 21 that has a lower radiation blocking rate than the radiation blocking section 22, penetrates the radiation blocking section 22, and is solid. The X-ray transmission section 21 of the collimator 20 is solid therefore X-rays on the low-energy side that have been scattered by a subject B in the X-ray transmission section 21 are absorbed, as a result of this collimator 20. Accordingly, there is little noise contained in X-rays detected by a radiation detection element 30 and a high-resolution X-ray image can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ANSEEN INC.
    Inventors: Hisashi Morii, Takaharu Okunoyama, Katsuyuki Takagi
  • Publication number: 20160356897
    Abstract: A waveform discrimination device includes: a waveform detector receiving waveforms of pulses to be measured and converting the waveforms to electrical signals; an analog amplifier expanding transient waveforms of the electrical signals along a time-domain axis; an AD converter converting the electrical signals to digital data in rise and fall times of the electrical signals; and a signal processing circuit calculating a characteristic-amount of the rise time as a point on a first coordinate axis by using the digital data, and calculating a characteristic-amount of the fall time as a point on a second coordinate axis, so as to define a set of the points on the first and second coordinate axes as a coordinate point, and plot the coordinate point on a discrimination plane, wherein, by plotted positions of the coordinate point, whether the pulses has a first waveform or a second waveform is discriminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicants: ANSeeN, INC., National University Corporation Shizuoka University
    Inventors: Toru AOKI, Akifumi KOIKE