Patents Assigned to Fujifilm Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240081776
    Abstract: Provided is an ultrasonography system capable of suppressing image quality deterioration of an ultrasound image and achieving reduction in diameter of an ultrasound endoscope. An ultrasonography system includes an ultrasound transducer array in which a plurality of ultrasound transducers are arranged, a cable that is connected to the plurality of ultrasound transducers, the cable having a non-coaxial cable that includes a first cable bundle consisting of a plurality of signal wires and a plurality of ground wires, and a first shield layer with which the first cable bundle is coated, and an outer coat with which a second cable bundle consisting of a plurality of the non-coaxial cables is coated, a memory that stores static capacitance data indicating static capacitance of each signal wire included in the first cable bundle, and a processor that periodically corrects transmission and reception sensitivity of each ultrasound transducer based on the static capacitance data stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiko MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240081680
    Abstract: An acoustic wave measurement apparatus includes: an image display unit that displays an acoustic wave image; a measurement target designation receiving unit that receives designation of a measurement target; a position designation receiving unit that receives designation of a position of a measurement target on the acoustic wave image displayed on the image display unit; a measurement method information receiving unit that receives measurement method information indicating a measurement method; a detection measurement algorithm setting unit that sets a detection measurement algorithm based on the measurement target received by the measurement target designation receiving unit and the measurement method information received by the measurement method information receiving unit; and a measurement unit that detects the measurement target based on the received position and the detection measurement algorithm and performs measurement for the detected measurement target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240081761
    Abstract: A processor, specifies a target bone, which is a target of evaluation, by excluding a fracture and an artificial object in a bone part image in which at least a bone component of a subject is extracted, and derives an evaluation result indicating a state of a bone of the subject based on the target bone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240081616
    Abstract: Oxygen saturation is calculated on the basis of a calculation value with reference to an oxygen saturation calculation table TBL. A specific colorant concentration of a specific colorant other than hemoglobin is calculated on the basis of B3 image signals and G1 image signals. Whether or not a first difference D1 between the specific colorant concentration and a reference concentration is in a specific range is monitored. A correction notification related to correction of the oxygen saturation calculation table TBL is performed on the basis of a result of the monitoring of the specific colorant concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takaaki SAITO
  • Patent number: 11926746
    Abstract: Provided are an active energy ray-curable ink including a photopolymerization initiator including a compound represented by Formula (1) and at least one of a monomer A composed of a photopolymerizable monomer having a molecular weight of 400 or more or a monomer B composed of a photopolymerizable monomer having a molecular weight of 130 or more and less than 400, and an image recording method. L1 represents an organic group having 20 or less carbon atoms and a valence of n, and n represents an integer of 3 to 8. AO represents an alkyleneoxy group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and m represents an integer of 0 to 15. L2 represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or —NR11—. R11 represents a substituent. X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and n R1's and n R2's each independently represent a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kenjiro Araki
  • Patent number: 11927703
    Abstract: In an ultrasound system 1, a mobile information terminal 3 is wirelessly connected to an ultrasound probe 2 and an external monitor 4. The ultrasound probe 2 includes: a transducer array 11; a transmitting and receiving unit 14 that generates a sound ray signal by directing the transducer array 11 to transmit and receive ultrasonic waves; and an image information data generation unit 19 that generates image information data from the sound ray signal. The mobile information terminal 3 includes: a display unit 34; an operation unit 39 including a touch sensor; an operation image generation unit 37 that generates an operation image for an input operation; an external monitor data generation unit 36 that generates external monitor data from the image information data; and a terminal-side wireless communication unit 32 that transmits the external monitor data to the external monitor 4. The external monitor 4 displays an external monitor ultrasound image based on the external monitor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Karasawa
  • Patent number: 11927792
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide: an optical element in which incident light can be transmitted or reflected at an angle in the predetermined direction and the wavelength dependence of the amount of transmitted light or reflected light is small; and an optical element including the optical element. The optical element according to the present invention comprises: an optically-anisotropic layer that is formed using a composition including a liquid crystal compound and an infrared absorbing colorant, in which the optically-anisotropic layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, and an absorption of the infrared absorbing colorant in a wavelength range of 700 to 2000 nm in a minor axis direction is higher than an absorption of the infrared absorbing colorant in a wavelength range of 700 to 2000 nm in a major axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Yukito Saitoh, Ayako Muramatsu, Mayumi Nojiri, Hideyuki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11925504
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a head-mounted display that is mounted on a head of a user and has a camera unit configured to acquire a view image obtained by imaging a field of view in front of the user, and a puncture needle length calculation unit (46) that, in a case where at least a part of the puncture needle is imaged by the camera unit, recognizes the puncture needle by performing image analysis on the view image, and calculates a length of the puncture needle in the view image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11925311
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a medical diagnosis support device, an endoscope system, and a medical diagnosis support method where the visibility of a recognition result of a medical image is high. A medical diagnosis support device according to an aspect of the invention includes an image acquisition section that acquires medical images in time series, a detection section that detects a region of interest included in the medical images, a discrimination section that performs the discrimination of the medical images, a display control section that causes a display device to display any one of a result of the detection or a result of the discrimination, and a setting section that sets a waiting time required until the display is performed after the detection or the discrimination is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Maiko Endo
  • Patent number: 11930139
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor and a memory coupled to or integrated with the processor and controls an information processing apparatus, in which the processor is configured to simultaneously display, in an operation screen, a selection list of tasks for selecting a task to be executed by the information processing apparatus and a slide button as an execution button for instructing execution of the selected task, and once an operation of instructing execution of the task by the slide button is detected, performs control to change the slide button to a cancel button for canceling the task that is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Shimizu, Yu Mishima, Yoshihiro Sekine
  • Patent number: 11925481
    Abstract: Information representing a physique of a subject is extracted from an image obtained by imaging the subject. A group in which the subject is classified is specified, using the extracted information representing the physique of the subject. Image data representing a medical image obtained by imaging the subject is input to a learned model corresponding to a specified group among learned models obtained for each group by machine learning using learning data for each group. Information representing an area extracted from the medical image is acquired, which is output from the learned model with the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kenta Yamada
  • Patent number: 11925436
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: an insertion object having a photoacoustic wave generator; an insertion object image signal generator that generates an insertion object image signal from a reception signal of an acoustic wave from the photoacoustic wave generator; a first signal width detector that detects a first signal width of a portion of a predetermined signal strength in the insertion object image signal; and an insertion object display image signal generator that generates, in a case where the first signal width is larger than a second signal width, an insertion object display image signal of a width having a center at a peak position of the insertion object image signal and corresponding to the second signal width, and generates, in a case where the first signal width is smaller than the second signal width, an insertion object display image signal having a width smaller than the second signal width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Yamamoto, Tomoki Inoue, Keiji Tsubota
  • Patent number: 11925316
    Abstract: Provided is an endoscope that can easily perform the attachment and detachment work of a proximal end side of a wire with respect to a slider. An endoscope includes a base member (98) that forms a slider housing space (150) that is independent of an internal space of an operating part (22), an opening part (94) that is provided at a proximal end of a wire channel (62) and delivers the proximal end side of the wire (60) to a slider housing space (150), a slider (96) that is disposed in the slider housing space (150) and moves in a longitudinal direction of the operating part (22) depending on the operation of an erection operating lever (20) so as to be movable forward and backward, an engaged part (152) that is provided in the slider (96) and recessed toward a lateral side orthogonal to a movement direction of the slider (96), and an engaging member (154) that is provided at the proximal end of the wire (60) and is pushed into and engageable with the engaged part (152) from the lateral side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Harada
  • Patent number: 11926740
    Abstract: Provided are a resin composition including a compound represented by Formula (1) and a resin, a film and a filter including the resin composition, a liquid crystal display device and a solid-state imaging element including the filter, and a compound suitable as a light absorbing component of the resin composition and the filter. In Formula (1), Dye represents a colorant structural part obtained by removing n1 hydrogen atoms from a squarylium compound having a specific structure. Q1 is a structural part in which energy levels of a highest occupied molecular orbital and a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital satisfy a specific condition. L1 represents a divalent linking group and n1 represents an integer of 1 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Sasaki, Akihiro Hara, Kunihiko Kodama, Nobutaka Fukagawa, Yu Naito, Hiroki Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11926125
    Abstract: Provided are a colored resin particle dispersion containing colored resin particles and water, in which the colored resin particles contain a water-insoluble chain polymer and at least one dye selected from the group consisting of an oil-soluble dye, a disperse dye and a vat dye, and the water-insoluble chain polymer has a structure represented by the following General Formula (G), a cyclic structure, and a hydrophilic group, an ink manufactured using the colored resin particle dispersion, an ink set having the ink, an inkjet printing method using the ink, and a method of manufacturing the colored resin particle dispersion. In the General Formula (G), Rg represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Lg represents —O—, —S—, or —NRz-, Rz represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and * represents a bonding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Suzuki, Noriaki Sato, Naoka Hamada, Ryoichi Nakano, Masao Ikoshi
  • Patent number: 11929174
    Abstract: A machine learning method and an apparatus, a program, a learned model, and a discrimination apparatus capable of controlling a calculation amount by learning a new task without changing output performance for an existing task in a learned network are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11930259
    Abstract: One embodiment according to the technology of the present disclosure provides an optical element, an optical device, an imaging apparatus, and a manufacturing method of the optical element, for capturing a multispectral image. An optical element according to an aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of optical filters including two or more optical filters that transmit light beams having at least partially different wavelength ranges, and a frame having an inclined surface portion with an optical axis center as an apex, in which the plurality of optical filters are installed on the inclined surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kawanago, Naoki Nishimoto, Shuhei Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11929172
    Abstract: There is provided a medical examination support apparatus in which the history of diagnosis can be easily grasped at a glance, and an operation method and an operation program thereof. A screen output control unit of a medical examination support server generates a log display screen and transmits the log display screen to a client terminal. In a collective display region in the log display screen, an APL block and a MOL block are collectively displayed in a time series in a distinguishable manner. The APL block is a display block of an automatic processing log APL which is a history of automatically performing analysis processing on examination data obtained in a medical examination performed on a patient by a diagnosis support algorithm to output a result of the analysis processing as diagnosis support information for supporting diagnosis of a doctor. The MOL block is a display block of a manual operation log MOL which is a history of a manual operation of the doctor with respect to the examination data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyo Nenoki, Junichi Ishigaki, Keiji Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11925314
    Abstract: There is provided an ultrasound endoscope of which a distal-end-part body of an insertion unit can be reduced in size. In an ultrasound endoscope according to an embodiment of the invention, a straight pipe portion of a first three-way pipe and a straight pipe portion of a second three-way pipe are arranged adjacent to each other in a direction orthogonal to the direction of a longitudinal axis of an insertion unit, and a branch pipe portion and the straight pipe portion are arranged at positions overlapping with each other in a case where the first three-way pipe and the second three-way pipe are projected onto a plane perpendicular to the direction of the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Okada, Yasuhiko Morimoto, Tsuneo Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: D1017668
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Yoshida