Patents Assigned to Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20100246925
    Abstract: It is possible to improve a diagnostic performance by a dynamic image and in particular, to provide information effective for diagnosis of the lung ventilation function. Provided is a dynamic image capturing system including: a calculation device which calculates a dynamic feature amount according to a plurality of frame images of the dynamic image captured by an imaging device; and a diagnosis console which displays the frame images of the captured dynamic image as a dynamic image display or a still image display on a display screen of a display unit and colors at least one of the frame images with a color in accordance with a calculation result of a feature amount obtained by the calculation device. In the diagnosis of the lung ventilation function, the breast portion of an examinee is dynamically imaged over a plurality of time phases to calculate a feature amount and an estimated ventilation amount at each of the time phases, so that the calculation results are displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Sumiya NAGATSUKA, Yoshihiro TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 7798632
    Abstract: To reduce ink bleeding and growing of dot diameters for high image quality, an ink jet recording apparatus for recording a color image includes a first head group including chromatic color ink recording heads, a second head group including at least one of a transparent ink recording head and an achromatic color ink recording head, and light emitting devices for curing a photocurable ink having landed on a recording medium. The first and the second head groups are disposed along a scanning direction. The chromatic color ink recording heads of the first head group do not have the light emitting device therebetween along the scanning direction. And the light emitting device is arranged along the scanning direction between the first and second head groups and further arranged at least on a trailing side, in the scanning direction, of a trailing one of the first and second head groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihide Hoshino
  • Patent number: 7798625
    Abstract: An active ray curable ink-jet ink set comprising an active ray curable yellow ink, an active ray curable cyan ink, an active ray curable black ink, and further one or more active ray curable color inks other than yellow, cyan and black, wherein each of the active ray curable inks contains a photo-polymerization initiator, a photo-polymerizable compound, a pigment, and a dispersing agent which has an amine value and an acid value, provided that the acid value is higher than the amine value, and an average particle diameter of the pigment contained in the yellow ink is larger than that of the pigment in the cyan ink and than that of the pigment in the black ink by 0.025-0.090 ?m, and further the average particle diameter of the pigment contained in each of the inks of the active ray curable ink-jet ink set is 0.070-0.220 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 7798606
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus for recording an image by jetting inks in a plurality of colors includes a plurality of recording-head modules for jetting inks in the plurality of colors, and a carriage for mounting the plurality of recording-head modules, wherein each recording-head module includes a plurality of recording heads for jetting ink in the same color and constructs a unit capable of integrally attaching and detaching the plurality of recording heads to and from the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Satoshi Nishino
  • Publication number: 20100232986
    Abstract: A micro total analysis system, comprising: an examination chip provided with a micro flow path and a flow path opening section communicating with a micropump on the upstream side of a reagent containing section, a drive fluid tank containing drive fluid, a micropump unit provided with a plurality of the micropumps such that the upstream side of each micropump communicates with the drive fluid tank and a flow path opening communicating with the micro flow path of the examination chip is provided on the downstream side, and a system body including the micropump unit and the drive fluid tank in one storing body, wherein analysis is performed while the examination chip is attached to the system body, and a mechanism for altering the direction of pressure at the flow path opening of the micropump unit depending on attaching/detaching of the examination chip to/from the system main body is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sando, Akihisa Nakajima, Kusunoki Higashino, Youichi Aoki
  • Patent number: 7795323
    Abstract: An active ray curable ink-jet ink comprising at least an organic pigment, a polymer dispersant, a photo-initiator and a cationic polymerizable compound, wherein the active ray curable ink-jet ink incorporates a quaternary ammonium salt and a content of the quaternary ammonium salt is not less than 5 ppm and not more than 500 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Takabayashi
  • Publication number: 20100221663
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light sensitive planographic printing plate material which excels in printing durability and tone reproduction property in high resolution printing as in FM screening, and an image formation method employing the light sensitive planographic printing plate material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takagi
  • Patent number: 7786447
    Abstract: A scintillator panel comprising: a radiation-transparent substrate; and a phosphor layer provided on the substrate, the phosphor layer emitting light when irradiated with a radiation, wherein at least one edge of the substrate and at least one edge of the phosphor layer are arranged on a same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi Kondo, Takehiko Shoji, Mitsuru Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 7787587
    Abstract: A radiographing apparatus of an image radiographing system is equipped with plural sensors each detecting an amount of radiation transmitted through a breast in the course of radiographing, and it transmits sensor data showing an output value of each sensor to a control apparatus through a network. In the control apparatus, a mammary gland content rate corresponding to an output value of each sensor is acquired based on sensor data transmitted from the radiographing apparatus, then, a breast type is discriminated based on an average mammary gland content rate and on the state of distribution of mammary gland content rates, and image processing conditions are established based on the results of discrimination of the breast type. Then, based on the image processing conditions thus established, image processing is given to image data acquired from a reading apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Misae Tasaki
  • Patent number: 7780255
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus having a recording head unit having nozzle lines driven with multi-phase drive, a moving unit to move the recording head unit in a scanning direction crossing the nozzle lines, a clock generating unit, and a recording head control section. The recording head control section includes a phase control section to control each drive phase of the nozzle lines on the basis of the clock signals, and controls the recording head unit such that, by driving the nozzle lines with the drive phases controlled by the phase control section during movement of the recording head unit by the moving unit, an image is recorded with a plurality of pixels reduced by a predetermined reduced pattern, and with predetermined times of repetition of this recording, an image recording in the recording area is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Niekawa
  • Publication number: 20100210030
    Abstract: Disclosed are an assembly of semiconductor nanoparticle phosphors, which can provide stable evaluation without variation in emission wavelength or in intensity of emission among the particles when used as a labeling agent through which a single-molecule observation is carried out, a preparation method of the assembly, and a single-molecule observation method employing the assembly. Also disclosed is a method for preparing an assembly of semiconductor nanoparticle phosphors according to a liquid phase method, the method comprising the step of reacting a semiconductor precursor at a temperature which is not lower than the melting point of the semiconductor precursor and is not higher than the boiling point of a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Goan, Kumiko Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20100211615
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a technique enabling an information added by another user to be referenced and enabling the range of the information the user references from a database to be customized A related information database in which a plurality of elements are accumulated is prepared, and an output setting information in which an information relating to the output of an additional information is associated with each other, in response to the additional writing of the additional information by a certain user to the related information database is stored. The output setting information of the certain user can be changed by the user. A portion of information is extracted from the related information database in accordance with an input of an extraction condition by the user, and the portion of information is visually output according to information relating to the output of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventors: Youichi Kawakami, Kosuke Sasai
  • Publication number: 20100194777
    Abstract: An image processing method and device for converting monochromatic image data into color display image data, characterized in that the display characteristics are obtained, candidate color display image is selected according to the signal value of the monochromatic image data, at least either target brightness information or target chromatic information at least one of the brightness and chromaticity comprised in the candidate color display image data is calculated based on the display characteristics, the signal value of the color display image data corresponding to the signal value of the monochromatic image data is determined from the candidate color display image data based on at least one of the comparison between each calculated brightness and the target brightness and the comparison between each chromaticity and the target chromaticity, and the signal value of the monochromatic image data is associated with that of the determined color display image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventors: Akira Yamano, Masayuki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 7769602
    Abstract: In a controller which controls a reader for reading a radiographic image recorded in a cassette, a display controlling device is provided for the user to select one of three modes. The three modes are a pre-registration, a post-registration mode, and a non-registration mode. In the pre-registration mode, radiographing is conducted to acquire an image after the relationship between information of the body part to be radiographed and the cassette has been registered as radiographing reservation information. In the post-registration mode, an image is acquired after the relationship between information of the body part to be radiographed and the cassette insertion order has been registered as radiographing reservation information. In the non-registration mode, an image is acquired without registration of any relationship as radiographing reservation information and the following processes are continued according to the user's selected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Wataru Motoki
  • Patent number: 7766473
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus including: a recording head having a plurality of ink ejection openings for ejecting photo-curable ink, the ink ejection openings being formed along a feeding direction of the recording medium; a light irradiation device for irradiating the ejected ink; a moving unit for reciprocally moving the recording head and the light irradiation device in a main scanning direction; a feeding unit for feeding the recording medium in the feeding direction by a predetermined amount at a time; and a control unit for ejecting ink needed for forming one band by reciprocally scanning the recording head n times to record an image, wherein the inkjet recording apparatus irradiates the ink ejected in respective scans of first to (n?1)th scans with the light at the respective scans and the inkjet recording apparatus irradiates the ink ejected in the nth scan at one of the (n+1)th and subsequent scans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihide Hoshino
  • Patent number: 7758179
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus 1 is provided with: a recording head 10 to eject light-hardenable ink onto a recording medium S; a plurality of light sources 12a and 13a configured with semiconductor light emitting elements to radiate light onto the light-hardenable ink; a constant voltage power supply 14 to receive an alternating current and convert into a direct current power having a predetermined voltage; constant current circuits 15a and 15b to convert the direct current power supplied from the constant voltage power supply into a direct current power having a predetermined current value and to supply the direct current power to the light sources; and a control section 16 to control the current value of the direct current power supplied from the constant current circuits, where a plurality of the light sources are connected serially and a plurality of the constant current circuits are provided in accordance with number of blocks 11a and 11b which are configured with a plurality of light sources divided int
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Niekawa
  • Patent number: 7753516
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a drum rotor rotating while holding recording medium on circumferential surface; a head unit disposed facing circumferential surface and movable relatively to drum rotor along axis direction, and provided with image recording head and background recording head; a light irradiating device for curing ink on recording medium, light irradiating device facing circumferential surface of drum rotor and aligned with head unit along rotation direction of drum rotor; and a control device that controls drum rotor to rotate, head unit to move along axis direction while jetting real image recording ink and background recording ink, and light irradiating device to irradiate light, wherein the control unit performs control such that, during a time after one of image recording head and background recording head has performed recording and before the other one performs recording, light irradiating device irradiates light onto ink of record generated by the one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Yoneyama
  • Publication number: 20100171076
    Abstract: Disclosed are near-infrared light-emitting phosphor nanoparticles with an extremely small particle size, which emit light with a high intensity of emission and which are suitable for a biological substance labeling agent, a method for manufacturing the same, and a biological substance labeling agent employing the same. The near-infrared light-emitting phosphor nanoparticles of the invention are near-infrared light-emitting phosphor nanoparticles with an average particle size of from 2 to 50 nm, which when excited by a near-infrared light with a wavelength in the range of from 700 to 900 nm, emit a near-infrared light with a wavelength in the range of from 700 to 2000 nm, the nanoparticles being characterized in that at least a part of the composition is represented by a specific formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoko Furusawa, Hideki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20100171682
    Abstract: A medical image display apparatus is provided with improvement in operability in adding and correcting annotations and convenience for use. An annotation registration table for storing modality information, testing portion information, and annotation, which are correspondingly associated to each other, is prepared in advance in a memory. A CPU of a testing-image device stores medical image data received from a modality in a testing-image waiting list table. The CPU extracts the modality information and the testing portion information from header information that the medical image data designated by an operation of an input unit contain. The CPU reads out annotation data consistent with the modality information and the testing portion information from the annotation registration table. The CPU displays the read-out annotation data on a display unit and updates the medical image data by attaching the selected annotation data to a place on coordinates designated on a medical image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.
    Inventor: Defeng Chen
  • Patent number: 7751529
    Abstract: A radiation image radiographing system 1 including a radiation image detector 5 detecting a radiated radiation to obtain image information, a console 6 operating the radiation image detector 5, and associating means for performing the association with the console 6 operating the radiation image detector 5 at the time of radiography, wherein the radiation image detector 5 includes a power supplying means 21 controlling the state of power supply according to the operation status of the console 6 associated by the associating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiromu Ohara