Patents Assigned to Rokken Inc.
  • Publication number: 20230245306
    Abstract: An image processing device for generating and updating three-dimensional data representing a biological tissue based on tomographic data of the biological tissue acquired by a sensor that acquires the tomographic data while moving through a lumen of the biological tissue, and causing a display to display the three-dimensional data as a three-dimensional image includes: a control unit configured to color, in the three-dimensional image, at least a voxel representing an inner surface of the biological tissue or a voxel that is adjacent to the voxel representing the inner surface and that represents the lumen among a first voxel group corresponding to a cross section indicated by tomographic data newly acquired by the sensor, in a manner of being distinguished from a second voxel group corresponding to another cross section of the biological tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Clément JACQUET, Stephen TCHEN, Thomas HENN, Ryosuke SAGA
  • Publication number: 20230027335
    Abstract: An image processing device is an image processing device configured to cause a display to display three-dimensional data as a three-dimensional image, the three-dimensional data representing a biological tissue. The image processing device includes: a control unit configured to adjust a color tone of each pixel of the three-dimensional image according to a dimension of the biological tissue in a linear direction from a viewpoint when the three-dimensional image is displayed on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Clément JACQUET, Stephen TCHEN, Thomas HENN, Ryosuke SAGA
  • Publication number: 20230025720
    Abstract: An image processing device is an image processing device configured to cause a display to display three-dimensional data as a three-dimensional image, the three-dimensional data representing a biological tissue. The image processing device includes: a control unit configured to detect a series of positions of a catheter inserted into the biological tissue from data obtained in time series by a sensor observing the surrounding of a lumen of the biological tissue while moving in the lumen, and to switch a display mode between a first mode for displaying a first figure representing the series of positions in the three-dimensional image, and a second mode for displaying a second figure representing one position among the series of positions in the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Clément JACQUET, Thomas HENN, Stephen TCHEN, Ryosuke SAGA
  • Publication number: 20230021992
    Abstract: An image processing device is an image processing device configured to cause a display to display, as a three-dimensional image, three-dimensional data representing a biological tissue having a longitudinal lumen. The image processing device includes: a control unit configured to calculate centroid positions of a plurality of cross sections in a lateral direction of the lumen of the biological tissue by using the three-dimensional data, set a pair of planes intersecting at a single line passing through the calculated centroid positions as cutting planes, and form, in the three-dimensional data, an opening exposing the lumen of the biological tissue from a region interposed between the cutting planes in the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Thomas HENN, Clément JACQUET, Stephen TCHEN, Ryosuke SAGA
  • Publication number: 20220218311
    Abstract: A diagnostic assistance device is a diagnostic assistance device configured to generate three-dimensional data of a biological tissue based on tomographic data of the biological tissue, and display the generated three-dimensional data as a three-dimensional image on a display. The diagnostic assistance device includes a control unit configured to adjust a color tone of each voxel of the three-dimensional image according to a distance from a reference point, a reference line, or a reference plane in a three-dimensional space to each point of the three-dimensional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Clément JACQUET, Thomas HENN, Nuwan HERATH, Iselin ERIKSSEN, Ryosuke SAGA
  • Publication number: 20220218309
    Abstract: A diagnostic assistance device is a diagnostic assistance device configured to generate three-dimensional data of a biological tissue inserted with a catheter based on tomographic data of the biological tissue, and display the generated three-dimensional data as a three-dimensional image on a display. The diagnostic assistance device includes: a control unit configured to specify a point of the biological tissue with which a distal end of the catheter is in contact as a contact point in the three-dimensional data, and set a color of a voxel corresponding to the contact point to a predetermined color in the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Clément JACQUET, Thomas HENN, Nuwan HERATH, Iselin ERIKSSEN, Ryosuke SAGA
  • Publication number: 20220218304
    Abstract: A diagnostic assistance device is a diagnostic assistance device configured to generate three-dimensional data of a biological tissue based on tomographic data of the biological tissue, and display the generated three-dimensional data as a three-dimensional image on a display. The diagnostic assistance device includes a control unit configured to form, in the three-dimensional data, an opening that exposes an inner wall surface of the biological tissue to an outside of the biological tissue in the three-dimensional image, and adjust a viewpoint when displaying the three-dimensional image on the display according to a position of the formed opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Clément JACQUET, Thomas HENN, Nuwan HERATH, Iselin ERIKSSEN, Ryosuke SAGA
  • Publication number: 20220039778
    Abstract: A diagnostic assistance device generates a three-dimensional image of a moving range of an ultrasound transducer from a two-dimensional image generated using the ultrasound transducer. The ultrasound transducer transmits ultrasound while moving inside a biological tissue through which blood passes. The diagnostic assistance device includes: a control unit that determines an upper limit of a third pixel number, the third pixel number being a pixel number in a third direction of the three-dimensional image corresponding to a moving direction of the ultrasound transducer, according to the number of the two-dimensional image generated per unit time, a first pixel number that is a pixel number in a first direction of the three-dimensional image corresponding to a horizontal direction of the two-dimensional image, and a second pixel number that is a pixel number in a second direction of the three-dimensional image corresponding to a vertical direction of the two-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Itaru OKUBO, Ryosuke SAGA, Thomas HENN, Clement JACQUET, Nuwan HERATH, Iselin ERIKSSEN
  • Publication number: 20220028079
    Abstract: A diagnosis support device includes a control unit that correlates a plurality of pixels included in a two-dimensional image with two or more classes including a biological tissue class, the two-dimensional image being generated by using a signal of a reflected wave of ultrasound transmitted inside a biological tissue through which blood passes and the two-dimensional image including the biological tissue, generates a three-dimensional image of the biological tissue from a pixel group correlated with the biological tissue class, and performs control of displaying the generated three-dimensional image of the biological tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Itaru OKUBO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Ryosuke SAGA, Thomas HENN, Clement JACQUET, Nuwan HERATH, Iselin ERIKSSEN
  • Publication number: 20210137491
    Abstract: An information selection device includes a pulsation input unit capable of inputting a pulsation cycle of a heart of a subject, a respiration input unit capable of inputting a respiration cycle of the subject, an information input unit capable of inputting inner wall surface information on the heart at different times, and a control unit that selects, as selection information, the inner wall surface information input at a timing at which a predetermined pulsation phase range included in the pulsation cycle and a predetermined respiration phase range included in the respiration cycle overlap each other, out of a plurality of the input inner wall surface information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Ryosuke SAGA
  • Publication number: 20210015452
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a drive unit connected with an ultrasound element or an image sensor element, and an image processing unit that sequentially generates two-dimensional images of an organ, a blood vessel, or a medical instrument, based on information which is acquired by the ultrasound element or the image sensor element, and that generates a three-dimensional image based on the two-dimensional image. The image processing unit includes a storage unit that stores position correspondence information and/or image correspondence information, and a control unit that determines a position inside the three-dimensional image corresponding to a current position of the ultrasound element or the image sensor element, based on the position correspondence information or the image correspondence information, and that generates display information in real time, in which the determined position inside the three-dimensional image is identified and displayed inside the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicants: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Rokken Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko SHIMIZU, Yasukazu SAKAMOTO, Ryosuke SAGA