Patents by Inventor Akira Adachi

Akira Adachi 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).

  • Patent number: 9600922
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an extracting unit extracts mutually the same region of interest from each of a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional image data corresponding to mutually-different time phases. Further, a position determining unit determines, on the basis of feature points included in the pieces of three-dimensional image data, a position used for superimposing together the regions of interest extracted by the extracting unit from the pieces of three-dimensional image data, in substantially the same position of a subject. After that, a display controlling unit changes a display format of each of the regions of interest extracted by the extracting unit from the pieces of three-dimensional image data so as to be mutually different and causes a superimposed image to be displayed by superimposing the regions of interest together in the position determined by the position determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Takashi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Fujisawa, Manabu Teshigawara, Akira Adachi
  • Patent number: 9542771
    Abstract: An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a stereoscopic display apparatus, a rendering processor, and a display controller. The stereoscopic display apparatus displays a stereoscopic image enabled for a stereoscopic vision using a plurality of parallax images. The rendering processor generates a plurality of parallax images by applying a rendering process to volume data that is three-dimensional medical image data from a plurality of viewpoint positions having different relative positions with respect to the volume data. The display controller causes the stereoscopic display apparatus to display a graphic image that is an image of a given graphic indicating a depth-direction position of a cursor that is operable by a given input unit in a three-dimensional stereoscopic image space in which a stereoscopic image is displayed, together with the parallax images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Noshi, Tatsuo Maeda, Akira Adachi, Takumi Hara
  • Publication number: 20150170119
    Abstract: There is provided an automatic transaction device that carries out transactions of deposits and withdrawals of cash with a customer, having: a transfer opening at which transfer of bills is carried out; a bill processing section that carries out deposit processing of depositing bills of the transfer opening into the automatic transaction device interior, and dispensing processing of dispensing bills of the automatic transaction device interior to the transfer opening; and a recording section that, at a time of the deposit processing or the dispensing processing, records serial numbers of respective bills that are deposited or dispensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Adachi, Masaki Kobayashi, Naohiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20140332340
    Abstract: A banknote processing device is provided that is capable of securing a reject route that does not overlap with a route for conveying banknotes from a banknote storage section to a banknote identification section. The banknote processing device includes: a dispensing port that dispenses banknotes; a banknote identification section that identifies whether or not banknotes are normal; and a storage-only storage section that stores banknotes that the banknote identification section has identified as abnormal. Out of a first route on the dispensing port side between the banknote identification section and the storage-only storage section and a second route on the opposite side to the first route, one, or two or more, banknote storage sections capable of storing and feeding out banknotes are provided only on the second route side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Adachi, Akihiro Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8884958
    Abstract: An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a first image creating unit, a second image creating unit, and a display controller. The first image creating unit creates a first image by performing a rendering processing on volume data which is three-dimensional medical image data. The second image creating unit creates a second image having a different stereoscopic effect from the first image by performing the rendering processing on the volume data. The display controller that controls to display the first image and the second image in a designated region that is designated in a display surface of a display unit and a background region other than the designated region, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Go Mukumoto, Masao Yui, Tatsuo Maeda, Akira Adachi
  • Publication number: 20140291110
    Abstract: The banknote processing device includes plural dispensing ports that dispense banknotes; a banknote classification section that classifies banknotes; and a controller that selects a conveyance destination of banknotes classified by the banknote classification section from the plural dispensing ports, and effects control to convey the banknotes to a selected dispensing port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Adachi, Akihiro Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20140132597
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an extracting unit extracts mutually the same region of interest from each of a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional image data corresponding to mutually-different time phases. Further, a position determining unit determines, on the basis of feature points included in the pieces of three-dimensional image data, a position used for superimposing together the regions of interest extracted by the extracting unit from the pieces of three-dimensional image data, in substantially the same position of a subject. After that, a display controlling unit changes a display format of each of the regions of interest extracted by the extracting unit from the pieces of three-dimensional image data so as to be mutually different and causes a superimposed image to be displayed by superimposing the regions of interest together in the position determined by the position determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Takashi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Fujisawa, Manabu Teshigawara, Akira Adachi
  • Publication number: 20140071132
    Abstract: An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a stereoscopic display apparatus, a rendering processor, and a display controller. The stereoscopic display apparatus displays a stereoscopic image enabled for a stereoscopic vision using a plurality of parallax images. The rendering processor generates a plurality of parallax images by applying a rendering process to volume data that is three-dimensional medical image data from a plurality of viewpoint positions having different relative positions with respect to the volume data. The display controller causes the stereoscopic display apparatus to display a graphic image that is an image of a given graphic indicating a depth-direction position of a cursor that is operable by a given input unit in a three-dimensional stereoscopic image space in which a stereoscopic image is displayed, together with the parallax images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NOSHI, Tatsuo MAEDA, Akira ADACHI, Takumi HARA
  • Patent number: 8340241
    Abstract: An X-ray computed tomography apparatus has an area arithmetic unit and an image processing unit. The area arithmetic unit obtains information with respect to a position of a deteriorating area appeared around an end on an acquisition range of a projection data under an influence of a cone angle. The image processing unit performs an image processing for a CT image to be discriminable the deteriorating area from an area other than the deteriorating area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Adachi, Satoshi Saito
  • Publication number: 20120313943
    Abstract: An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a first image creating unit, a second image creating unit, and a display controller. The first image creating unit creates a first image by performing a rendering processing on volume data which is three-dimensional medical image data. The second image creating unit creates a second image having a different stereoscopic effect from the first image by performing the rendering processing on the volume data. The display controller that controls to display the first image and the second image in a designated region that is designated in a display surface of a display unit and a background region other than the designated region, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Go MUKUMOTO, Masao YUI, Tatsuo MAEDA, Akira ADACHI
  • Patent number: 8015443
    Abstract: In order to reproduce the past operations of a medical system, a reproduction test service apparatus stores a plurality of past log files directly or indirectly supplied from the medical system in a log file storage unit and reproduces the past operations of the medical system on a pseudo X-ray CT system in accordance with the stored log files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akira Adachi
  • Publication number: 20070201610
    Abstract: An X-ray computed tomography apparatus has an area arithmetic unit and an image processing unit. The area arithmetic unit obtains information with respect to a position of a deteriorating area appeared around an end on an acquisition range of a projection data under an influence of a cone angle. The image processing unit performs an image processing for a CT image to be discriminable the deteriorating area from an area other than the deteriorating area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Adachi, Satoshi Saito
  • Patent number: 7256890
    Abstract: A spectroscope capable of suppressing the dimension and the cost with avoiding a problem caused by polarization dependency of the diffraction grating. The spectroscope includes a polarizing beam splitter plate 3 that divides the light from an input fiber 1 into a first and a second optical paths and polarizes each light of each optical path having different direction of polarization with each other, a Fresnel rhomb half wave plate 5 that arranges the direction of polarization of the light in the first optical path into that in the second optical path and a plane mirror 4 that deflects the second optical path such that at least a portion of an area where the light through the first optical path is incident on the diffraction grating 6 and an area where the light through the second optical path is incident on the diffraction grating overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hisao Osawa, Naoshi Aikawa, Akira Adachi
  • Publication number: 20060149598
    Abstract: In order to reproduce the past operations of a medical system, a reproduction test service apparatus stores a plurality of past log files directly or indirectly supplied from the medical system in a log file storage unit and reproduces the past operations of the medical system on a pseudo X-ray CT system in accordance with the stored log files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventor: Akira Adachi
  • Publication number: 20060114458
    Abstract: A spectroscope capable of suppressing the dimension and the cost with avoiding a problem caused by polarization dependency of the diffraction grating. The spectroscope includes a polarizing beam splitter plate 3 that divides the light from an input fiber 1 into a first and a second optical paths and polarizes each light of each optical path having different direction of polarization with each other, a Fresnel rhomb half wave plate 5 that arranges the direction of polarization of the light in the first optical path into that in the second optical path and a plane mirror 4 that deflects the second optical path such that at least a portion of an area where the light through the first optical path is incident on the diffraction grating 6 and an area where the light through the second optical path is incident on the diffraction grating overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Hisao Osawa, Naoshi Aikawa, Akira Adachi
  • Patent number: 7032132
    Abstract: In order to reproduce the past operations of a medical system, a reproduction test service apparatus stores a plurality of past log files directly or indirectly supplied from the medical system in a log file storage unit and reproduces the past operations of the medical system on a pseudo X-ray CT system in accordance with the stored log files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akira Adachi
  • Patent number: 7020607
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize a natural dialogue with a system having a simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Akira Adachi
  • Patent number: 6990168
    Abstract: An X-ray CT (computed tomography) scanner includes a gantry for collecting projection data about a patient, a reconstruction portion for reconstructing multislice image data or volumetric image data from the projection data at a given matrix size, a storage portion for storing the reconstructed image data, an input portion for entering a user's instruction regarding magnification or demagnification of image, and an image processing portion for converting the matrix size of the stored image data into a matrix size corresponding to the user's instruction and varying the image slice thickness of the stored image data into an image slice thickness corresponding to the user's instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Tatsuro Suzuki, Akira Adachi, Satoshi Saito
  • Patent number: 6944261
    Abstract: An X-ray computed tomography apparatus including an X-ray source, a data acquisition unit, an X-ray detection unit, a reconstruction unit, a creation unit, and a display unit. An X-ray radiated toward an object by the X-ray source is detected to generate a corresponding signal by the X-ray detection unit. According to the signal, data is acquired by the data acquisition unit. A reconstruction unit reconstructs a tomographic image, while a creation unit creates a plane image based on the acquired data A display unit displays the tomographic image and the plane image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Adachi, Thomas Charles Judd, Clay Christopher Smith
  • Patent number: 6829324
    Abstract: An X-ray CT scanner comprises an X-ray source generating an X-ray, detector detecting the X-ray transmitted through an object, processor to produce projection data, and reconstruction unit to reconstruct an image using the projection data. The processor produces the projection image by applying, to an output signal from the detector, logarithm conversion processing on a function deviating from an ideal logarithm function. The ideal logarithm function is a logarithm function defined by a mathematical formula of y=K·log [b, x] (wherein a variable x is an input, a variable y is an output, and a reference K shows a scaling constant). The function deviating from the ideal logarithm function has an input/output characteristic deviating from that of the ideal logarithm function. Such deviating function is for example a linear function and applied to a conversion of only low-count data into its projection data to suppress low-count artifacts on reconstructed CT images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Issei Mori, Akira Adachi, Masahiro Kazama, Satoshi Saito