Patents by Inventor Akira Kurahashi
Akira Kurahashi 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).
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Patent number: 11282159Abstract: An image display system, including: a server and a client terminal, wherein the server includes a server-side hardware processor which performs rendering to generate an initial display image, transmits the initial display image and the image data to the client terminal, at least when rendering is performed to a plurality of pieces of image data, the server executes rendering and transmission of image data so that at least parts of execution periods overlap, the server-side hardware processor executes rendering until end of the transmission, the client terminal is a zero client terminal and includes a client-side hardware processor which displays the received initial display image, and performs rendering of the received image data to generate and display a client display image, and the client terminal executes rendering by switching from the server-side hardware processor to the client-side hardware processor based on end of the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Akira Kurahashi
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Patent number: 10769201Abstract: An image management device that is communicably connected to a client terminal and a plurality of image storage devices, includes: a storage that stores identification information of image data with the identification information associated with an image storage device in which the image data is stored; a hardware processor that identifies an image storage device that stores image data specified by an image-data transmission request received from the client terminal based on the identification information of the image data stored in the storage, and instructs the identified image storage device to subject the image data specified by the transmission request to image processing; and a communicator that receives, from the identified image storage device, processed image data that has been subjected to the image processing, and transmits the processed image data to the client terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kenichirou Suzuki, Takao Shiibashi, Akira Kurahashi
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Publication number: 20190392940Abstract: A medical image display system includes a client and a server. The client is able to display a plurality of images on a display. The server includes a hardware processor which stores data of a plurality of images in a storage, which obtains environment information regarding a viewing environment of the image, which determines an image transfer condition regarding transfer of the image to the client based on the obtained environment information, which selects as target images at least some of the plurality of images stored in the storage based on the image displayed on the client and the determined image transfer condition, and which transfers the selected target images to the client using a communicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Kenichirou SUZUKI, Akira KURAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190333184Abstract: An image display system, including: a server and a client terminal, wherein the server includes a server-side hardware processor which performs rendering to generate an initial display image, transmits the initial display image and the image data to the client terminal, at least when rendering is performed to a plurality of pieces of image data, the server executes rendering and transmission of image data so that at least parts of execution periods overlap, the server-side hardware processor executes rendering until end of the transmission, the client terminal is a zero client terminal and includes a client-side hardware processor which displays the received initial display image, and performs rendering of the received image data to generate and display a client display image, and the client terminal executes rendering by switching from the server-side hardware processor to the client-side hardware processor based on end of the transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventor: Akira KURAHASHI
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Patent number: 10139722Abstract: According to one implementation of the present invention, there is provided a radiation image capturing system. The system includes, a radiation source; a plurality of radiation image capturing devices; and a console. The console manages which of the radiation image capturing devices is in a state where image capturing is possible. The console registers image capturing order information including information of which radiation image capturing device is used in the image capturing, or obtains the registered image capturing order information. When there is a radiation image capturing device in a state where image capturing is possible, regardless of a predetermined order, the console displays the icon corresponding to the image capturing order information including information of the radiation image capturing device in a manner different from the other icons.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Takanori Ando, Chikako Tokuno, Koji Takemura, Akira Kurahashi
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Publication number: 20180292963Abstract: A medical image display apparatus includes: a display that displays a display screen having a plurality of display areas to display a medical image; and a hardware processor that displays a reference image to be used as a basis for comparative reading in one of the display areas on the display screen, and displays stacked images, which are a plurality of medical images stacked after being grouped based on a predetermined condition, in another display area thereon, wherein the hardware processor switches the medical images among the stacked images to be displayed in the another display area in response to a predetermined operation performed in the another display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: TAKAFUMI NANJO, AKIRA KURAHASHI
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Publication number: 20180211356Abstract: An image display system, including: a server and a client terminal, wherein the server includes a server-side hardware processor which performs rendering to generate an initial display image, transmits the initial display image and the image data to the client terminal, at least when rendering is performed to a plurality of pieces of image data, the server executes rendering and transmission of image data so that at least parts of execution periods overlap, the server-side hardware processor executes rendering until end of the transmission, the client terminal is a zero client terminal and includes a client-side hardware processor which displays the received initial display image, and performs rendering of the received image data to generate and display a client display image, and the client terminal executes rendering by switching from the server-side hardware processor to the client-side hardware processor based on end of the transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventor: Akira Kurahashi
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Publication number: 20180046760Abstract: A data management device communicably connected to a terminal device that displays an image on a web browser, includes: a hardware processor that: separates a domain to which the terminal device is connected into a plurality of subdomains; when receiving an execution request of image processing corresponding to the number divisions of image data from the terminal device, divides the image data into the number of divisions and performs image processing in a plurality of regions specified by the domain; and a transmitter that transmits the processed image data undergone the image processing by the hardware processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Kenichirou SUZUKI, Takao SHIIBASHI, Akira KURAHASHI
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Publication number: 20180032547Abstract: An image management device that is communicably connected to a client terminal and a plurality of image storage devices, includes: a storage that stores identification information of image data with the identification information associated with an image storage device in which the image data is stored; a hardware processor that identifies an image storage device that stores image data specified by an image-data transmission request received from the client terminal based on the identification information of the image data stored in the storage, and instructs the identified image storage device to subject the image data specified by the transmission request to image processing; and a communicator that receives, from the identified image storage device, processed image data that has been subjected to the image processing, and transmits the processed image data to the client terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Kenichirou SUZUKI, Takao SHIIBASHI, Akira Kurahashi
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Patent number: 9872660Abstract: A medical diagnostic imaging system includes an X-ray Talbot imaging apparatus and an image processing apparatus to reconstruct one or more moire images produced in the X-ray Talbot imaging apparatus into a plurality of types of medical diagnostic images. The image processing apparatus classifies the medical diagnostic images generated based on the same moire image(s) into a group and outputs the group of medical diagnostic images as a unit to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Masaya Hamano, Akira Kurahashi, Norihiro Matsusaka, Tomoyasu Yokoyama, Mitsuharu Kitamura, Satoshi Nishino
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Patent number: 9855018Abstract: Provided are a diagnostic medical image system and the like which enable diagnostic medical images generated in either an imaging system used for general imaging or an imaging system which includes a Talbot imaging device to be accurately associated with imaging order information. In the diagnostic medical image system, a controller groups a plurality of types of diagnostic medical images reconstructed and generated on the basis of a plurality of image signals captured by a second imaging system equipped with a Talbot imaging device and transmits the group to a console; and the console associates one diagnostic medical image generated from one image signal acquired from a first imaging system equipped with an X-ray imaging device with the imaging order information corresponding thereto and, by the same associating method, associates the grouped plurality of types of diagnostic medical images transmitted from the controller with the imaging order information corresponding thereto.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Masaya Hamano, Akira Kurahashi, Norihiro Matsusaka, Junko Kiyohara, Tomoyasu Yokoyama, Satoshi Nishino
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Publication number: 20160310099Abstract: Provided are a diagnostic medical image system and the like which enable diagnostic medical images generated in either an imaging system used for general imaging or an imaging system which includes a Talbot imaging device to be accurately associated with imaging order information. In the diagnostic medical image system, a controller groups a plurality of types of diagnostic medical images reconstructed and generated on the basis of a plurality of image signals captured by a second imaging system equipped with a Talbot imaging device and transmits the group to a console; and the console associates one diagnostic medical image generated from one image signal acquired from a first imaging system equipped with an X-ray imaging device with the imaging order information corresponding thereto and, by the same associating method, associates the grouped plurality of types of diagnostic medical images transmitted from the controller with the imaging order information corresponding thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Masaya HAMANO, Akira KURAHASHI, Norihiro MATSUSAKA, Junko KIYOHARA, Tomoyasu YOKOYAMA, Satoshi NISHINO
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Patent number: 9405183Abstract: According to one implementation of the present invention, there is provided a radiation image capturing system. The system includes, a radiation source; a plurality of radiation image capturing devices; and a console. The console manages which of the radiation image capturing devices is in a state where image capturing is possible. The console registers image capturing order information including information of which radiation image capturing device is used in the image capturing, or obtains the registered image capturing order information. When there is a radiation image capturing device in a state where image capturing is possible, regardless of a predetermined order, the console displays the icon corresponding to the image capturing order information including information of the radiation image capturing device in a manner different from the other icons.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Takanori Ando, Chikako Tokuno, Koji Takemura, Akira Kurahashi
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Publication number: 20160183902Abstract: According to one implementation of the present invention, there is provided a radiation image capturing system. The system includes, a radiation source; a plurality of radiation image capturing devices; and a console. The console manages which of the radiation image capturing devices is in a state where image capturing is possible. The console registers image capturing order information including information of which radiation image capturing device is used in the image capturing, or obtains the registered image capturing order information. When there is a radiation image capturing device in a state where image capturing is possible, regardless of a predetermined order, the console displays the icon corresponding to the image capturing order information including information of the radiation image capturing device in a manner different from the other icons.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Takanori ANDO, Chikako TOKUNO, Koji TAKEMURA, Akira KURAHASHI
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Publication number: 20150282780Abstract: A medical diagnostic imaging system includes an X-ray Talbot imaging apparatus and an image processing apparatus to reconstruct one or more moire images produced in the X-ray Talbot imaging apparatus into a plurality of types of medical diagnostic images. The image processing apparatus classifies the medical diagnostic images generated based on the same moire image(s) into a group and outputs the group of medical diagnostic images as a unit to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Masaya HAMANO, Akira KURAHASHI, Norihiro MATSUSAKA, Tomoyasu YOKOYAMA, Mitsuharu KITAMURA, Satoshi NISHINO
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Publication number: 20130038738Abstract: According to one implementation of the present invention, there is provided a radiation image capturing system. The system includes, a radiation source; a plurality of radiation image capturing devices; and a console. The console manages which of the radiation image capturing devices is in a state where image capturing is possible. The console registers image capturing order information including information of which radiation image capturing device is used in the image capturing, or obtains the registered image capturing order information. When there is a radiation image capturing device in a state where image capturing is possible, regardless of a predetermined order, the console displays the icon corresponding to the image capturing order information including information of the radiation image capturing device in a manner different from the other icons.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.Inventors: Takanori Ando, Chikako Tokuno, Koji Takemura, Akira Kurahashi
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Publication number: 20120029943Abstract: A report generation management device includes a storage unit which stores interpretation report information, and a control unit. The control unit generates a plurality of pieces of interpretation report information for one examination, stores the generated pieces of the interpretation report information in the storage unit, and manages the generated pieces of the interpretation report information by correlating the generated pieces of the interpretation report information with the examination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC.Inventor: Akira Kurahashi
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Publication number: 20120019556Abstract: An interpretation report creation aiding device includes a display unit and a control unit which displays an interpretation report creation screen on the display unit. In the interpretation report creation screen, a right breast image and a left breast image to be interpreted are disposed in a central region thereof in such a way as to be bilaterally symmetrical, and an interpretation report writing region for writing an interpretation report on the right breast image and an interpretation report writing region for writing an interpretation report on the left breast image are respectively disposed in regions respectively adjacent to the right breast image and the left breast image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphics, Inc.Inventor: Akira Kurahashi
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Publication number: 20080117924Abstract: A data relay unit capable of relaying data communication between first and second networks interchanging different structures of data, a gateway (GW) and a method are provided. An identifier is assigned to transmission data and reception data exchanged in a GW unit. A data conversion section specifies a conversion process using reception data for generating transmission data for each transmission data piece identified by an identifier and uses a conversion table to store conversion processes. The data conversion section can generate intended transmission data based on an identifier of the transmission data to be transmitted by selecting and executing a necessary conversion process from the conversion table. Even when a method of generating transmission data is added or changed, it is only necessary to add or change a conversion process in the conversion table.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Matsuda, Katsuhiko Furuta, Katsutoshi Haruna, Akira Kurahashi, Keiichi Aoyama, Daisuke Manabe
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Patent number: RE40312Abstract: A transmitting method of digital data whereby information data can be reproduced at a high precision. In order to retain digital data in sectors comprising a plurality of sync frames and sequentially transmit, the sync frame is comprised of the sync signal and the run length limited code which satisfies the limitations of the minimum run length and the maximum run length, and the sync signal includes the sync pattern constituted by a bit pattern of a run length that is longer than the maximum run length by only 3T and addition bit patterns which are arranged before and after the bit pattern and each of which has a urn length that is longer than the minimum run length. The sync signal includes a specific code which indicates a position in the sector and which enables the DC control to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Pioneer Electronic CorporationInventors: Tadashi Kojima, Koichi Hirayama, Hisashi Yamada, Yoshiaki Moriyama, Fumihiko Yokogawa, Takao Arai, Toshifumi Takeuchi, Shinichi Tanaka, Akira Kurahashi, Toshiyuki Shimada