Patents by Inventor Chihiro TANIKAWA

Chihiro TANIKAWA 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: 11980491
    Abstract: A technique for automating the identifying of a measurement point in cephalometric image analysis is provided. An automatic measurement point recognition method includes a step of detecting, from a cephalometric image 14 acquired from a subject, a plurality of peripheral partial regions 31, 32, 33, 34 for recognizing a target feature point, a step of estimating a candidate position of the feature point in each of the peripheral partial regions 31, 32, 33, 34 by the application of a regression CNN model 10, and a step of determining the position of the feature point in the cephalometric image 14 based on the distribution of the candidate positions estimated. In the step of detecting, for example, the peripheral partial region 32, a classification CNN model 13 trained with a control image 52 is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chihiro Tanikawa, Chonho Lee
  • Patent number: 11950946
    Abstract: A technique for automating the identifying of a measurement point in cephalometric image analysis is provided. An automatic measurement point recognition method includes a step of detecting, from a cephalometric image 14 acquired from a subject, a plurality of peripheral partial regions 31, 32, 33, 34 for recognizing a target feature point, a step of estimating a candidate position of the feature point in each of the peripheral partial regions 31, 32, 33, 34 by the application of a regression CNN model 10, and a step of determining the position of the feature point in the cephalometric image 14 based on the distribution of the candidate positions estimated. In the step of detecting, for example, the peripheral partial region 32, a classification CNN model 13 trained with a control image 52 is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chihiro Tanikawa, Chonho Lee
  • Patent number: 11617633
    Abstract: To have convenient and highly precise prediction of the shape of a human body after a treatment by calculation processing that includes extracting a feature vector Fnew from face data of a patient as an evaluation subject, selecting a plurality of case patients having feature vectors Fpre(i), extracted from the face data of a plurality of previous patients, obtaining pre-orthodontic facial shape models Hpre(i) and a post-orthodontic facial shape models Hpost(i) in which the faces of the selected previous case patients before and after a treatment have been normalized, obtaining a facial shape model Hnew, and obtaining a three-dimensional predicted facial shape model Hprd, by modifying the facial shape model Hnew of the patient as an evaluation subject, using a vector average difference AVEpost?AVEpre between the pre-treatment and post-treatment facial shape models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Osaka University
    Inventors: Chihiro Tanikawa, Kenji Takada
  • Publication number: 20220005222
    Abstract: A technique for automating the identifying of a measurement point in cephalometric image analysis is provided. An automatic measurement point recognition method includes a step of detecting, from a cephalometric image 14 acquired from a subject, a plurality of peripheral partial regions 31, 32, 33, 34 for recognizing a target feature point, a step of estimating a candidate position of the feature point in each of the peripheral partial regions 31, 32, 33, 34 by the application of a regression CNN model 10, and a step of determining the position of the feature point in the cephalometric image 14 based on the distribution of the candidate positions estimated. In the step of detecting, for example, the peripheral partial region 32, a classification CNN model 13 trained with a control image 52 is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chihiro TANIKAWA, Chonho LEE
  • Publication number: 20210275281
    Abstract: To have convenient and highly precise prediction of the shape of a human body after a treatment by calculation processing that includes extracting a feature vector Fnew from face data of a patient as an evaluation subject, selecting a plurality of case patients having feature vectors Fpre(i), extracted from the face data of a plurality of previous patients, obtaining pre-orthodontic facial shape models Hpre(i) and a post-orthodontic facial shape models Hpost(i) in which the faces of the selected previous case patients before and after a treatment have been normalized, obtaining a facial shape model Hnew, and obtaining a three-dimensional predicted facial shape model Hprd, by modifying the facial shape model Hnew of the patient as an evaluation subject, using a vector average difference AVEpost?AVEpre between the pre-treatment and post-treatment facial shape models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chihiro TANIKAWA, Kenji TAKADA
  • Patent number: 11065084
    Abstract: To have convenient and highly precise prediction of the shape of a human body after a treatment by calculation processing that includes extracting a feature vector Fnew from face data of a patient as an evaluation subject, selecting a plurality of case patients having feature vectors Fpre(i), extracted from the face data of a plurality of previous patients, obtaining pre-orthodontic facial shape models Hpre(i) and a post-orthodontic facial shape models Hpost(i) in which the faces of the selected previous case patients before and after a treatment have been normalized, obtaining a facial shape model Hnew, and obtaining a three-dimensional predicted facial shape model Hprd, by modifying the facial shape model Hnew of the patient as an evaluation subject, using a vector average difference AVEpost?AVEpre between the pre-treatment and post-treatment facial shape models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chihiro Tanikawa, Kenji Takada
  • Publication number: 20180311013
    Abstract: To have convenient and highly precise prediction of the shape of a human body after a treatment by calculation processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chihiro TANIKAWA, Kenji TAKADA