Patents by Inventor Hirohito Kobayashi

Hirohito Kobayashi 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: 8989889
    Abstract: The present invention provides an identification information setting device and an identification information setting method that can easily set identification information for a transfer chamber. In an embodiment of the present invention, a storage portion (31) stores field identification information that is previously set for each position where a transfer chamber having a transfer robot can be arranged. A reception portion (32) receives, as specification information, information on the position where the transfer chamber is actually arranged and the transfer chamber. The storage portion (31) stores correspondence between the actually arranged transfer chamber and identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventor: Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140357996
    Abstract: An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound transducer adapted to obtain a dynamic series of echo signals of a subject tissue at different deformation states, and an image processor for generating and displaying ultrasound images of the tissue. The processor is configured to generate dynamic images that correspond to the dynamic series of echo signals, identify a plurality of pixels within a region of interest (ROI) of a first of the generated images, evaluate local tissue mechanical behavior by tracking the displacement, deformation, and echo intensity of the identified plurality of pixels from the first image to subsequent images based on groups of pixels that correspond to each of the identified plurality of pixels, determine tissue functionality in the subject at the tracked pixel locations, and display the tissue functionality in dynamic images that corresponds to the tracked pixel locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Nathan D. Miller, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8840555
    Abstract: An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound transducer adapted to obtain a dynamic series of echo signals of a subject tissue at different deformation states, and an image processor for generating and displaying ultrasound images of the tissue. The processor is configured to generate dynamic images that correspond to the dynamic series of echo signals, identify a plurality of pixels within a region of interest (ROI) of a first of the generated images, evaluate local tissue mechanical behavior by tracking the displacement, deformation, and echo intensity of the identified plurality of pixels from the first image to subsequent images based on groups of pixels that correspond to each of the identified plurality of pixels, determine tissue functionality in the subject at the tracked pixel locations, and display the tissue functionality in dynamic images that corresponds to the tracked pixel locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Echometrix, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan D. Miller, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8332166
    Abstract: An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properties normally not obtained by ultrasound machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8321047
    Abstract: A substrate processing system capable of extending and changing a substrate processing module easily according to changes of processing contents for a substrate. An embodiment is the system including a main device and sub-devices. A transfer controlling part includes an acquiring part that acquires transfer-destination specifying information that includes additional information identifying at least a local address and a substrate processing device to which the local address belongs, and that specifies a substrate transfer destination uniquely within the main device and the sub-devices, a judging part that judges which one of the main device, and the sub-devices is the substrate transfer destination based on the specifying information acquired by the acquiring part, and a local transfer part that transfers the substrate to a process chamber connected to a transfer chamber of its own device by using the address allocated uniquely within the own device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Anelva Corporation
    Inventor: Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8282553
    Abstract: An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properties normally not obtained by ultrasound machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120116219
    Abstract: An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound transducer adapted to obtain a dynamic series of echo signals of a subject tissue at different deformation states, and an image processor for generating and displaying ultrasound images of the tissue. The processor is configured to generate dynamic images that correspond to the dynamic series of echo signals, identify a plurality of pixels within a region of interest (ROI) of a first of the generated images, evaluate local tissue mechanical behavior by tracking the displacement, deformation, and echo intensity of the identified plurality of pixels from the first image to subsequent images based on groups of pixels that correspond to each of the identified plurality of pixels, determine tissue functionality in the subject at the tracked pixel locations, and display the tissue functionality in dynamic images that corresponds to the tracked pixel locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Nathan D. Miller, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120089243
    Abstract: The present invention provides an identification information setting device and an identification information setting method that can easily set identification information for a transfer chamber. In an embodiment of the present invention, a storage portion (31) stores field identification information that is previously set for each position where a transfer chamber having a transfer robot can be arranged. A reception portion (32) receives, as specification information, information on the position where the transfer chamber is actually arranged and the transfer chamber. The storage portion (31) stores correspondence between the actually arranged transfer chamber and identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110276282
    Abstract: An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properties normally not obtained by ultrasound machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110004334
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate processing system capable of extending and changing a substrate processing module easily according to changes of processing contents for a substrate. An embodiment of the present invention is the substrate processing system including a main device (100) and sub devices (200 and 300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100228125
    Abstract: An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properties normally not obtained by ultrasound machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7744535
    Abstract: An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properties normally not obtained by ultrasound machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7736315
    Abstract: The variation in acoustic properties in soft tissues, such as biological tissues, as a function of strain may be modeled to improve elastographic measurements and to obtain direct measurements of strain or material properties and pre-stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070089530
    Abstract: An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properties normally not obtained by ultrasound machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Hirohito Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20060025682
    Abstract: The variation in acoustic properties in soft tissues, such as biological tissues, as a function of strain may be modeled to improve elastographic measurements and to obtain direct measurements of strain or material properties and pre-stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Hirohito Kobayashi