Patents by Inventor Hiroki Nakayama

Hiroki Nakayama 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).

  • Publication number: 20160256119
    Abstract: A radiography device includes: a radiation emitting unit that irradiates a subject with radiation at a plurality of different incident angles; a radiographic image generation unit that receives the radiation passed through the subject and generates a radiographic image; a part-of-interest detection unit that detects a mutation site suspected as a lesion from the radiographic image obtained by irradiating the subject with the radiation at a predetermined incident angle; and a radiography device control unit that controls whether to perform each of the tomosynthesis imaging in which the radiographic image generation unit generates the radiographic image while the radiation emitting unit changes the incident angle of the radiation and two-dimensional radiography in which the radiation emitting unit is fixed to a predetermined incident angle and the radiographic image generation unit generates the radiographic image, on the basis of a detection result of the part-of-interest detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Tomoki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160249868
    Abstract: Provided are a radiography device, a radiography method, and a radiography program which can obtain an accurate radiographic image while reducing a burden on a subject. A radiography device control unit determines imaging conditions including at least one of resolution or an incident angle range, on the basis of a radiographic image captured before tomosynthesis imaging, and performs tomosynthesis imaging. Specifically, the radiography device control unit controls tomosynthesis imaging (120) such that tomosynthesis imaging is performed under first conditions (108) of low resolution and a narrow incident angle range in a case in which a mutation site suspected as a lesion is not detected and tomosynthesis imaging is performed under second conditions (112, 116, and 118) which are different from the first conditions in at least one of the resolution or the incident angle range in a case in which the mutation site suspected as a lesion is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Tomoki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160089090
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radiation imaging system, an image processing device, a radiation imaging method, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having an image processing program recorded thereon which facilitate the confirmation of a positional relationship between an object of interest and a biopsy needle. In the system using a radiation imaging device as a mammography device, when performing a biopsy of a breast of a subject, the positional relationship is confirmed using a radiation image (projection image) obtained through tomosynthesis imaging. A control unit reconstructs the projection image to generate a tomographic image in a state where the needle is inserted into the breast and generates a reprojection image at a predetermined angle from the tomographic image. The control unit extracts an image of the needle from the projection image, synthesizes the extracted image of the needle into the projection image while aligning, and displays the projection image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160089098
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radiation imaging system, an image processing device, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having an image processing program recorded thereon which facilitate the confirmation of a positional relationship between an object of interest and a biopsy needle. A control unit of a console reconstructs a projection image obtained by tomosynthesis imaging to generate a tomographic image parallel (an x-y-axis direction) to an imaging surface in a state where a needle is inserted into a breast, and specifies an image of an object of interest from the tomographic image. The control unit generates a sectional image which includes the specified image of the object of interest and an image of the needle and intersects the imaging surface. The control unit generates an image of the needle from the projection image, synthesizes the generated image of the needle into the sectional image while aligning, and displays the sectional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Tomoki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20160079091
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a substrate for semiconductor element mount that makes it possible to stably produce, in a highly mass-productive manner, surface-mount type semiconductor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: SH MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru HISHIKI, Shunichi KIDOGUCHI, Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160060160
    Abstract: A heat ray-shielding film has excellent heat-shielding performance and a color tone, and exhibits weather resistance. A heat ray-shielding laminated transparent base material and a heat ray-shielding resin sheet material use the heat ray-shielding film. The heat ray-shielding film and the heat ray-shielding resin sheet material are expressed by a general formula MyWOz, and contain a composite tungsten oxide particle having a hexagonal crystal structure, selected wavelength absorbing material, and thermoplastic resin. The selected wavelength absorbing material has a transmission profile in which a transmittance of a light of a wavelength of 420 nm can be set to 40% or less when a transmittance of a light of a wavelength of 550 nm is 90% or more, and a transmittance of a light of a wavelength of 460 nm is 90% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Keisuke MACHIDA, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Kenichi FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20150199768
    Abstract: A credit and debit log analysis device includes a credit and debit log storage unit (11) that stores a history of credit to an account of a customer to be an analysis object and debit to the account as a credit and debit log, a calendar (15) that stores information on a date, a trend discovering unit (12) that discovers a trend of credit and debit based on the credit and debit log and the calendar, a trend storage unit (13) that stores the trend, a matching rule generating unit (14) that generates a matching rule based on the trend so as to detect credit and debit data contravening the trend, a matching rule storage unit (16) that stores the matching rule, a matching unit (17) that detects a premonition by comparing the credit and debit data and the matching rule, a premonition storage unit (18) that stores the premonition, and a presentation unit (19) that presents the premonition to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Kenshi Nishimura, Satoshi Morinaga, Hiroki Nakayama, Kenji Fukuda, Shinichi Toriyama
  • Publication number: 20150142712
    Abstract: A system includes a free itemset generation unit to generate a set of free itemsets, each having a frequency in the database greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value set in advance, a valid rule candidate generation unit to generate rule candidates and store the generated rule candidates, and a rule minimality decision unit to check minimality of each of the generated rule candidates and output the generated rule candidate to an output apparatus when the generated rule candidate is determined to be minimal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8972363
    Abstract: A system includes a unit to generate a set of free itemsets with a frequency in a database greater than or equal to a threshold value, a unit to generate a rule candidate with, a conditional part set to the free itemset ?, and a consequent part set to an item x not sharing an attribute with the free itemset, and finds a set of attributes of an antecedent part of the rule by depth first search, the attribute not included in neither ? nor x, a unit to collate the rule to the database to judge validity of the rule, and a unit to check for minimality of the rule decided to be valid to output the rule when the rule is minimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8848865
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a compression member, which is displaceable with respect to a holding member that holds a target object to be examined. The compression member is displaced toward the holding member for compressing the target object held by the holding member while the compression member is tilted with respect to the holding member along lateral directions of the target object as viewed in front elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8838207
    Abstract: In a radiographic image capturing apparatus, an object to be examined is compressed and secured between a compression plate and an image capturing base, at a position off-center from a central position of the image capturing base near a subject in a direction along the subject. An opening is defined in the compression plate so as to confront the object to be examined in the off-center position. The radiation source irradiates the object to be examined as well as the opening with radiation from a central angle of the radiation source, which is aligned with a vertical axis of the image capturing base, and which passes through the central position from a predetermined angle that is angularly spaced from the central angle about the central position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Hajime Nakata, Naoyuki Okada, Takao Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20140250092
    Abstract: A system, an apparatus, a method and a program are provided which render it possible to obtain with high efficiency a set of rules useful in grasping or correcting contents of a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8742355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation image capturing system and a method of adjusting the same. An image capturing condition setting unit sets a target, a filter, and a tube voltage as image capturing conditions depending on the sensitivity characteristics of a radiation conversion panel that is selected by a panel selector, in a radiation source and a radiation source control apparatus. Radiation image information of a subject is recorded in the radiation conversion panel according to the set image capturing conditions. An image processing condition setting unit sets image processing conditions corresponding to the sensitivity characteristics of the radiation conversion panel in an image processor. The image processor processes the radiation image information acquired from the radiation conversion panel according to the set image processing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8590353
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a process for producing shaped components from high-strength and ultra high-strength steels with tensile strengths >780 MPa, wherein a steel sheet-metal strip is fed to a roll-forming installation and in the roll-forming installation is passed through roll stands and deformed by means of deformation rollers acting on the steel sheet, and wherein to avoid hydrogen embrittlement in plastically deformed regions of the deformed steel sheet-metal strip compressive stresses are introduced by stamping and/or upset-forging and/or overbending and bending-back or by machining the strip edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: voestalpine Krems GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Lengauer, Robert Wurzer, Christoph Bauernberger, Franz Weitz, Christoph Dockner, Kenichi Watanabe, Yasuhiro Hayashida, Masayoshi Okumura, Hiroki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8467495
    Abstract: In a radiographic image capturing apparatus, a biopsy region positional information calculator calculates a three-dimensional position of a biopsy region in an object to be examined based on two radiographic images which are acquired in a stereographic image capturing process, an irradiated field calculator calculates a new irradiated field covering the biopsy region based on the calculated three-dimensional position of the biopsy region and two angles at which a radiation source is disposed in the stereographic image capturing process, and a collimator controller controls a collimator to change the irradiated field of the radiation to the new irradiated field in a next stereographic image capturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Okada, Hajime Nakata, Hiroki Nakayama, Takao Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20120321034
    Abstract: Deterioration of the image quality of a displayed image is prevented when displaying one image, such as a tomographic image or a stereoscopic image, based on a plurality of radiological images acquired by performing radiographing multiple times in order to display a tomographic image or a stereoscopic image. A feature amount calculation unit calculates feature amounts representing the image quality, such as density histograms, for a plurality of radiological images for generating a tomographic image acquired by tomosynthesis. A determination unit compares the feature amounts of the plurality of radiological images and based on the comparison result, and then determines whether or not an abnormal radiological image with different image quality is present in the plurality of radiological images. When an abnormal radiological image is present, a reconstruction unit generates a tomographic image by performing reconstruction after excluding the abnormal radiological image from the plurality of radiological images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20120277625
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a compression member, which is displaceable with respect to a holding member that holds a target object to be examined. The compression member is displaced toward the holding member for compressing the target object held by the holding member while the compression member is tilted with respect to the holding member along lateral directions of the target object as viewed in front elevation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8264779
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side and arranged along an optical axis, first to fifth lens units having positive, negative, positive, positive or negative, and positive refractive power, respectively. When zooming, the second lens unit moves monotonically to the image side, the third lens unit moves to the object side in a convex locus, the fifth lens unit moves nonlinearly, and the first and fourth lens units do not move. The fourth lens unit includes a first sub lens unit and a second sub lens unit; the first sub lens unit is an image-stabilizing lens unit that includes a first lens having negative refractive power and a second lens having positive or negative refractive power. The focal length of the fourth lens unit, the focal length of the entire system at the wide-angle end, the Abbe numbers of the materials of the first and second lenses are set appropriately based on predetermined conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Chiaki Inoue, Masaru Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8180136
    Abstract: Acquiring radiation image data representing a radiation image of a subject photographed using a radiation exposure field aperture, acquiring information of a radiation exposure field area determined by the exposure field aperture and relating it to the radiation image data based on the information, sequentially detecting pixel data of pixels from adjacent to the boundary line of the exposure field area toward the inner side thereof in the radiation image data, sequentially determining if the values of the detected pixel data are not greater than a predetermined threshold value, terminating the detection at a point where the value of the detected pixel data is greater than the predetermined threshold value, and performing a blackening process on pixel data of a pixel outside of the exposure field area and pixel data of a pixel whose value is determined to be not greater than the predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20120069957
    Abstract: Diagnosis using a tomographic image and a stereoscopic image can be easily performed. A reconstruction unit generates a tomographic image from a plurality of radiological images with different radiographing directions, which is stored in a radiological image storage unit. A display control unit displays a stereoscopic image using a standard radiological image and a reference radiological image, among the plurality of radiological images, on a monitor. In this case, the tomographic image is superimposed on the stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAYAMA