Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Kyoutani

Hitoshi Kyoutani 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: 9378545
    Abstract: The sanitary management system S includes a plurality of portable communication terminal devices 10, a manager terminal device 20 and a server device 40. The server device 40: (1) extracts two or more feature values related to the color of each pixel constituting a culture medium image; (2) executes statistical analysis based on distribution of pixels of the culture medium image by using a coordinate system prescribed by the extracted two or more feature values of each pixel, and calculates a linear function prescribing relation of the two or more feature values in each pixel; and (3) detects the colonies in the culture medium image based on the calculated linear function and counts the number of colonies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoma Bise, Yuji Tsuzuki, Masanori Kagota, Rui Saitou, Hitoshi Kyoutani
  • Publication number: 20150243014
    Abstract: The sanitary management system S includes a plurality of portable communication terminal devices 10, a manager terminal device 20 and a server device 40. The server device 40: (1) extracts two or more feature values related to the color of each pixel constituting a culture medium image; (2) executes statistical analysis based on distribution of pixels of the culture medium image by using a coordinate system prescribed by the extracted two or more feature values of each pixel, and calculates a linear function prescribing relation of the two or more feature values in each pixel; and (3) detects the colonies in the culture medium image based on the calculated linear function and counts the number of colonies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Ryoma Bise, Yuji Tsuzuki, Masanori Kagota, Rui Saitou, Hitoshi Kyoutani
  • Publication number: 20150169762
    Abstract: The sanitary management system extracts food produced or inspected using a work line including one or more production process or inspection process as a specimen, and registers culture medium information obtained by a portable communication terminal device before and after culturing the extracted specimen to a server device in correspondence with work line related information related to the work line including information of sanitary management of the work line from which the specimen is extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Masanori Kagota, Ryoma Bise, Yuji Tsuzuki, Rui Saitou, Hitoshi Kyoutani