Patents by Inventor Kazuki KOZUKA

Kazuki KOZUKA 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: 10860643
    Abstract: Similar medical images having a predetermined similarity to a region of interest in a medical image to be interpreted are received from a case search system. A display screen on which the received similar medical images are displayed is displayed on a display. The display screen includes display frames within which similar medical images are displayed. In response to an instruction for enlarging the similar medical images, corresponding regions of interest in the similar medical images are enlarged and displayed with the sizes of the display frames maintained unchanged on the display screen. In response to an instruction for causing a selected similar medical image among the enlarged and displayed similar medical images to move within a corresponding display frame, the other unselected similar medical image(s) is caused to move within a corresponding display frame synchronously with the movement of the selected similar medical image in the same movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kazutoyo Takata, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10832128
    Abstract: A transfer learning apparatus includes a transfer target data evaluator and an output layer adjuster. The transfer target data evaluator inputs a plurality of labeled transfer target data items each assigned a label of a corresponding evaluation item from among one or more evaluation items to a neural network apparatus having been trained by using a plurality of labeled transfer source data items and including in an output layer output units, the number of which is larger than or equal to the number of evaluation items, and obtains evaluation values output from the respective output units. The output layer adjuster preferentially assigns, to each of the one or more evaluation items, an output unit from which the evaluation value having the smallest difference from the label of the evaluation item is obtained with a higher frequency, as an output unit that outputs the evaluation value of the evaluation item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihide Sawada, Kazuki Kozuka
  • Publication number: 20200342998
    Abstract: A display screen including a first display area displaying plural similar medical images received from a case search system and a second display area displaying disease names is displayed on a display of an information terminal. Each similar medical image is a medical image contained in an electronic medical book, and has additional information which includes the number of a page containing the similar medical image. If the user's selection of a similar medical image is detected for the first time after the display of the display screen, a page of an electronic medical book containing the selected similar medical image is displayed on the display screen. If the user's selection of a disease name is detected for the first time after the display of the display screen, a page of an electronic medical book containing differential items corresponding to the selected disease name is displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Kazutoyo Takata, Kazuki Kozuka, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200335200
    Abstract: A similar case retrieval apparatus includes: a lesion portion acquirer that acquires partial images including lesion portion images, an image feature extractor that extracts image features of each of the plurality of partial images; a location information acquirer that acquires location information of each of the partial images; a lateral position determiner that determines the right organ or the left organ in which each of the lesion portions exists based on the location information; a unilateral distribution identifier that determines whether or not a distribution of the lesion portions is a unilateral distribution; and a similar case retriever that retrieves case data from a case database including both case data for the unilateral distribution in the right organ and case data for the unilateral distribution in the left organ when the unilateral distribution identifier identifies that the distribution of the lesion portions is the unilateral distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Kazutoyo TAKATA, Kazuki KOZUKA, Kenji KONDO, Hirohiko KIMURA, Toyohiko SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200320336
    Abstract: A control method includes: receiving, from a case search system, a plurality of data including a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of similar medical images having a certain similarity with a target medical image to be interpreted; displaying on a display a display screen including a first display area that displays thumbnails of the plurality of similar medical images; sensing one similar medical image selected from among the plurality of similar medical images displayed as thumbnails in the first display area; if the one selected similar medical image is a diffuse lesion, displaying the other plurality of medical images in a second display area included on the display screen; and if the one selected similar medical image is a localized lesion, successively displaying, in the second display area and in a first direction, the plurality of medical images including the localized lesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kazutoyo TAKATA, Kenji KONDO, Kazuki KOZUKA, Hirohiko KIMURA, Toyohiko SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10748661
    Abstract: A display screen including a first display area displaying plural similar medical images received from a case search system and a second display area displaying disease names is displayed on a display of an information terminal. Each similar medical image is a medical image contained in an electronic medical book, and has additional information which includes the number of a page containing the similar medical image. If the user's selection of a similar medical image is detected for the first time after the display of the display screen, a page of an electronic medical book containing the selected similar medical image is displayed on the display screen. If the user's selection of a disease name is detected for the first time after the display of the display screen, a page of an electronic medical book containing differential items corresponding to the selected disease name is displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoyo Takata, Kazuki Kozuka, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura
  • Patent number: 10748649
    Abstract: A similar case retrieval apparatus includes: a lesion portion acquirer that acquires partial images including lesion portion images, an image feature extractor that extracts image features of each of the plurality of partial images; a location information acquirer that acquires location information of each of the partial images; a lateral position determiner that determines the right organ or the left organ in which each of the lesion portions exists based on the location information; a unilateral distribution identifier that determines whether or not a distribution of the lesion portions is a unilateral distribution; and a similar case retriever that retrieves case data from a case database including both case data for the unilateral distribution in the right organ and case data for the unilateral distribution in the left organ when the unilateral distribution identifier identifies that the distribution of the lesion portions is the unilateral distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutoyo Takata, Kazuki Kozuka, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10726295
    Abstract: A control method includes: receiving, from a case search system, a plurality of data including a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of similar medical images having a certain similarity with a target medical image to be interpreted; displaying on a display a display screen including a first display area that displays thumbnails of the plurality of similar medical images; sensing one similar medical image selected from among the plurality of similar medical images displayed as thumbnails in the first display area; if the one selected similar medical image is a diffuse lesion, displaying the other plurality of medical images in a second display area included on the display screen; and if the one selected similar medical image is a localized lesion, successively displaying, in the second display area and in a first direction, the plurality of medical images including the localized lesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoyo Takata, Kenji Kondo, Kazuki Kozuka, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200234815
    Abstract: A method for controlling an information terminal causes a computer of the information terminal to receive, from a case retrieval system, a plurality of similar medical images having a feature quantity of a region of interest and a certain degree of similarity in accordance with the region of interest included in a target medical image, displays a display screen displaying the plurality of received similar medical images on a touch panel display, the display screen including a display region in which at least some of the plurality of received similar medical images are displayed, displays, if selection of a first similar medical image from among the at least some of the plurality of received similar medical images displayed in the display region is detected, the first similar medical image across the display region, and displays, if a swipe operation performed on the first similar medical image is detected, a second similar medical image, which has second highest similarity next to the first similar medical im
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuki KOZUKA, Kazutoyo TAKATA, Kenji KONDO, Hirohiko KIMURA, Toyohiko SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200176123
    Abstract: A method includes displaying, on a display of an information terminal, thumbnail images of similar cases received from a case search system and displaying, in a disease name list display area, a disease name list formed from a list of disease names of the similar cases and the number of cases. If a plurality of regions of interest are set by a user when a search is conducted, the disease name list enters a mode in which the name of a concomitant disease is displayable therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji KONDO, Kazutoyo TAKATA, Kazuki KOZUKA, Hirohiko KIMURA, Toyohiko SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200146551
    Abstract: A control method of an information terminal causes a display to display a display screen which includes a first display region and a second display region. The first display region displays an object medical image. The second display region displays M number of similar medical images and includes ND number of individual regions for displaying the M number of the similar medical images. When an instruction from one or more instruction buttons is detected, a display size of each corresponding region of interest that is included in the second number of the similar medical images is changed while maintaining a size of each of the individual regions in the second display region, and each of the similar medical images is magnified at a magnification ratio of a reference thumbnail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki KOZUKA, Kazutoyo TAKATA, Kenji KONDO, Hirohiko KIMURA, Toyohiko SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10599810
    Abstract: A method for controlling an information terminal causes a computer of the information terminal to receive, from a case retrieval system, a plurality of similar medical images having a feature quantity of a region of interest and a certain degree of similarity in accordance with the region of interest included in a target medical image, displays a display screen displaying the plurality of received similar medical images on a touch panel display, the display screen including a display region in which at least some of the plurality of received similar medical images are displayed, displays, if selection of a first similar medical image from among the at least some of the plurality of received similar medical images displayed in the display region is detected, the first similar medical image across the display region, and displays, if a swipe operation performed on the first similar medical image is detected, a second similar medical image, which has second highest similarity next to the first similar medical im
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kazutoyo Takata, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10593430
    Abstract: A method includes displaying, on a display of an information terminal, thumbnail images of similar cases received from a case search system and displaying, in a disease name list display area, a disease name list formed from a list of disease names of the similar cases and the number of cases. If a plurality of regions of interest are set by a user when a search is conducted, the disease name list enters a mode in which the name of a concomitant disease is displayable therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kondo, Kazutoyo Takata, Kazuki Kozuka, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10582902
    Abstract: A catheter tip-end rotation angle detection apparatus includes a catheter rotation angle detecting unit that detects a rotation angle of a catheter in an operator's hand, an image processing unit that extracts a catheter tip-end region from an x-ray fluoroscopic image of a first x-ray fluoroscopic capturing unit, a catheter tip-end rotation angle calculation unit that calculates an offset angle between an operator's hand-side rotation angle and a catheter tip-end rotation angle, from a fluoroscopic image captured at an action time of rotating the catheter by one turn, based on an angle at which a catheter tip-end region becomes a straight line in the image processing unit, and that calculates a catheter tip-end rotation angle based on the offset angle and the operator's hand-side rotation angle, during a catheter manipulation time, and an output unit that outputs the calculated catheter tip-end rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Toru Nakada
  • Patent number: 10568512
    Abstract: A control method of an information terminal causes a display to display a display screen which includes a first display region and a second display region. The first display region displays an object medical image. The second display region displays M number of similar medical images and includes ND number of individual regions for displaying the M number of the similar medical images. When an instruction from one or more instruction buttons is detected, a display size of each corresponding region of interest that is included in the second number of the similar medical images is changed while maintaining a size of each of the individual regions in the second display region, and each of the similar medical images is magnified at a magnification ratio of a reference thumbnail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kazutoyo Takata, Kenji Kondo, Hirohiko Kimura, Toyohiko Sakai
  • Publication number: 20200046451
    Abstract: A user input obtainer receives an image movement instruction including identification information specifying a position shift or an image capture time shift to be performed and also including a displacement amount. When the identification information specifies the position shift, a slice position selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the position shift based on the displacement amount from a set of tomographic images captured at the same time. On the other hand, when the identification information specifies the image capture time shift, the image capture time selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the shift based on the displacement amount from sets of tomographic images that are identical to each other in terms of a patient, an examination portion, and a modality. A displaying image obtainer reads out the determined tomographic image from an image storage device and gives it to a display information generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuki KOZUKA, Kenji KONDO, Kazutoyo TAKATA
  • Patent number: 10558885
    Abstract: A determination method for determining the structure of a convolutional neural network includes acquiring N filters having the weights trained using a training image group as the initial values, where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 1, and increasing the number of the filters from N to M, where M is a natural number greater than or equal to 2 and is greater than N, by adding a filter obtained by performing a transformation used in image processing fields on at least one of the N filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Young Kim, Luca Rigazio, Sotaro Tsukizawa, Kazuki Kozuka
  • Patent number: 10528827
    Abstract: There are provided an apparatus, a method, and an autonomous moving body which allow a recognition target to be notified with certainty that the recognition target is recognized by an autonomous moving body. A recognition result presenting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure detects a recognition target (person) present within a predetermined range from an automatic driving vehicle and presents, to the detected recognition target (person), the result of recognition indicating that the automatic driving vehicle recognizes the recognition target (person).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Ryota Fujimura, Tetsuji Fuchikami
  • Patent number: 10492883
    Abstract: A user input obtainer receives an image movement instruction including identification information specifying a position shift or an image capture time shift to be performed and also including a displacement amount. When the identification information specifies the position shift, a slice position selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the position shift based on the displacement amount from a set of tomographic images captured at the same time. On the other hand, when the identification information specifies the image capture time shift, the image capture time selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the shift based on the displacement amount from sets of tomographic images that are identical to each other in terms of a patient, an examination portion, and a modality. A displaying image obtainer reads out the determined tomographic image from an image storage device and gives it to a display information generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kenji Kondo, Kazutoyo Takata
  • Patent number: 10496889
    Abstract: An information presentation control apparatus includes a selection information obtainer and a presentation controller. The selection information obtainer obtains selection information representing a selection status of a plurality of recognizers that recognize different targets in surroundings of an autonomous vehicle. The presentation controller causes a presentation device mounted in the autonomous vehicle to present driving information in accordance with the selection information, the driving information being based on at least one of control that is executable by the autonomous vehicle and control that is not executable by the autonomous vehicle and being information about at least one of driving by an automated driving system of the autonomous vehicle and driving by a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasunori Ishii, Kazuki Kozuka, Ryota Fujimura