Patents by Inventor Kei KUWABARA

Kei KUWABARA 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: 20190320926
    Abstract: There is provided a heartbeat detection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Nobuaki MATSUURA, Kei KUWABARA, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Ryoichi KASAHARA, Koji FUJII
  • Patent number: 10254625
    Abstract: An optical signal processing device with a transponder aggregator function by which theoretical loss is not increased even if the number of necessary transponders is increased. Optical signals inputted from input ports are inputted to a PLC. The PLC has SBTs. The input ports are connected to the input-end SBT, and a plane wave is outputted from an output end of the PLC to the space side at an angle different for each input port. Optical signals outputted by the PLC are changed in their optical paths on the x-z plane by a cylindrical lens (Lsp) designed to refract optical signals in the x-axis direction, and are reflected by an LCOS at different regions corresponding to the positions of the input port. The reflected optical signals are incident on the output-end SBTs on the PLC, and are outputted to output ports via demultiplex parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kenya Suzuki, Kei Kuwabara, Yuichi Higuchi, Mitsumasa Nakajima, Yuichiro Ikuma, Osamu Moriwaki, Tetsuo Takahashi, Naoki Ooba, Yuzo Ishii
  • Publication number: 20190069791
    Abstract: There is provided a heartbeat detection device. The heartbeat detection device includes a time difference value calculation unit (3) configured to calculate a time difference value of sampling data of an electrocardiographic waveform, FIFO buffers (4-1, 4-2) configured to receive the time difference value, a FIFO buffer (4-3) configured to receive an output from the FIFO buffer (4-2), a FIFO buffer (4-4) configured to receive an output from the FIFO buffer (4-3), a minimum value detection unit (5) configured to detect, for each sampling time, a minimum value M out of the time difference value stored in the FIFO buffer (4-2) and the time difference value stored in the FIFO buffer (4-4), and a heartbeat time determination unit (6) configured to set, when a difference value M?a between the minimum value M and an output value a of the FIFO buffer (4-1) is equal to or greater than a threshold, sampling time of the output value a as heartbeat time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Nobuaki MATSUURA, Kei KUWABARA, Takayuki OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20190038164
    Abstract: There is provided a biological signal processing apparatus. The biological signal processing apparatus includes a biological signal extraction unit (2) configured to extract a biological signal from an electrocardiographic waveform measured by an electrocardiograph (1), an averaging processing unit (3) configured to calculate averaged data using time-series data of the biological signals extracted by the biological signal extraction unit (2), an abnormal value determination unit (4) configured to determine, for each data, whether the data of the biological signal extracted by the biological signal extraction unit (2) is appropriate, based on the averaged data calculated using the data of the biological signals that have occurred before the data, and an abnormal value processing unit (5) configured to perform one of deletion and interpolation of the data of the biological signal determined to be inappropriate by the abnormal value determination unit (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Nobuaki MATSUURA, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Kei KUWABARA
  • Patent number: 10172531
    Abstract: A heartbeat detection device includes a difference value calculation unit (3) for calculating, from a sampling data sequence of an electrocardiographic waveform of a living body, one of an amount of change and a degree of change of sampling data for each sampling time, a multiplication unit (4) for calculating, for each sampling time, a product by multiplying one of an amount of change and a degree of change of the sampling data at a time K by one of the sampling data at the time K and sampling data at a time before the time K by a predetermined time t, a peak detection unit (5) for detecting a peak of the product, and a heartbeat time determination unit (6) for setting time of the peak of the product as a heartbeat time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuaki Matsuura, Kei Kuwabara, Kazuhiko Takagahara, Ryusuke Kawano, Hiroshi Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20180344208
    Abstract: There is provided a respiration estimation method. The respiration estimation method includes a first step (S107) of estimating a breathing rate of a subject based on each of a time-series signal of first data relating to a cardiac function of the subject and a time-series signal of second data relating to an acceleration by a respiratory motion of the subject, a second step (S108) of estimating a breathing rate obtained by filtering noise using a Kalman filter for each of the breathing rate estimated based on the first data and the breathing rate estimated based on the second data, and a third step (S109) of executing weighted averaging processing for the plurality of estimated values of the breathing rates obtained in the second step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Takayuki Ogasawara, Takurou Tajima, Kei Kuwabara, Nobuaki Matsuura, Ryoichi Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20180333064
    Abstract: There is provided a respiration estimation apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki OGASAWARA, Takuro TAJIMA, Kei KUWABARA, Nobuaki MATSUURA, Ryoichi KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20180164656
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical signal processing device with a transponder aggregator function by which theoretical loss is not increased even if the number of necessary transponders is increased. Optical signals inputted from input ports are inputted to a PLC. The PLC has SBTs. The input ports are connected to the input-end SBT, and a plane wave is outputted from an output end of the PLC to the space side at an angle different for each input port. Optical signals outputted by the PLC are changed in their optical paths on the x-z plane by a cylindrical lens (Lsp) designed to refract optical signals in the x-axis direction, and are reflected by an LCOS at different regions corresponding to the positions of the input port. The reflected optical signals are incident on the output-end SBTs on the PLC, and are outputted to output ports via demultiplex parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kenya Suzuki, Kei Kuwabara, Yuichi Higuchi, Mitsumasa Nakajima, Yuichiro Ikuma, Osamu Moriwaki, Testsuo Takahashi, Naoki Ooba, Yuzo Ishii
  • Publication number: 20170281021
    Abstract: A heartbeat detection device includes a difference value calculation unit (3) for calculating, from a sampling data sequence of an electrocardiographic waveform of a living body, one of an amount of change and a degree of change of sampling data for each sampling time, a multiplication unit (4) for calculating, for each sampling time, a product by multiplying one of an amount of change and a degree of change of the sampling data at a time K by one of the sampling data at the time K and sampling data at a time before the time K by a predetermined time t, a peak detection unit (5) for detecting a peak of the product, and a heartbeat time determination unit (6) for setting time of the peak of the product as a heartbeat time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Nobuaki MATSUURA, Kei KUWABARA, Kazuhiko TAKAGAHARA, Ryusuke KAWANO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20170258351
    Abstract: A heartbeat detection device includes a peak search unit (4) for searching for one of a peak at which a value M obtained from a sampling data sequence of an electrocardiographic waveform of a living body changes from an increase to a decrease and a peak at which the value M changes from a decrease to an increase, and a heartbeat time determination unit (5) for checking the value M in a predetermined time domain before a time of the peak and the value M in a predetermined time domain after the time of the peak, and setting the time of the peak as a heartbeat time if differences between the value M at the time of the peak and the values M in the predetermined time domains are not smaller than a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Nobuaki MATSUURA, Kei KUWABARA, Kazuhiko TAKAGAHARA, Ryusuke KAWANO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20170224244
    Abstract: In a biological signal measurement system of this invention, biological digital data is generated from a biological signal measured by a biological signal measurement apparatus, and first feature amount data extracted from the biological digital data and downsized biological digital data are transmitted to a portable terminal. In a biological information measurement apparatus of this invention, biological feature amount data is extracted from measured biological waveform data, and at least one of the biological waveform data and the biological feature amount data is transmitted to an external device. It is possible to provide a biological signal measurement system capable of continuously measuring a biological signal for a long time without disturbing daily life and provide a biological information measurement apparatus capable of implementing downsizing and long life of a battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Kei KUWABARA, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Nobuaki MATSUURA, Michiko SEYAMA, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Ryusuke KAWANO, Kazuhiko TAKAGAHARA, Kazuyoshi ONO, Takako ISHIHARA, Yasuhiro SATO, Shingo TSUKADA, Nahoko KASAI, Koji SUMITOMO