Patents by Inventor Keiji Tsubota

Keiji Tsubota 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: 20240105321
    Abstract: A health checkup support program according to an aspect of the present invention causes a central control unit of a smart watch that acquires biological information of a wearer to realize a health checkup information detection function of detecting a scheduled implementation date and time of a health checkup of the wearer by accessing a health checkup information server that stores health checkup information related to the health checkup, an ineligible matter detection function of monitoring the biological information of the wearer obtained via the wearable device for a predetermined period until the scheduled implementation date and time of a health checkup, and detecting an ineligible matter that is ineligible for implementing the health checkup, and a health checkup ineligibility notification function of, in a case in which the ineligible matter is detected, notifying of the fact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji TSUBOTA, Noriaki IDA, Shozo IYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240096506
    Abstract: A health checkup support program according to an aspect of the present invention causes a central control unit of a smart watch that acquires biological information of a wearer to realize a diagnostic item detection function of detecting a diagnostic item of the wearer by accessing a health checkup information server that stores health checkup information related to the health checkup, and a diagnosis possibility determination function of determining whether or not at least one of the detected diagnostic items is appropriately implementable based on the biological information of the wearer obtained from the smart watch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji TSUBOTA, Noriaki IDA, Shozo IYAMA
  • Patent number: 11925436
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: an insertion object having a photoacoustic wave generator; an insertion object image signal generator that generates an insertion object image signal from a reception signal of an acoustic wave from the photoacoustic wave generator; a first signal width detector that detects a first signal width of a portion of a predetermined signal strength in the insertion object image signal; and an insertion object display image signal generator that generates, in a case where the first signal width is larger than a second signal width, an insertion object display image signal of a width having a center at a peak position of the insertion object image signal and corresponding to the second signal width, and generates, in a case where the first signal width is smaller than the second signal width, an insertion object display image signal having a width smaller than the second signal width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Yamamoto, Tomoki Inoue, Keiji Tsubota
  • Patent number: 11819312
    Abstract: A photoacoustic apparatus includes a laser light irradiating unit that irradiates an inside of a subject with pulsed light; a photoacoustic signal acquiring unit that acquires a photoacoustic signal from a photoacoustic wave from the subject; a light amount detecting unit that detects a light amount of the pulsed light; a correlation data memory that stores first correlation data and second correlation data; an energy estimating unit that estimates an energy on the basis of the amount of the pulsed light and the first correlation data; a pulse width estimating unit that estimates a pulse width on the basis of the estimated energy and the second correlation data; and a photoacoustic signal correcting unit that corrects the photoacoustic signal on the basis of a first difference between the estimated energy and a reference energy and a second difference between the estimated pulse width and a reference pulse width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Ishii, Keiji Tsubota
  • Publication number: 20230326561
    Abstract: A clinical trial system includes: a mobile terminal possessed by a trial subject; a blood test device installed in each of a plurality of testing facilities capable of conducting a blood test of the trial subject; and a clinical trial server that stores a test result of the trial subject acquired by the blood test device in association with trial subject information that specifies the trial subject. In the clinical trial system, route information to at least one testing facility capable of performing the blood test of the trial subject, which is retrieved on the basis of a clinical trial plan of the trial subject and position information of the trial subject, is displayed on the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Keiji TSUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20230309946
    Abstract: A control device comprising at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: acquire type information indicating a type of a compression member attached to an image acquisition device that captures a radiation image by irradiating a breast in a compressed state between an imaging table and the compression member with radiation; and set an upper limit value of a compression force applied to the breast by the compression member based on the type information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Keiji TSUBOTA, Hidetoshi TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230301635
    Abstract: Provided are an ultrasound diagnostic system and a method for controlling an ultrasound diagnostic system which can take appropriate measures in a case in which an artifact has occurred, regardless of a skill level of a user. An ultrasound diagnostic system includes: an image input unit that inputs an ultrasound image; a determination unit that determines whether or not an artifact has occurred in the ultrasound image input to the image input unit, using a trained model trained using learning data in which a plurality of ultrasound images including artifacts and occurrence causes of the artifacts are associated with each other; and a notification unit that gives a notification of an occurrence location and an occurrence cause of the artifact in the ultrasound image in a case in which the determination unit determines that the artifact has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi TAKAYAMA, Keiji TSUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20230255565
    Abstract: An information processing device comprising at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to recommend, as a method of inputting control information for controlling a device to be controlled to a control device that controls the device to be controlled, a noncontact input method of inputting the control information in a manner noncontact with the control device in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Yasuhisa KANEKO, Kenji NAGAMIYA, Tomohide HIRAGAMI, Yasuyuki HOSONO, Nobuya KITAMURA, Keiji TSUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20230245766
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, before at least one of a user who operates a control device controlling an imaging device that captures a medical image or a subject to be imaged by the imaging device is changed, notifies of a cleaning request of the control device based on information acquirable in a noncontact manner with the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Yasuhisa KANEKO, Kenji NAGAMIYA, Tomohide HIRAGAMI, Yasuyuki HOSONO, Nobuya KITAMURA, Keiji TSUBOTA
  • Patent number: 11684263
    Abstract: A breast imaging apparatus includes a radiation source that irradiates a breast of a subject with radiation, a radiation detector that detects the radiation transmitted through the breast to output a radiographic image, and an ultraviolet light source that performs irradiation of ultraviolet light. The ultraviolet light source irradiates an imaging table, a face guard, a pressing plate, and the like with the ultraviolet light in a case where a turn-on command signal input from an operator through an input device is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Takata, Yoshihiro Nishi, Keiji Tsubota
  • Patent number: 11631492
    Abstract: A hospital support system includes a management monitor and an operation terminal functioning as a first controller that performs control for displaying a status management table in a state in which items corresponding to a series of predetermined multiple stages performed so as to correspond to a diseased animal at least while the diseased animal stays in a hospital from when the diseased animal arrives at the hospital to when payment is finished are arranged in a sequence of time on the management monitor and a second controller that performs control for displaying an icon indicating which stage of the multiple stages in the status management table is a stage being performed at a current point of time on the management monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Ishikawa, Hirona Yumbe, Akemi Oda, Yasuhisa Kaneko, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Keiji Tsubota
  • Patent number: 11589753
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes an insertion object having a photoacoustic wave generator, a light source that irradiates the photoacoustic wave generator with light, an insertion object image signal generator that generates an insertion object image signal from a photoacoustic wave reception signal from the photoacoustic wave generator, and an insertion object display image signal generator that generates an insertion object display image signal having a center at a peak position where a signal strength of the insertion object image signal becomes a peak value, having a maximum width corresponding to a predetermined reference signal width, and having a signal strength corresponding to the peak value at the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Yamamoto, Tomoki Inoue, Keiji Tsubota
  • Patent number: 11443714
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a first control unit that performs control for displaying a bar for plotting an inspection result for each inspection item in a subject with one direction of the bar representing a value of the inspection result, and displaying a mark representing a last inspection result in the bar; and a second control unit that performs control for displaying information representing a predetermined number of inspection results of at least one of the subject individual or the same variety as a variety of the subject individual for a predetermined inspection item along the one direction of the bar with different color or density depending on a frequency of each inspection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Ishikawa, Keiji Tsubota, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Publication number: 20220245797
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a first image obtained by imaging a subject; extract a first region of interest from the first image; and determine whether or not an unsuitable region that is unsuitable for extraction exists, for the extracted first region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Keiji Tsubota
  • Publication number: 20220245925
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to cause a learning model that is used to extract a region of interest from an input image, to perform learning in response to an input of a pseudo image generated in a case where a pixel value of at least a part of an original image obtained by imaging a subject is changed, as data for learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Keiji TSUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20220208380
    Abstract: Provided are a medical care support device, an operation method and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an operation program thereof, and a medical care support system capable of promptly proposing necessary examinations and treatments in a case where a patient suffers from a chronic disease. A medical care support device (12) includes a display screen generation unit (62) and a prediction execution unit (63). The prediction execution unit (63) extracts a specific disease affecting a patient from acquired medical care information, and outputs a chronic disease and a complication that is likely to occur with a morbidity of the chronic disease as a prediction result. The display screen generation unit (62) proposes medical care practices for both the chronic disease and the complication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HIRAKAWA, Hiroshi HIRAMATSU, Keiji TSUBOTA, Misaki KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220208381
    Abstract: A medical care support device (11) includes an operation history acquisition unit (63), a prediction execution unit (64), and a display screen generation unit (62). The operation history acquisition unit (63) acquires an operation history in a case where a terminal device is operated. The prediction execution unit (64) predicts a next operation candidate in a case where the terminal device is input and operated by using a trained model generated by an external server learning the acquired operation history, the external server being installed outside the medical facility. The display screen generation unit (62) makes a proposal to the terminal device from the next operation candidate predicted by the prediction execution unit (64).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HIRAKAWA, Hiroshi HIRAMATSU, Keiji TSUBOTA, Misaki KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220181010
    Abstract: A conference information management unit generates, for each of conferences scheduled to be executed, conference information including information on the type, target patients, participants, and execution date and time. A participant job type determination unit compares a job type definition table with the conference information to determine whether or not the participants of the job type defined in the job type definition table are included in the conference scheduled to be executed. The determination result is notified by the conference information management unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HIRAKAWA, Hiroshi HIRAMATSU, Keiji TSUBOTA, Misaki KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220180989
    Abstract: A medical care support device includes: a medical care document generation unit that generates a discharge summary, which is a medical care document in which extracted data extracted from medical care data related to medical care of a patient is laid out in a predetermined format; and a display screen generation unit that generates a medical care document display screen, which is a display screen having a first display area for displaying the discharge summary and a second display area for displaying original data which is medical care data of an extraction source of the extracted data. The display screen generation unit displays a correspondence between the extracted data and the original data in an identifiable manner on the medical care document display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HIRAKAWA, Keiji TSUBOTA, Misaki KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220172831
    Abstract: A medical care support device includes a display screen generation unit that generates a display screen for displaying a patient and a medical care process in association with each other, and an unread management unit that displays a status of the medical care process on the display screen. The unread management unit manages a viewer-specific status for each viewer who views the display screen separately from a main body status of the medical care process, changes the main body status by reflecting a status of a specific type of viewer in the main body status, and displays the viewer-specific status and the main body status in an identifiable manner on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HIRAKAWA, Hiroshi HIRAMATSU, Jun AIZU, Chuta KASAHARA, Keiji TSUBOTA, Misaki KAWAHARA