Patents by Inventor Kenichi Niwa
Kenichi Niwa 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).
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Patent number: 8520017Abstract: A system for managing and displaying medical images, comprising an associating unit for associating image file, including a medical image data, with a display mode data held at least a screen division and a image segment including a medical image, and an image display unit for displaying the medical image data included the image file as a medical image on the screen in accordance with the display mode data associating with the image file.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Takashi Kondo, Kenichi Niwa
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Publication number: 20130191166Abstract: The medical system of the embodiment comprises a recording unit, management unit, extracting unit, searching unit, and display unit. The recording unit records medical information by associating it to the classification thereof. The management unit associates and manages a plurality of situation sections in order to differentiate medical examination situations when medical care is received and a plurality of classifications of medical information. The extracting unit extracts the classification of medical information corresponding to particular situations among a plurality of situation sections based on the plurality of situation sections associated and a plurality of classifications of medical information by the management unit. The searching unit searches the classification of medical information not recorded in the recording unit among the classifications of medical information extracted by the extracting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hikaru Futami, Kenichi Niwa, Kohki Fujii
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Publication number: 20130141462Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image observation apparatus includes a data receiver, a display, and a controller. The controller controls the display to array medical images for each of groups, the medical images being classified into the groups in accordance with at least one of a type of medical image generation apparatus, an imaging condition, an image generation method, an imaging position, an instruction and a setting by an operator, and an imaging date/time, to display medical images corresponding to at least two of the groups, and to scroll the medical images arrayed on a display screen on a group basis based on a scroll instruction of the operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Kenichi NIWA, Kenji Matsue
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Patent number: 8401259Abstract: The admission of the editing of information on a key image of an object, the type of edit processing, and the contents targeted for edit processing are controlled in accordance with a combination of user information and device information (i.e., a scene where the key image is used).Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Kenji Matsue, Muneyasu Kazuno, Kenichi Niwa, Akira Iwasa
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Patent number: 8385616Abstract: A report-data collecting unit retrieves and collects a character string in accordance with the prescribed character-string retrieval condition and the character string of annotation data. An image data display unit displays the character string and a list showing a medical image referred to while the object is being photographed. When the user selects the character string by designating the medical image shown in the list, both the character string and the medical image are associated by an image-data acquisition/process unit and then pasted at a prescribed position in a medical-image reading report preparation screen. Further, the data representing the medical image thus pasted is archived in an image database.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Hikaru Futami, Kenichi Niwa
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Patent number: 8384729Abstract: A multi-modality medical image display system, having a storage device that stores image attributes indicating attributes of an image, and information indicating a plurality of display layouts, each combination set in accordance with at least one of a first or second modality type, and corresponding to one of the plurality of display layouts. The system further includes a unit configured to select a combination of image attributes for the requested medical image information based on incidental information that is assigned to the requested medical image information. The system further includes a unit configured to compare the combination of image attributes of the requested medical image information with the combination of the image attributes and, based on the comparison, and to search the storage device and obtain therefrom one of the plurality of display layouts that corresponds with the combination of image attributes of the requested medical image information.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Kenichi Niwa
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Patent number: 8352416Abstract: According to embodiments, a diagnostic report search supporting apparatus and a diagnostic report searching apparatus each have a report registering part, a structuring processing part, a related-term analyzing part, a counting part, and a keyword extracting part. The structuring processing part extracts terms from a sentence written in a diagnostic report, and classifies the terms into predetermined kinds. The related-term analyzing part generates combinations each composed of two or more terms based on the plurality of terms having been extracted. The counting part counts the existence number of same combinations in the plurality of combinations, and extracts combinations whose existence numbers are a predetermined number or more. The keyword extracting part extracts a combination including a desired keyword, and extracts a term other than the desired keyword as a related keyword.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Hiromasa Yamagishi, Hikaru Futami, Kenichi Niwa
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Patent number: 8330717Abstract: In the medical image interpreting apparatus having a pointing device for moving a cursor, medical image, interpretation report, and cursor are displayed on a display screen, and initial movement information and information on the destination of movement of the cursor are linked and stored, via the pointing device when the cursor begins to move, said initial movement information relevant to the initial movement is retrieved to obtain the linked information on the destination of movement and the cursor is moved to the destination of movement indicated in the obtained information on the destination of movement. Due to this, just by slightly moving the cursor, the cursor jumps to the desired destination of movement, therefore, it becomes possible to omit an operation of the pointing device in between.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Jun Kawakami, Kenichi Niwa, Maki Minakuchi, Takashi Kondo, Takashi Masuzawa
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Patent number: 8306960Abstract: A medical image retrieval system includes an image database which stores medical images. An interpretation unit acquires a currently diagnosed image for use in performing interpretation of one of the medical images and provides the currently diagnosed image to a computer terminal. An image requesting unit issues an image request associated with the currently diagnosed image. An image retrieval unit retrieves a reference image from the image database in accordance with the image request and provides the reference image to the computer terminal in order to propose the reference image as references for diagnosis. An evaluation input unit prompts to input an evaluation indicating whether the reference image has been helpful for diagnosis based on the currently diagnosed image.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Kakimoto, Takeichiro Nishikawa, Hideyuki Aisu, Kenichi Niwa, Masakazu Osada, Takashi Masuzawa, Shinichiro Hamada
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Patent number: 8280129Abstract: A medical image managing device can be used in a medical image system in which an image storage device storing medical images obtained by an imaging device as past images so as to specify an examination and a series and one or more image reference devices referring a user to the past images stored in the image storage device are connected to each other through a network.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Hikaru Futami, Kenichi Niwa, Muneyasu Kazuno
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Patent number: 8254649Abstract: The report storage stores an interpretation report that includes patient-identifying information, examination-specifying information, and medical image-specifying information that specifies medical image data. The image data storage stores the medical image data that includes image data and additional information for the image data that includes the patient-identifying information, the examination-specifying information, and the medical image-specifying information. The key image-searching part specifies an interpretation report that includes patient-identifying information specified by a display request for the medical image data and specifies the medical image data using the medical image-specifying information included in the specified interpretation report. The image data-searching part reads the medical image data from the image data storage based on the additional information of the specified medical image data and the display request.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Kenji Matsue, Kenichi Niwa
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Patent number: 8238628Abstract: In a server apparatus, an information classification is determined by a user and a utilization situation, and provision information is determined on the basis of the determined information classification. A common object is processed to include only the determined provision information, and then provided to a client apparatus. To the client apparatus, a common object including requisite minimum information is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Muneyasu Kazuno, Kenichi Niwa
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Patent number: 8238626Abstract: A medical image display apparatus has a dividing unit and a setting unit. The dividing unit divides a range after changing to an overlapping range that a range after changing overlaps a range before changing, and a non-overlapping range that not includes the overlapping range, when a position of the range is changed. The setting unit configured to set a pixel value after changing based on a pixel value constituting a diagnostic image before changing and voxel values along a predefined direction in the non-overlapping range according to a predefined condition about a pixel that a position of a voxel value in volume data corresponding to the pixel value constituting the diagnostic image before changing exists in the overlapping range, among each pixels constituting a diagnostic image after changing generated based on the voxel values along the predefined direction in the range after changing.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Kenji Matsue, Kenichi Niwa
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Patent number: 8233750Abstract: Enhanced image data is stored, and medical image data contained in the enhanced image data and a screen for creating an interpretation report are displayed on a monitor. In response to a linking operation, link data containing image specification information specifying medical image data to link in the enhanced image data is generated and included into data of the interpretation report. In response to an operation of requesting linked medical image, based on the link data, medical image data indicated by the image specification information within the enhanced image data is specified from the enhanced image data, and the specified medical image data is outputted to a requesting destination of the linked medical image. Thus, a link can be set to medical image data that is one data element within enhanced image data, and only a linked data row can be extracted and read from the enhanced image data.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Maki Minakuchi, Kenichi Niwa, Akira Goto, Ichirou Maeda
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Patent number: 8188971Abstract: In the medical image interpreting apparatus having a pointing device for moving a cursor, medical image, interpretation report, and cursor are displayed on a display screen, and initial movement information and information on the destination of movement of the cursor are linked and stored, via the pointing device when the cursor begins to move, said initial movement information relevant to the initial movement is retrieved to obtain the linked information on the destination of movement and the cursor is moved to the destination of movement indicated in the obtained information on the destination of movement. Due to this, just by slightly moving the cursor, the cursor jumps to the desired destination of movement, therefore, it becomes possible to omit an operation of the pointing device in between.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiva, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Jun Kawakami, Kenichi Niwa, Maki Minakuchi, Takashi Kondo, Takashi Masuzawa
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Patent number: 8184878Abstract: Specific information for specifying a specific study or series for which an object, which is obtained by adding at least one information of a scan condition, a scan range, and a key image position as a basis of a diagnosis in an image, is to be generated is specified. It is determined whether or not an image for references is present in the specific study or series on the basis of additional information of at least one image related to the specific study or series. When it is determined that the image for references is present, an object about the specific study or series is generated afterwards, for example, in the unit of series by using the image for references and at least one information of a scan condition, a scan range, and a key image position of the additional information.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Muneyasu Kazuno, Kenichi Niwa, Jun Kawakami, Koichi Terai
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Patent number: 8095388Abstract: By selecting at least one of an image and a report to be provided for an institute to which a patient is introduced, an object having the same series ID as that of the image or report is automatically obtained. Medical information including the object is generated and stored in an external medium. By selecting an image or the like to be provided to the institute to which a patient is introduced, address information of the selected image or the like and address information of an object or the like having the same series ID as that of the image or the like is automatically obtained. Medical information including the address information is generated and stored in an external medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2007Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Takashi Masuzawa, Kenji Matsue, Kenichi Niwa
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Patent number: 8090170Abstract: A medical image observation device relating to the present invention receives enhanced image data having a plurality of medical images, and splits the enhanced image data into a plurality of single image data each containing only one medical image, based on system information of the enhanced image data. According to the present invention, it is possible to make a medical image observation device accurately display an image without depending on system information of enhanced image data.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Masato Shibuya, Kenichi Niwa, Hirobumi Nonaka
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Patent number: 7978890Abstract: An extraction unit extracts observation information and site information of a sample associated with the observation information from at least information on an image scanning report including an image scanning result of a medical image of the sample obtained by inspection. A display control unit controls a display unit to display a schema imitating the shape of the sample and at least the observation information extracted corresponding to a position of the site in the schema.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Hiromasa Yamagishi, Kenichi Niwa
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Publication number: 20110075898Abstract: In the medical image interpreting apparatus having a pointing device for moving a cursor, medical image, interpretation report, and cursor are displayed on a display screen, and initial movement information and information on the destination of movement of the cursor are linked and stored, via the pointing device when the cursor begins to move, said initial movement information relevant to the initial movement is retrieved to obtain the linked information on the destination of movement and the cursor is moved to the destination of movement indicated in the obtained information on the destination of movement. Due to this, just by slightly moving the cursor, the cursor jumps to the desired destination of movement, therefore, it becomes possible to omit an operation of the pointing device in between.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Kawakami, Kenichi Niwa, Maki Minakuchi, Takashi Kondo, Takashi Masuzawa