Patents by Inventor Koichi Kitano

Koichi Kitano 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: 10603000
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera provided in an X-ray source captures a camera image indicating a usage environment in which an electronic cassette is used. The electronic cassette is inserted into the field of view of the camera. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. A cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with registration information set in a console and a use cassette setting process is performed on the basis of the collation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Hattori, Ryo Imamura, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Koichi Kitano, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 10575803
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera image of the usage environment in which the electronic cassette is used is captured. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. The cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with the cassette ID of the use cassette set in the console to check whether the use cassette is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Hattori, Ryo Imamura, Koichi Kitano, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 10340053
    Abstract: The radiation-irradiation device includes: a radiation generating unit that generates radiation; a collimator unit that controls an irradiation range to be irradiated with the radiation generated by the radiation generating unit; and an interval ensuring unit that includes a contact member being in contact with a subject to be irradiated with the radiation in a case in which a distance between the radiation generating unit and the subject is shorter than a preset distance, and ensures an interval between the radiation generating unit and the subject. The interval ensuring unit is detachably mounted on the collimator unit and is capable of being mounted at different rotational positions about an axis, which passes through a center of a diaphragm of the collimator unit and extends in the direction of an optical axis of the radiation, as a central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Misaki Kawahara, Koichi Kitano, Kenji Nakamura, Masaru Sato, Masayuki Iwasaka, Takeyasu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190046139
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera image of the usage environment in which the electronic cassette is used is captured. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. The cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with the cassette ID of the use cassette set in the console to check whether the use cassette is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato HATTORI, Ryo IMAMURA, Koichi KITANO, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20190046140
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera provided in an X-ray source captures a camera image indicating a usage environment in which an electronic cassette is used. The electronic cassette is inserted into the field of view of the camera. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. A cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with registration information set in a console and a use cassette setting process is performed on the basis of the collation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato HATTORI, Ryo IMAMURA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Koichi KITANO, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20190046130
    Abstract: A composite image generation unit of a CPU of a console combines a camera image obtained by capturing an image of a subject located in an irradiation field using a camera and a positioning index image indicating a set position of the subject, which has been set in advance with respect to an in-image cassette position that is the position of the electronic cassette in the camera image, to generate a composite image. In a case in which the in-image cassette position is changed with the movement of the electronic cassette, the composite image generation unit changes a display position of the positioning index image with the change in the in-image cassette position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo IMAMURA, Masato HATTORI, Koichi KITANO
  • Publication number: 20190046134
    Abstract: A position detection unit is disposed at an exposure position that is included in a camera image and a field of view of a camera and outputs a position signal indicating the position of a part of a peripheral portion of an electronic cassette. The calculation unit calculates an in-image cassette position which is the position of the electronic cassette in the camera image, on the basis of the position, direction, and size of the position detection unit in the camera image and the position signal. A composite image generation unit generates a composite image of the camera image and a cassette frame indicating the in-image cassette position. A display controller displays the composite image on a touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo IMAMURA, Koichi KITANO, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20180301235
    Abstract: The radiation-irradiation device includes: a radiation generating unit that generates radiation; a collimator unit that controls an irradiation range to be irradiated with the radiation generated by the radiation generating unit; and an interval ensuring unit that includes a contact member being in contact with a subject to be irradiated with the radiation in a case in which a distance between the radiation generating unit and the subject is shorter than a preset distance, and ensures an interval between the radiation generating unit and the subject. The interval ensuring unit is detachably mounted on the collimator unit and is capable of being mounted at different rotational positions about an axis, which passes through a center of a diaphragm of the collimator unit and extends in the direction of an optical axis of the radiation, as a central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Misaki Kawahara, Koichi Kitano, Kenji Nakamura, Masaru Sato, Masayuki Iwasaka, Takeyasu Kobayashi