Patents by Inventor Koichi Tashiro

Koichi Tashiro 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: 7940967
    Abstract: A medical procedure support system of the invention includes an endoscope for obtaining images of an internal part of the body cavity of a subject, an endoscopic image creating unit for creating an endoscopic image obtained by the endoscope, an image reading unit for reading a virtual image relating to the subject and a reference image relating to the virtual image, a superimposition commanding unit for commanding to superimpose the reference image on at least one of the virtual image and the endoscopic image, and a combined image creating unit for performing the superimposition of the reference image data commanded by the superimposition commanding unit and creating a combined image thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Ozaki, Koichi Tashiro, Akinobu Uchikubo, Takeaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110043697
    Abstract: Provided is a remote control including a detection section for detecting position information, velocity information, and acceleration information. a trigger switch section for receiving an operation by a user, and a transmission section for transmitting a reference decision signal which determines that an image focused on a screen is a reference point of a user operation when the trigger switch section receives the user operation, and for transmitting the position information, the velocity information, and the acceleration information, to a display device including a display mode controller for controlling a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a panel on which information related to the contents is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Onogi, Koichi Tashiro, Naoya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20110047512
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display mode controller for controlling a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a panel on which information related to the contents is displayed, and a thumbnail image shape determination section for determining a shape of the thumbnail image so that the shape of the thumbnail image indicates an arrangement configuration of the screen after the thumbnail image is selected in the multiple content display mode and a screen transition occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Onogi, Koichi Tashiro, Naoya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20110047513
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display mode controller for controlling a transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, multiple thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a panel on which information related to the contents is displayed, an arrangement determination section for arranging multiple thumbnail images displayed in the multiple content display mode by category to which the contents belong, an arrangement change section for changing an arrangement of multiple thumbnail images by a user, and a boundary line display section for displaying, between two thumbnail images, a boundary line indicating a difference of the category before the arrangement of the thumbnail images is changed by the user, and for not displaying the boundary line after changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Onogi, Koichi Tashiro, Naoya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20110043696
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display mode controller for controlling a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a panel on which information related to the contents is displayed, and a panel shape determination section for determining a shape of the panel based on the contents to be displayed on the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Onogi, Koichi Tashiro, Naoya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20110047573
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display mode controller for controlling a screen transition to a whole screen display mode for displaying an image in an entire screen of a display section, a multiple content display mode for displaying, on the screen, a plurality of thumbnail images related to contents, or a panel display mode for displaying, on the screen, a first panel on which information related to the contents is displayed, an information obtaining section for obtaining externally various information, and a panel display section for displaying the various information obtained in the whole screen display mode on a second panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Onogi, Koichi Tashiro, Naoya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7871403
    Abstract: A medical support control system comprising a recording device for recording an image signal from a medical device, a medical support control device for synthesizing an image based on the image signal and a prescribed GUI, and a display manipulation device for display the GUI, wherein: on the basis of an input of setting information about the recording device on an administrator setting window of a GUI displayed by the display manipulation device, the medical support control device creates a GUI including device selection means for causing one of the medical devices to be selected, image selection means for causing one of image signals output from the medical devices to be selected, and display means for causing the image corresponding to the selected image signal to be displayed, and causes the created GUI to be displayed on the display manipulation device as a manipulator window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Masaru Ito, Koichi Tashiro
  • Patent number: 7833219
    Abstract: The operation apparatus controller controls a group of apparatuses including multiple medical apparatuses, which respectively can store patient IDs. Also, the operation apparatus controller has a patient ID comparing section which compares the patient ID stored in the various apparatuses within the group of apparatuses and a notifying section which notifies that the compared patient ID matches or does not match, based on the comparison results of the patient ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Tashiro, Akinobu Uchikubo, Takeaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20090217165
    Abstract: A medical support control system comprising a recording device for recording an image signal from a medical device, a medical support control device for synthesizing an image based on the image signal and a prescribed GUI, and a display manipulation device for display the GUI, wherein: on the basis of an input of setting information about the recording device on an administrator setting window of a GUI displayed by the display manipulation device, the medical support control device creates a GUI including device selection means for causing one of the medical devices to be selected, image selection means for causing one of image signals output from the medical devices to be selected, and display means for causing the image corresponding to the selected image signal to be displayed, and causes the created GUI to be displayed on the display manipulation device as a manipulator window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Masaru ITO, Koichi TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20090213140
    Abstract: A control device connected to a display manipulation device and a plurality of display devices, comprising: superposition means creating a superposition image that is obtained by superposing drawing information on an image of an input video signal; and output means outputting, to the respective display devices, the superposition image and an image that is different from an image in the display manipulation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Masaru ITO, Koichi TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20090210754
    Abstract: A medical support control system comprising: a first controller connected to at least one device; a second controller connected to at least one device; and a manipulation display device shared by the first controller and the second controller, and alternately displaying a first graphical user interface (first GUI) created by the first controller and a second graphical user interface (second GUI) created by the second controller, wherein: first error information that is error information obtained from the first controller side and second error information that is error information obtained from the second controller side are shared by the first and second controllers, and are reflected on the first and second GUIs on the basis of the first and second error information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Kiyoshi SEKIGUCHI, Masaru ITO, Koichi TASHIRO, Nobuyuki FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20090204911
    Abstract: A medical support control system comprising: a first controller connected to at least one device; a second controller connected to at least one device; a manipulation display device shared by the first controller and the second controller, and alternately displaying a first graphical user interface (first GUI) created by the first controller and a second graphical user interface (second GUI) created by the second controller, wherein: each of the first GUI and the second GUI includes at least: a switching part for performing switching between the first GUI and the second GUI, and enabling control on a controller corresponding to a GUI after the switching; and an execution instruction part for instructing the respective controllers to execute a process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Kiyoshi SEKIGUCHI, Masaru ITO, Koichi TASHIRO, Nobuyuki FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20090199121
    Abstract: A medical support control system, comprising: a first controller connected to at least one device; a second controller connected to at least one device, connected to a network, and provided in a medical environment different from that of the first controller; a manipulation display device shared by the first and second controllers and alternately displaying a first GUI created by the first controller and a second GUI created by the second controller, wherein: if a prescribed report is received via the network or from the prescribed connected device while the first GUI is being displayed, a symbol indicating that the report has been received is displayed on the first GUI, and when the symbol is pressed, the first GUI is switched to a prescribed window of the second GUI corresponding to the report, and a process corresponding to the report is performed by the second controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Kiyoshi SEKIGUCHI, Masaru ITO, Koichi TASHIRO, Masahide YAMAKI, Nobuyuki FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20090199125
    Abstract: A medical support control system, comprising: a first controller connected to at least one device; a second controller connected to at least one device; and a manipulation display device shared by the first and second controllers, wherein: the manipulation display device is caused to alternately display a first graphical user interface created by the first controller and a second graphical user interface created by the second controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Kiyoshi SEKIGUCHI, Masaru ITO, Koichi TASHIRO, Nobuyuki FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20090189907
    Abstract: A medical support control system that can control a medical device, comprising: a plurality of video interface cards that are detachable from the medical support control system and that are used for the medical support control system for converting, when a video signal is input from an external environment, the video signal input from the external environment into a common signal and vice versa, said common signal being different from any video signals input into and output from the plurality of video interface cards and said common signal being commonly used in the medical support control system, and for detecting a change in an information amount of the input video signal; and a switching control card for determining, when it is determined that the video signal was switched on the basis of the detection result, an output path for the common signal obtained by the conversion on the video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Koichi TASHIRO, Masaru ITO
  • Publication number: 20090189978
    Abstract: A medical device, comprising: a plurality of video interface cards are used for the medical support control system for converting, when a video signal is input from an external environment, a video signal input from the external environment into a common signal and vice versa, said common signal being different from any video signals input into and output from the video interface cards and said common signal being used commonly in the medical support control system; a switching control card for selecting, from among the video interface cards, a video interface card as an output destination in accordance with an instruction given from an external environment; and a plurality of video processing cards are used for the medical support control system for processing the common signal into a video signal appropriate to the selected video interface card on the basis of a video signal expressed by the common signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Koichi TASHIRO, Masaru ITO
  • Publication number: 20090193299
    Abstract: A medical support control device to which are connected a display manipulation device and a medical device control device connected to a medical device and controlling the medical device, comprising: a detection unit for detecting abnormality in an image signal line outputting an image signal to the display manipulation unit; and an interruption unit for interrupting communications to the medical device control device in accordance with the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Kiyoshi SEKIGUCHI, Masaru ITO, Koichi TASHIRO, Masahide YAMAKI, Nobuyuki FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20090190897
    Abstract: A medical support control device to display an image captured by a medical device on a display device, comprising: a storage unit for storing, in a prescribed order, display format types of the image displayed on the bases of video signals output from the medical device, and a display switching unit for causing the display unit to display the image in the format in the prescribed order, on the bases of a display format switching signal from an operation unit of the medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Koichi TASHIRO, Masaru ITO
  • Publication number: 20080161658
    Abstract: The medical device data analysis device (57, 22) of the present invention are used for analyzing plural kinds of data of plural medical devices which have been obtained during an operation, and includes a data input portion for inputting the plural kinds of data outputted from the plural medical devices respectively, a data storage portion for storing the plural kinds of data outputted from the medical devices and inputted through the data input portion, and a display processing portion for processing the plural kinds of data stored in the data storage portion so as to be displayed, wherein the display processing portion executes a graph display processing for allowing display of the plural kinds of data stored in the data storage portion in a graph with a same time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Koichi Tashiro, Akinobu Uchikubo, Masakazu Gotanda, Chie Imamiya, Takeaki Nakamura, Takashi Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20080133602
    Abstract: An operation data recording device 22 according to the invention includes a setting unit for setting operation data to be recorded out of inputted operation data, and an operation data recording unit for recording the operation data set by the setting unit in a recording device in association with a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Koichi Tashiro, Akinobu Uchikubo, Takashi Ozaki, Chie Imamiya, Takeaki Nakamura, Masakazu Gotanda