Patents by Inventor Makoto Kitamura

Makoto Kitamura 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: 10776921
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a memory to store intraluminal images captured by a medical device inserted into a living body, the intraluminal images being associated with time series; and a processor to detect an abnormal area from intraluminal images captured by a medical device inserted into a living body, set a similar abnormal section where the abnormal areas being similar to each other are included, generate information related to the similar abnormal section, extract an intraluminal image that is used as a representative image from among the intraluminal images belonging to the similar abnormal section, control the display device to display the representative image, extract, as the information related to the similar abnormal section from among the intraluminal images, non-representative images which are part of intraluminal images other than the representative image, and control a display device to display the information related to the similar abnormal section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kitamura, Mitsutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 10748279
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a lumen image of a living body; an image generating unit configured to generate a plurality of new images by changing at least one of a hue and a brightness of the lumen image to predetermined values based on range information in which a range of at least one of a hue and a brightness is set in advance according to biometric information included in the lumen image; and a learning unit configured to learn identification criteria to perform identification of a subject based on the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kitamura, Mitsutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 10687913
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an abnormality candidate region detection unit configured to detect, from an intraluminal image obtained by imaging a living body lumen, an abnormality candidate region in which a tissue characteristic of the living body or an in-vivo state satisfies a predetermined condition; a feature data calculation unit configured to calculate, from each of a plurality of regions inside the intraluminal image, a plurality of pieces of feature data including different kinds; an integrated feature data calculation unit configured to calculate integrated feature data by integrating the plurality of pieces of feature data based on information of the abnormality candidate region; and a detection unit configured to detect an abnormality from the intraluminal image by using the integrated feature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kitamura, Toshiya Kamiyama, Mitsutaka Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200146529
    Abstract: A diagnosis support apparatus performs identification for a plurality of support items, which are identification classifications about diagnosis support, and the diagnosis support apparatus is provided with a processor. The processor performs analysis processing for acquiring analysis results including an analysis result about an observation mode by analyzing at least one of an input signal specifying the observation mode and an observation image obtained by observing an inside of a subject with an endoscope; performs support item setting processing for setting a support item corresponding to the analysis results obtained by the analysis processing, among the plurality of support items, which are the identification classifications; and generates diagnosis support information, which is information used for diagnosis of a legion candidate area included in the observation image, based on an identification index corresponding to the set support item and the observation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi KONO, Makoto KITAMURA, Hirokazu GODO, Toshiya KAMIYAMA, Katsuyoshi TANIGUCHI, Yamato KANDA
  • Publication number: 20200126223
    Abstract: An endoscope diagnosis support system includes a processor. The processor performs detection of an anomaly candidate area from an endoscope image obtained by performing image pickup of an inside of a subject to obtain a detection result, and generates a display image in which an indicator indicating detection of the anomaly candidate area is arranged in a periphery portion of the endoscope image in accordance with the detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto KITAMURA, Katsuyoshi TANIGUCHI, Hirokazu GODO, Takashi KONO, Toshiya KAMIYAMA, Yamato KANDA
  • Publication number: 20200126224
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor. The processor detects a lesion candidate based on a medical image obtained by picking up an image of a subject, detects a feature including a swelling direction of the lesion candidate, determines a display state of a mark displayed according to the feature of the lesion candidate, generates mark display information including information on the display state, and determines a position of the mark in a predetermined peripheral region of the lesion candidate according to the detected swelling direction. The image processing device generates a display image in which the mark is added to the position of the mark of the medical image based on the mark display information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya KAMIYAMA, Makoto KITAMURA, Takashi KONO, Hirokazu GODO, Katsuyoshi TANIGUCHI, Yamato KANDA
  • Patent number: 10539918
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a cartridge removably attached thereto. The image forming unit includes: a toner image forming unit; and a toner storing portion including a first toner storing portion that stores a first toner, a waste toner storing portion that stores a waste toner, and a movable partition that separates the storing portions. The cartridge includes a second toner storing portion that stores a second toner. The image forming unit includes: a first portion for supplying the first toner in the first toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; a second portion for supplying the second toner in the second toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; and a conveying member that conveys the first toner supplied through the first portion and the second toner supplied through the second portion, to the toner image forming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10496030
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a cartridge removably attached thereto. The image forming unit includes: a toner image forming unit; and a toner storing portion including a first toner storing portion that stores a first toner, a waste toner storing portion that stores a waste toner, and a movable partition that separates the storing portions. The cartridge includes a second toner storing portion that stores a second toner. The image forming unit includes: a first portion for supplying the first toner in the first toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; a second portion for supplying the second toner in the second toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; and a conveying member that conveys the first toner supplied through the first portion and the second toner supplied through the second portion, to the toner image forming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10456009
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a candidate region detection unit configured to detect, from an image acquired by imaging inside a lumen of a living body, a candidate region for a specific region that is a region where a specific part in the lumen has been captured; a candidate region information acquiring unit configured to acquire information related to the candidate region detected by the candidate region detection unit; an identification means determination unit configured to determine an identification means for identification of, based on the information related to the candidate region, whether or not the candidate region is the specific region; and an identification unit configured to identify whether or not the candidate region is the specific region by using the identification means determined by the identification means determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Kamiyama, Makoto Kitamura, Mitsutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 10395092
    Abstract: A processing device includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to implement an image acquisition process of acquiring a tissue image obtained by capturing an image of a tissue and a process of determining a property of the tissue image acquired, and setting a plurality of identification criteria for identifying a state of the tissue as a normal state or an abnormal state, based on the tissue image and the property of the tissue image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Kamiyama, Makoto Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20190121282
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a cartridge removably attached thereto. The image forming unit includes: a toner image forming unit; and a toner storing portion including a first toner storing portion that stores a first toner, a waste toner storing portion that stores a waste toner, and a movable partition that separates the storing portions. The cartridge includes a second toner storing portion that stores a second toner. The image forming unit includes: a first portion for supplying the first toner in the first toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; a second portion for supplying the second toner in the second toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; and a conveying member that conveys the first toner supplied through the first portion and the second toner supplied through the second portion, to the toner image forming unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190113882
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a cartridge removably attached thereto. The image forming unit includes: a toner image forming unit; and a toner storing portion including a first toner storing portion that stores a first toner, a waste toner storing portion that stores a waste toner, and a movable partition that separates the storing portions. The cartridge includes a second toner storing portion that stores a second toner. The image forming unit includes: a first portion for supplying the first toner in the first toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; a second portion for supplying the second toner in the second toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; and a conveying member that conveys the first toner supplied through the first portion and the second toner supplied through the second portion, to the toner image forming unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190088390
    Abstract: A common mode choke coil comprising a core; a first wire and a second wire wound around the core; a first electrode part and a second electrode part disposed on the core and connected to the first wire; and a third electrode part and a fourth electrode part disposed on the core and connected to the second wire. The common mode choke coil has a self-resonance frequency of 700 MHz or more, and a common mode inductance of 300 nH or less, in a frequency band of 1 MHz or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190087959
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a memory to store intraluminal images captured by a medical device inserted into a living body, the intraluminal images being associated with time series; and a processor to detect an abnormal area from intraluminal images captured by a medical device inserted into a living body, set a similar abnormal section where the abnormal areas being similar to each other are included, generate information related to the similar abnormal section, extract an intraluminal image that is used as a representative image from among the intraluminal images belonging to the similar abnormal section, control the display device to display the representative image, extract, as the information related to the similar abnormal section from among the intraluminal images, non-representative images which are part of intraluminal images other than the representative image, and control a display device to display the information related to the similar abnormal section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto KITAMURA, Mitsutaka KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10229498
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a specific candidate area extracting unit configured to extract a specific candidate area that satisfies a predetermined condition from an intraluminal image captured inside a body lumen; a reference area setting unit configured to set a reference area that includes at least a part of the specific candidate area; a local area extracting unit configured to extract local areas based on the reference area; a local feature data calculator configured to calculate local feature data that is feature data of each of the local areas; a weight setting unit configured to set a weight depending on each of the local areas based on the specific candidate area; and a feature data integrating unit configured to integrate the local feature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kitamura, Toshiya Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 10223785
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a detection unit configured to detect images of interest including regions of interest that are estimated as an object to be detected, from a group of a series of images acquired by sequentially imaging a lumen of a living body; an image-of-interest group extracting unit configured to extract a group of images of interest including an identical region of interest, from the images of interest detected by the detection unit; and a representative image extracting unit configured to extract one or more representative images from the group of images of interest, based on at least one of correlation of the regions of interest with the object to be detected, and visibility of the regions of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kitamura, Yamato Kanda
  • Patent number: 10198811
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects regions of interest that are estimated as an object to be detected, from a group of a series of images acquired by sequentially imaging a lumen of a living body, and to extract images of interest including the regions of interest; a neighborhood range setting unit that sets, as a time-series neighborhood range, a neighborhood range of the images of interest in the group of the series of images arranged in time series so as to be wider than an interval between images that are continuous in time series in the group of the series of images; an image-of-interest group extracting unit that extracts an image-of-interest group including identical regions of interest from the extracted images of interest, based on the time-series neighborhood range; and a representative-image extracting unit that extracts a representative image from the image-of-interest group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Kamiyama, Yamato Kanda, Makoto Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10191442
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a cartridge removably attached thereto. The image forming unit includes: a toner image forming unit; and a toner storing portion including a first toner storing portion that stores a first toner, a waste toner storing portion that stores a waste toner, and a movable partition that separates the storing portions. The cartridge includes a second toner storing portion that stores a second toner. The image forming unit includes: a first portion for supplying the first toner in the first toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; a second portion for supplying the second toner in the second toner storing portion to the toner image forming unit; and a conveying member that conveys the first toner supplied through the first portion and the second toner supplied through the second portion, to the toner image forming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10178941
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an abnormal candidate region detection unit configured to detect an abnormal candidate region, as a candidate for an abnormal portion, from an intraluminal image obtained by capturing an image of an inside of a lumen of a subject, a tubular region detection unit configured to detect a tubular region from the intraluminal image, a connectivity determination unit configured to determine whether the abnormal candidate region and the tubular region are connected in a region of a color similar to that of the tubular region, and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the abnormal candidate region is the abnormal portion, based on results of determination by the connectivity determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Hirota, Yamato Kanda, Makoto Kitamura, Takashi Kono
  • Publication number: 20180365830
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a lumen image of a living body; an image generating unit configured to generate a plurality of new images by changing at least one of a hue and a brightness of the lumen image to predetermined values based on range information in which a range of at least one of a hue and a brightness is set in advance according to biometric information included in the lumen image; and a learning unit configured to learn identification criteria to perform identification of a subject based on the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto KITAMURA, Mitsutaka KIMURA