Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kubo

Masahiro Kubo 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: 20220398522
    Abstract: A medical facility evaluation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that obtains a quantitatively measured evaluation information about a medical facility that is a candidate of a transfer destination of a patient; and a calculation unit that calculates a score indicating goodness of fit of the medical facility as the transfer destination with respect to the patient, on the basis of the evaluation information. According to this medical facility evaluation apparatus, scoring based on the quantitatively measured evaluation information makes it possible to find a medical facility with high goodness of fit as a transfer destination of a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro HAYASHITANI, Masahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220399122
    Abstract: A risk prediction apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that obtains risk transition data indicating a transition of a risk of deterioration of symptoms from a target patient; an accumulation unit that accumulates the risk transition data of a past about a plurality of patients; a prediction unit that predicts a future change in the risk of the target patient on the basis of the risk transition data about the target patient obtained by the acquisition unit and the risk transition data of the past accumulated in the accumulation unit; and a determination unit that determines whether or not to take a measure for the target patient on the basis of the change in the risk predicted by the prediction unit. This makes it possible to appropriately determine whether or not to take a measure for the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro HAYASHITANI, Masahiro KUBO
  • Patent number: 11523733
    Abstract: A plurality of kinds of illumination light are emitted while being switched according to a specific light emission pattern. A plurality of observation images, which are obtained from image pickup of an object to be observed illuminated with each illumination light, are acquired. Control to display the plurality of observation images on a display unit while switching the plurality of observation images according to a specific display pattern is performed. The specific light emission pattern is fixed and the specific display pattern is changeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kubo
  • Patent number: 11517954
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressed component including an elongated top plate, a wall having one end connected to a short direction end portion of the top plate, that curves with a convex shape bowing toward an opposite side to the top plate as viewed from an upper side of the top plate, and that includes a sharp curve portion, and a flange that is connected to another end of the wall, and that extends in a plate thickness direction of the wall toward the opposite side to the top plate side. The manufacturing method includes pressing to form an intermediate formed component including a preliminary flange and pressing to deform the preliminary flange to form the preliminary flange into the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kubo, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takashi Miyagi
  • Patent number: 11510559
    Abstract: An image processing unit includes a shake amount calculation section and a static image-storage control section, and the shake amount calculation section includes a shake amount-calculation processing section and an algorithm switching section. The algorithm switching section applies an algorithm varying for each image, and selects images of which the shake amounts calculated by the shake amount-calculation processing section are small. A first image and a second image, which are selected as the images of which the shake amounts are small, are stored in a static image-storage unit. A display control unit displays static images for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kubo
  • Publication number: 20220375568
    Abstract: A rehabilitation planning apparatus, a rehabilitation planning system, a rehabilitation planning method, and a program capable of efficiently creating a rehabilitation plan are provided. A rehabilitation planning apparatus (1) includes a rehabilitation pattern selection unit (2), an ability value prediction unit (3) that predicts a physical ability value after a target patient performs rehabilitation indicated in a selected rehabilitation pattern, a repetition control unit (4) that performs control so that the selection by the rehabilitation pattern selection unit (2) and the prediction by the ability value prediction unit (3) are repeated, and a determination unit (5) that determines a rehabilitation pattern for, among combinations of rehabilitation patterns and physical ability values obtained through the repetition of the selection and the prediction, a combination of which the physical ability value satisfies a predetermined condition as a rehabilitation plan for the target patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori HOSOI, Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO
  • Publication number: 20220375567
    Abstract: A rehabilitation planning apparatus includes: a similarity calculation unit that calculates a degree of similarity between each of a plurality of pieces of past information and target patient information, each of the plurality of pieces of past information being information about a respective one of a plurality of past patients who performed rehabilitation in a past, and the target patient information being information about a target patient; a ranking unit that extracts at least one piece of past information from the plurality of pieces of past information based on the degree of similarity, and ranks the at least one piece of past information according to a predetermined ranking rule; and a determination unit that determines, as a rehabilitation plan for the target patient, a rehabilitation history of the past patient associated with the past information according to a result of the ranking of the pieces of past information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori HOSOI, Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO, Shigemi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220354351
    Abstract: In a case where a predetermined mono-light emission switching condition is satisfied and a mode is thus automatically switched to the mono-light emission mode from the multi-light emission mode, a mode is automatically switched to the multi-light emission mode from the mono-light emission mode in a case where a preset multi-light emission restart condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro KUBO
  • Patent number: 11491528
    Abstract: A method of producing a hot press-formed product, in which a die includes a hard layer having a skewness (Rsk), as measured in a direction from the outside of a die hole toward the inside of the die hole, of from ?5.0 to 1.2, and a hardness Hv_Die of from HV 1,000 to 1,550, over the entirety of a region of a steel sheet contact surface that is adjacent to a die shoulder portion. The steel sheet contact surface is a surface located outside of the die hole and configured to contact a plated steel sheet (a plated steel sheet including at least one kind of plating layer selected from the group consisting of a hot-dip galvanizing layer and a zinc nickel plating layer) that is to be subjected to hot press forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kubo, Naruhiko Nomura, Toshiya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20220351853
    Abstract: An environment management system, an environment management method, and a program that are capable of reducing the load imposed on a responder are provided. An environment management system includes: a determination unit configured to determine, based on a feature value of biological information of a target patient to be input, identification information indicating a condition of the target patient; an estimation unit configured to estimate environment control information for the target patient based on the identification information and an environment control prediction parameter that has been learned in advance; and an environment control unit configured to automatically change a surrounding environment of the target patient based on the environment control information for the target patient estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji OHNO, Toshinori HOSOI, Masatake TAKAI, Masahiro KUBO, Shigemi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220330880
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a calculating unit configured to calculate, based on subject information including a first assessment value representing an assessment of a subject at a predetermined moment for each of a plurality of items set in FIM (Functional Independence Measure), a prediction value representing an assessment of the subject predicted after the predetermined moment; and a control unit configured to set the prediction value as a provisional assessment value representing a provisional assessment of the subject for a predetermined item of the FIM, and control to output so as to display in a correctable manner on an information processing device operated by an assessor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Kosaka, Masahiro Kubo, Toshinori Hosoi
  • Publication number: 20220328160
    Abstract: A rehabilitation work support apparatus, a rehabilitation work support method, and a program capable of reducing a work burden on a therapist are provided. A rehabilitation work support apparatus (1) includes a difference calculation unit (2) and a difference output unit (3). The difference calculation unit (2) calculates, for each type of ability, a difference between a target value for a patient's ability value in rehabilitation and the patient's ability value at a time before a start of the rehabilitation or during the rehabilitation. The difference output unit (3) performs control so as to output information representing the calculated difference for each type of ability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki KOSAKA, Toshinori HOSOI, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO, Shigemi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220328187
    Abstract: The condition predicting apparatus is provided with an acquisition unit configured to acquire target patient information indicating a condition of a target patient at a first time point of a hospitalization period, an extraction unit configured to extract, from a plural pieces of past patient information that respectively correspond to a plurality of other patients who are different from the target patient and that include first condition information indicating a condition at a time point corresponding to the first time point and second condition information indicating a condition at a time point corresponding to a second time point after the first time point of the hospitalization period of the target patient, one or more pieces of first past patient information that include the first condition information indicating a condition similar to the condition at the first time point indicated by the target patient information, an output unit configured to output at least a part of the one or more pieces of first p
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Kosaka, Toshinori Hosoi, Masahiro Kubo
  • Publication number: 20220319662
    Abstract: A rehabilitation work support apparatus, a rehabilitation work support method, and a program capable of efficiently managing patient's actual current ability values are provided. A rehabilitation work support apparatus (1) includes a change prediction unit (2) that predicts whether or not an actual current ability value of a patient during a rehabilitation period has changed from a latest ability value of that patient stored in a storage device based on an elapsed time from a time of an evaluation of the latest ability value of the patient stored in the storage device, and a change prediction output unit (3) that performs control so as to output a result of the prediction made by the change prediction unit (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Kosaka, Toshinori Hosoi, Masahiro Kubo, Yuan Luo, Shigemi Kitahara
  • Publication number: 20220316020
    Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure in a surface layer region ranging from a surface to a position of 20 ?m from the surface in a sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 0.01% to 5.0%, a metallographic structure in an internal region ranging from a position of more than 20 ?m from the surface in the sheet thickness direction to a ¼thickness position from the surface in the sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 2.0% to 10.0%, the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the surface layer region is less than the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the internal region, and in the surface layer region, an average grain size of the secondary phase is 0.01 ?m to 4.0 ?m, and a texture in which an XODF{001}/{111} as the ratio of the intensity of {001} orientation to an intensity of {111} orientation in the ferrite is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro KUBO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Masahiro SAITO, Kenichiro OTSUKA, Masafumi AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20220285030
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit and a generating unit. The input unit accepts input of a first assessment value representing assessment of a subject at a predetermined moment and a second assessment value representing assessment of the subject after a lapse of a predetermined time from the predetermined moment for each of a plurality of items set in FIM (Functional Independence Measure). The generating unit generates a model for calculating the second assessment value with respect to the first assessment value for each of the plurality of items of the FIM based on information representing an association between the items of the FIM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki KOSAKA, Toshinori HOSOI, Masahiro KUBO
  • Patent number: 11436871
    Abstract: A living body determination device includes: a light irradiation device that irradiates a measuring object with a first light including a plurality of spectrums; a spectroscopic device that disperses a light at intensity depending on a wavelength and outputs the light; an image acquisition device that receives the light output by the spectroscopic device and outputs image information representing brightness depending on the intensity of the light; and a control unit. The control unit, for each spectrum of the first light, acquires image information with respect to the measuring object from the image acquisition device, based on the image information, selects one or more areas, for each of the areas, acquires spectroscopic information, and based on whether the spectroscopic information satisfies a predetermined condition, determines whether the measuring object is a living body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Ohno, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Ersin Altintas, Takeshi Akagawa, Tetsuri Ariyama
  • Publication number: 20220139548
    Abstract: A nursing assistance device includes: a handling alert generation unit that generates a handling alert related to nursing based on nursing information and a nursing handling rule of a patient; and a handling alert output unit that outputs the handling alert to an output destination device related to a nursing attendant of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki KOSAKA, Masahiro KUBO, Yuan LUO, Shigemi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220125338
    Abstract: The abnormality determination apparatus includes a movement quantity detection unit and an abnormality level determination unit. The movement quantity detection unit detects movement quantities of a plurality of parts of the monitored person. Restraint information is information indicating a restraint status of the monitored person. The abnormality level determination unit determines an abnormality level of the monitored person on the basis of the movement quantities of the plurality of parts detected by the movement quantity detection unit and the restraint information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji OHNO, Masahiro KUBO, Toshinori HOSOI
  • Patent number: 11311185
    Abstract: First illumination light having a first peak wavelength range and second illumination light having a second peak wavelength range different from the first peak wavelength range are automatically switched and emitted. Identification processing for allowing a first object to be observed and a second object to be observed to be identified in a composite display image is performed. The first object to be observed has a first absorption peak in the first peak wavelength range of the first illumination light and the second object to be observed has a second absorption peak in the second peak wavelength range of the second illumination light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kubo