Patents by Inventor Masaki Watanabe

Masaki Watanabe 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).

  • MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, TRAINING DATA PRODUCING APPARATUS, AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200294230
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires an input image based on reception data collected by transmitting/receiving ultrasound by using an ultrasound probe including a plurality of vibration elements driven in accordance with a delay profile, stores a plurality of trained models for generating, based on an input image, an output image in which noise is reduced according to a wavefront shape of when the ultrasound is transmitted in an input image, selects a trained model corresponding to a type of the ultrasound probe or the delay profile from the plurality of trained models, and generates an output image by inputting an input image to the selected trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori HONJO, Keita Yonemori, Masaki Watanabe, Yuko Takada
  • ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200273181
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of medical images respectively corresponding to a plurality of consecutive frames, generates first position data and second position data indicating positions of a moving object in a subject for a first medical image corresponding to a first frame and a second medical image corresponding to a second frame that is two or more frames prior to the first frame of the plurality of medical images, calculates a vector representing a movement of the moving object based on the first position data and the second position data, and generates display image data having a shape representing the vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yu IGARASHI, Masaki WATANABE
  • ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200268355
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry causes the ultrasonic probe to perform a first scan and second scan in a same scan sequence, wherein the first scan is for calculating a first index value based on a displacement of tissue by a shear wave that propagates through a living body, the second scan for calculating a second index value indicating an attenuation of a reflected wave signal of an ultrasonic wave applied into the living body. The processing circuitry generates a first image based on the first index value, and generates a second image based on the second index value. The processing circuitry causes a display to simultaneously display the first image and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki WATANABE, Yasunori HONJO
  • HYDROGEN-SUBSTITUTED GARNET-TYPE OXIDE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SINTERED BODY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF HYDROGEN-SUBSTITUTED GARNET-TYPE OXIDE
    Publication number: 20200270143
    Abstract: There is provided a hydrogen-substituted garnet-type oxide containing at least Li, H, La and Zr and has an amount of hydrogen a (moll unit) per one unit of a garnet-type oxide in a range of ?1.85.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shingo OHTA, Masaki WATANABE
  • Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and controlling method
    Patent number: 10729408
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes index image data generating circuitry and controlling circuitry. The index image data generating circuitry is configured to generate index image data indicating a relative positional relationship between extending direction information and information indicating a scanned position by an ultrasound wave transmitted from an ultrasound probe, wherein the extending direction information indicates a blood vessel extending direction and is generated on a basis of volume data representing a three-dimensional region that includes at least a part of the blood vessel region of a subject. The controlling circuitry is configured to cause a monitor to display the index image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsunaga, Kazutoshi Sadamitsu, Osamu Nakajima, Tomokazu Fujii, Masaki Watanabe
  • Powder material for forming three-dimensional object, material set for forming three-dimensional object, method for producing three-dimensional object, three-dimensional object producing apparatus, and three-dimensional object
    Patent number: 10716649
    Abstract: Provided is a powder material for forming a three-dimensional object, the powder material containing granulated particles containing: a resin; and inorganic particles of which primary particles have a volume average particle diameter of 1 micrometer or less, wherein the granulated particles have a volume average particle diameter of 10 micrometers or greater but 70 micrometers or less and a BET specific surface area of 6 m2/g or greater but 8 m2/g or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki Watanabe
  • Manufacturing method of stent and coating device
    Patent number: 10709590
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a stent is disclosed which prevents a drug from being peeled off or separated due to stress concentration or distortion resulting from the expanding deformation of the stent so that the drug is further uniformly effective and further improved yields are expected when the stent is manufactured, and a coating device. The method has a non-coating portion forming process of preventing a bending portion from being coated with the drug by causing a nozzle to go past the bending portion when the nozzle reaches the bending portion and to move toward main strut portions. In the non-coating portion forming process, an adhesion amount of a coating solution is reduced while the nozzle is going past the bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Maruyama, Yasuyuki Kuroda, Masaki Watanabe, Kazuyuki Takeda
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20200203491
    Abstract: A characteristic of a semiconductor device having a back electrode including an Au—Sb alloy is improved. The semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate and the back electrode including the Au—Sb alloy layer. The back electrode is formed on the semiconductor substrate. The Sb concentration in the Au—Sb alloy layer is equal to or greater than 15 wt %, and equal to or less than 37 wt %. The thickness of the Au—Sb alloy layer is equal to or larger than 20 nm, and equal to or less than 45 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji TAKAHASHI, Masaki WATANABE, Masashi SAHARA, Kentaro YAMADA, Masaki SAKASHITA, Shinichi MAEDA, Yoshiaki YAMADA
  • ALL-SOLID LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, AND DETERIORATION DETERMINATION METHOD OF ALL-SOLID LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY
    Publication number: 20200161710
    Abstract: An all-solid lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material layer, a metallic lithium absorption layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode active material layer in this order. The solid electrolyte layer is in contact with the negative electrode active material layer. The metallic lithium absorption layer contains a metallic lithium reactive substance. The metallic lithium reactive substance reacts with metallic lithium to generate an electron conductor which is stable under charging and discharging conditions of the all-solid lithium secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki WATANABE, Masafumi Nose
  • COMPOSITE STRUCTURE, LITHIUM BATTERY, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING COMPOSITE STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20200152977
    Abstract: A composite structure is adapted to a separator of a secondary battery, and includes a compact layer containing a solid electrolyte and a porous layer which contains a solid electrolyte and is integrally formed with the compact layer without having a bonding interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shingo Ohta, Masaki Watanabe, Yasutoshi Hojo
  • Riding type vehicle
    Patent number: 10638661
    Abstract: A riding type vehicle has a driving source, a left wheel and a right wheel, a transmission configured to receive power from the driving source to independently operate and drive the left wheel and the right wheel with regard to a rotation direction and a rotation speed, and caster wheels separately provided in a front-rear direction with respect to the left wheel and the right wheel, the riding type vehicle including two first sensors arranged on both left and right sides more to a front side than a rear end of the vehicle, the two first sensors configured to detect an obstacle target located on a rear side, the obstacle target being a target becoming an obstacle at the time of reversing or turning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: KANZAKI KOKYUKOKI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Kawai, Hirohiko Kawada, Seishi Kosegawa, Koga Yamane, Etsuo Miyake, Masaki Watanabe, Koji Sakata, Kenji Shiba, Kosuke Onoda, Hiroki Maehara
  • ANALYZING APPARATUS AND ANALYZING METHOD
    Publication number: 20200111559
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of time-series medical images. The processing circuitry calculates, for each of image pairs each formed of two medical images included in the medical images, a first index value indicating similarity between image signals in the two medical images. The processing circuitry also calculates, on the basis of a plurality of the first index values calculated for the respective image pairs, a second index value corresponding to a statistical value in a time direction of the first index values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori HONJO, Tetsuya Kawagishi, Masaki Watanabe
  • LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY
    Publication number: 20200099104
    Abstract: There is provided a lithium secondary battery containing lithium metal as the negative electrode active material, which can inhibit reduction in charge-discharge capacity while also minimizing internal short circuiting. The lithium secondary battery of the disclosure has a construction with a positive electrode active material layer, a separator layer and a negative electrode active material layer laminated in that order, wherein the negative electrode active material layer comprises lithium metal, the separator layer has a shut layer and one or more solid electrolyte layers, one of the solid electrolyte layers is adjacent to the negative electrode active material layer, and the shut layer comprises a lithium ion conductive liquid that reacts with the lithium metal to produce an electronic insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki WATANABE, Masafumi NOSE
  • Sample analysis system, display method, and sample analysis method
    Patent number: 10585041
    Abstract: A sample analysis system includes a Fluorescence Spectrophotometer, a liquid chromatography device, a mass spectrometer, a control device, and a sample introducer. The Fluorescence Spectrophotometer obtains a three-dimensional fluorescence spectrum including an excitation wavelength, a fluorescence wavelength, and a fluorescence intensity. The liquid chromatography device obtains a three-dimensional absorption spectrum including an elution time, an absorption wavelength, and an absorbance. The mass spectrometer obtains a three-dimensional mass spectrum including an elution time, mass information, and an ion intensity. The axes of respective spectra are set on the same scale, and the mass-charge ratio in the three-dimensional mass spectrum data obtained by the mass spectrometer is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Horigome, Masaki Watanabe, Katsutoshi Shimizu, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • ANALYZING APPARATUS AND ANALYZING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190374204
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain pieces of Doppler image data in a time series rendering a blood flow in an analysis target formed in a blood vessel. The processing circuitry is configured to analyze the pieces of Doppler image data in the time series and to calculate an index value based on temporal changes in a first blood flow signal intensity level in a first region of interest including the blood flow in the analysis target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori HONJO, Masaki WATANABE, Yu IGARASHI, Tetsuya KAWAGISHI
  • MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20190298304
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image generating unit, a specifying unit, and an obtaining unit. The image generating unit is configured to generate images in a time series on the basis of a result of a scan performed on a scan region. The specifying unit is configured to specify the position of a moving member included in the scan region, with respect to each of the images in the time series. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain movement information of the moving member on the basis of the positions of the moving member and to obtain a moment of first or higher order related to the movement information of the moving member, with respect to at least a part of the scan region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Igarashi, Masaki Watanabe, Yasunori Honjo, Tetsuya Kawagishi
  • SULFIDE SOLID-STATE BATTERY
    Publication number: 20190296393
    Abstract: In a solid electrolyte layer of a sulfide solid-state battery, when the content of binder is increased in order to improve crack resistance, ion conductivity of the solid electrolyte layer lowers. Thus, provided is a sulfide solid-state battery including: a cathode, an anode, and a solid electrolyte layer provided between the cathode and the anode, the solid electrolyte layer containing a sulfide solid electrolyte, at least one binder selected from a fluorine-based binder and a rubber-based hinder, and ethyl cellulose. Incorporating ethyl cellulose along with the sulfide solid electrolyte and a predetermined binder into the solid electrolyte layer improves dispersiveness of the binder in the solid electrolyte layer, which improves crack resistance and ion conductivity of the solid electrolyte layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki WATANABE
  • ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND ANALYSIS METHOD
    Publication number: 20190261953
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured to generate a harmonic signal and a fundamental wave signal based on a reception signal that is collected by an ultrasound probe, the harmonic signal corresponding to a harmonic component of a reflected wave of a ultrasound generated in the subject, the fundamental wave signal corresponding to a fundamental wave component of the reflected wave, calculate a first index value indicating tissue properties of the subject based on the harmonic signal, and calculate a second index value indicating the tissue properties based on the fundamental wave signal, and display an analysis result based on the first index value and the second index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori HONJO, Masaki WATANABE, Tetsuya KAWAGISHI, Keita YONEMORI
  • Solid freeform fabrication material set, method of fabricating solid freeform object, method of fabricating dental prosthesis, and device for fabricating solid freeform object
    Patent number: 10391755
    Abstract: A solid freeform fabrication material set includes a material A for solid freeform fabrication and a material B for solid freedom fabrication. The material A includes a polymerization initiator A and at least one of an organic particle and an inorganic particle. The material B includes a polymerizable compound B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Watanabe, Tatsuya Niimi, Teruki Kusahara, Yoichi Sakurai, Kohichiroh Tanaka
  • ANALYSIS APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20190254634
    Abstract: An analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to obtain quantitative values of a plurality of types of tissue properties relating to a region of interest of a subject, and generate a diagram of the region of interest based on the quantitative values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori HONJO, Masaki Watanabe, Yu Igarashi