Patents by Inventor Michifumi Yoshioka

Michifumi Yoshioka 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).

  • Swallowing diagnosis apparatus and storage medium
    Patent number: 11246526
    Abstract: A swallowing diagnosis apparatus includes a controller which enables a first swallowing determination process of determining whether or not there is an aspiration risk in the swallowing on the basis of respiratory phases before and after a period in which swallowing has been estimated as having occurred; and a second swallowing determination process of extracting reference information including at least one of the sound information and the respiration information in a predetermined period including the period in which swallowing has been estimated as having occurred, obtaining a feature quantity from the extracted reference information, and performing a machine learning process on the obtained feature quantity to determine whether or not there is a possibility of dysphagia in the swallowing; and a display control process of causing a determination result obtained by the first swallowing determination process and a determination result obtained by the second swallowing determination process to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA, EuSense Medical Co., Ltd., HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, J Craft Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michifumi Yoshioka, Katsufumi Inoue, Yoshitaka Oku
  • SWALLOWING DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20190209073
    Abstract: A swallowing diagnosis apparatus includes a controller which enables a first swallowing determination process of determining whether or not there is an aspiration risk in the swallowing on the basis of respiratory phases before and after a period in which swallowing has been estimated as having occurred; and a second swallowing determination process of extracting reference information including at least one of the sound information and the respiration information in a predetermined period including the period in which swallowing has been estimated as having occurred, obtaining a feature quantity from the extracted reference information, and performing a machine learning process on the obtained feature quantity to determine whether or not there is a possibility of dysphagia in the swallowing; and a display control process of causing a determination result obtained by the first swallowing determination process and a determination result obtained by the second swallowing determination process to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicants: OSAKA PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION, EuSense Medical Co., Ltd., HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, J craft Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michifumi Yoshioka, Katsufumi Inoue, Yoshitaka Oku