Patents by Inventor Michitoshi Inoue

Michitoshi Inoue 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).

  • Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus for tissue characterization
    Patent number: 4655228
    Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus for discriminating a property of the tissue to be observed from the reflected ultrasonic wave uses the nature of the fine structure of the tissue, and more practically uses the interval of small reflecting bodies dispersely distributed in the tissue as the parameters. The intervals flucatuate. Therefore, an average value and/or a degree of fluctuation is calculated and is displayed. For obtaining the average interval, a method of using the cepstrum of the received signal or a method of using the self-correlation of the received signal can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takaki Shimura, Keiichi Murakami, Yutaka Igarashi, Akira Shiba, Hajime Hayashi, Hirohide Miwa, Michitoshi Inoue, Masayuki Matsumoto