Patents by Inventor Miho MINAMIZATO

Miho MINAMIZATO 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: 10413157
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an insertion portion to be inserted into a predetermined luminal organ in a subject; an image pickup section provided in a vicinity of a distal end of the insertion portion, the image pickup section picking up an image of a predetermined range; an image pickup information acquiring section acquiring position information and gaze information about the image pickup section; a model image generating section generating a planar model image of the predetermined luminal organ; an image pasting processing section generating a pasted image obtained by pasting a subject image of an inside of the predetermined luminal organ onto the planar model image based on the position information and gaze information about the image pickup section; and an image pasting/presentation processing section presenting an image pickup range of the image pickup section on the pasted image based on the position information about the image pickup section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho Minamizato, Jun Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10231601
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes: an information acquisition section configured to acquire position information and visual line information in an endoscope inserted into a predetermined organ; an image acquisition section configured to acquire an image obtained by observing inside of the predetermined organ from a predetermined viewpoint; an alignment section configured to convert the position information and the visual line information to a coordinate system of a model of the predetermined organ; a position calculation section configured to calculate position information of an inner wall of the predetermined organ opposing in a visual line direction from the predetermined viewpoint; an index generation section configured to generate an index defined based on a predetermined feature; and an image generation section configured to generate an image in which the index and position information of the inner wall are associated, for the image acquired by the image acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho Minamizato, Jun Hasegawa, Syunya Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20170095136
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes: an information acquisition section configured to acquire position information and visual line information in an endoscope inserted into a predetermined organ; an image acquisition section configured to acquire an image obtained by observing inside of the predetermined organ from a predetermined viewpoint; an alignment section configured to convert the position information and the visual line information to a coordinate system of a model of the predetermined organ; a position calculation section configured to calculate position information of an inner wall of the predetermined organ opposing in a visual line direction from the predetermined viewpoint; an index generation section configured to generate an index defined based on a predetermined feature; and an image generation section configured to generate an image in which the index and position information of the inner wall are associated, for the image acquired by the image acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho MINAMIZATO, Jun HASEGAWA, Syunya AKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9521944
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a determining section that determines whether or not an image pickup device is moving at a predetermined speed or higher based on position/direction information and determines, when the image pickup device is not moving at the predetermined speed or higher, that a subject internal image is an image that can be pasted onto a model image of a predetermined organ in a state where the position/direction information of an objective optical window and position/direction information in a coordinate system of the predetermined organ model image are associated with each other, and an image pasting section that reads the subject internal image determined to be the image that can be pasted from the memory and pastes the subject internal image onto the model image of the predetermined organ based on the position/direction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho Minamizato, Jun Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20160278612
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an insertion portion to be inserted into a predetermined luminal organ in a subject; an image pickup section provided in a vicinity of a distal end of the insertion portion, the image pickup section picking up an image of a predetermined range; an image pickup information acquiring section acquiring position information and gaze information about the image pickup section; a model image generating section generating a planar model image of the predetermined luminal organ; an image pasting processing section generating a pasted image obtained by pasting a subject image of an inside of the predetermined luminal organ onto the planar model image based on the position information and gaze information about the image pickup section; and an image pasting/presentation processing section presenting an image pickup range of the image pickup section on the pasted image based on the position information about the image pickup section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho MINAMIZATO, Jun HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150305600
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a determining section that determines whether or not an image pickup device is moving at a predetermined speed or higher based on position/direction information and determines, when the image pickup device is not moving at the predetermined speed or higher, that a subject internal image is an image that can be pasted onto a model image of a predetermined organ in a state where the position/direction information of an objective optical window and position/direction information in a coordinate system of the predetermined organ model image are associated with each other, and an image pasting section that reads the subject internal image determined to be the image that can be pasted from the memory and pastes the subject internal image onto the model image of the predetermined organ based on the position/direction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho MINAMIZATO, Jun HASEGAWA