Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro OURA

Mitsuhiro OURA 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: 12251266
    Abstract: A physiological information measurement apparatus is configured to acquire a vital sign that is based on a physiological signal of a subject, and a captured image or a signal for generating the captured image that is acquired from an imaging device. The physiological information measurement apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store therein an electronic file, and a control unit configured to display at least one of the captured image and information of the vital sign on a display unit. At an image recording timing when an image recording instruction is provided, the control unit stores both the captured image and the information of the vital sign in the storage unit in an image format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Oura, Sou Kumagai, Wataru Matsuzawa, Nobuyuki Yasumaru, Kazuya Nagase, Hiroshi Torigai, Naoki Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20240382179
    Abstract: A physiological information processing method for automatically acquiring information relevant to a fluid flowing through a body of a subject using an ultrasonic sensor. The ultrasonic sensor includes a plurality of ultrasonic elements. The physiological information processing method includes acquiring reflection signals of ultrasonic waves, identifying, among the ultrasonic elements, two or more ultrasonic elements facing a vessel through which the fluid flows, analyzing a reflection signal of an ultrasonic wave associated with a first ultrasonic element of the two or more ultrasonic elements, analyzing a reflection signal of an ultrasonic wave associated with a second ultrasonic element of the two or more ultrasonic elements, identifying an angle of the vessel with respect to the irradiation direction of the ultrasonic wave, analyzing the reflection signal of the ultrasonic wave associated with the first ultrasonic element or the second ultrasonic element, and acquiring information relevant to the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiraku TABATA, Mitsuhiro OURA, Sou KUMAGAI
  • Publication number: 20240290446
    Abstract: The patient information processing method includes a step of obtaining a plurality of pieces of vital data of a patient, a step of obtaining information indicating a content and a time of a treatment performed on the patient, and a step of causing a display to display information indicating at least one of the plurality of pieces of vital data or an index associated with the plurality of pieces of vital data, and to display information indicating the content and the time of the treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicants: ST. MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, NIHON KOHDEN COPRPRATION
    Inventors: Shigeki FUJITANI, Toru Yoshida, Itaru Fukuhara, Mitsuhiro Oura, Syuhei Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20240290447
    Abstract: A patient information processing method is executed by one or more processors, and the method includes obtaining a plurality of pieces of vital data of a patient, calculating a vital score indicating a condition of the patient using at least the plurality of pieces of vital data, and generating summary information related to the vital score and/or the plurality of pieces of vital data during a specific period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itaru Fukuhara, Mitsuhiro Oura, Syuhei Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20240288993
    Abstract: A patient information processing method is executed by one or more processors, and the method includes obtaining a plurality of pieces of patient information each of which is associated with respective one of a plurality of patients, and determining a display order of the pieces of patient information to be displayed on a patient information list screen based on first information and second information different from the first information. The determining the display order includes determining the display order of the pieces of patient information based on the first information such that the pieces of patient information to be displayed on the patient information list screen are displayed early according to a value of the first information, and determining a display order of patient information of patients having the same value of the first information based on the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itaru FUKUHARA, Mitsuhiro OURA, Syuhei KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240231584
    Abstract: An input interface receives a trigger signal. A processor displays a first screen or a second screen on a display device based on the trigger signal. The first screen provides first medical information for each of a plurality of subjects. The second screen provides, for at least one of the plurality of subjects, second medical information that is not included in the first medical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke Horiguchi, Wataru Matsuzawa, Mitsuhiro Oura, Haruo Fujimoto, Shinichi Sato, Masashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20240180515
    Abstract: An information processing device for processing ultrasonic wave information obtained from an ultrasonic wave sensor including a plurality of ultrasonic wave elements. The information processing device includes an obtainer configured to obtain the ultrasonic wave information from the ultrasonic wave sensor provided on a body surface of a subject, a recognizer configured to recognize a first blood vessel of the subject and a second blood vessel, based on the ultrasonic wave information, the second blood vessel being different from the first blood vessel, and a controller configured to cause a display to display comparison information in which first blood vessel information relating to the first blood vessel and second blood vessel information relating to the second blood vessel are compared with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiraku Tabata, Takao Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Oura, Sou Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20240134509
    Abstract: An input interface receives a trigger signal. A processor displays a first screen or a second screen on a display device based on the trigger signal. The first screen provides first medical information for each of a plurality of subjects. The second screen provides, for at least one of the plurality of subjects, second medical information that is not included in the first medical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke Horiguchi, Wataru Matsuzawa, Mitsuhiro Oura, Haruo Fujimoto, Shinichi Sato, Masashi Sato
  • Patent number: 11760905
    Abstract: Brain motion monitoring systems and methods are disclosed that can detect interpret and/or display normal and abnormal brain motions. The devices and methods can detect Cerebrovascular Stenosis and provide for Noninvasive Intracranial Pressure Measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kirk Watson Beach, Mitsuhiro Oura
  • Patent number: 11737735
    Abstract: A physiological information system includes a patient monitor configured to acquire a vital sign based on a vital sign signal of a subject, and an ultrasonic measuring apparatus configured to acquire ultrasonic images based on ultrasonic waves transmitted toward the subject and received from the subject. The patient monitor includes a storage device configured to store measured data of the vital signs in association with measurement dates and times, and to store the ultrasonic images in association with image capture timings, and a controller configured to display a screen on a display section based on data, including the measured data and the ultrasonic images, stored in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Oura, Sou Kumagai, Wataru Matsuzawa, Nobuyuki Yasumaru, Kazuya Nagase, Hiroshi Torigai, Naoki Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11690591
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter related to methods and apparatus for determining brain swelling and brain shifting in a patient as well as predicting a possible resultant increase in intracranial pressure in the patient. The apparatus can include a transducer such as an ultrasound transducer communicatively connected to a controller via wires or via wireless communications device(s). A monitor and/or alarm device can be provided to notify a practitioner when the controller has determined brain swelling is occurring and/or when an imminent increase in intracranial pressure is likely to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Oura
  • Publication number: 20230148990
    Abstract: Provided is a patient monitor and an ultrasonic wave information display method that provide a screen by which a relationship between a depth and a motion in a body of a subject can be easily grasped. An input and output interface acquires a reflected wave indicating a motion generated at each depth by an ultrasonic wave irradiated at a plurality of depths in the body. A control unit displays, on a display unit in terms of at least one of the following expressions, a change over time in an index value of the motion at each depth of the subject calculated from the reflected wave. A plurality of waveforms corresponding to each depth; and map information in which a relationship between the depth and magnitude of the index value is mapped to at least one of a color and a pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro OURA, Naoki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11464496
    Abstract: A patient monitor that acquires and displays first vital sign information and second vital sign information of a subject includes an event detection unit that is configured to detect an activation start event for starting an activation process of biological information processing software which performs a process pertaining to the second vital sign information and an activating event for activating the biological information processing software and a software control unit that causes the biological information processing software to be in a standby state, in which a part of the activation process of the biological information processing software has been performed, when the activation start event is detected by the event detection unit, and causes the biological information processing software to be in an active state from the standby state when the activating event is detected by the event detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Oura, Sou Kumagai, Wataru Matsuzawa, Nobuyuki Yasumaru, Kazuya Nagase, Hiroshi Torigai, Naoki Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20220117581
    Abstract: A patient monitor and physiological information measurement system are provided. The patient monitor for acquiring vital signals that are based on vital signs of a subject, and an ultrasonic image that is based on an ultrasonic wave which is transmitted to and received from the subject configured to be connectable to a plurality of displays, and includes a display controller that is configured to control the plurality of displays to display information including the vital signs in at least one of the displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro OURA, Sou KUMAGAI, Wataru MATSUZAWA, Nobuyuki YASUMARU, Kazuya NAGASE, Hiroshi TORIGAI, Naoki FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11204619
    Abstract: A patient monitor that acquires a vital sign through a measurement sensor, and that is to be connected to an external measurement apparatus for measuring another vital sign, includes a master clock that is disposed in the patient monitor, and that manages common time information, a first operating system that manages first time information, and a second operating system that manages second time information, and that transmits and receives data to and from the external measurement apparatus. When a predetermined event occurs, the first operating system reads the common time information from the master clock, and updates the first time information. When the predetermined event occurs, the second operating system reads the common time information from the master clock, updates the second time information, and notifies the external measurement apparatus of the updated second time information or the common time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Oura, Sou Kumagai, Wataru Matuzawa, Nobuyuki Yasumaru, Kazuya Nagase, Hiroshi Torigai, Naoki Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20210315542
    Abstract: A physiological information measurement apparatus is configured to acquire a vital sign that is based on a physiological signal of a subject, and a captured image or a signal for generating the captured image that is acquired from an imaging device. The physiological information measurement apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store therein an electronic file, and a control unit configured to display at least one of the captured image and information of the vital sign on a display unit. At an image recording timing when an image recording instruction is provided, the control unit stores both the captured image and the information of the vital sign in the storage unit in an image format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro OURA, Sou KUMAGAI, Wataru MATSUZAWA, Nobuyuki YASUMARU, Kazuya NAGASE, Hiroshi TORIGAI, Naoki FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200359999
    Abstract: A physiological information system includes a patient monitor configured to acquire a vital sign based on a vital sign signal of a subject, and an ultrasonic measuring apparatus configured to acquire ultrasonic images based on ultrasonic waves transmitted toward the subject and received from the subject. The patient monitor includes a storage device configured to store measured data of the vital signs in association with measurement dates and times, and to store the ultrasonic images in association with image capture timings, and a controller configured to display a screen on a display section based on data, including the measured data and the ultrasonic images, stored in the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro OURA, Sou KUMAGAI, Wataru MATSUZAWA, Nobuyuki YASUMARU, Kazuya NAGASE, Hiroshi TORIGAI, Naoki FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200275908
    Abstract: An ultrasonic measurement system includes a display device configured to display an ultrasonic image and an ultrasonic probe electrically connectable to the display device. The ultrasonic probe includes an image capturing unit joined to or detachably attached to a first cable, the image capturing unit comprising a first optical lens to capture an image of a nearby object, and a probe head joined to or detachably attached to the first cable, the probe head being configured to transmit an ultrasonic beam toward a body surface of a subject and to receive a reflected wave from the body surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro OURA, Sou KUMAGAI, Wataru MATSUZAWA, Nobuyuki YASUMARU, Kazuya NAGASE, Hiroshi TORIGAI, Naoki FUKUSHIMA, Masashi SATO, Takuya AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190282108
    Abstract: Brain motion monitoring systems and methods are disclosed that can detect interpret and/or display normal and abnormal brain motions. The devices and methods can detect Cerebrovascular Stenosis and provide for Noninvasive Intracranial Pressure Measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kirk Watson BEACH, Mitsuhiro OURA
  • Publication number: 20190156935
    Abstract: A patient monitor is connectable to an imaging unit. The patient monitor includes a folder creating section and a file operating section. When a first event occurs, the folder creating section newly creates a first folder in a first hierarchy of a file system. When a second event occurs, the folder creating section newly creates a second folder in the first folder that is last created. The file operating section stores an image file relating to image information that is supplied from the imaging unit, in the second folder last created by the folder creating section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro OURA, Sou KUMAGAI, Wataru MATUZAWA, Nobuyuki YASUMARU, Kazuya NAGASE, Hiroshi TORIGAI, Naoki FUKUSHIMA