Patents by Inventor Mutsumi Ohshima
Mutsumi Ohshima 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).
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Patent number: 8537210Abstract: A light source device for an endoscope, characterized by having a light source for supplying illuminating light to an object, endoscope connection unit optically connected to an endoscope that has discrimination information for discriminating the kind of endoscope, discrimination unit for discriminating the endoscope based on the discrimination information of the endoscope connected to the endoscope connection unit, change unit for the changing illumination condition of the illuminating light, and control unit for controlling the change unit based on the result of discrimination by the discrimination unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Koji Omori, Mutsumi Ohshima, Yasukazu Kogen, Tomoya Takahashi, Atsushi Shimada
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Patent number: 8531512Abstract: In an endoscope apparatus of the present invention, while observing a body cavity tissue under narrowband light via a second filter group of a rotating filter, a G2 filter section, B2 filter section, and shading filter section change illumination light to narrowband surface-sequential light of two bands of discrete spectral characteristics, and an image-capturing signal captured by a CCD via the B filter section constitutes a band image having superficial layer tissue information, and an image-capturing signal captured by a CCD via the G filter section constitutes a band image having intermediate layer tissue information. This produces tissue information of a desired depth in the vicinity of a superficial portion of a mucous membrane using an inexpensive and simple configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Gono, Mutsumi Ohshima, Shoichi Amano, Kenji Yamazaki
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Patent number: 8301229Abstract: A biological observation apparatus comprises a color image signal creating section that performs signal processing on either a first image pickup signal for which a subject to be examined illuminated by white illumination light is picked up by a color filter having a transmitting characteristic of a plurality of broadband wavelengths or a second image pickup signal for which a subject to be examined is picked up under illumination of frame sequential illumination lights which cover a visible range, and creates a color image signal. The biological observation apparatus comprises a spectral image signal creating section that creates a spectral image signal corresponding to a narrowband image signal through signal processing on a color image signal based on the first or second image pickup signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Kazuhiro Gono, Shoichi Amano, Tomoya Takahashi, Mutsumi Ohshima
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Patent number: 8279275Abstract: Tissue information of a desired deep portion of a biological tissue based on a spectral image obtained from signal processing is adjusted to image information in a color tone suitable for observation. Outputs of a matrix computing section 436 are respectively connected to integrating sections 438a to 438c, and after integrating computation is performed for them, color conversion computation is performed for respective spectral image signals ?F1 to ?F3 in a color adjusting section 440, spectral color channel image signals Rch, Gch and Bch are created from the spectral image signals ?F1 to ?F3, and images of the spectral color channel images Rch, Gch and Bch are sent to a display monitor 106 via a switching section 439.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.Inventors: Kazuhiro Gono, Shoichi Amano, Tomoya Takahashi, Mutsumi Ohshima
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Patent number: 8231523Abstract: An endoscopic system includes an endoscope having a delivery member available to supply a body cavity of a specimen and, in addition thereto, a gas supply apparatus from which predetermined gas is supplied to a body cavity via a delivery member. The endoscopic system further includes a determination unit that determines whether or not there is a status in which, the gas supply device needs to supply gas to the body cavity, and a control unit that selectively and automatically control a permit and stop for the gas supply to be implemented by the gas supply apparatus depending on a determined result of the determination unit, which are formed in a unitary structure with, for instance, the gas supply unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2005Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takefumi Uesugi, Daisuke Sano, Yoshimine Kobayashi, Mutsumi Ohshima, Takehiro Nishiie, Atsuhiko Kasahi, Kenji Noda
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Patent number: 7738940Abstract: A medical image recording system easily obtains information of a device, etc. used at the time of an examination without conscious effort on operator's part, and records image information and the device information, which are obtained at the time of the examination, by making a 1-to-1 association between them. The system comprises at least an image information obtaining unit obtaining an observation image at the time of an examination for a medical treatment, a device information obtaining unit obtaining information of a device used at the time of the examination, and a recording unit recording information composing of the image information obtained by the image information obtaining unit and the device information obtained by the device information obtaining unit, as one associated information.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2004Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Shoji, Mutsumi Ohshima, Yoshitaka Miyoshi, Tomohiko Oda, Nobuyasu Ito, Tadao Eto, Toshiro Ijichi, Katsuyoshi Ishibashi, Masashi Kikkawa, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Publication number: 20090091614Abstract: A biological observation apparatus comprising: an illuminating section that irradiates light to a living body that is a subject to be examined; an image pickup section that photoelectrically converts light reflected from the living body based on the irradiating light and creates an image pickup signal; and a signal processing control section that controls operations of the illuminating section and/or the image pickup section and outputs the image pickup signal to a display device, wherein the signal processing control section includes: a spectral signal creating section that creates a spectral signal corresponding to an optical wavelength narrowband image from the image pickup signal through signal processing; and a color adjusting section that, when outputting the spectral signal to the display device, allocates a different color tone for each of a plurality of bands forming the spectral signal, further wherein the biological observation apparatus further comprises an image quality adjusting section that adjType: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2006Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Kazuhiro Gono, Shoichi Amano, Tomoya Takahashi, Mutsumi Ohshima
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Publication number: 20090058999Abstract: Tissue information of a desired deep portion of a biological tissue based on a spectral image obtained from signal processing is adjusted to image information in a color tone suitable for observation. Outputs of a matrix computing section 436 are respectively connected to integrating sections 438a to 438c, and after integrating computation is performed for them, color conversion computation is performed for respective spectral image signals ?F1 to ?F3 in a color adjusting section 440, spectral color channel image signals Rch, Gch and Bch are created from the spectral image signals ?F1 to ?F3, and images of the spectral color channel images Rch, Gch and Bch are sent to a display monitor 106 via a switching section 439.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2006Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Kazuhiro Gono, Shoichi Amano, Tomoya Takahashi, Mutsumi Ohshima
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Publication number: 20090023991Abstract: A biological observation apparatus comprises a color image signal creating section that performs signal processing on either a first image pickup signal for which a subject to be examined illuminated by white illumination light is picked up by a color filter having a transmitting characteristic of a plurality of broadband wavelengths or a second image pickup signal for which a subject to be examined is picked up under illumination of frame sequential illumination lights which cover a visible range, and creates a color image signal. The biological observation apparatus comprises a spectral image signal creating section that creates a spectral image signal corresponding to a narrowband image signal through signal processing on a color image signal based on the first or second image pickup signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2006Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventors: Kazuhiro Gono, Shoichi Amano, Tomoya Takahashi, Mutsumi Ohshima
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Patent number: 7476213Abstract: In a gas supply system, a selection unit is configured to send an instruction to select any one of first gas and second gas. In the gas supply system, a controller is operative to control at least one of a first gas supply unit for supplying the first gas and a second gas supply unit for supplying the second gas to selectively insufflate any one of the first gas and second gas into a body based on the instruction sent from the selection unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takefumi Uesugi, Daisuke Sano, Yoshimine Kobayashi, Mutsumi Ohshima, Takehiro Nishiie, Atsuhiko Kasahi, Kenji Noda
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Publication number: 20070153542Abstract: In an endoscope apparatus of the present invention, while observing a body cavity tissue under narrowband light via a second filter group of a rotating filter, a G2 filter section, B2 filter section, and shading filter section change illumination light to narrowband surface-sequential light of two bands of discrete spectral characteristics, and an image-capturing signal captured by a CCD via the B filter section constitutes a band image having superficial layer tissue information, and an image-capturing signal captured by a CCD via the G filter section constitutes a band image having intermediate layer tissue information. This produces tissue information of a desired depth in the vicinity of a superficial portion of a mucous membrane using an inexpensive and simple configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2007Publication date: July 5, 2007Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Gono, Mutsumi Ohshima, Shoichi Amano, Kenji Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20070088193Abstract: A light source device for an endoscope, characterized by having a light source for supplying illuminating light to an object, endoscope connection means optically connected to an endoscope that has discrimination information for discriminating the kind of endoscope, discrimination means for discriminating the endoscope based on the discrimination information of the endoscope connected to the endoscope connection means, change means for the changing illumination condition of the illuminating light, and control means for controlling the change means based on the result of discrimination by the discrimination means.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2006Publication date: April 19, 2007Inventors: Koji OMORI, Mutsumi OHSHIMA, Yasukazu KOGEN, Tomoya TAKAHASHI, Atsushi Shimada
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Publication number: 20060106284Abstract: This is the communication method of an image storage device for recording medical information. The communication method comprises a receiving information from a plurality of devices for providing at least one of setting information, status information, inspection image information and patient information, and transmits at least one of the setting information and status information or information obtained by processing the information, via a network, in addition to the inspection image information and patient information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2005Publication date: May 18, 2006Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Shouji, Tomohiko Oda, Yoshitaka Miyoshi, Nobuyasu Ito, Toshiro Ijichi, Mutsumi Ohshima, Tadao Eto, Masashi Kikkawa, Katsuyoshi Ishibashi, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Publication number: 20060030751Abstract: An endoscopic system includes an endoscope having a delivery member available to supply a body cavity of a specimen and, in addition thereto, a gas supply apparatus from which predetermined gas is supplied to a body cavity via a delivery member. The endoscopic system further includes a determination unit that determines whether or not there is a status in which, the gas supply device needs to supply gas to the body cavity, and a control unit that selectively and automatically control a permit and stop for the gas supply to be implemented by the gas supply apparatus depending on a determined result of the determination unit, which are formed in a unitary structure with, for instance, the gas supply unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2005Publication date: February 9, 2006Inventors: Takefumi Uesugi, Daisuke Sano, Yoshimine Kobayashi, Mutsumi Ohshima, Takehiro Nishiie, Atsuhiko Kasahi, Kenji Noda
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Publication number: 20060004322Abstract: In a gas supply system, a selection unit is configured to send an instruction to select any one of first gas and second gas. In the gas supply system, a controller is operative to control at least one of a first gas supply unit for supplying the first gas and a second gas supply unit for supplying the second gas to selectively insufflate any one of the first gas and second gas into a body based on the instruction sent from the selection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2005Publication date: January 5, 2006Inventors: Takefumi Uesugi, Daisuke Sano, Yoshimine Kobayashi, Mutsumi Ohshima, Takehiro Nishiie, Atsuhiko Kasahi, Kenji Noda
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Publication number: 20040239760Abstract: A medical image recording apparatus records an endoscopic image captured by an endoscope, and includes a generation unit for generating image data used for display data on a monitor, and a composition unit for combining the endoscopic image captured by the endoscope with the image data, and outputting the composition result to the monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Shoji, Mutsumi Ohshima, Yoshitaka Miyoshi, Tomohiko Oda, Nobuyasu Ito, Tadao Eto, Toshiro Ijichi, Katsuyoshi Ishibashi, Masashi Kikkawa, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
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Publication number: 20040243448Abstract: A medical image recording system easily obtains information of a device, etc. used at the time of an examination without conscious effort on operator's part, and records image information and the device information, which are obtained at the time of the examination, by making a 1-to-1 association between them. The system comprises at least an image information obtaining unit obtaining an observation image at the time of an examination for a medical treatment, a device information obtaining unit obtaining information of a device used at the time of the examination, and a recording unit recording information composing of the image information obtained by the image information obtaining unit and the device information obtained by the device information obtaining unit, as one associated information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Shoji, Mutsumi Ohshima, Yoshitaka Miyoshi, Tomohiko Oda, Nobuyasu Ito, Tadao Eto, Toshiro Ijichi, Katsuyoshi Ishibashi, Masashi Kikkawa, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi