Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Nishino

Naoyuki Nishino 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: 10667670
    Abstract: In a portable apparatus of a medical system, in a case where an operation unit receives an operation from a physician on the basis of the display contents of a display unit, the medical apparatus controlled as a result of the operation of the operation unit by an operator is defined by an operation control unit, and a signal in response to the operation contents received by the operation unit is transmitted from a transmission unit to the defined medical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoto Iwakiri, Kouichi Kitano
  • Publication number: 20200155096
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera image of the usage environment in which the electronic cassette is used is captured. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. The cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with the cassette ID of the use cassette set in the console to check whether the use cassette is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato HATTORI, Ryo IMAMURA, Koichi KITANO, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Patent number: 10617304
    Abstract: This radiography system has a switching processing unit that switches the device that controls a radiation source and a radiography device to a control device or a portable apparatus. In a case where penetrative imaging has started, the switching processing unit switches the device that controls the radiation source and the radiography device from the control device to the portable apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoto Iwakiri, Kouichi Kitano
  • Patent number: 10603000
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera provided in an X-ray source captures a camera image indicating a usage environment in which an electronic cassette is used. The electronic cassette is inserted into the field of view of the camera. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. A cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with registration information set in a console and a use cassette setting process is performed on the basis of the collation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Hattori, Ryo Imamura, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Koichi Kitano, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 10575803
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera image of the usage environment in which the electronic cassette is used is captured. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. The cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with the cassette ID of the use cassette set in the console to check whether the use cassette is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Hattori, Ryo Imamura, Koichi Kitano, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 10506183
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging device includes: a radiation detector including plural pixels, each including a sensor portion and a switching element; a detection unit that detects a radiation irradiation start if an electrical signal caused by charges generated in the sensor portion satisfies a specific irradiation detection condition, and/or if an electrical signal caused by charges generated in a radiation sensor portion that is different from the sensor portion satisfies a specific irradiation detection condition; and a control unit that determines whether or not noise caused by external disturbance has occurred after the detection unit has detected the radiation irradiation start, and if the noise has occurred, that stops a current operation of the radiation detector, and causes the detection unit to perform detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuwabara, Yoshihiro Okada, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Publication number: 20190364232
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging device includes: a radiation detector including plural pixels, each including a sensor portion and a switching element; a detection unit that detects a radiation irradiation start if an electrical signal caused by charges generated in the sensor portion satisfies a specific irradiation detection condition, and/or if an electrical signal caused by charges generated in a radiation sensor portion that is different from the sensor portion satisfies a specific irradiation detection condition; and a control unit that determines whether or not noise caused by external disturbance has occurred after the detection unit has detected the radiation irradiation start, and if the noise has occurred, that stops a current operation of the radiation detector, and causes the detection unit to perform detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi KUWABARA, Yoshihiro OKADA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Patent number: 10317540
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes a flexible substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on a first surface of the substrate to accumulate electrical charges generated in accordance with light converted from radiation; and a terminal region part formed with a plurality of terminal regions each including terminals connected to a predetermined pixel group including some of the plurality of pixels and formed on the first surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Akamatsu, Shinichi Ushikura, Naoto Iwakiri, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Publication number: 20190046134
    Abstract: A position detection unit is disposed at an exposure position that is included in a camera image and a field of view of a camera and outputs a position signal indicating the position of a part of a peripheral portion of an electronic cassette. The calculation unit calculates an in-image cassette position which is the position of the electronic cassette in the camera image, on the basis of the position, direction, and size of the position detection unit in the camera image and the position signal. A composite image generation unit generates a composite image of the camera image and a cassette frame indicating the in-image cassette position. A display controller displays the composite image on a touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo IMAMURA, Koichi KITANO, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20190046140
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera provided in an X-ray source captures a camera image indicating a usage environment in which an electronic cassette is used. The electronic cassette is inserted into the field of view of the camera. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. A cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with registration information set in a console and a use cassette setting process is performed on the basis of the collation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato HATTORI, Ryo IMAMURA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Koichi KITANO, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20190046139
    Abstract: In the radiography system, a camera image of the usage environment in which the electronic cassette is used is captured. An in-image cassette region of the electronic cassette is detected from the camera image. The cassette ID of the electronic cassette is acquired from the in-image cassette region. The acquired cassette ID is collated with the cassette ID of the use cassette set in the console to check whether the use cassette is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato HATTORI, Ryo IMAMURA, Koichi KITANO, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Patent number: 10201065
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing apparatus has a radiation source device including a radiation source for outputting radiation, and a detector device including a radiation detector for detecting radiation that is transmitted through a subject when the subject is irradiated with radiation by the radiation source, and converting the detected radiation into a radiographic image. At least one of the radiation source device and the detector device has an electric power supply limiting unit for limiting supply of electric power, and the electric power supply limiting unit controls supply of electric power between the radiation source device and the detector device, depending on timing of an image capturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Publication number: 20180275288
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes a flexible substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on a first surface of the substrate to accumulate electrical charges generated in accordance with light converted from radiation; and a terminal region part formed with a plurality of terminal regions each including terminals connected to a predetermined pixel group including some of the plurality of pixels and formed on the first surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Keiichi AKAMATSU, Shinichi USHIKURA, Naoto IWAKIRI, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Patent number: 10045746
    Abstract: In a radiation image processing apparatus, method, and program, performing image processing based on scattered radiation, such as scattered radiation elimination processing, accurately by taking into account the influence of scattered radiation from an area adjacent to a processing target area. For this purpose, performing image processing on a radiation image captured by applying radiation to a subject based on scattered radiation generated by the subject. In this case, a processing target area which is the processing target in the radiation image is added with another area different from the processing target area in the radiation image. Then, the image processing based on scattered radiation is performed on the processing target area using the another area and the processing target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Enomoto, Yasufumi Oda, Takeshi Kuwabara, Daiki Harada, Yuichi Hosoi, Noriaki Ida, Naoyuki Nishino, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 9942972
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a mobile cart unit, a plurality of devices used for capturing a radiographic image, and an electric power supply activator enabling supply of electric power between the devices, based on an instruction of permission to supply electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta
  • Publication number: 20180013967
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging device includes: a radiation detector including plural pixels, each including a sensor portion and a switching element; a detection unit that detects a radiation irradiation start if an electrical signal caused by charges generated in the sensor portion satisfies a specific irradiation detection condition, and/or if an electrical signal caused by charges generated in a radiation sensor portion that is different from the sensor portion satisfies a specific irradiation detection condition; and a control unit that determines whether or not noise caused by external disturbance has occurred after the detection unit has detected the radiation irradiation start, and if the noise has occurred, that stops a current operation of the radiation detector, and causes the detection unit to perform detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Takeshi KUWABARA, Yoshihiro OKADA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Patent number: 9787919
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging device includes: a radiation detector including plural pixels, each including a sensor portion and a switching element; a detection unit that detects a radiation irradiation start if an electrical signal caused by charges generated in the sensor portion satisfies a specific irradiation detection condition, and/or if an electrical signal caused by charges generated in a radiation sensor portion that is different from the sensor portion satisfies a specific irradiation detection condition; and a control unit that determines whether or not noise caused by external disturbance has occurred after the detection unit has detected the radiation irradiation start, and if the noise has occurred, that stops a current operation of the radiation detector, and causes the detection unit to perform detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuwabara, Yoshihiro Okada, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 9784853
    Abstract: A radiation detector and a radiological image radiographing apparatus capable of improving the quality of an obtained radiological image without causing an additional cost are provided. A first scintillator configured to include columnar crystals generating first light corresponding to a radiation emitted through a TFT substrate is laminated on the other surface of the TFT substrate that has a first photoelectric conversion element, which has one surface from which a radiation is emitted and the other surface from which at least one of the first light and the second light is emitted and which generates electric charges corresponding to the light, and a first switching element. A second scintillator which generates second light corresponding to a radiation emitted through the first scintillator and has different energy characteristics of absorbed radiations from the first scintillator is laminated on a surface of the first scintillator not facing the TFT substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Keiichiro Sato, Yasunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 9753158
    Abstract: There are provided the following components: an FPD that has a plurality of pixels, in which signal electric charges corresponding to amounts of X-rays incident are accumulated, and that is capable of nondestructively reading data which indicates the X-ray image; an amplifier that amplifies a signal sent from the FPD and has a variable gain; an evaluation value calculation section that obtains an evaluation value for evaluating the X-ray image; and a gain adjustment section that calculates a new gain of the amplifier used at the time of rereading. The gain of the amplifier is changed to a value of a new gain which is calculated by the gain adjustment section, and the X-ray image is reread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri, Takeyasu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9671506
    Abstract: A radiographic image detection device includes: an image pickup unit with plural radiation detection portions arrayed in a two-dimensional form and detect radiation, and that captures a radiographic image; a radiographic image generating unit having plural analog signal generating units that generate analog signals corresponding to radiation doses; a conversion unit that converts the generated analog signals into digital signals; a judging unit that judges whether or not level fluctuations of the generated analog signals are within a predetermined threshold value; and a control unit that controls the conversion unit such that an analog signal, at which it is judged that the level fluctuation is within the predetermined threshold value, is converted into a digital signal, and that controls the conversion unit such that an analog signal, at which it is judged that the level fluctuation has exceeded the predetermined threshold value, is not converted into a digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino