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).
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Patent number: 9662086Abstract: The radiographic imaging device that configures the disclosed radiographic imaging system has at least a camera that images a main cassette body. Said camera is integrally configured to a radiation source and a control device that controls the main cassette body or is integrally configured to a main radiation source body that houses the radiation source.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino
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Patent number: 9649086Abstract: A radiation image capture device includes plural radiation detection panels that each detect incident radiation that has passed through an imaging subject, that each generate a radiation image, and that are disposed in a row in a direction orthogonal to the radiation incident direction. The radiation image capture device designates a display target image from out of plural radiation images respectively generated by the plural radiation detection panels, and transmits the designated display target image to a console. At least a radiation image other than the display target image is stored in an image memory. The console displays on a display section the received display target image and, in response to data indicating a display request for a radiation image other than the display target image, also displays on the display section the radiation image other than the display target image read from the image memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takashi Tajima, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Naoyuki Nishino
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Patent number: 9592017Abstract: The radiographic imaging device including: a radiation detector comprising plural radiographic image acquisition pixels, which are arranged in a matrix in an imaging region, for capturing a radiographic image and that acquire image information representing the radiographic image by converting applied radiation into electric charges and storing the electric charges, and a plural radiation detection pixels that detect the applied radiation by converting the applied radiation into electric charges and storing the electric charges, a subset of the plural radiation detection pixels having different characteristics; and a detecting unit that uses the radiation detection pixels selectively according to the different characteristics to detect a state of application of the radiation.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri
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Patent number: 9526470Abstract: A radiation detection device has: a scintillator for converting radiation into fluorescence; a photoelectric conversion unit for converting the fluorescence into an electric signal; and a reset light source unit for exposing reset light to the photoelectric conversion unit. A system control unit has an optical reset disabling unit for, based on a reset disabling instruction, disabling the exposure of the reset light output from the reset light source unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta, Kouichi Kitano, Naoto Iwakiri, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
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Patent number: 9513379Abstract: A radiographic image capture device includes a radiation detector, an application section and a controller. The radiation detector includes plural detection pixels that detect a radiation application state and plural imaging pixels that capture a radiographic image. The application section applies a bias voltage to each of the plural detection pixels and to each of the plural imaging pixels. The controller effects control such that, if the radiation application amount detected by the detection pixels is equal to or greater than a first threshold value during a first state in which the bias voltage is applied to the plural detection pixels, the application section is caused to transition to a second state in which the bias voltage applied to the detection pixels is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Yasunori Ohta
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Patent number: 9492137Abstract: A portable X-ray imaging apparatus includes an electronic cassette for imaging of an X-ray image and transmitting the X-ray image wirelessly. An image receiving unit communicates with the electronic cassette and receives the X-ray image wirelessly. A passive monitoring device receives ambient electromagnetic waves to measure communication environment by passive monitoring. An active monitoring device performs data communication between the electronic cassette and the image receiving unit to measure the communication environment by active monitoring. Furthermore, an evaluation device detects a cause of a communication failure by considering a result of the passive monitoring and a result of the active monitoring. The evaluation device detects that the cause of the communication failure is a blocking object blocking radio waves or a relative position between the electronic cassette and the image receiving unit according to the results of the passive and active monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takahiro Iwamoto, Keiji Tsubota, Naoyuki Nishino, Yoshimitsu Kudo
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Patent number: 9322931Abstract: This radiation imaging system has a radiation source, a case, and a radiation detection device which is housed in the case, and is equipped with a radiation detector having a conversion unit that converts radiation from the radiation source, which has passed through at least a subject, to radiation image information, wherein a prediction is made as to whether the afterimage phenomenon has occurred in the conversion unit, and if it is predicted that the phenomenon has occurred, at least the conversion unit is moved.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohta, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri
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Patent number: 9322928Abstract: A determination section of an FPD checks external information against a determination table and determines whether detection of a rise of X-ray pulses is allowed based on an output voltage from a short-circuited pixel. The FPD detects X-ray images. The external information is transmitted from an imaging control device. The X-ray pulses are sequentially generated by an X-ray generating apparatus. A controller selects a pulse irradiation mode in a case where the detection of the rise of the X-ray pulse is allowed. If not, a successive irradiation mode is selected. In the pulse irradiation mode, the rise and the fall of the X-ray pulse are detected and timing of storage operation is synchronized with the detected timing of the rise. In the successive irradiation mode, the storage operation is performed at predetermined time intervals without the detection of the rise and the fall of the X-ray pulse.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoto Iwakiri, Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta, Kouichi Kitano, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
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Patent number: 9316746Abstract: The present invention pertains to a radiography system and a radiography method. A radiation output device has a plurality of radiation sources disposed along a predetermined plane. Also, in accordance with whether an imaging state is a still image mode or a moving picture mode, at least one of the radiation sources that outputs radiation among the plurality of radiation sources is selected.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Kouichi Kitano, Naoto Iwakiri
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Publication number: 20160097867Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Inventors: Yasunori OHTA, Naoyuki NISHINO
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Patent number: 9268041Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino
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Patent number: 9265476Abstract: A radiation imaging system that can continuously use sections of a radiation imaging device that has not been damaged and a radiation imaging device are provided. The radiation imaging system comprises: a radiation device that applies radiation; and the radiation imaging device with an imaging panel that captures images of the applied radiation. The radiation imaging device comprises: a failure cause detection unit that detects environmental noise or falls that cause failures in the radiation imaging device; a malfunction diagnostic unit that, in a case where a detected environmental noise value reaches a threshold value or in a case where a fall has been detected, diagnoses a malfunction in the radiation imaging device; and a function limiting unit that applies limits to the radiation imaging device functions that are used continuously, in accordance with the diagnosis results of the malfunction diagnostic unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Naoto Iwakiri, Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
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Patent number: 9259198Abstract: A radiological imaging device has a panel section which houses radiation conversion panels for converting radiation to a radiological image, and a control section which is disposed on the panel section and which controls the radiation conversion panels. The control section is thicker than the panel section, or protrudes from the panel section.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Fumito Nariyuki, Shinji Imai
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Patent number: 9258464Abstract: A radiographic video processing device includes: an acquisition section that acquires gradation signals expressing charges; and a control section that, if capture of a video image formed from plural frames is being performed with a radiation detector, and a number of the pixels, from which charges are combined and read by switching elements included in adjacent pixels of the radiation detector, has been increased, effects control such that, from a frame at a time of the increase up until a predetermined frame, the gradation signals distributed in a higher density range than that for frames subsequent to the predetermined frame are used as image data.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoto Iwakiri, Kouich Kitano
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Publication number: 20160025868Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoyuki NISHINO, Naoto IWAKIRI, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Keiichiro SATO, Yasunori OHTA
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Publication number: 20160007432Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunori OHTA, Naoyuki NISHINO, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA
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Patent number: 9204855Abstract: A portable X-ray imaging apparatus has an electronic cassette and a console capable of receiving an imaging order. The console has a wireless communication section, a trigger signal obtaining section, a connection determining section, a switching section, and a delivery requesting section. The wireless communication section receives radio waves and connects itself to an access point (AP). The trigger signal obtaining section obtains a trigger signal while the mobile radiography unit stands still. At the time of obtaining the trigger signal, the connection determining section determines one of the APs as an appropriate AP based on field intensity. The switching section switches the connection to the appropriate AP. Then, the delivery requesting section transmits a delivery request for the imaging order.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Keiji Tsubota, Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta
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Patent number: 9186119Abstract: A radiation image capturing system includes a first image capturing apparatus for capturing a radiation image of a subject, a second image capturing apparatus for capturing a radiation image of the subject, the second image capturing apparatus having a specification different from that of the first image capturing apparatus, an image correcting device for correcting the radiation image of the subject which is captured by the second image capturing apparatus such that the radiation image of the subject which is captured by the second image capturing apparatus has the same magnification as that of the radiation image of the subject which is captured by the first image capturing apparatus, and a display unit for displaying the corrected radiation image. The radiation images captured by the image capturing apparatus of different specifications are corrected to have the same magnification.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta, Naoki Mochizuki, Daiki Harada, Hiroshi Fukuda, Eiichi Kito, Keiji Tsubota, Yutaka Yoshida, Takeshi Kamiya
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Patent number: 9182504Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Keiichiro Sato, Yasunori Ohta
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Patent number: 9168016Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa