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: 8513609
    Abstract: A management device that includes an acquiring component and a numericalizetion component is provided. The acquiring component acquires correlation information that correlates with a degree of deterioration of a radiation detection component from plurality of imaging devices, each of the plurality of imaging devices comprising a radiation detection component that detects radiation that has passed through respective investigation subjects, and each of the plurality of imaging devices performing image capture by generating image data representing a radiographic image according to the amount of radiation detected by the radiation detection component, and storing the image data in a predetermined storage region. The numericalization component numericalizes the degree of deterioration of each of the respective radiation detection components of the plurality of imaging devices based on the correlation information acquired by the acquiring component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Tsubota, Yutaka Yoshida, Takeshi Kamiya, Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta, Keiichiro Sato
  • Patent number: 8471212
    Abstract: In this radiography device, the radiation conversion panel side of a scintillator is formed in a convex shape towards the radiation conversion panel, the end portions of columnar crystals are formed at said side, and the end portions of the columnar crystals can contact the radiation conversion panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta, Naoto Iwakiri
  • Patent number: 8461544
    Abstract: A radiation image capturing device has: a radiation image capturing section that is adapted to image capturing in a selected operation mode, an image processing section, a power supply section that supplies electric power for driving to the radiation image capturing section, a connection portion that electrically connects to at least one of a power supply device or an image processing device, and a control section. The control section effects control such that, in a case in which an operation mode that generates a predetermined generated heat amount or more is selected and the power supply device is connected to the connection portion, the power supply device is used instead of the power supply section, and, in a case in which an operation mode that generates a predetermined generated heat amount or more is selected and the image processing device is connected to the connection portion, the image processing device is used instead of the image processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Iwakiri, Yasunori Ohta, Futoshi Yoshida, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 8461543
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing system includes plural radiographic image capturing devices that carry out an image capturing preparation operation when capturing a radiographic image; and a synchronous control section that carries out control that synchronizes the image capturing preparation operations of the plurality of radiographic image capturing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 8447011
    Abstract: In a radiographic image capturing system and radiographic image capturing method, in a case that at least two radiation sources are housed in a radiation output device, weighting of doses of respective radiation emitted from the at least two radiation sources is carried out. Thereafter, respective radiation is applied to a subject from the at least two radiation sources in accordance with the weighting. Then, the radiation detecting device detects the respective radiation that has passed through the subject and converts the detected radiation into a radiographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino
  • Patent number: 8421024
    Abstract: A cradle for use with a radiation conversion device includes a cradle for carrying out charging of a radiation conversion device, which is disposed in the vicinity of an image capturing apparatus for capturing a radiation image of a subject, and which detects radiation that has passed through the subject and converts the radiation into image information. The cradle is equipped with a charging processor for carrying out charging with respect to a battery mounted in the radiation conversion device, an information acquiring section for acquiring information that includes subject information pertaining to the subject and includes image capturing conditions when the image information of the subject is captured, and a display unit for displaying the acquired information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Eiichi Kito, Hiroshi Tamaoki, Tatsuo Iiyama
  • Publication number: 20130083892
    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: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OHTA, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20130083897
    Abstract: A radiographic image detecting device includes: a radiation detecting panel in which plural radiation detecting elements that generate electric charges in response to a dose of irradiated radiation are two-dimensionally arrayed; plural image acquiring units that read out the electric charges stored in the radiation detecting elements belonging to each of plural blocks into which the plural radiation detecting elements are divided to thereby acquire image data; a power source that supplies power for driving to the image acquiring units corresponding to each of the plural blocks; and a controller that controls in such a way as to cut off the supply of power from the power source to the image acquiring units corresponding to the blocks in accordance with a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OHTA, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20130075620
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki NISHINO, Naoto IWAKIRI, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Yasunori OHTA
  • Patent number: 8406377
    Abstract: A timing to acquire a still image signal is controlled such that a sum (Tst+Trd) of a storage period Tst and a readout period Trd for the still image signal is an integral multiple (Ts+Tr=Tck×n, where n is an integer of 2 or greater) of a cycle Tck of a moving image capturing mode, when a detector controller acquires the still image signal while acquiring a moving image signal from a radiation detector during the cycle Tck (Ts+Tr) of the moving image capturing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Iwakiri, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoyuki Nishino, Yasunori Ohta, Yutaka Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20130048862
    Abstract: A radiation detector is provided including plural pixels, a planarizing layer, a conductive layer and a light emitting layer. Each of the pixels is provided with a sensor portion including a switching element formed on a substrate and a photoelectric conversion element that is formed on the substrate and generates charge according to illuminated light. The planarizing layer is formed on the plural pixels. The conductive layer is formed on the planarizing layer in a mesh formation. The light emitting layer is formed with a non-columnar member of grain-shaped crystals that emit light according to irradiated radiation laminated on the planarizing layer and the conductive layer and a columnar member of columnar crystals formed on the non-columnar member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Keiichiro SATO, Naoyuki NISHINO, Yasunori OHTA
  • Publication number: 20130048865
    Abstract: There are provided a radiation detector and a radiological image radiographing apparatus capable of improving the quality of an obtained radiological image while suppressing the deterioration of the sensitivity of a phosphor layer according to the cumulative dose of radiation. In the radiation detector, a second scintillator which absorbs lower radiation energy than radiation energy absorbed by a first scintillator and whose deterioration of sensitivity according to the cumulative dose of radiation is larger than that of the first scintillator is provided at the downstream side of the first scintillator in the emission direction of the radiation. In addition, two substrates of a first substrate, which mainly acquires electric charges corresponding to light generated by the first scintillator, and a second substrate, which mainly acquires electric charges corresponding to light generated by the second scintillator, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki NISHINO, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Yasunori OHTA, Keiichiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20130048861
    Abstract: A radiation detector is provided that includes: plural pixels, each provided with a sensor portion including a switching element formed on a substrate and a photoelectric conversion element that is formed on the substrate and generates charge according to illuminated light; a planarizing layer formed on the plural pixels and including a light-blocking member with antistatic properties formed in a portion of the planarizing layer; and a light emitting layer that is formed on the planarizing layer and emits light according to irradiated radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OHTA, Keiichiro SATO, Naoyuki NISHINO, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA
  • Publication number: 20130048860
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion substrate includes: a substrate; plural pixels, each provided with a sensor portion and a switching element that are formed on the substrate, the sensor portion including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to illuminated light, and the switching element reading out the charge from the sensor portion; a flattening layer that flattens the surface of the substrate having the switching elements and the sensor portions formed thereon; and a first conducting member that is formed over the whole face of the flattening layer and configured such that a voltage applied to the first conducting member is selected to be a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki NISHINO, Keiichiro SATO, Yasunori OHTA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA
  • Publication number: 20130048866
    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: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki NISHINO, Naoto IWAKIRI, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA, Keiichiro SATO, Yasunori OHTA
  • Publication number: 20130048960
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion substrate includes: plural pixels, each provided with a sensor portion and a switching element that are formed on the substrate, the sensor portion including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to illuminated light, and the switching element reading the charge from the sensor portion; a flattening layer that flattens the surface of the substrate having the switching elements and the sensor portions formed thereon; and a conducting member formed over the whole face of the flattening layer, the conducting member being connected to a bias power source that generates a bias voltage that is applied to the photoelectric conversion elements or to ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki NISHINO, Keiichiro SATO, Yasunori OHTA, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA
  • Publication number: 20130048863
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion substrate includes: plural pixels, each provided with a sensor portion and a switching element that are formed on the substrate, the sensor portion including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to illuminated light, and the switching element reading the charge from the sensor portion, a flattening layer that flattens the surface of the substrate having the switching elements and the sensor portions formed thereon, a conducting member formed over the whole face of the flattening layer; and a connection section that connects the conducting member to ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OHTA, Keiichiro SATO, Naoyuki NISHINO, Haruyasu NAKATSUGAWA
  • Patent number: 8363786
    Abstract: A radiographic image capturing system includes a radiographic image capturing device, a radiation irradiating device, and a control device. The radiographic image capturing device is capable of performing fluoroscopic imaging, and carries out capturing of radiographic images continuously. The radiation irradiating device performs continuous irradiation or pulse irradiation with respect to the radiographic image capturing device at a time of fluoroscopic imaging. The control device has a controller that affects control such that, in a case in which a frame rate of fluoroscopic imaging is low, the radiation irradiating device performs fluoroscopic imaging by the continuous irradiation with respect to the radiographic image capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Naoyuki Nishino, Yutaka Yoshida, Naoto Iwakiri, Yasunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 8362437
    Abstract: There is provided a radiographic imaging device including: a radiation detector; a switching power supply; a storage section; a reading section; and a control section that controls the switching power supply so as to implement switching control and cause electricity to be accumulated in the storage section at a time when charge is not being read by the reading section, and stop switching control at a time when charge is being read by the reading section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Tsubota, Takashi Shoji, Yutaka Yoshida, Naoyuki Nishino, Kiyoshi Kondou, Yuji Kurachi, Yasunori Ohta
  • Patent number: 8360638
    Abstract: There is provided a radiographic imaging apparatus including: a control unit housing a control section and a power source section; a panel unit housing a radiation detection panel; a connection member that rotatably connects one edge portion of each of the control unit and the panel unit so as to adopt two states: a closed state in which one face of the control unit faces one face of the panel unit, and an open state in which the one face of the control unit and the one face of the panel unit are side-by-side facing in substantially the same direction, wherein in the open state the other face of the panel unit is positioned higher than the other face of the control unit; and a support member positioned below the other face of the panel unit and supporting the panel unit when in the open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohta, Naoyuki Nishino, Naoto Iwakiri, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa