Patents by Inventor Norimasa Kudo

Norimasa Kudo 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).

  • CONTRAST AGENT FOR DETECTING CARTILAGE DAMAGE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR EXAMINING CARTILAGE DAMAGE USING SAID CONTRAST AGENT
    Publication number: 20240066152
    Abstract: The present invention provides: an MRI contrast agent for detecting cartilage damage, which comprises 17O-labeled water; and a method and a program for detecting cartilage damage using the contrast agent. According to the present invention, it becomes possible to detect a damage in a cartilage, particularly a minor damage in the surface layer of a cartilage which has been difficult to detect so far, by using 17O-labeled water as a contrast agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Tomohiro ONODERA, Kohsuke KUDO, Yoshiaki HOSOKAWA, Norimasa IWASAKI, Hiroyuki KAMEDA
  • Data packet communication system in which data packet transmittal is prioritized with queues having respective assigned priorities and frequency weighted counting of queue wait time
    Patent number: 5278830
    Abstract: A packet communication system in accordance with the present invention wherein, when the system receives packets each made up of a predetermined unit data from a plurality of terminals, these packets are arranged to once form a packet queue, the packets in the packet queue are sequentially and selectively transmitted, and the selection of one of the packets of the packet queue to be immediately transmitted is determined through simple operation, whereby high speed processing can be realized and discardable packets in the packet queue can be selectively discarded with high freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Norimasa Kudo
  • Data packet communication system in which data packet transmittal is prioritized with queues having respective assigned priorities and frequency weighted counting of queue wait time
    Patent number: 5179557
    Abstract: A packet communication system in accordance with the present invention wherein, when the system receives packets each made up of a predetermined until data from a plurality of terminals, these packets are arranged to once form a packet queue, the packets in the packet queue are sequentially and selectively transmitted, and the selection of one of the packets of the packet queue to be immediately transmitted is determined through simple operation, whereby high speed processing can be realized and discardable packets in the packet queue can be selectively discarded with high freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Norimasa Kudo
  • Voice data transmission system and method
    Patent number: 5148429
    Abstract: A voice data transmission system and method which can reduce transmission delay time and can remove unnatural conversation in a received voice signal due to the truncation of a head part of the voice signal. The signal transmission side of the voice data transmission system, when a voice detection signal is generated, continuously transmits, at a transmission rate faster than a usual transmission rate, a first voice data block at the time of generation of the voice detection signal as well as voice data blocks which are followed by the first voice data block and which correspond to a time duration from the generation time of the voice detection signal block to a predetermined time. In a voice detection mode, the data transmission side subjects voice data to a block formation operation and, after the block formation is completed, transmits the voice data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norimasa Kudo, Akira Watanabe