Patents by Inventor Noriyasu Homma

Noriyasu Homma 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).

  • Publication number: 20220395186
    Abstract: A biological information displaying apparatus according to an embodiment includes a picture obtaining apparatus and a processor. The picture obtaining apparatus obtains a picture signal of a predetermined site of a subject as a moving image. The processor generates a hue moving image by extracting a luminance or an image-based photoplethysmogram (iPPG) related to a pulse wave for each pixel of the moving image and assigning a hue in accordance with a value of luminance information or iPPG information. The processor displays the generated hue moving image such that the hue moving image is superimposed on an image of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Makoto YOSHIZAWA, Norihiro SUGITA, Makoto ABE, Tomoyuki YAMBE, Noriyasu HOMMA, Kazuma OBARA, Akira TANAKA, Yuki HORIHATA
  • Patent number: 11445921
    Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus according to an embodiment includes a calculating unit and a measuring unit. The calculating unit is configured to calculate information related to a pulse wave of a subject, on the basis of luminance information of a picture signal of the subject. The measuring unit is configured to measure a fluctuation of blood pressure of the subject based on an increase or a decrease in the information related to the pulse wave, in accordance with a site of the subject from which the picture signal was obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Makoto Yoshizawa, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Abe, Tomoyuki Yambe, Noriyasu Homma, Kazuma Obara, Akira Tanaka, Yuki Horihata
  • Patent number: 10504225
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a probability distribution of luminance of a pixel in a plurality of perspective images including the luminance of the pixel which is superposition of luminance components resulting from respective objects, based on an occurrence frequency of a perspective image in which the luminance of the pixel has respective values of a plurality of values; a distribution estimation unit that estimates a mixture distribution indicating the acquired probability distribution; a component estimation unit that estimates a component corresponding to a smallest expectation value distribution of which an expectation value is the smallest among a plurality of partial distributions that form the estimated mixture distribution, and forming at least a portion of the luminance of the pixel; a removal unit that removes the estimated component from the luminance of the pixel included in the perspective image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noriyasu Homma, Masao Sakai, Kei Ichiji, Naoki Shibusawa, Xiaoyong Zhang, Makoto Abe, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Yoshizawa, Yoshihiro Takai
  • Publication number: 20180042486
    Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus according to an embodiment includes a calculating unit and a measuring unit. The calculating unit is configured to calculate information related to a pulse wave of a subject, on the basis of luminance information of a picture signal of the subject. The measuring unit is configured to measure a fluctuation of blood pressure of the subject based on an increase or a decrease in the information related to the pulse wave, in accordance with a site of the subject from which the picture signal was obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: Tohoku University
    Inventors: Makoto Yoshizawa, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Abe, Tomoyuki Yambe, Noriyasu Homma, Kazuma Obara, Akira Tanaka, Yuki Horihata
  • Publication number: 20180025493
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a probability distribution of luminance of a pixel in a plurality of perspective images including the luminance of the pixel which is superposition of luminance components resulting from respective objects, based on an occurrence frequency of a perspective image in which the luminance of the pixel has respective values of a plurality of values; a distribution estimation unit that estimates a mixture distribution indicating the acquired probability distribution; a component estimation unit that estimates a component corresponding to a smallest expectation value distribution of which an expectation value is the smallest among a plurality of partial distributions that form the estimated mixture distribution, and forming at least a portion of the luminance of the pixel; a removal unit that removes the estimated component from the luminance of the pixel included in the perspective image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noriyasu HOMMA, Masao SAKAI, Kei ICHIJI, Naoki SHIBUSAWA, Xiaoyong ZHANG, Makoto ABE, Norihiro SUGITA, Makoto YOSHIZAWA, Yoshihiro TAKAI
  • Patent number: 9854976
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pulse wave velocity measurement method and system as well as an imaging device available for everyday use by general users at low cost with measurement accuracy less affected by posture or the like. The present invention simultaneously images different parts of a human body in a non-contact state by a single visible light camera and acquires continuous time series image data. Then, the present invention detects each pulse wave from the image data in the different parts of the human body based on a temporal change in pixel value of the different parts of the human body, and then calculates a pulse wave velocity of the human body based on a time difference between the pulse waves in the different parts of the human body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignees: FUJIFILM Corporation, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tetsuya Takamori, Makoto Yoshizawa, Noriyasu Homma, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Abe, Akira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9808217
    Abstract: A model calculating device calculates a mammary gland normal architecture model that scatters in a fan shape from the nipple toward the greater pectoral muscle with respect to the X-ray image of the breast. An orientation extracting device extracts linear components orientations of a region image texture that form a shape of a shadow in the breast X-ray image using a Gabor filter. A lesion determining device compares the mammary gland orientation in the normal architecture model calculated by the model calculating device and the orientation extracted by the orientation extracting device with respect to a region of interest in the X-ray image of the breast including architectural distortion candidates of the mammary gland detected by a preprocessing device to calculate a feature quantity based on a difference between the orientations and determines whether the candidates are an architectural distortion of the mammary gland based on the feature quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noriyasu Homma, Takeshi Handa, Tadashi Ishibashi, Yusuke Kawasumi, Makoto Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20160106388
    Abstract: A model calculating device calculates a mammary gland normal architecture model that scatters in a fan shape from the nipple toward the greater pectoral muscle with respect to the X-ray image of the breast. An orientation extracting device extracts linear components orientations of a region image texture that form a shape of a shadow in the breast X-ray image using a Gabor filter. A lesion determining device compares the mammary gland orientation in the normal architecture model calculated by the model calculating device and the orientation extracted by the orientation extracting device with respect to a region of interest in the X-ray image of the breast including architectural distortion candidates of the mammary gland detected by a preprocessing device to calculate a feature quantity based on a difference between the orientations and determines whether the candidates are an architectural distortion of the mammary gland based on the feature quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Noriyasu HOMMA, Takeshi HANDA, Tadashi ISHIBASHI, Yusuke KAWASUMI, Makoto YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150366456
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pulse wave velocity measurement method and system as well as an imaging device available for everyday use by general users at low cost with measurement accuracy less affected by posture or the like. The present invention simultaneously images different parts of a human body in a non-contact state by a single visible light camera and acquires continuous time series image data. Then, the present invention detects each pulse wave from the image data in the different parts of the human body based on a temporal change in pixel value of the different parts of the human body, and then calculates a pulse wave velocity of the human body based on a time difference between the pulse waves in the different parts of the human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicants: FUJIFILM CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tetsuya TAKAMORI, Makoto YOSHIZAWA, Noriyasu HOMMA, Norihiro SUGITA, Makoto ABE, Akira TANAKA
  • Patent number: 8837863
    Abstract: A signal-processing device, which processes transparent images each expressed by transparent superimposition of a target such as an affected part and a background, includes a transparent image acquiring unit that acquires the transparent images each including the target at a plurality of times; a calculating unit that calculates a component of the transparent image originating from the target and a component of the transparent image originating from the background at a given time t among the plurality of times in association with estimated values of at least one of a distribution originating from the target and a distribution originating from the background and that evaluates consistency with the transparent images; and an updating unit that updates the estimated values of at least one of a distribution originating from the target and a distribution originating from the background at the time t based on the evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Tohoku University
    Inventors: Noriyasu Homma, Yoshihiro Takai, Haruna Endo, Kei Ichiji, Masao Sakai, Makoto Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 8751200
    Abstract: A certain component of an input time series signal (hereinafter referred to as input) is assumed as a cycle time-variable time series signal and a prediction model for predicting a value of the input after the predetermined time is produced, and the value of the input after the predetermined time is predicted and outputted using the prediction model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Tohoku University
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Takai, Noriyasu Homma, Masao Sakai
  • Publication number: 20110266464
    Abstract: A certain component of an input time series signal (hereinafter referred to as input) is assumed as a cycle time-variable time series signal and a prediction model for predicting a value of the input after the predetermined time is produced, and the value of the input after the predetermined time is predicted and outputted using the prediction model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Takai, Noriyasu Homma, Masao Sakai