Patents by Inventor Ryoji MOTOKI
Ryoji MOTOKI 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: 10447936Abstract: An endoscope device having one or more processors configured to perform a control process including: processing an imaging signal to generate image data of a display image of a subject, wherein the image signal is generated by an image sensor, wherein the image sensor is arranged at a distal end of an insertion portion, and wherein a bending actuator is configured to bend the distal end; setting a first measurement point and a second measurement point on the display image; calculating a first subject distance from the first measurement point to a reference point of the image sensor, and a second subject distance from the second measurement point to the reference point; calculating a difference value between the first subject distance and the second subject distance; and controlling the bending actuator to bend the distal end of the insertion portion such that the difference value is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoji Motoki
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Publication number: 20180296063Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an insertion portion and a body portion. The endoscope apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to pick up an image of a subject/object; and a controller configured to extract one or two or more images as one or two or more comparison images, from among a plurality of recorded images recorded in a storage apparatus, based on system configuration information indicating a configuration of the endoscope apparatus, the system configuration information being information relating to at least one of the insertion portion and the body portion, or measurement information relating to measurement processing on an endoscope image acquired in the image sensor, and perform display control to display on a display an image including the one or two or more comparison images and the endoscope image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoji MOTOKI
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Publication number: 20180302586Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an image sensor configured to pick up an image of a subject, and a controller configured to recognize a storage region configured to store a comparison image in accordance with a command for causing a display to display the comparison image and an endoscopic image acquired by the image sensor and to perform display control by reading a comparison image from the storage region recognized and displaying an image including the comparison image and the endoscopic image on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoji Motoki
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Publication number: 20170374292Abstract: An endoscope device having one or more processors configured to perform a control process including: processing an imaging signal to generate image data of a display image of a subject, wherein the image signal is generated by an image sensor, wherein the image sensor is arranged at a distal end of an insertion portion, and wherein a bending actuator is configured to bend the distal end; setting a first measurement point and a second measurement point on the display image; calculating a first subject distance from the first measurement point to a reference point of the image sensor, and a second subject distance from the second measurement point to the reference point; calculating a difference value between the first subject distance and the second subject distance; and controlling the bending actuator to bend the distal end of the insertion portion such that the difference value is decreased.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoji MOTOKI
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Patent number: 8821379Abstract: This endoscope apparatus includes: an insertion portion configured to include a bend portion; an image pickup portion configured to capture an image of an object to be inspected; an operation portion configured to perform a bending operation of the bend portion; a storage portion configured to store at least an image of the objected to be inspected as a recorded image; a display portion configured to display the image, and a display control portion configured to: determine a display orientation of a superimposition information; display the image captured by the image pickup portion without rotating the image; and display the superimposition information, the display control portion being further configured to: determine a display orientation of at least one of the recorded image and a Graphical User Interface; and display the at least one of the recorded image and the Graphical User Interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Ryoji Motoki
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Publication number: 20140024891Abstract: An endoscope apparatus detects input of a position on a moving endoscope image to be recorded, stores a piece of coordinate information of the detected position in association with each of frames of the moving endoscope image, reads out pieces of frame data of the moving image from a memory card which records the pieces of frame data of the moving image, judges whether each of the frames is associated with the piece of coordinate information, superimposes an indicator M2 at the position on the basis of the piece of coordinate information if the frame is associated with the piece of coordinate information, and plays back the moving endoscope image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoji MOTOKI
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Publication number: 20130079594Abstract: This endoscope apparatus includes: an insertion portion configured to include a bend portion; an image pickup portion configured to capture an image of an object to be inspected; an operation portion configured to perform a bending operation of the bend portion; a storage portion configured to store at least an image of the objected to be inspected as a recorded image; a display portion configured to display the image, and a display control portion configured to: determine a display orientation of a superimposition information,; display the image captured by the image pickup portion without rotating the image; and display the superimposition information, the display control portion being further configured to: determine a display orientation of at least one of the recorded image and a Graphical User Interface; and display the at least one of the recorded image and the Graphical User Interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoji MOTOKI
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Publication number: 20120107780Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes: a display, a first display control section which displays, on the display, instructions for carrying out a plurality of inspection steps with the inspection apparatus, an evaluation section which performs an evaluation of a result of one of the inspection steps, a second display control section which displays, on the display, additional instructions for carrying out at least one additional inspection step; and, a control section which controls the second display control section to display the additional instructions in response to the evaluation section determining that said one of the inspection steps has not passed the evaluation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoji MOTOKI
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Publication number: 20120100512Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes: a display, a display control section which displays, on a first surface area of the display, instructions for carrying out a plurality of inspection steps with the inspection apparatus, and which displays, on a second surface area of the display that is greater than the first surface area, instructions for carrying one of the inspection steps, and a controller which controls the display control section to display instructions for carrying a first one of the inspection steps on the second surface area before the first one of the inspection steps is performed, and to display instructions for carrying a second one of the inspection steps on the second surface area after the first one of the inspection steps is performed and before the second one of the inspection steps is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoji MOTOKI