Patents by Inventor Satoshi Imai

Satoshi Imai 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: 11061090
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a Radio Frequency (RF) coil configured to apply an RF magnetic field to a subject. The RF coil includes: a supporting member formed to have a circular cylindrical shape; and an electrically-conductive member which is arranged to extend along an axial direction of the supporting member and through which a radio frequency current flows when the RF magnetic field is generated. The electrically-conductive member includes: a first part provided on an outer circumferential surface of the supporting member; and a second part positioned farther away from an RF shield provided on an outer circumferential side of the RF coil than the first part is, in terms of a radial direction of the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Fukushima, Sadanori Tomiha, Manabu Ishii, Satoshi Imai
  • Publication number: 20210191064
    Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a base plate, a base body, a lens holding section, and a first bonding material. An imaging element is implemented on the base plate. The base body includes a first surface portion arranged to be oriented toward the base plate, and is connected to the base plate. The lens holding section includes a second surface portion spaced from the first surface portion, and holds a lens section that forms an image of light that enters the lens section. The first bonding material is filled into a space between the first surface portion and the second surface portion to connect the base body and the lens holding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi IMAI, Kazuki SAKAE, Takashi WARASHINA
  • Publication number: 20210132165
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a coil element includes an extendable and contractible coil and a capacitor. The capacitor is connected to the coil and has an electrostatic capacity which changes due to a physical change in response to extension or contraction of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Sadanori TOMIHA, Takafumi OHISHI, Sho KAWAJIRI, Satoshi IMAI
  • Patent number: 10984241
    Abstract: A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry is configured to store therein workflow information indicating a plurality of procedures related to a preparation for an imaging process. The processing circuitry is configured to analyze an image obtained by a camera. The processing circuitry is configured to identify which of the plurality of procedures has been performed on the basis of the workflow information and a result of the analysis performed on the image and to cause an informing device to provide information about one or more of the procedures corresponding to a result of the identifying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miyuki Ota, Mitsuo Takagi, Sadanori Tomiha, Satoshi Imai, Masahiro Fukushima, Manabu Ishii, Shinji Mitsui
  • Patent number: 10951510
    Abstract: A communication device belonging to a first cluster among a plurality of clusters includes a memory, a processor, and a network connection device. The memory stores identification information of another cluster that has information being retrievable by a terminal connecting to the communication device in a summary of data held by the other cluster. The processor performs, upon receiving a combination of identification information of a second cluster that holds retrieval-target data and identification information of the retrieval-target data from the terminal that accessed the summary, a control to request target data identified by the combination. The network connection device forwards the target data to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Satoshi Imai
  • Patent number: 10939352
    Abstract: An edge server includes a memory configured to store obtained terminal information and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to obtain, from the terminal device, terminal information including a location and a moving speed of the terminal device and at a first time when the terminal device is located within a coverage area of the edge server, estimate a location of the terminal device at a second time after the first time based on at least first terminal information of the terminal device obtained at the first time, and copy the accumulated edge data of the terminal device to another edge server whose coverage area includes the estimated location of the terminal device at the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Satoshi Imai
  • Patent number: 10928469
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a transmission coil and processing circuitry. The transmission coil is configured to apply a high frequency magnetic field to an object. The processing circuitry is configured to: derive, based on at least one of an imaging region and the body shape data of the object, a specific area in a field of view (FOV); and determine, based on a signal within the specific area, an output power level of a high frequency pulse signal supplied to the transmission coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Imai, Sadanori Tomiha, Keiichiro Ishi, Takaya Mori
  • Patent number: 10917329
    Abstract: A communication device belonging to a first cluster among a plurality of clusters includes a memory, a processor, and a network connection device. The memory stores identification information of another cluster that has information being retrievable by a terminal connecting to the communication device in a summary of data held by the other cluster. The processor performs, upon receiving a combination of identification information of a second cluster that holds retrieval-target data and identification information of the retrieval-target data from the terminal that accessed the summary, a control to request target data identified by the combination. The network connection device forwards the target data to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Satoshi Imai
  • Publication number: 20200412883
    Abstract: A storage device stores, for each of one or more function expansion applications, the hardware component necessary for operation of the function expansion application. A control circuit is configured to detect that there is a failure in any of the plurality of hardware components, determine whether or not there is the function expansion application that needs, for operation thereof, the hardware component from which a failure has been detected, and perform control so that an operation mode is switched to a first degeneracy mode in which the detected hardware component is not used where there is no function expansion application that needs the detected hardware component, and the other hardware components are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi IMAI, Hiroshi NAKAMURA, Aya KAMAKURA, Hiroshi YOSHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10845439
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates positional information related to a positional relationship between a transmitter coil and a receiver coil based on a magnetic resonance signal received from a subject. The processing circuitry adjusts an irradiation intensity of an RF pulse to be irradiated on the subject in accordance with the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Mitsui, Masahiro Fukushima, Satoshi Imai, Miyuki Ota, Sadanori Tomiha
  • Patent number: 10816619
    Abstract: A couchtop attachment-detachment type RF coil according to an embodiment is attachable to and detachable from connector embedded in a couchtop of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and forms a cable-free RF coil by being fitted with the connector and thereby joined with a coil element embedded in the couchtop, the cable-free RF coil corresponding to one area to be imaged of a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Ishii, Sadanori Tomiha, Shinji Mitsui, Mitsuo Takagi, Miyuki Ota, Satoshi Imai
  • Publication number: 20200329366
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a processor included in a computer to execute a process, the process includes transmitting a first profile indicating a feature of a first user to a device, acquiring a second profile indicating a feature of a second user from the device, establishing communication with the device, in accordance with association between the first profile and the acquired second profile, and notifying the device having the communication established of event information corresponding to a context indicating a state of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masafumi Katoh, Junichi Suga, SATOSHI IMAI, AKIKO YAMADA, Yuichi Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20200285717
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: an input module configured to input an export instruction and an electronic apparatus identifier, the export instruction instructing to export an application, the electronic apparatus identifier corresponding to one different electronic apparatus; a controller module configured to generate an activation key on a basis of the electronic apparatus identifier where the export instruction is input, the activation key being for activating the application only in the one different electronic apparatus, control to output a package file including the application and the activation key, and inactivate the application after a certain replacement transition time period passes, the certain replacement transition time period starting from an output time point of the package file; and an output module configured to output the package file controlled by the controller module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: HIROSHI NAKAMURA, SATOSHI IMAI, AYA KAMAKURA, HIROSHI YOSHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200285434
    Abstract: An apparatus setup system includes: a first electronic apparatus; and a second electronic apparatus, the first electronic apparatus including a first controller module configured to generate a package file where an export instruction is input, the export instruction instructing to export an application, the package file at least including the application identifier and an electronic apparatus identifier of one different electronic apparatus, the second electronic apparatus including a second controller module configured to where the package file is input, check the electronic apparatus identifier included in the input package file against the electronic apparatus identifier stored in the second storage device, and where it is determined that the electronic apparatus identifier included in the input package file matches the electronic apparatus identifier stored in the second storage device, activate the application identified by the application identifier included in the package file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: HIROSHI NAKAMURA, SATOSHI IMAI, AYA KAMAKURA, HIROSHI YOSHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10708239
    Abstract: An edge server disposed on an edge of a cloud network, includes: a processor, wherein when encryption key information relating to a terminal which requests a connection to the edge server and the encryption key information generated before the request, is included in shared information shared between a cloud server and another edge server in the cloud network, the processor is configured to start encryption communication with the terminal using the encryption key information of the shared information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Imai, Motoyoshi Sekiya, Toru Katagiri, Tetsuya Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190372882
    Abstract: A communication device belonging to a first cluster among a plurality of clusters includes a memory, a processor, and a network connection device. The memory stores identification information of another cluster that has information being retrievable by a terminal connecting to the communication device in a summary of data held by the other cluster. The processor performs, upon receiving a combination of identification information of a second cluster that holds retrieval-target data and identification information of the retrieval-target data from the terminal that accessed the summary, a control to request target data identified by the combination. The network connection device forwards the target data to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: SATOSHI IMAI
  • Publication number: 20190342209
    Abstract: A control device that controls a transfer device, includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to evaluate, for each of a plurality of processing rules to be used to process a packet in the transfer device, a processing load caused upon identification of a packet matching the processing rule, based on the type of an application requirement identifying the packet to which the processing rule is applied, generate, as a table to be used by the transfer device, a rule table storing the plurality of processing rules in order from the lowest processing load to the highest processing load, and transmit, to the transfer device, a control packet to request the transfer device to set the rule table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Dai SUZUKI, SATOSHI IMAI
  • Publication number: 20190342814
    Abstract: An edge server includes a memory configured to store obtained terminal information and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to obtain, from the terminal device, terminal information including a location and a moving speed of the terminal device and at a first time when the terminal device is located within a coverage area of the edge server, estimate a location of the terminal device at a second time after the first time based on at least first terminal information of the terminal device obtained at the first time, and copy the accumulated edge data of the terminal device to another edge server whose coverage area includes the estimated location of the terminal device at the second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Satoshi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20190317166
    Abstract: An MRI apparatus according to an embodiment includes a whole body RF coil accommodated in a gantry. The whole body RF coil includes a first element unit used for transmission of a radio frequency magnetic field; and a second element unit used for reception of a magnetic resonance signal produced from a subject having been applied with the radio frequency magnetic field. The first element unit is a birdcage-type RF coil having two end rings and a plurality of rungs spaced apart from each other along the circumferential direction of the end rings. The second element unit is a microstrip antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Imai, Sadanori Tomiha
  • Patent number: 10444308
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry and a display. The processing circuitry acquires information of an RF (radio frequency) coil. The processing circuitry sets a protocol to be applied to imaging using the RF coil before execution of the imaging. When there are a plurality of protocols that can be selected as the protocol applied to the imaging, the display displays at least one protocol narrowed down from the protocols as the protocol that can be applied to the imaging, based on information of the RF coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Sadanori Tomiha, Miyuki Ota, Keiji Tahira, Satoshi Imai, Mitsuo Takagi