Patents by Inventor Shingo Yamashita

Shingo Yamashita 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: 11116455
    Abstract: A diagnosis assistance device assists a diagnosis, by using a plurality of sets of biological information that are measured from a subject, and that are stored in a storage medium. The diagnosis assistance device includes an achievement status determining section and a notification processing section. The achievement status determining section determines an achievement status of a predetermined condition related to biological information that is measured from the subject, based on the plurality of sets of biological information stored in the storage medium. The notification processing section performs a process of notifying of the achievement status. The condition is that the pattern of a change of biological information which is stored in the storage medium contains, threshold or more times, a specific pattern. The specific pattern is extreme-dipper, non-dipper, or riser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11116408
    Abstract: A system control unit in the biological information measurement device generates and reports measurement efficiency information indicating measurement efficiency for biological information included in biological information calculation results information, based on biological information calculation results information and pulse wave detection results information from a storage medium storing the biological information calculation results information and the pulse wave detection results information, said biological information calculation results information being information indicating the calculation results for biological information from a biological information calculation unit that calculates biological information based on pulse waves for each pulse detected for a living body, said biological information calculation results information including at least the biological information, and said pulse wave detection results information indicating results from pulse wave detection performed for calculating b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 11109769
    Abstract: A blood pressure measuring apparatus includes: a triaxial acceleration sensor; an information output section which outputs information for guiding an arm of the person on which the blood pressure measuring apparatus is worn, to a pair of a first posture and a second posture between which a position of the wrist is different; a posture determiner which determines that the arm has been in each of the pair of the postures, based on an output signal of the triaxial acceleration sensor after the output of the information; and a physical feature information calculator which calculates physical feature information of the person based on moving acceleration information detected by the triaxial acceleration sensor in a period between when the arm is in one of the pair of the postures and when the arm is in the other of the pair of the postures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mori, Shingo Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10987002
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device operates using a battery as a power source, and enables the continuous measurement of biological information. The biological information measurement device is provided with: a battery charge level detection unit for detecting the charge level of the battery; a measurement control unit that ends measurement of biological information when the charge level of the battery falls below a threshold value during biological information measurement; and an information output unit that, when biological information measurement has been ended by the measurement control unit, outputs, to a display unit, information indicating the length of time over which biological information was measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shingo Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10905381
    Abstract: A blood pressure correction information generating device includes: a wrist position change time period detecting section which detects a change time period when a position of a wrist of a person is changed at a degree equal to or greater than a threshold based on information according to a motion of the wrist of the person to whom a blood pressure measurement device is attached, the blood pressure measurement device including a pulse wave detecting section which detects a pulse wave, and a blood pressure information calculating section which calculates blood pressure information; and a blood pressure correction information generating section which generates blood pressure correction information for correcting the blood pressure information which is calculated after the change time period, based on first blood pressure information which is calculated before the change time period, and second blood pressure information which is calculated after the change time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Kentaro Mori, Yuki Ota
  • Patent number: 10898135
    Abstract: A biometric information measurement device intermittently measures biometric information from a living body. The device includes an attachment and detachment determining section which determines whether the device is in an attached state where the device is attached to the living body or an unattached state where the device is detached from the living body, a personal identifying section which, in the attached state, determines whether a user attached with the device is a registered user who is registered in advance and stores a result of the determination, and a storage controller which, when a determination result indicating that the user is the registered user is stored, stores information indicating the registered user while being associated with the measured biometric information. The personal identifying section deletes the determination result when a time period in which the device is determined to be in the unattached state exceeds a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10869621
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes: an information input request unit configured to request an input of identification information at each of a plurality of timings after measurement of the biological information is started; a personal identification unit configured to determine whether a user wearing the biological information measurement device is a pre-registered person in synchronization with each of the plurality of timings, based on the identification information; an identification result information generation unit configured to generate identification result information indicative of a relationship between a first number of times that the request is made by the information input request unit and a second number of times that the user is determined to be the pre-registered person by the personal identification unit; and a correctness determination unit configured to determine correctness of the biological information on the basis of the identification result information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10791940
    Abstract: A diagnosis assistance apparatus acquires a predetermined period's worth of biological information measured from a living body every heartbeat, from a storage unit storing the biological information, divides the biological information into multiple segments, generates fluctuating state information indicating the fluctuating state of the biological information in each segment, and displays a graph indicating the fluctuating state information of each segment on a display unit. Furthermore, if a certain piece of fluctuating state information is selected in the graph displayed on the display unit, the diagnosis assistance apparatus displays a graph indicating the biological information belonging to the segment corresponding to the selected piece of fluctuating state information on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10772515
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a blood pressure measurement device equipped with a pressing surface having plural pressure sensors arranged in one direction, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface against a living body part in a state that the one direction crosses a direction in which the radius artery T runs, an air bag drive unit, a rotational drive unit for driving the pressing surface rotationally about at least one of axes X and Y, and a control unit which performs a rotation control on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by the pressure sensors in a process that the pressing force was increased and calculates blood pressure values on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by the pressure sensors after the rotation control in a process that the pressing force was decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 10750988
    Abstract: A fatigue degree determination device includes a fatigue degree determination unit. A first biological heart rate is acquired while a user is awake and at rest, based on a biological heart rate measured from the user. A second biological heart rate is acquired while the user is sleeping, based on the biological heart rate measured from the user. The fatigue degree determination unit determines a fatigue degree of the user, based on information read out from a storage medium, the first biological heart rate and the second biological heart rate. The storage medium stores the information in which a degree of change of one biological heart rate relative to the other biological heart rate of a biological heart rate while a person is awake and at rest and a biological heart rate while the person is sleeping and a fatigue degree are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kenji Fujii, Shingo Yamashita, Yasuyoshi Watanabe, Kei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 10736520
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in one direction and an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in the one direction, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface against a living body, a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in a radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that are detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing surface is pressed against the living body by the air bag, and a rotational drive unit for performing driving to rotate the pressing surface about each of axes that are perpendicular to a pressing direction of the air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Patent number: 10582861
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a blood pressure measurement device equipped with an air bag drive unit, a pressing surface formed with pressure sensors, and a control unit which calculates first blood pressure values on the basis of a first pressure pulse wave that was detected by the pressure sensors, generates calibration data using the first blood pressure values, and calculates second blood pressure values by calibrating, using the calibration data, a second pressure pulse wave that is detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing force is set at an optimum pressing force. The control unit performs the processing of calculating second blood pressure values by calibrating the second pressure pulse wave if detection conditions of the second pressure pulse wave coincide with detection conditions of a pressure pulse wave used for generation of the calibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
  • Publication number: 20190387978
    Abstract: A height correction device measures height information on the reference position of the heart and height information on the wrist to which a blood pressure measurement device is attached using communication technology when the body of a subject rotates or moves at the position where the measurement device is attached during the measurement period including the sleep period, subjects the obtained blood pressure measurement values to height correction using height information, and approximates the obtained blood pressure measurement values to blood pressure measurement values measured at the reference position of the heart, to thereby obtain highly accurate measurement values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Yumi KITAMURA, Takahide TANAKA, Shingo YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20190380579
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a biological information measuring apparatus including a sensing apparatus and a calibration device. The calibration device includes a measuring device and a transmitter. The sensing apparatus includes a detector, a receiver, and a calculator. The measuring device intermittently measures first biological information. The transmitter transmits data including the first biological information to the sensing apparatus. The detector detects a pulse wave continuously in time. The receiver receives the data from the calibration device. The calculator calibrates the pulse wave based on the first biological information, and calculates second biological information based on the pulse wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KITAGAWA, Shingo YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20190380624
    Abstract: A blood pressure measuring apparatus performs blood pressure measurement of a person to be measured. The apparatus includes: setting a measurement mode including at least a nocturnal blood pressure measurement mode to perform the measurement; and determining whether a blood pressure measurement posture is good under a first determination condition based on a height difference between a position of the apparatus and a heart position of the person in a sitting posture, and under a second determination condition based on a height difference between a position of the apparatus and a heart position of the person in a supine posture. A determination condition of the determining is switched to the second determination condition when the nocturnal blood pressure measurement mode is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yuki OTA, Tsuyoshi KITAGAWA, Shingo YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20190380580
    Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus includes a detector, a measuring unit, a calculator, and a determining unit. The detector detects pulse waves continuously. The measuring unit measures first biological information. The calculator calculates second biological information from the pulse waves based on the first biological information. The measuring unit suspends the measurement and resumes the measurement after a lapse of a period in a case where the determining unit does not determine that the result of measurement is normal, and the measuring unit continues the measurement in other cases where the body motion is not generated, the pulse waves are not irregular or the blood pressure value fails to vary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KITAGAWA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Hiroyuki KINOSHITA, Yuki OTA
  • Publication number: 20190380596
    Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus includes a sensing device and a calibration device. The calibration device includes a transmitter transmitting, to the sensing device, data including the first biological information, and calibration identification information. The sensing device includes a determination unit determining whether the calibration identification information is information of a calibration device corresponding to the sensing device; a detector detecting a pulse wave; and a calculator, when the calibration identification information is information of a corresponding calibration device, calibrating the pulse wave based on the first biological information, and calculating second biological information based on the calibrated pulse wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KITAGAWA, Shingo YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20190365255
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a sensing apparatus and a calibration device. The sensing apparatus includes: a calculator calculating first information on a position of the sensing apparatus. The calibration device includes: a measuring device intermittently measuring first biological information; a receiver receiving the first information; a calculator calculating second information on a position of the calibration device; a determination unit determining whether or not the sensing apparatus and the calibration device are worn on an identical biological site based on the first and second information; and a calculator calibrating the pulse wave based on the first biological information and calculating second biological information based on the calibrated pulse wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KITAGAWA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Daizo OKA
  • Publication number: 20190365251
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a biological information measuring apparatus includes a detector, a measuring device, and a connector. The detector detects a pulse wave in a temporally continuous manner. The measuring device intermittently measures biological information and calibrate the pulse wave with the biological information. The connector having impact absorbability physically connects and integrates the detector and the measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KITAGAWA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Katsunori KONDO, Yuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20190365245
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device measures a blood pressure of a subject by a blood pressure measurement unit, detects a body sound of the subject during blood pressure measurement by a sound detection unit. The measured blood pressure and the detected body sound are recorded in association with each other by time information. The factor for the increase of measured blood pressure value can be specified by showing the chronological blood pressure measurement result along with checking the presence or absence of a body sound such as snoring etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Masakazu TSUTSUMI, Shingo YAMASHITA