Patents by Inventor Shinichiro KONNO

Shinichiro KONNO 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: 11967099
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire positional information indicating a position of a compression member, which is configured to be movable in a plane direction of a contact surface with a breast, in the plane direction in a mammography apparatus that irradiates the breast compressed by the compression member with radiation to capture a radiographic image; and perform control to direct an image projection unit, which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of the compression member, to project the projection image onto the projection surface of the compression member whose position has been specified on the basis of the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Konno, Yoshie Fujimoto, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11918399
    Abstract: A control device including: at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured control an image projection unit which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of a compression member and an irradiation field projection unit which projects a range of an irradiation field of radiation using visible light in a mammography apparatus which irradiates a breast compressed by the compression member with the radiation to capture a radiographic image such that projection of the projection image and projection of the range of the irradiation field are switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Konno, Yoshie Fujimoto, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11918400
    Abstract: A control device including: at least one processor that is configured to detect whether or not compression of a breast by a compression member in a mammography apparatus is completed and perform control to direct an image projection unit, which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of the compression member, to stop the projection of the projection image onto the projection surface in a case in which it is detected that the compression is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshie Fujimoto, Shinichiro Konno, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11911194
    Abstract: A compression member which compresses a breast placed between a radiation source and a radiation detector, wherein at least a partial region of at least one surface of the compression member that does not come into contact with the breast is roughened. A support member and a mammography apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshie Fujimoto, Shinichiro Konno, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11871897
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a radiographic image captured by irradiating a breast compressed by a compression member with radiation; generate a projection image, which includes guide information serving as a guide in a case in which the breast is compressed and is capable of identifying whether the guide information is related to a right breast or a left breast, on the basis of a shape of the breast in the compressed state indicated by the radiographic image; and control an image projection unit which projects the projection image onto a first projection surface of the compression member such that the projection image is projected onto the first projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshie Fujimoto, Shinichiro Konno, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11547373
    Abstract: Fifteen radiation tubes are arranged in a radiation source of the mammography apparatus. An irradiation field limiter includes a plate-like member having a plurality of through holes that function as irradiation openings. Adjacent through holes are arranged at an interval of one radiation tube. In the plate-like member, the position of the through holes which are irradiation openings are moved to a first set position in a case in which radiation is emitted from first radiation tubes which are some of three or more radiation tubes and a second set position in a case in which the radiation is emitted from second radiation tubes different from the first radiation tubes among the three or more radiation tubes. Therefore, one through hole is shared by two radiation tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Konno, Yoshie Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11534121
    Abstract: A CPU acquires a distance image which indicates a distance to an imaging target and is captured by a TOF camera using, as an imaging region, a region including at least a portion of a region in which an attachable and detachable member is attached to a mammography apparatus. Further, the CPU acquires reference distance information related to a reference value of a distance between the attachable and detachable member and the TOF camera in a state in which the attachable and detachable member is attached to the mammography apparatus. Furthermore, the CPU determines whether or not the attachable and detachable member is attached to the mammography apparatus on the basis of the distance image and the reference distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Konno, Takeyasu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220133247
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes an imaging table on which a breast of a subject is placed, a compression plate that compresses the breast, the compression plate being disposed to face the imaging table and being movable in a vertical direction with respect to the imaging table, and an operation portion that is operated to move the compression plate, the operation portion being provided separately from the compression plate and being displaced along a movement direction of the compression plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Shinichiro KONNO
  • Publication number: 20220096031
    Abstract: A control device including: at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured control an image projection unit which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of a compression member and an irradiation field projection unit which projects a range of an irradiation field of radiation using visible light in a mammography apparatus which irradiates a breast compressed by the compression member with the radiation to capture a radiographic image such that projection of the projection image and projection of the range of the irradiation field are switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220096032
    Abstract: A control device including: at least one processor that is configured to detect whether or not compression of a breast by a compression member in a mammography apparatus is completed and perform control to direct an image projection unit, which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of the compression member, to stop the projection of the projection image onto the projection surface in a case in which it is detected that the compression is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shinichiro KONNO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220101523
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to control an image projection unit which projects a projection image onto a first projection surface of a compression member disposed between a radiation source and a radiation detector in a mammography apparatus that irradiates a breast compressed by the compression member with radiation to capture a radiographic image such that at least one of first information or second information is switchably projected onto the first projection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220096037
    Abstract: A control device including: at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to detect whether or not a compression member which compresses a breast is attached to a main body of a mammography apparatus and control an image projection unit which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of the compression member such that the projection image is projected onto the projection surface in a case in which it is detected that the compression member is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shinichiro KONNO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220096026
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a radiographic image captured by irradiating a breast compressed by a compression member with radiation; generate a projection image, which includes guide information serving as a guide in a case in which the breast is compressed and is capable of identifying whether the guide information is related to a right breast or a left breast, on the basis of a shape of the breast in the compressed state indicated by the radiographic image; and control an image projection unit which projects the projection image onto a first projection surface of the compression member such that the projection image is projected onto the first projection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shinichiro KONNO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220101524
    Abstract: A control device including: at least one processor, wherein the processor controls an image projection unit that projects a projection image onto a projection surface of a compression member in a mammography apparatus which irradiates a breast compressed by the compression member with radiation to capture a radiographic image such that a range of an irradiation field of the radiation is displayed by the projection image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220101571
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire projection surface size information indicating a size of a projection surface of a compression member in a mammography apparatus that irradiates a breast compressed by the compression member with radiation to capture a radiographic image; generate a projection image having a size corresponding to the projection surface size information; and perform control to direct an image projection unit, which projects the projection image onto the projection surface of the compression member, to project the projection image onto the projection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220096025
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire distance information indicating a projection distance, which is a distance from an image projection unit that projects a projection image onto a projection surface of a compression member to the projection surface, in a mammography apparatus that irradiates a breast compressed by the compression member with radiation to capture a radiographic image; and control the image projection unit such that the projection image having a size corresponding to the projection distance indicated by the distance information is projected onto the projection surface in a case in which the image projection unit projects the projection image at a magnification corresponding to the projection distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shinichiro KONNO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220096024
    Abstract: A compression member which compresses a breast placed between a radiation source and a radiation detector, wherein at least a partial region of at least one surface of the compression member that does not come into contact with the breast is roughened. A support member and a mammography apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shinichiro KONNO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20220101553
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire positional information indicating a position of a compression member, which is configured to be movable in a plane direction of a contact surface with a breast, in the plane direction in a mammography apparatus that irradiates the breast compressed by the compression member with radiation to capture a radiographic image; and perform control to direct an image projection unit, which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of the compression member, to project the projection image onto the projection surface of the compression member whose position has been specified on the basis of the positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Patent number: 11219417
    Abstract: Fifteen radiation tubes are arranged in a radiation source of the mammography apparatus. An irradiation field limiter has a plurality of first irradiation opening portions which are provided in an X direction and each of which is configured by a pair of a first opening and a second opening facing each other in an irradiation direction of radiation and defines an irradiation field of the radiation. The irradiation field limiter includes a first rotating member that is rotated to a first rotation position and a second rotation position about a rotating shaft parallel to the X direction. At the first rotation position and the second rotation position, the first irradiation opening portions which are arranged at an interval of one radiation tube face the radiation tubes in the irradiation direction. The first irradiation opening portions deviate from each other in the X direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Konno, Takeyasu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210298702
    Abstract: A CPU acquires a distance image which indicates a distance to an imaging target and is captured by a TOF camera using, as an imaging region, a region including at least a portion of a region in which an attachable and detachable member is attached to a mammography apparatus. Further, the CPU acquires reference distance information related to a reference value of a distance between the attachable and detachable member and the TOF camera in a state in which the attachable and detachable member is attached to the mammography apparatus. Furthermore, the CPU determines whether or not the attachable and detachable member is attached to the mammography apparatus on the basis of the distance image and the reference distance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI