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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20210068770
    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: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210068769
    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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Yoshie FUJIMOTO