Patents by Inventor Shinji KANAZAWA

Shinji KANAZAWA 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: 11880374
    Abstract: A device to support work of searching document data for interpreting an information analysis result of analysis data obtained by analyzing a sample containing an analyte, includes: an acquisition unit to acquire first information for identifying the analyte from the analysis data; a reception unit to receive input of second information for searching data of a document for interpreting the information analysis result of the analysis data; an extraction unit to extract, based on the first and second information, terms relevant to the information analysis result, from among terms in data of documents in a database; a calculation unit to calculate, for each relevant term, relevance scores indicating a relevance degree between the relevant term and the first information, and a relevance degree between the relevant term and the second information; and a processing unit to obtain an index value of statistical likelihood from the relevance scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: Shimadzu Corporation, OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shinji Kanazawa, Satoshi Shimizu, Fumio Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20230296572
    Abstract: A training method includes: acquiring a pseudo noise waveform indicating an assumed noise; acquiring a pseudo peak waveform not including the pseudo noise; generating a pseudo signal waveform by adding the pseudo noise waveform and the pseudo peak waveform; and updating an estimation model based on the pseudo signal waveform, in which the acquiring the pseudo noise waveform includes: causing an analysis device to execute noise measurement generating the pseudo noise waveform a plurality of times; calculating a similarity degree of a plurality of pseudo noise waveforms generated by the noise measurement performed the plurality of times; and executing prescribed processing according to the similarity degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta CHINOMI, Kaori SUGIMURA, Shinji KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230280318
    Abstract: An analysis device produces learning data for training processing of an estimation model More specifically, the analysis device obtains a plurality of reference waveforms for a given type of device. In addition, the analysis device specifies information about a peak for each of the plurality of reference waveforms according to a criterion corresponding to the given type of device. The analysis device assigns the specified information about the peak to each of the plurality of reference waveforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Shinji KANAZAWA, Kenta CHINOMI, Yuki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230280317
    Abstract: A data generation device according to the present invention is a data generation device configured to simulatively generate data used when creating, by machine learning, a discriminator configured to detect a peak observed in a signal waveform, the data generation device including: a parameter frequency information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on frequency of a predetermined shape parameter which characterizes a shape of a signal waveform from a plurality of signal waveforms collected only in a target field of machine learning for creating the discriminator; and a simulated waveform generation unit configured to generate a simulated signal waveform which is able to include overlapping of a plurality of peaks and noise using the information on frequency of the shape parameter, in which the simulated signal waveform is provided as data for training or evaluating machine learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Shinji KANAZAWA, Fumio MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230280316
    Abstract: An analysis device produces learning data for training an estimation model. More specifically, the analysis device obtains a plurality of reference waveforms. In addition, the analysis device specifies information about a peak for each of the plurality of reference waveforms according to a certain criterion. The analysis device assigns the specified information about the peak to each of the plurality of reference waveforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Shinji KANAZAWA, Kenta CHINOMI, Yuki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230267312
    Abstract: A training support method includes: acquiring a first chromatogram; displaying a first chromatogram image; acquiring a second chromatogram identical or similar to the first chromatogram and second peak information specifying one or more peaks of the second chromatogram from a chromatogram DB; displaying a second chromatogram image and a second peak information image; receiving input, by a user, of first peak information specifying one or more peaks of the first chromatogram; and training an estimation model based on the first chromatogram and the first peak information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta CHINOMI, Kaori SUGIMURA, Shinji KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230243789
    Abstract: A certainty factor of peak picking can be calculated when the peak picking is performed using semantic segmentation technology. An analysis device divides a target waveform into a plurality of partial waveforms, determines a peak waveform that becomes a peak portion among the plurality of divided partial waveforms using a trained model, and calculates the certainty factor of a determination result of the peak waveform using data output from the trained model when the peak portion of the target waveform is determined using the trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Shinji KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220382767
    Abstract: A device to support work of searching document data for interpreting an information analysis result of analysis data obtained by analyzing a sample containing an analyte, includes: an acquisition unit to acquire first information for identifying the analyte from the analysis data; a reception unit to receive input of second information for searching data of a document for interpreting the information analysis result of the analysis data; an extraction unit to extract, based on the first and second information, terms relevant to the information analysis result, from among terms in data of documents in a database; a calculation unit to calculate, for each relevant term, relevance scores indicating a relevance degree between the relevant term and the first information, and a relevance degree between the relevant term and the second information; and a processing unit to obtain an index value of statistical likelihood from the relevance scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shinji KANAZAWA, Satoshi SHIMIZU, Fumio MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20220373522
    Abstract: A waveform analytical device 4 which analyzes a target waveform which is a chromatogram or an optical spectrum includes a waveform division unit 54 configured to divide the target waveform into a plurality of partial waveforms, a determination unit 55 configured to determine whether each of the plurality of partial waveforms of the target waveform is a peak portion using a learned model created by machine learning using a plurality of sets of a plurality of partial waveforms created by dividing a reference waveform having a peak portion whose position is known, and a classification unit 56 configured to classify the target waveform into a peak region where the peak portion continues and a non-peak region other than the peak region based on a determination result from the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Shinji KANAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11499950
    Abstract: A method for detecting a peak in data of a chromatogram or a spectrum, includes: detecting multiple tentative peaks in the data on the basis of a predetermined criterion; determining an actual measurement value of a predetermined feature value indicating a size of a tentative peak from each of the detected multiple tentative peaks, the feature value; determining a smoothed curve on the basis of respective horizontal axis values and actual measurement values of the multiple tentative peaks; determining a reference value of the feature value with respect to each of the multiple tentative peaks from the smoothed curve; and detecting, of the multiple tentative peaks, a tentative peak whose actual measurement value is within a predetermined range from the corresponding reference value as a true peak. Only tentative peaks whose actual measurement value is within a predetermined range from the corresponding reference value as a true peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kanazawa, Hiroaki Kozawa
  • Patent number: 11486866
    Abstract: When chromatogram data for a target sample have been acquired, a peak position estimator determines an estimated result of the position of the starting and/or ending point of a peak as well as the confidence value representing the reliability of the estimation, using a trained model stored in the trained model storage section. Normally, a plurality of estimated results of the starting point and/or ending point of the peak are acquired for one peak. A peak information correction processor identifies a candidate having the highest confidence as a prime candidate, and superposes a plurality of candidates including the prime candidate, with their respective confidence values, on a displayed chromatogram. An operator referring to the confidence values selects a peak which needs close checking or correction, and corrects the starting point and/or ending point of the selected peak, for example, by selecting and indicating a candidate other than the prime candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Osoekawa, Yusuke Hida, Yuzi Kanazawa, Shinji Kanazawa, Yohei Yamada, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Akihiro Kunisawa
  • Publication number: 20220221434
    Abstract: The present invention is an analytical device (50) including: an information acquisition unit (51) configured to acquire first identification information identifying, from a result of measuring an analyte contained in a biological sample using an analyzer (10), the analyte; an extraction unit (56) configured to extract a related term related to the analyte, from a database (41) in which document data is accumulated, on a basis of the first identification information acquired by the information acquisition unit; and a presentation unit (57, 59) configured to present the related term extracted by the extraction unit to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Fumio MATSUDA, Shinji KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220196615
    Abstract: An analyzer configured to acquire a chromatogram or spectrum by performing a predetermined analysis of a sample and perform a qualitative or quantitative analysis of components contained in the sample. The analyzer includes: a peak detection unit configured, based on information regarding a plurality of target components that need to be checked whether contained in the sample or that need to be quantified, to detect a peak or peaks in the chromatogram or spectrum acquired by the predetermined analysis of the sample corresponding to one of the target components, configured to acquire peak information regarding each of the peak or peaks, and configured to obtain confidence information for each of the peak or peaks, the confidence information being an indicative value of certainty of detecting a peak; and a display processing unit configured to display on a display unit a list of at least a part of the target components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: SHIMADZU CORPORATION, FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yohei YAMADA, Shinji KANAZAWA, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Akihiro KUNISAWA, Yuzi KANAZAWA, Yusuke HIDA
  • Patent number: 11327058
    Abstract: A peak detecting method according to the present invention includes a first peak detecting step (S1) of detecting, with a first detection sensitivity, one or more peaks in object data whose peak is to be detected; and a second peak detecting step (S5) of detecting one or more peaks in the object data with a second detection sensitivity that is different from the first detection sensitivity. With this method, since two kinds of detection are performed at the different detection sensitivities, a shoulder peak (or a non-shoulder peak) candidate can be chosen from peaks that are detected with one of the detection sensitivities but are not detected with the other detection sensitivity, and thus, a shoulder peak can be appropriately detected with ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 11321425
    Abstract: A first reference line that is a regression line obtained from data within a predetermined range including a starting point of a peak detected from data of a graph showing changes in intensity with respect to a parameter, a second reference line that is a regression line obtained from data within a predetermined range including a ending point of the peak, and a third reference line connecting the starting and ending points, and one or more intermediate control points in a triangle defined by the first, second, and third reference lines are determined; and a Bezier curve between the starting point and the ending point is created to be determined to be a baseline of the peak, the Bezier curve being determined by control points of the starting point, the one or more intermediate control points, and the ending point in order on a parameter axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kanazawa, Hiroaki Kozawa
  • Publication number: 20220128532
    Abstract: An object is to accurately detect peaks of various compositions, even in a case of unseparated peaks in which peaks of a plurality of compositions are superimposed. A computer acquires waveform data D1 having a peak P1 in a composition A measured by a data analysis device (S10). Next, the computer acquires waveform data D2 having a peak P2 in a composition B measured by the data analysis device (S20). Next, waveform data D12 including unseparated peaks by superimposing the waveform data D1 including the acquired peak P1 and the waveform data D2 including the acquired peak P2 (S30) is generated. Next, the generated waveform data D12 of the unseparated peaks is input as learning data, and the waveform data D1 and D2 corresponding to the waveform data D12 are input as training data in Step S40. Next, machine learning is performed using the waveform data D12, D1, and D2, and a learned model for estimating an accurate separation method of unseparated peaks is constructed based on the trained result (S50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shinji KANAZAWA, Yoshihiro HAYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11302039
    Abstract: A model constructed by a training process using the technique of deep learning using the training data including images created from a large number of chromatograms and correct peak information is previously stored in a trained model storage section. When chromatogram data for a target sample acquired with an LC measurement unit are inputted, an image creator converts the chromatogram into an image and creates an input image in which one of the two areas divided by the chromatogram curve as the boundary in the image is filled. A peak position estimator inputs the pixel values of the input image into a trained model using a neural network, and obtains the position information of the starting point and/or ending point of the peak and a peak detection confidence as the output. A peak determiner determines the starting point and/or ending point of each peak based on the peak detection confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Osoekawa, Yusuke Hida, Yuzi Kanazawa, Shinji Kanazawa, Yohei Yamada, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Akihiro Kunisawa, Hidetoshi Terada
  • Publication number: 20200378933
    Abstract: The peak detection method of the present invention is a method of detecting peaks from data of a graph representing change in measured value relative to a measurement variable, comprising: a wavelet transform step (S2) in which wavelet transform is performed on the aforementioned data using a mother wavelet having a single maximum value to find an evaluation function having said mother wavelet's scale and translation as parameters; and a peak candidate information acquisition step (S3 through S5) in which locations of peak candidates in the aforementioned data are found based on the translation at which said evaluation function has its maximum value, and the width of said peak candidates is determined based on the scale corresponding to said peak candidates. Performing wavelet transform makes it possible to detect peak candidates regardless of the strength or weakness of peaks, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji KANAZAWA, Hiroaki KOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200292509
    Abstract: When chromatogram data for a target sample have been acquired, a peak position estimator determines an estimated result of the position of the starting and/or ending point of a peak as well as the confidence value representing the reliability of the estimation, using a trained model stored in the trained model storage section. Normally, a plurality of estimated results of the starting point and/or ending point of the peak are acquired for one peak. A peak information correction processor identifies a candidate having the highest confidence as a prime candidate, and superposes a plurality of candidates including the prime candidate, with their respective confidence values, on a displayed chromatogram. An operator referring to the confidence values selects a peak which needs close checking or correction, and corrects the starting point and/or ending point of the selected peak, for example, by selecting and indicating a candidate other than the prime candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OSOEKAWA, Yusuke HIDA, Yuzi KANAZAWA, Shinji KANAZAWA, Yohei YAMADA, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Akihiro KUNISAWA
  • Publication number: 20200279408
    Abstract: A model constructed by a training process using the technique of deep learning using the training data including images created from a large number of chromatograms and correct peak information is previously stored in a trained model storage section. When chromatogram data for a target sample acquired with an LC measurement unit are inputted, an image creator converts the chromatogram into an image and creates an input image in which one of the two areas divided by the chromatogram curve as the boundary in the image is filled. A peak position estimator inputs the pixel values of the input image into a trained model using a neural network, and obtains the position information of the starting point and/or ending point of the peak and a peak detection confidence as the output. A peak determiner determines the starting point and/or ending point of each peak based on the peak detection confidence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OSOEKAWA, Yusuke HIDA, Yuzi KANAZAWA, Shinji KANAZAWA, Yohei YAMADA, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Akihiro KUNISAWA, Hidetoshi TERADA