Patents by Inventor Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA

Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA 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: 11923069
    Abstract: A feature information acquisition unit acquires the first feature information on the first medical image and second feature information on the second medical image having an imaging time different from an imaging time of the first medical image. A sentence creation unit compares the first feature information and the second feature information generated by the feature information acquisition unit, and creates a sentence representing a change between the first medical image and the second medical image. A display control unit causes the display unit to display a sentence representing a change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo Nakamura, Shinnosuke Hirakawa, Yohei Momoki
  • Patent number: 11688498
    Abstract: The medical document display control apparatus includes a reception unit that receives observation information on a subject, an acquisition unit that acquires relation information on an analysis result obtained by immediately analyzing the observation information received by the reception unit, and a display control unit that immediately displays the relation information acquired by the acquisition unit on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Hirakawa, Keigo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11574717
    Abstract: The medical document creation support apparatus includes a visible information reception unit that receives visible information included in a current medical document, and a processing unit performs processing of suppressing a part of a content indicated by the visible information received by the visible information reception unit on the basis of at least one of a past image, a past medical document, or a predetermined rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Hirakawa, Keigo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11093699
    Abstract: An image receiving unit receives a current image acquired by imaging a subject. A character information acquisition unit acquires character information from past medical information relevant to the current image. A position receiving unit receives a designation of a position in the current image. A character specifying unit specifies characters relevant to the position received by the position receiving unit from the character information acquired by the character information acquisition unit. A display control unit performs control to display the character specified by the character specifying unit so as to be emphasized on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Hirakawa, Keigo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11003946
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a first medical image in a first color expression form and a second medical image in a second expression form different from the first color expression form. A conversion unit acquires a converted second medical image by converting the second expression form of the second medical image into the first color expression form. A similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the first medical image and the converted second medical image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 10970875
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires an actual endoscopic image that is generated by an endoscope inserted into a tubular structure of a subject and represents an inner wall of the tubular structure, and a virtual endoscopic image that is generated from a three-dimensional image including the tubular structure of the subject and spuriously represents the inner wall of the tubular structure. A conversion unit converts an expression form of the actual endoscopic image into an expression form of the virtual endoscopic image. A similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the converted actual endoscopic image and the virtual endoscopic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 10939800
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a first medical image in a first expression form and a second medical image in a second expression form different from the first expression form. In a case where a conversion unit converts the first expression form of the first medical image and the second expression form of the second medical image into a third expression form, a converted first medical image and a converted second medical image are acquired. A similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the converted first medical image and the converted second medical image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20210035676
    Abstract: A feature information acquisition unit acquires the first feature information on the first medical image and second feature information on the second medical image having an imaging time different from an imaging time of the first medical image. A sentence creation unit compares the first feature information and the second feature information generated by the feature information acquisition unit, and creates a sentence representing a change between the first medical image and the second medical image. A display control unit causes the display unit to display a sentence representing a change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keigo NAKAMURA, Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA, Yohei MOMOKI
  • Publication number: 20210027872
    Abstract: The medical document creation support apparatus includes a visible information reception unit that receives visible information included in a current medical document, and a processing unit performs processing of suppressing a part of a content indicated by the visible information received by the visible information reception unit on the basis of at least one of a past image, a past medical document, or a predetermined rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA, Keigo NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210012870
    Abstract: The medical document display control apparatus includes a reception unit that receives observation information on a subject, an acquisition unit that acquires relation information on an analysis result obtained by immediately analyzing the observation information received by the reception unit, and a display control unit that immediately displays the relation information acquired by the acquisition unit on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA, Keigo NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10733747
    Abstract: An image registration apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a subject and an image different from the three-dimensional image; a graph structure generation unit that generates a graph structure of a tubular structure included in the three-dimensional image; a contour information acquisition unit that acquires contour information of the tubular structure at each point on the graph structure; and a registration unit that performs registration between the three-dimensional image and the different image on the basis of the contour information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20200058098
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a first image and a second image acquired by capturing images of a subject including a plurality of bone parts at different times, a converted image acquisition unit that performs super-resolution processing for at least one of the first image or the second image to acquire at least one of a first converted image or a second converted image, a registration processing unit that performs a registration process for the plurality of bone parts in at least one of a combination of the first converted image and the second image, a combination of the first image and the second converted image, or a combination of the first converted image and the second converted image, and a difference image acquisition unit that applies a result of the registration process to the first image and the second image to acquire a difference image between the first image and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200029789
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a first medical image in a first expression form and a second medical image in a second expression form different from the first expression form. In a case where a conversion unit converts the first expression form of the first medical image and the second expression form of the second medical image into a third expression form, a converted first medical image and a converted second medical image are acquired. A similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the converted first medical image and the converted second medical image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200019813
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a first medical image in a first color expression form and a second medical image in a second expression form different from the first color expression form. A conversion unit acquires a converted second medical image by converting the second expression form of the second medical image into the first color expression form. A similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the first medical image and the converted second medical image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200020127
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires an actual endoscopic image that is generated by an endoscope inserted into a tubular structure of a subject and represents an inner wall of the tubular structure, and a virtual endoscopic image that is generated from a three-dimensional image including the tubular structure of the subject and spuriously represents the inner wall of the tubular structure. A conversion unit converts an expression form of the actual endoscopic image into an expression form of the virtual endoscopic image. A similarity calculation unit calculates similarity between the converted actual endoscopic image and the virtual endoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 10475235
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a test object; a graphical structure generation unit that generates a graphical structure of a tubular structure included in the three-dimensional image; a contour information acquisition unit that acquires contour information on the tubular structure at each point on the graphical structure; a viewpoint information acquisition unit that acquires viewpoint information in the tubular structure; a projection point specification unit that specifies projection points from respective points on the graphical structure on the basis of the viewpoint information and the graphical structure; and a projection image generation unit that generates a projection image obtained by projecting the contour information at the projection points on a two-dimensional plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20190279408
    Abstract: An image receiving unit receives a current image acquired by imaging a subject. A character information acquisition unit acquires character information from past medical information relevant to the current image. A position receiving unit receives a designation of a position in the current image. A character specifying unit specifies characters relevant to the position received by the position receiving unit from the character information acquired by the character information acquisition unit. A display control unit performs control to display the character specified by the character specifying unit so as to be emphasized on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA, Keigo NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190267120
    Abstract: A document creation unit creates a medical document by inputting character information indicating the finding content for a medical image in creating a medical document for a medical image. An information acquisition unit acquires at least some of the input character information. A presentation unit presents at least one content candidate relevant to at least some of the character information with reference to medical information relevant to the medical image that includes an analysis result of the medical image. A document creation unit receives a selection of a content from the at least one content candidate and creates the medical document into which the selected content is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190005662
    Abstract: An image registration apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a subject and an image different from the three-dimensional image; a graph structure generation unit that generates a graph structure of a tubular structure included in the three-dimensional image; a contour information acquisition unit that acquires contour information of the tubular structure at each point on the graph structure; and a registration unit that performs registration between the three-dimensional image and the different image on the basis of the contour information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180286108
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional image acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a test object; a graphical structure generation unit that generates a graphical structure of a tubular structure included in the three-dimensional image; a contour information acquisition unit that acquires contour information on the tubular structure at each point on the graphical structure; a viewpoint information acquisition unit that acquires viewpoint information in the tubular structure; a projection point specification unit that specifies projection points from respective points on the graphical structure on the basis of the viewpoint information and the graphical structure; and a projection image generation unit that generates a projection image obtained by projecting the contour information at the projection points on a two-dimensional plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinnosuke HIRAKAWA