Patents by Inventor Shinsuke Tsukagoshi

Shinsuke Tsukagoshi 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: 9210397
    Abstract: In an image processing system according to an embodiment, to generate an arbitrary parallax number of multi-parallax images from each piece of continuous time-phase volume data, a first parallax image generation control unit performs control so as to generate a parallax image arranged at a predetermined position in arrangement of a parallax image group corresponding to the multi-parallax images with respect to a pixel on a display unit from every arbitrary time-phase volume data. A second parallax image generation control unit performs control so as to generate a parallax image arranged at a different position from the predetermined position in the arrangement from volume data of a different time phase from the time phase in which the parallax image arranged at the predetermined position is controlled to be generated. A display control unit displays a parallax image group controlled to be generated on the display unit in time-phase order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 9198625
    Abstract: An injection part injects a contrast agent into a subject. An image acquiring part images the subject with the contrast agent injected, and acquires a plurality of image data with different imaging times. A pixel value calculator obtains a pixel value within a region of interest set in each of the image data acquired by the image acquiring part, for each of the image data. An injection controller controls injection of the contrast agent by the injection part in accordance with the pixel value obtained for each of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20150297166
    Abstract: In an X-ray computer tomographic apparatus according to an embodiment, an image processing unit generates a projection image and a sectional image based on projection data generated from output of an X-ray detector. When at least one end of a scan range of second scan is set on part of a projection image generated based on projection data acquired through first scan by the image processing unit, a scan plan processing unit displays a sectional image corresponding to at least one end of the scan range among sectional images generated based on projection data acquired through the first scan by the image processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro GOTO, Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI
  • Patent number: 9093013
    Abstract: In an image processing system, a selecting unit selects a group of reference parallax images to be used as a reference, from among a plurality of groups of parallax images generated from image data taken chronologically; an image quality changing unit changes an image quality of at least one selected from between the selected group of reference parallax images and a group of parallax images contained in the groups of parallax images; and a display control unit causes images to be displayed that are formed by combining the group of parallax images contained in the groups of parallax images with the image-quality-changed group of reference parallax images, or by combining the selected group of reference parallax images with the image-quality-changed group of parallax images, or by combining together the image-quality-changed group of reference parallax images and the image-quality-changed group of parallax images contained in the groups of parallax images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 9050054
    Abstract: Provided is a medical image diagnostic apparatus, including: an internal image acquiring unit for acquiring a plurality of internal images different in time phase by irradiating a body part of a subject with X-rays; an outer appearance image acquiring unit for acquiring an outer appearance image by photographing the body part of the subject; an analysis unit for analyzing the outer appearance image to acquire first shape information indicating a shape of the body part of the subject and analyzing each of the plurality of internal images to acquire second shape information indicating a shape of the body part of the subject; and a display control unit for displaying the outer appearance image and the each of the plurality of internal images by superimposing one on another so that the body part of the subject included in the outer appearance image and the body part of the subject included in the each of the plurality of internal images are located in the same position based on the first shape information and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kimoto, Kazumasa Arakita, Yoshihiro Ikeda, Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Yasuko Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 8884958
    Abstract: An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a first image creating unit, a second image creating unit, and a display controller. The first image creating unit creates a first image by performing a rendering processing on volume data which is three-dimensional medical image data. The second image creating unit creates a second image having a different stereoscopic effect from the first image by performing the rendering processing on the volume data. The display controller that controls to display the first image and the second image in a designated region that is designated in a display surface of a display unit and a background region other than the designated region, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Go Mukumoto, Masao Yui, Tatsuo Maeda, Akira Adachi
  • Patent number: 8855269
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image display apparatus includes an image storage unit configured to store data of a series of medical images constituting a moving image associated with an object, and a reproduction control unit configured to perform read control of the image storage unit to alternately and repeatedly reproduce and display some of the series of medical images corresponding to a partial period in one cycle associated with cyclic motion of the object in a forward direction and a backward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumasa Arakita, Shinsuke Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20140253544
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus, which makes it possible to simply ascertain a positional relationship between images referenced for diagnostic purposes, is provided. The medical image processing apparatus in the embodiments comprises an acquisition unit, an image formation unit, a generating unit, a display and a controller. The acquisition unit scans a subject, and acquires three-dimensional data. The image formation unit forms a first image and a second image by reconstructing the acquired data according to first image generation conditions and second image generation conditions. The generating unit generates positional relationship information indicating the positional relationship between the first image and second image, based on the acquired data. The controller causes display information, based on the positional relationship information, to be displayed on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumasa Arakita, Shinsuke Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 8798227
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, it is an subject to reduce the occasion that a region of interest falls outside an image due to the influence of respiratory motion or pulsation. A medical image processing apparatus causes an slice image generation unit to generate a series of slice images from a series of volume data files associated with a three-dimensional region of an subject, and causes a slice position determination unit to determine each of a plurality of slices respectively corresponding to the slice images based on the position of a specific region included in the plurality of volume data files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Kazumasa Arakita
  • Publication number: 20140132605
    Abstract: An image processing system according to an aspect includes a receiving unit, an estimating unit, a rendering processing unit, and a display controlling unit. The receiving unit receives an operation to apply a virtual force to a subject shown in a stereoscopic image. The estimating unit estimates positional changes of voxels contained in volume data, based on the force received by the receiving unit. The rendering processing unit changes positional arrangements of the voxels contained in the volume data based on a result of the estimation by the estimating unit and newly generates a group of disparity images by performing a rendering process on post-change volume data. The display controlling unit causes a stereoscopic display apparatus to display the group of disparity images newly generated by the rendering processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Takashi Tsutsumi, Yoshinori Uebayashi, Michito Nakayama, Yoshiaki Yaoi, Hideki Tajima
  • Publication number: 20140132597
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an extracting unit extracts mutually the same region of interest from each of a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional image data corresponding to mutually-different time phases. Further, a position determining unit determines, on the basis of feature points included in the pieces of three-dimensional image data, a position used for superimposing together the regions of interest extracted by the extracting unit from the pieces of three-dimensional image data, in substantially the same position of a subject. After that, a display controlling unit changes a display format of each of the regions of interest extracted by the extracting unit from the pieces of three-dimensional image data so as to be mutually different and causes a superimposed image to be displayed by superimposing the regions of interest together in the position determined by the position determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Takashi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Fujisawa, Manabu Teshigawara, Akira Adachi
  • Patent number: 8659645
    Abstract: An image display system according to an embodiment includes a controlling apparatus and a display apparatus. The controlling apparatus includes a judging unit and a switching control unit, whereas the display apparatus includes a switching unit. Based on information related to viewing of an image, the judging unit judges whether the image to be displayed by the display apparatus is an image for a stereoscopic view or an image for a planar view. The switching control unit exercises control so as to switch the display apparatus into a stereoscopic view mode or a planar view mode, according to a judgment result of the judging unit. The switching unit switches the display apparatus into the stereoscopic view mode or the planar view mode, according to the control of the switching control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Kazumasa Arakita, Takumi Hara
  • Publication number: 20140037047
    Abstract: An X-ray CT apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, and a control unit. The X-ray detector includes at least two divided ranges. One range includes a small detection range in which X-ray detection elements of a small size for detecting the X-rays radiated from the X-ray tube are arrayed. The other range includes a large detection range in which the X-ray detection elements of a large size for detecting the X-rays radiated from the X-ray tube are arrayed. The control unit is configured to select the small detection range or the large detection range. The X-ray CT apparatus can efficiently achieve high resolution upon imaging and, further, is capable of fully utilizing X-ray detection elements of a small detector size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Tatsuro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140035914
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing system includes an accepting unit, an acquisition unit, a measuring unit), and an output unit. The accepting unit accepts the setting of two coordinates in a stereoscopic image of a subject displayed on a stereoscopic image display device. The acquisition unit acquires volume data coordinates that are coordinates corresponding to stereoscopic image coordinates indicating the accepted coordinates. The measuring unit executes a measuring process of measuring the distance between the two coordinates accepted by the accepting unit, based on the volume data coordinates acquired by the acquisition unit. The output unit outputs a result of measurement by the measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NOSHI, Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Go Mukumoto, Hiroyuki Onuki, Shinya Kawanabe, Atsushi Fukano, Tatsuya Watanabe, Tomonori Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20140028669
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing system includes a stereoscopic display device and an image processing apparatus. The stereoscopic display device is configured to enable a stereoscopic image constituted by using a predetermined parallax number of parallax images to be stereoscopically viewed. The image processing apparatus comprises a rendering processor configured to apply rendering processing to volume data serving as three-dimensional medical image data, a rendering processing controller configured to control the rendering processor so as to generate from the volume data a parallax image group composed of the predetermined parallax number or more of parallax images, and a storage controller configured to store in a memory the parallax image group generated by the rendering processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Satoshi WAKAI, Yoshiyuki KOKOJIMA, Go MUKUMOTO
  • Patent number: 8625873
    Abstract: Provided is a medical image processing apparatus allowing the generation of image data by changing the reconstruction conditions in correspondence with the positional relation of an observation target based on the projected data chronologically acquired by an X-ray CT scanner. The medical image processing apparatus includes a photographing unit, a reconfiguration processing unit, an extracting unit, and an analyzing unit. The photographing unit scans the flexible site of the living body configured from multiple parts in order to acquire projected data. The reconfiguration processing unit carries out reconfiguration processing on the projected data and generates image data of the flexible site regarding the plurality of timing points. The extracting unit extracts the plurality of components configuring the flexible site from the respective image data. The analyzing unit obtains the positional relation of the plurality of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuko Fujisawa, Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Yoshihiro Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20130181979
    Abstract: In an image processing system according to an embodiment, a display unit simultaneously displays a predetermined number of parallax images. A parallax image generation control unit performs control such that a group of parallax images of point-of-view positions which are larger in number than the predetermined number is generated. A display control unit classifies the group of the parallax images into a first parallax image sub group including a set of parallax images whose point-of-view positions are discontinuous to each other and a second parallax image sub group including parallax images whose point-of-view positions are between the set of the parallax images, and performs control such that the display unit displays the first parallax image sub group and the second parallax image sub group while switching the first parallax image sub group and the second parallax image sub group at a predetermined switching speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Takumi Hara
  • Publication number: 20130182084
    Abstract: An image display system according to an embodiment includes a controlling apparatus and a display apparatus. The controlling apparatus includes a judging unit and a switching control unit, whereas the display apparatus includes a switching unit. Based on information related to viewing of an image, the judging unit judges whether the image to be displayed by the display apparatus is an image for a stereoscopic view or an image for a planar view. The switching control unit exercises control so as to switch the display apparatus into a stereoscopic view mode or a planar view mode, according to a judgment result of the judging unit. The switching unit switches the display apparatus into the stereoscopic view mode or the planar view mode, according to the control of the switching control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Kazumasa ARAKITA, Takumi HARA
  • Publication number: 20130181978
    Abstract: An image processing system according to an embodiment includes an image storage device and a playing control device. The image storage device stores four-dimensional data that is a sequential volume data group chronologically acquired and control information for controlling playing of the four-dimensional data. The playing control device acquires the sequential volume data group and the control information from the image storage device and successively plays the sequential volume data group according to the control information. The control information contains identification information that identifies that data is volume data that belongs to the sequential volume data group acquired chronologically and identification information that identifies that volume data that is used as a reference for successive playing from among the sequential volume data group is reference volume data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI, Takumi Hara
  • Publication number: 20130181977
    Abstract: In an image processing system, a selecting unit selects a group of reference parallax images to be used as a reference, from among a plurality of groups of parallax images generated from image data taken chronologically; an image quality changing unit changes an image quality of at least one selected from between the selected group of reference parallax images and a group of parallax images contained in the groups of parallax images; and a display control unit causes images to be displayed that are formed by combining the group of parallax images contained in the groups of parallax images with the image-quality-changed group of reference parallax images, or by combining the selected group of reference parallax images with the image-quality-changed group of parallax images, or by combining together the image-quality-changed group of reference parallax images and the image-quality-changed group of parallax images contained in the groups of parallax images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Shinsuke TSUKAGOSHI