Patents by Inventor Sho Sasaki

Sho Sasaki 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: 20230158821
    Abstract: A transport device includes a transporting belt capable of transporting a medium, a cleaning unit capable of cleaning the transporting belt with liquid, and a sound collecting unit configured to collect a sound generated by operation of the cleaning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAZAKI, Ryosuke BAN, Sho SHIMIZU, Tsuneyuki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230138066
    Abstract: A cultivation support system for supporting cultivation of a plant includes a growth information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the growing condition of the plant, a growing condition evaluation unit configured to evaluate the growing condition of the plant on a scale of levels, a work content determination unit configured to determine optimum cultivation work for the growing condition of the plant, a work instruction information creation unit configured to create work instruction information indicating work to be performed by a person engaged in the cultivation of the plant, based on the cultivation work determined by the work content determination unit, and an output unit configured to output the work instruction information created by the work instruction information creation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichi HOSOMI, Sho SASAKI, Takaaki MIYAJI, Arata NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230113324
    Abstract: A medical information processing device according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire biometric information on a patient, detect a trend change in the biometric information at a predetermined timing on a basis of time-series data regarding the biometric information, and determine whether the trend change is due to a measurement error in the biometric information or due to a change in a condition of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke ARITA, Longxun PIAO, Sho SASAKI, Yudai YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230101650
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry which updates a model for calculating an effect evaluation value for a medical decision. The processing circuitry updates a parameter of the model while retaining the structure of the model so that the structure of the model is updated less frequently than the parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke KANO, Sho SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230103124
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires an effect evaluation value regarding a plurality of medical decisions. The processing circuitry acquires a fairness index value regarding the aforementioned medical decisions. The processing circuitry determines a medical decision to be assigned to a subject target based on the effect evaluation value and the fairness index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke KANO, Sho SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230096286
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry updates a personal model relating to a target subject. The personal model calculates an effect evaluation value for a medical decision on the target subject. The processing circuitry updates the personal model based on first data corresponding to an effect of the medical decision on the target subject and data limited to a partial range of second data corresponding to an effect of a medical decision on another subject different from the target subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke KANO, Sho SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230081506
    Abstract: In a case where a detector is positioned in a [11-20] direction, and where a first measurement region including a center of a main surface is irradiated with an X ray in a direction within ±15° relative to a [?1-120] direction, a ratio of a maximum intensity of a first intensity profile is more than or equal to 1500. In a case where the detector is positioned in a direction parallel to a [?1100] direction, and where the first measurement region is irradiated with an X ray in a direction within ±6° relative to a [1-100] direction, a ratio of a maximum intensity of a second intensity profile is more than or equal to 1500. An absolute value of a difference between maximum value and minimum value of energy at which the first intensity profile indicates a maximum value is less than or equal to 0.06 keV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoko OKITA, Takashi SAKURADA, Eiryo TAKASUKA, Shunsaku UETA, Sho SASAKI, Naoki KAJI, Hidehiko MISHIMA, Hirokazu EGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230063218
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines respective medical information pieces as display candidates based on a plurality of support information pieces, and respective weights of a plurality of medical information pieces. The processing circuitry decides whether or not to integrate the respective medical information pieces based on the respective medical information pieces as the display candidates, and the plurality of support information pieces. The processing circuitry determines an arrangement of medical information pieces based on the plurality of support information pieces as a result of the decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yudai YAMAZAKI, Kazumasa NORO, Sho SASAKI, Kosuke ARITA
  • Publication number: 20230028661
    Abstract: An information processing device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a global model based on data sets regarding a plurality of cohorts, acquire a local model based on a first data set regarding at least one first cohort among the plurality of cohorts, calculate a weight based on a first data distribution with respect to the first data set and a second data distribution with respect to a second data set regarding the plurality of cohorts, and calculate an index value regarding the global model on the basis of the first data set and the weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho SASAKI, Longxun PIAO, Kosuke ARITA, Yudai YAMAZAKI, Minoru NAKATSUGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230020543
    Abstract: A learning system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a first data distribution for a first data set out of data sets based on a first cohort, to select a second cohort that is used to update a first model out of a plurality of second cohorts on the basis of the acquired first data distribution, and to update the first model on the basis of at least part of a second data set out of data sets based on the selected second cohort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Longxun PIAO, Sho SASAKI, Kosuke ARITA
  • Patent number: 11535953
    Abstract: In a case where a detector is positioned in a [11-20] direction, and where a first measurement region including a center of a main surface is irradiated with an X ray in a direction within ±15° relative to a [?1-120] direction, a ratio of a maximum intensity of a first intensity profile is more than or equal to 1500. In a case where the detector is positioned in a direction parallel to a [?1100] direction, and where the first measurement region is irradiated with an X ray in a direction within ±6° relative to a [1-100] direction, a ratio of a maximum intensity of a second intensity profile is more than or equal to 1500. An absolute value of a difference between maximum value and minimum value of energy at which the first intensity profile indicates a maximum value is less than or equal to 0.06 keV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoko Okita, Takashi Sakurada, Eiryo Takasuka, Shunsaku Ueta, Sho Sasaki, Naoki Kaji, Hidehiko Mishima, Hirokazu Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20220377991
    Abstract: A plant biosensor includes a solar radiation sensor that measures a solar radiation amount with which the plant is irradiated, a sap flow sensor that measures a flow rate of sap flowing in a body of the plant, and an absorbed nutrient sensor that measures a nutritional state of the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Sho SASAKI, Ryoji SHIMIZU, Muneharu MIYAKOSHI, Takaaki MIYAJI
  • Patent number: 11515031
    Abstract: A medical image-processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to determine a position of a feature point of a device in a first X-ray image, and generate a superimposed image in which a 3D model expressing the device is superimposed on the first X-ray image or a second X-ray image that is acquired later than the first X-ray image. The processing circuitry is configured to superimpose the 3D model on the first X-ray image or the second X-ray image at a position based on the position of the feature point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mika Takaya, Ryoichi Nagae, Sho Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220336063
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts a character string having clinical meaning from first medical data indicating text data included in medical information, as a topic indicating a reference viewpoint of the medical information. The processing circuitry selects one of the topics from the extracted topics according to a user input. The processing circuitry, among second medical data that includes one or more pieces of data representing a condition of a subject to be examined and that is included in the medical information, performs control of displaying the second medical data related to one of the selected topics on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa NORO, Yusuke KANO, Sho SASAKI, Yudai YAMAZAKI, Kosuke ARITA
  • Publication number: 20220334220
    Abstract: A method of identifying target-type vehicle through radar based blind spot warning (BSW) system of a host vehicle, comprising: detecting a first radar reflection point reflected by an object, said first radar reflection point being outside the BSW zone of the BSW system; setting an object area based on the distribution of groups of the first radar reflection point; assuming the object to be other vehicle based on the positional relationship between the object area and the BSW zone; detecting a second radar reflection point inside the BSW zone; and determining the other vehicle to be the target-type vehicle based on the detected second radar reflection point. The target-type vehicle is trailer or coach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Sho Sasaki, Othmane Tamri, Louis Okuma Hallerdt
  • Publication number: 20220230363
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquires one or more first images that are images of parts obtained by classifying a subject appearing in a medical image into each part, generates, from the acquired one or more first images, a second image that is an image of the subject spatially continuous according to an anatomical criterion, and synthesizes the generated second image with a background to generate a third image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho SASAKI, Kazumasa NORO, Yudai YAMAZAKI, Kosuke ARITA
  • Publication number: 20220225583
    Abstract: A cultivation and management device for fruit vegetable plants and fruit trees includes environment state information on an environment state of a fruit vegetable plant or a fruit tree to be cultivated, planned cultivation evaluation index information on a preplanned cultivation evaluation index of the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree, a calculation unit configured to determine and output a work including a shape change work for the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree with respect to inputs of the environment state information and the planned cultivation evaluation index information with a learning model, and an output unit configured to output the work including the shape change work for the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichi HOSOMI, Sho SASAKI, Atsushi HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki MIYAURA
  • Publication number: 20220122007
    Abstract: The technique includes: a plan determination device (3) that determines a cultivation plan of a plant; an environment/work controller (4) that controls an ambient environment of the plant and that gives a worker a work instruction; and a management execution device (2) that controls a relationship between a planned index value related to the cultivation plan and an actual index value of the cultivation of the plant. The management execution device gives achievement/prediction information on the index value and work content information to the plan determination device, obtains index value plan information from the plan determination device, gives change information on a work content and a control plan of the plant ambient environment to the environment/work controller, and obtains actual work content information, record information on the index value of the plant and plant ambient environment, and environment/biological body record information from the environment/work controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Sho SASAKI, Takaaki MIYAJI, Arata NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220031277
    Abstract: A medical information processing device according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to acquire a plurality of X-ray images including a device inserted into a body of a subject, suppress movement of a characteristic portion characterized in a shape that is positioned distant from a distal end of the device among the X-ray images, and output the X-ray images in which movement of the characteristic portion is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho SASAKI, Yusaku AIZAWA, Kodai HIRAYAMA, Ryoichi NAGAE, Tomoki FUJITO
  • Patent number: 11151726
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured: to acquire a plurality of time series medical images; to determine a feature point in each of the plurality of medical images to calculate moving amounts of the determined feature point between the plurality of medical images; to set a weight coefficient with respect to each of the plurality of medical images, on the basis of the calculated moving amounts; and to perform an image processing process by using the plurality of medical images, on the basis of the weight coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoichi Nagae, Sho Sasaki, Mika Takaya