Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Kodaira

Shunsuke Kodaira 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: 11967099
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire positional information indicating a position of a compression member, which is configured to be movable in a plane direction of a contact surface with a breast, in the plane direction in a mammography apparatus that irradiates the breast compressed by the compression member with radiation to capture a radiographic image; and perform control to direct an image projection unit, which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of the compression member, to project the projection image onto the projection surface of the compression member whose position has been specified on the basis of the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Konno, Yoshie Fujimoto, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20240075559
    Abstract: A solder material having a good thermal-cycle fatigue property and wettability. The solder material contains not less than 6.0% by mass and not more than 8.0% by mass Sb, not less than 3.0% by mass and not more than 5.0% by mass Ag, and the balance of Sn and incidental impurities. Also, a semiconductor device may include a joining layer between a semiconductor element and a substrate electrode or a lead frame, the joining layer being obtained by melting this solder material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirohiko WATANABE, Shunsuke SAITO, Yoshihiro KODAIRA
  • Patent number: 11918399
    Abstract: A control device including: at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured control an image projection unit which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of a compression member and an irradiation field projection unit which projects a range of an irradiation field of radiation using visible light in a mammography apparatus which irradiates a breast compressed by the compression member with the radiation to capture a radiographic image such that projection of the projection image and projection of the range of the irradiation field are switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Konno, Yoshie Fujimoto, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11918400
    Abstract: A control device including: at least one processor that is configured to detect whether or not compression of a breast by a compression member in a mammography apparatus is completed and perform control to direct an image projection unit, which projects a projection image onto a projection surface of the compression member, to stop the projection of the projection image onto the projection surface in a case in which it is detected that the compression is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshie Fujimoto, Shinichiro Konno, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11911194
    Abstract: A compression member which compresses a breast placed between a radiation source and a radiation detector, wherein at least a partial region of at least one surface of the compression member that does not come into contact with the breast is roughened. A support member and a mammography apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshie Fujimoto, Shinichiro Konno, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11911209
    Abstract: An imaging member including: a pressing member that presses a breast of a subject; and an ultrasonography member that has a first surface on which an acoustic matching member having fluidity is provided, and is provided such that a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface is provided on a surface of the pressing member, which is on a side opposite to a surface that comes into contact with the breast, via a coupling material having lower fluidity than the acoustic matching member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshie Fujimoto, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11871897
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a radiographic image captured by irradiating a breast compressed by a compression member with radiation; generate a projection image, which includes guide information serving as a guide in a case in which the breast is compressed and is capable of identifying whether the guide information is related to a right breast or a left breast, on the basis of a shape of the breast in the compressed state indicated by the radiographic image; and control an image projection unit which projects the projection image onto a first projection surface of the compression member such that the projection image is projected onto the first projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshie Fujimoto, Shinichiro Konno, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11751836
    Abstract: A control device including: a control unit that, in a case in which continuous imaging that irradiates a breast of a subject with radiation emitted from a radiation source to capture a radiographic image in a compressed state in which the breast is compressed against an imaging table by a compression member and then captures an ultrasound image of the breast in the compressed state is performed, performs control to locate the radiation source at a non-facing position where the radiation source and the imaging table do not face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Yoshie Fujimoto, Hiroki Nakayama, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11744546
    Abstract: A control device including: a breast thickness acquisition unit that acquires a thickness of a breast in a pressed state by a pressing member; a depth information acquisition unit that, in a case where an ultrasound image of the breast in the pressed state is captured, acquires depth information indicating a depth to which imaging by an ultrasonography apparatus which captures the ultrasound image is possible; a deriving unit that derives imaging information indicating whether or not capture of an ultrasound image having predetermined accuracy or higher is possible by the ultrasonography apparatus on the basis of the thickness of the breast acquired by the breast thickness acquisition unit and the depth information acquired by the depth information acquisition unit; and an output unit that outputs the imaging information derived by the deriving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshie Fujimoto, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11744537
    Abstract: A compression plate of a mammography apparatus has an upper surface which is irradiated with radiation, a lower surface which is opposite to the upper surface and comes into contact with the breast, and a surface which is parallel to the upper surface between the upper surface and the lower surface. In the compression plate, a compression plate scale for identifying an in-plane position of each surface is given to any one of the surfaces. A first display control unit of a console performs control to display a radiographic image captured by the mammography apparatus on a display unit. A second display control unit of the console performs control to display an image scale which indicates a position on the radiographic image corresponding to the in-plane position of the compression plate on the radiographic image displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshie Fujimoto, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11701069
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes a compression control unit that, in a case in which continuous imaging that captures a radiographic image of the breast compressed by a compression plate and then captures an ultrasound image of the breast while maintaining the compressed state is performed, performs control to set a force of the compression plate compressing the breast to a first force in the capture of the radiographic image and to change the force of the compression plate compressing the breast from the first force to a second force lower than the first force in the capture of the ultrasound image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Masakazu Fukuyo, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20230102418
    Abstract: A processor displays a medical image, acquires an analysis result for the medical image, and based on reference information indicating whether or not the analysis result has been referenced by a user, in a case where the analysis result has been referenced and an instruction to display the medical image is given, displays an annotation representing the analysis result in addition to the instructed medical image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20230099356
    Abstract: An imaging member including: a pressing member that presses a breast of a subject; and an ultrasonography member that has a first surface on which an acoustic matching member having fluidity is provided, and is provided such that a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface is provided on a surface of the pressing member, which is on a side opposite to a surface that comes into contact with the breast, via a coupling material having lower fluidity than the acoustic matching member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Takahisa ARAI, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20230102745
    Abstract: The processor displays a medical image, receives an input of a primary interpretation result by a user interpreting the medical image, displays an annotation representing the primary interpretation result, acquires an analysis result for the medical image, displays an annotation representing the analysis result, receives an input of a secondary interpretation result by the user interpreting the medical image after displaying the analysis result, and displays the annotation representing the primary interpretation result and an annotation representing the secondary interpretation result in a distinguishable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Shunsuke KODAIRA
  • Patent number: 11559273
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes a diagnostic image acquisition unit that acquires a diagnostic image in which a calcification as a biopsy target is marked; a scout image acquisition unit that acquires a scout image obtained by imaging a mamma undergoing the biopsy from a specific direction; and a display unit that highlights a calcification (candidate for biological tissue examination) in the scout image which matches at least the marked calcification in the diagnostic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11395637
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging system includes: a radiographic imaging apparatus body that has a movable unit and is disposed in an imaging room; a subject information acquisition unit that acquires subject information regarding a subject; a first position controller that moves a position of the movable unit to a first position according to the physique of the subject using the subject information; an imaging unit that images the subject; a recognition unit that recognizes the subject using an image of the subject captured by the imaging unit; and a second position controller that moves the position of the movable unit from the first position to a second position according to a recognition result of the recognition unit using the recognition result of the recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11350904
    Abstract: A mammography apparatus (radiographic imaging apparatus) includes: a total irradiation time acquisition unit that acquires the total irradiation time of X-rays (radiation); a divided irradiation time calculation unit that calculates a divided irradiation time by dividing the total irradiation time; an imaging controller that obtains a plurality of time-division images by time-division imaging in which radiographic imaging is performed multiple times according to the divided irradiation time; a feature point recognition unit that recognizes feature points for each of the time-division images; a time-division image selection unit that selects some or all of the time-division images from the plurality of time-division images using the feature points; and a composite image generation unit that generates a composite image using the selected time-division images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11337672
    Abstract: A console includes an image processing unit, a defective pixel map data acquisition unit, a failure condition estimation unit, a notification unit, and a display unit. The defective pixel map data acquisition unit acquires defective pixel map data output from a radiography unit. The failure condition estimation unit receives the defective pixel map data acquired by the defective pixel map data acquisition unit and estimates the failure probability of the radiography unit or the usage state of the radiography unit at the time of failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11311262
    Abstract: A console (information processing apparatus) of a mammography apparatus includes: a compression conditions acquisition unit that acquires a compression force and a compression thickness measured in the imaging of a first breast that is one of a right breast and a left breast; a compression conditions estimation unit that, in the case of imaging a second breast that is the other one of the right breast and the left breast, estimates a compression force and a compression thickness of the second breast using the compression force and the compression thickness of the first breast; and a display unit that displays the compression force and the compression thickness estimated by the compression conditions estimation unit at least in imaging of the second breast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20220101523
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to control an image projection unit which projects a projection image onto a first projection surface of a compression member disposed between a radiation source and a radiation detector in a mammography apparatus that irradiates a breast compressed by the compression member with radiation to capture a radiographic image such that at least one of first information or second information is switchably projected onto the first projection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Yoshie FUJIMOTO, Shunsuke KODAIRA