Patents by Inventor Sohichiro NAKAMURA

Sohichiro NAKAMURA 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: 20240085298
    Abstract: Provided are a particle measurement device and a particle measurement method capable of measuring a refractive index or a complex refractive index and a particle size distribution of a single type of particles included in a dispersion liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Kenichi Hamada
  • Publication number: 20240077399
    Abstract: Provided are a light scattering measurement device and a light scattering measurement method that specify a material of a particle included in a dispersion liquid including at least one type of particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Kenichi HAMADA
  • Patent number: 11893728
    Abstract: Provided is a determination method capable of non-destructively and simply determining a state of a sphere that is an aggregate of a plurality of cells. A phase difference image of a sphere that is an aggregate of a plurality of cells is generated from a hologram obtained by imaging the sphere, and a state of the sphere is determined on the basis of the phase difference image and a shape index value corresponding to a shape of the sphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro Nakamura, Ryusuke Osaki, Sho Onozawa, Akihiro Asakura
  • Patent number: 11869181
    Abstract: A determination method of non-destructively and easily determining a state of an aggregate of a plurality of cells formed by three-dimensional culture is provided. A determination method according to the disclosed technology includes generating a phase difference image of an aggregate of a plurality of cells from a hologram obtained by imaging the aggregate, deriving a first index value that indicates a randomness of an array of a phase difference amount in a plurality of pixels constituting the phase difference image, and determining a state of the cells constituting the aggregate on the basis of the first index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro Nakamura, Sho Onozawa, Ryusuke Osaki
  • Publication number: 20230375455
    Abstract: Provided are a dynamic light scattering measurement method and a dynamic light scattering measurement device with which a particle size distribution of each type of particle included in a dispersion liquid including particles is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi HAMADA, Sohichiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230375453
    Abstract: Provided is an optical measurement device capable of easily measuring a scattering intensity at different scattering angles or different wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Kenichi HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230353888
    Abstract: Pixels of a mask image with which a target object is irradiated are shifted by a determined distance by sequentially turning on one light emission point or two or more light emission points of a light source with respect to a single mask pattern generated in a spatial modulation element, a pixel shift amount of the mask pattern determined by a position of the light emission point to be turned on of the light source is known, the target object is irradiated with mask images according to a plurality of mask patterns depending on the positions of the light emission point of the light source and the spatial modulation element, and a computer calculates a correlation between a light intensity detected by a detector and the mask image with which the target object is irradiated, to construct an image of the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki NAYA, Ryusuke OSAKI, Sohichiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230092375
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composition capable of realizing an excellent matt tone of a leather surface in a case of being used as a synthetic leather or an artificial leather, a sheet-shaped molded body, an artificial leather, and a manufacturing method of a sheet-shaped molded body. The composition of the present invention is a composition used for a synthetic leather or an artificial leather, the composition containing a polypeptide, a fibrous substance other than the polypeptide, and, a plasticizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohisa HOKAZONO, Shun GOTO, Sohichiro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230093229
    Abstract: A reflection structure 10 includes a plurality of mutually connected reflection units 20. Each of the plurality of reflection units 20 has a light reflection surface held in a state of maintaining a fixed angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Sohichiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11480920
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a hologram obtained by imaging a plurality of granules contained within an imaging visual field, a generation unit that generates, from the hologram, phase difference images at positions different from each other in an optical axis direction in a case in which the hologram is captured, a specifying unit that specifies a plurality of image ranges in a direction of a plane intersecting the optical axis direction, which correspond to the plurality of granules, in an averaged image obtained by averaging at least some of the phase difference images, and an extraction unit that extracts the phase difference image at a center position of a corresponding granule in the optical axis direction for each of the plurality of image ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro Nakamura, Sho Onozawa, Ryusuke Osaki
  • Publication number: 20220253016
    Abstract: There is provided a method including generating a phase contrast image of an aggregate of a pluripotent stem cell from a hologram in which the aggregates is captured; deriving a phase contrast amount density obtained by dividing a total phase contrast amount which is a value obtained by integrating a phase contrast amount of each of a plurality of pixels that constitute the phase contrast image, by a volume of the aggregate; and sorting the pluripotent stem cell based on the phase contrast amount density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta MURAKAMI, Ryusuke Osaki, Sho Onozawa, Sohichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220244243
    Abstract: There is provided a method including generating a phase contrast image of an aggregate of a pluripotent stem cell from a hologram in which the aggregate is captured; deriving, based on the phase contrast image, an index value indicating a complexity or simplicity of a contour line, the index value being determined according to a relationship between an area of the aggregate and a length of the contour line of the aggregate; and sorting the pluripotent stem cell based on the index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta MURAKAMI, Ryusuke OSAKI, Sho ONOZAWA, Sohichiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11357403
    Abstract: In an optical coherence tomography apparatus that generates a full-color optical coherence tomographic image, an image generation unit includes a correction processing unit that calculates an attenuation related value related to attenuation of signal intensity of the interference light of three R, G, and B colors in a first depth region and corrects the signal intensity of a second depth region deeper than the first depth region according to the attenuation related value to calculate a correction signal for the interference light and generates a full-color optical coherence tomographic image using the correction signals calculated for each of R, G, and B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro Nakamura, Heijiro Hirayama, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220083004
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a hologram obtained by imaging a plurality of granules contained within an imaging visual field, a generation unit that generates, from the hologram, phase difference images at positions different from each other in an optical axis direction in a case in which the hologram is captured, a specifying unit that specifies a plurality of image ranges in a direction of a plane intersecting the optical axis direction, which correspond to the plurality of granules, in an averaged image obtained by averaging at least some of the phase difference images, and an extraction unit that extracts the phase difference image at a center position of a corresponding granule in the optical axis direction for each of the plurality of image ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Sho ONOZAWA, Ryusuke OSAKI
  • Publication number: 20210174507
    Abstract: A determination method of non-destructively and easily determining a state of an aggregate of a plurality of cells formed by three-dimensional culture is provided. A determination method according to the disclosed technology includes generating a phase difference image of an aggregate of a plurality of cells from a hologram obtained by imaging the aggregate, deriving a first index value that indicates a randomness of an array of a phase difference amount in a plurality of pixels constituting the phase difference image, and determining a state of the cells constituting the aggregate on the basis of the first index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Sho ONOZAWA, Ryusuke OSAKI
  • Publication number: 20210174506
    Abstract: A determination method of non-destructively and easily determining a state of an aggregate of a plurality of cells formed by three-dimensional culture is provided. A determination method according to the disclosed technology includes generating a phase difference image of an aggregate of a plurality of cells from a hologram obtained by imaging the aggregate, deriving a phase difference amount density by dividing a total phase difference amount that is a value obtained by integrating a phase difference amount of each of a plurality of pixels constituting the phase difference image by a volume of the aggregate, and determining a state of the aggregate on the basis of a time transition of the phase difference amount density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Ryusuke OSAKI, Sho ONOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200342599
    Abstract: Provided is a determination method capable of non-destructively and simply determining a state of a sphere that is an aggregate of a plurality of cells. A phase difference image of a sphere that is an aggregate of a plurality of cells is generated from a hologram obtained by imaging the sphere, and a state of the sphere is determined on the basis of the phase difference image and a shape index value corresponding to a shape of the sphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Ryusuke OSAKI, Sho ONOZAWA, Akihiro ASAKURA
  • Publication number: 20190246906
    Abstract: In an optical coherence tomography apparatus that generates a full-color optical coherence tomographic image, an image generation unit includes a correction processing unit that calculates an attenuation related value related to attenuation of signal intensity of the interference light of three R, G, and B colors in a first depth region and corrects the signal intensity of a second depth region deeper than the first depth region according to the attenuation related value to calculate a correction signal for the interference light and generates a full-color optical coherence tomographic image using the correction signals calculated for each of R, G, and B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Sohichiro NAKAMURA, Heijiro Hirayama, Takafumi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9839358
    Abstract: Using an optical tomography method of splitting low coherent light into sample light and reference-light, emitting the sample light to a measurement-target in a line shape, generating interference light by superimposing reflected light from the measurement-target due to emission of the sample light and the reference-light on each other, and acquiring a two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-image of the measurement-target by spectroscopically detecting the interference light and performing frequency analysis, an arbitrary wavelength region in an ultraviolet region is cut out from low coherent light including a wavelength region from an ultraviolet region to a visible region and the arbitrary wavelength region is shaped into a spectrum having an arbitrary wavelength width, the two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-image is acquired as using the low coherent light, and the penetration depth of the sample light for the measurement-target is evaluated based on the two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Heijiro Hirayama, Sohichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170224219
    Abstract: Using an optical tomography method of splitting low coherent light into sample light and reference-light, emitting the sample light to a measurement-target in a line shape, generating interference light by superimposing reflected light from the measurement-target due to emission of the sample light and the reference-light on each other, and acquiring a two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-image of the measurement-target by spectroscopically detecting the interference light and performing frequency analysis, an arbitrary wavelength region in an ultraviolet region is cut out from low coherent light including a wavelength region from an ultraviolet region to a visible region and the arbitrary wavelength region is shaped into a spectrum having an arbitrary wavelength width, the two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-image is acquired as using the low coherent light, and the penetration depth of the sample light for the measurement-target is evaluated based on the two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Heijiro HIRAYAMA, Sohichiro NAKAMURA