Patents by Inventor Sota Torii

Sota Torii 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: 11933743
    Abstract: An imaging control apparatus obtains a plurality of images at different radiation energies, the images having been obtained as a result of irradiating a subject with radiation whose energy changes during one shot, and detecting, a plurality of times, the radiation that has passed through the subject during the one shot; generates an energy subtraction image by performing energy subtraction processing using a plurality of images; and generates a difference image using a plurality of generated energy subtraction images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Akira Tsukuda, Kosuke Terui, Sota Torii, Takeshi Noda
  • Patent number: 11826186
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises an acquisition unit for acquiring low-energy information and high-energy information from a plurality of images that are obtained by emitting radiation toward an object, a calculation unit for calculating an effective atomic number and a surface density from the low-energy information and the high-energy information, and a generation unit for generating an image that includes color information based on the effective atomic number and the surface density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Akira Tsukuda, Kosuke Terui, Sota Torii
  • Patent number: 11813095
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus comprises a generating unit configured to generate a material characteristic image with respect to a plurality of materials included in a radiation image that has been captured using different radiation energies; and a reconstructing unit configured to set different radiation energies for the respective plurality of materials, and to generate a reconstructed image based on monochromatic radiation images of the respective materials, the monochromatic radiation images being based on the different radiation energies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sota Torii, Atsushi Iwashita, Takeshi Noda, Kosuke Terui, Akira Tsukuda
  • Patent number: 11782171
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a detection unit including a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixels with a plurality of lines located between adjacent pixels, configured to detect an incident radiation and output signals related to a radiation image, a calculation unit configured to calculate a crosstalk ratio related to crosstalk occurring between the adjacent pixels with the plurality of lines therebetween in the detection unit, and a correction unit configured to make a correction to pixel data on a pixel affected by the crosstalk among a plurality of pieces of pixel data constituting the radiation image based on the crosstalk ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sota Torii
  • Publication number: 20230309942
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit configured to obtain image data corresponding to incident radiation; and an image processing unit configured to perform first bone density measurement based on image data obtained by the image obtaining unit with a first exposure field and perform second bone density measurement based on image data obtained by the image obtaining unit with a second exposure field narrower than the first exposure field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: TAKESHI NODA, SOTA TORII, KATSURO TAKENAKA, AKIYA NAKAYAMA, DAISUKE SATO, HARUKI IWAI
  • Publication number: 20230265485
    Abstract: Provided is a nucleic acid analysis device with which artifact components are reduced. The nucleic acid analysis device includes a distribution unit, a labeling unit, an information acquisition unit, and an information processing unit. The information processing unit includes an information extraction unit, an artifact component determination unit, a correction unit, and an identifying unit. The artifact component determination unit determines an artifact component from extracted information corresponding to a portion other than a plurality of individual separated compartments. The correction unit uses the artifact component to correct extracted information corresponding to the plurality of individual separated compartments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Sota TORII
  • Publication number: 20230245308
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus comprising: a setting unit configured to set a plurality of candidate regions on a medical image as candidates of a region of interest to be set on the medical image; an analysis unit configured to execute quantitative analysis concerning a composition of an object for each of the plurality of candidate regions; and an output unit configured to output a plurality of analysis results and the plurality of candidate regions in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Takeshi NODA, Sota TORII, Haruki IWAI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Hisanori KATO
  • Patent number: 11635392
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus comprises an image generating unit configured to generate a material characteristic image by using a plurality of radiation images of different radiation energy levels; an evaluation information calculation unit configured to calculate evaluation information which indicates a correlation between a plurality of material characteristic images; and a scattered ray amount estimation unit configured to estimate, based on the evaluation information, an amount of scattered rays included in the plurality of radiation images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Noda, Atsushi Iwashita, Sota Torii
  • Publication number: 20230114848
    Abstract: A bone information acquisition apparatus comprises: an X-ray image acquisition unit configured to acquire an X-ray image with a subject; an identifying unit configured to identify a mounted state of a grid that removes scattered rays; and a bone information acquisition unit configured to acquire bone information that evaluates a state of a bone of the subject included in the X-ray image in accordance with the mounted state of the grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Haruki Iwai, Sota Torii, Daisuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20230069062
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnosis apparatus controls to display information based on an error in an index value evaluating a state of a bone of an object based on at least one of a captured image of the object and an imaging condition which correspond to X-rays with two different types of energies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoki Fujito, Haruki Iwai, Takeshi Noda, Sota Torii, Katsuro Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20220401054
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system comprises a sensor unit of a radiation imaging device, detecting an incident radiation R irradiated from a radiation generator; an arithmetic unit calculating an accumulated dose of the radiation detected by the sensor unit; and an imaging control unit outputting an irradiation stop signal for stopping the irradiation of the radiation R to the radiation generator when the accumulated dose reaches a threshold or more, wherein the imaging control unit sets the threshold based on a dose rate of the radiation R determined based on a relationship between the accumulated dose and a time, and a delay time from a time of outputting the irradiation stop signal to a time of stopping the irradiation of the radiation of the radiation generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori Taya, Toshikazu Tamura, Sota Torii, Tetsunori Ojima, Kentaro Fujiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20220401051
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system comprises: an image obtaining unit including a radiation detecting unit in which pixels configured to output signals according to a dose of irradiated radiation are arranged in a two-dimensional area, and configured to obtain a radiation image based on the signals; a correction unit configured to correct the radiation image using an input/output characteristic of a pixel, which represents a relationship between the dose of radiation on the pixel and the signal output from the pixel and is obtained using gain data based on a plurality of gain images obtained under different doses; and an updating unit configured to update the gain data using an updating coefficient obtained based on the gain data and a gain image newly obtained by the image obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Sota Torii, Takeshi Noda
  • Patent number: 11531122
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus, comprising a sensor array in which a plurality of sensor units are arranged and a driving unit for driving the sensor array, wherein each sensor unit includes u detection element for detecting radiation and a sampling unit configured to be able to sample a signal from the detection element, the sampling unit is connected to a signal line configured to propagate a signal from the detection element, the driving unit uses the sampling unit to perform a first sampling driving operation and a second sampling driving operation to sample the signal propagating through the signal line, and the driving unit starts the second sampling driving operation before the completion of the first sampling driving operation and completes the second sampling driving operation after the completion of the first sampling driving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Terui, Atsushi Iwashita, Akira Tsukuda, Sota Torii
  • Publication number: 20220365004
    Abstract: An imaging control apparatus obtains a plurality of images at different radiation energies, the images having been obtained as a result of irradiating a subject with radiation whose energy changes during one shot, and detecting, a plurality of times, the radiation that has passed through the subject during the one shot; generates an energy subtraction image by performing energy subtraction processing using a plurality of images; and generates a difference image using a plurality of generated energy subtraction images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Akira Tsukuda, Kosuke Terui, Sota Torii, Takeshi Noda
  • Publication number: 20220366543
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs first noise reduction processing on a plurality of radiation images corresponding to mutually-different radiation energies, generates a decomposition image by energy subtraction processing using the plurality of radiation images obtained by performing the first noise reduction processing, and performs second noise reduction processing on the decomposition image, wherein the second noise reduction processing uses a filter that differs from a filter used in the first noise reduction processing in at least one of size and type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Kosuke Terui, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Sota Torii
  • Publication number: 20220358652
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing a radiation image, comprises a calculation unit configured to calculate, in a calculation region, a physical amount representing a characteristic of a material, the calculation region being obtained using (a) a specific region regarding a specific material in an image representing the characteristic of the material and (b) a relative positional relationship of a radiation tube, a radiation detector, and an object, wherein the image representing the characteristic of the material is obtained using information about a plurality of radiation energies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: Sota TORII
  • Patent number: 11430161
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a filtering unit for performing recursive filtering on a first signal component and a second signal component that are obtained by emitting radiation at a plurality of levels of energy toward an object, and a generation unit for generating a moving image based on the first signal component and the second signal component on which the recursive filtering is performed. A filter coefficient of the recursive filtering performed on the first signal component and a filter coefficient of the recursive filtering performed on the second signal component differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Akira Tsukuda, Kosuke Terui, Sota Torii
  • Patent number: 11422098
    Abstract: An imaging control apparatus obtains a plurality of images at different radiation energies, the images having been obtained as a result of irradiating a subject with radiation whose energy changes during one shot, and detecting, a plurality of times, the radiation that has passed through the subject during the one shot; generates an energy subtraction image by performing energy subtraction processing using a plurality of images; and generates a difference image using a plurality of generated energy subtraction images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Akira Tsukuda, Kosuke Terui, Sota Torii, Takeshi Noda
  • Patent number: 11360034
    Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an imaging unit including pixels and a control unit. Each of the pixels includes a conversion unit and a sample/hold circuit. The control unit causes the imaging unit to perform first imaging and second imaging after the first imaging to generate one energy subtraction image, and controls a timing of causing the sample/hold circuit in the first imaging to sample a first image signal obtained by the first imaging and a timing of causing the sample/hold circuit in the second imaging to sample a second image signal obtained by the second imaging in accordance with radiation irradiation conditions set in advance so as to reduce a difference between an amount of noise contained in the first image signal and an amount of noise contained in the second image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sota Torii, Kosuke Terui, Akira Tsukuda, Atsushi Iwashita
  • Publication number: 20220167935
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a generating unit configured to generate, using a plurality of radiation images corresponding to mutually different radiation energies, a first material decomposition image that indicates a thickness of a first material and a second material decomposition image that indicates a thickness of a second material that differs from the first material. The generating unit generates, using the first material decomposition image and the second material decomposition image, a thickness image in which the thickness of the first material and the thickness of the second material are added together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi Iwashita, Sota Torii, Kosuke Terui