Patents by Inventor Takahisa Arai

Takahisa Arai 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: 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: 11787240
    Abstract: A tire air pressure warning device includes a tire air pressure sensor and at least one controller that warns a driver that a tire air pressure detected by the tire air pressure sensor has dropped to or below a first prescribed pressure. The at least one controller further notifies the driver is reduction in the tire air pressure upon determining that the tire air pressure has dropped to or below a second prescribed pressure, which is above the first prescribed pressure. The at least one controller further determines whether the tire air pressure has dropped to or below the second prescribed pressure based on when the tire air pressure is at or below the second prescribed pressure in an ignition switch on state, and whether the tire air pressure has dropped to or below the second prescribed pressure when the ignition switch is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahisa Arai
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 11517280
    Abstract: A reconstruction unit generates a plurality of tomographic images representing a plurality of tomographic planes of a subject by reconstructing a plurality of projection images acquired by performing tomosynthesis imaging. A synthesis unit synthesizes the plurality of tomographic images to generate a composite two-dimensional image. A display control unit displays the composite two-dimensional image on a display, and in a case where one tissue of a first tissue and a second tissue that are present in the subject in association with each other is selected in the displayed composite two-dimensional image, emphasizes and displays the selected one tissue and the other tissue associated with the selected one tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Arai
  • Patent number: 11484275
    Abstract: A common area derivation unit derives a common area common to at least a part of a plurality of projection images corresponding to a plurality of radiation source positions which are generated by causing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging in which a radiation source is moved relative to a detection unit to irradiate a subject with radiation at the plurality of radiation source positions according to movement of the radiation source. A display control unit emphasizes effective image areas, corresponding to the common area, of at least a part of a plurality of tomographic images representing a plurality of tomographic planes of the subject which are generated by reconstructing the plurality of projection images, or a composite two-dimensional image generated from the plurality of tomographic images, and displays at least the part of the tomographic images or the composite two-dimensional image on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Arai
  • Patent number: 11413013
    Abstract: An acoustic matching member configured to be disposed between a breast placed on an imaging table and a compression plate disposed opposite to the imaging table is proposed. The acoustic matching member includes a protruding portion that protrudes toward the imaging table and that is provided in an end portion on a deepest side when viewed from a chest wall side of a subject in a case of compressing a breast of the subject in contact with the compression plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Arai, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Takao Kuwabara
  • 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: 11390279
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control method that performs basic self-driving control configured to automatically control the travel of a host vehicle based on an intervehicle distance between the host vehicle and a preceding vehicle. When a traffic jam on a travel lane of the host vehicle is detected, low torque travel control configured to cause the host vehicle to travel by a drive torque lower than a drive torque determined based on the basic self-driving control is performed, and when the intervehicle distance exceeds, in the low torque travel control, a predetermined upper limit distance larger than a set during-vehicle-stop intervehicle distance serving as a reference for the start or the stop of the host vehicle in the basic self-driving control, the low torque travel control is switched to the basic self-driving control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahisa Arai
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11224397
    Abstract: A common region derivation unit derives a common region common to at least some of a plurality of projection images which correspond to a plurality of radiation source positions, respectively, and are acquired by directing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging. In a case in which a width of the common region in a movement direction of a radiation source is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, an image acquisition unit directs the imaging apparatus to perform the tomosynthesis imaging to acquire the plurality of projection images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa Arai
  • Publication number: 20210070293
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control method that performs basic self-driving control configured to automatically control the travel of a host vehicle based on an intervehicle distance between the host vehicle and a preceding vehicle. When a traffic jam on a travel lane of the host vehicle is detected, low torque travel control configured to cause the host vehicle to travel by a drive torque lower than a drive torque determined based on the basic self-driving control is performed, and when the intervehicle distance exceeds, in the low torque travel control, a predetermined upper limit distance larger than a set during-vehicle-stop intervehicle distance serving as a reference for the start or the stop of the host vehicle in the basic self-driving control, the low torque travel control is switched to the basic self-driving control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahisa ARAI
  • Publication number: 20210061029
    Abstract: A tire air pressure warning device includes a tire air pressure sensor and at least one controller that warns a driver that a tire air pressure detected by the tire air pressure sensor has dropped to or below a first prescribed pressure. The at least one controller further notifies the driver is reduction in the tire air pressure upon determining that the tire air pressure has dropped to or below a second prescribed pressure, which is above the first prescribed pressure. The at least one controller further determines whether the tire air pressure has dropped to or below the second prescribed pressure based on when the tire air pressure is at or below the second prescribed pressure in an ignition switch on state, and whether the tire air pressure has dropped to or below the second prescribed pressure when the ignition switch is turned off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventor: Takahisa ARAI
  • Publication number: 20210059632
    Abstract: A common region derivation unit derives a common region common to at least some of a plurality of projection images which correspond to a plurality of radiation source positions, respectively, and are acquired by directing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging. In a case in which a width of the common region in a movement direction of a radiation source is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, an image acquisition unit directs the imaging apparatus to perform the tomosynthesis imaging to acquire the plurality of projection images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takahisa ARAI