Patents by Inventor Takeshi Akagawa

Takeshi Akagawa 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: 11660025
    Abstract: An identification device including a generation unit and an information identification unit. The generation unit generates factor information relating to pulse-wave information with respect to an identification target in accordance with biological model information representing a relevance between pulse-wave information representing a pulse wave and the factor information representing a factor of pulse wave. The information identification unit selects certain list information satisfying a predetermined determination criterion of the factor information generated by the generation unit out of list information associating the factor information generated based on the pulse-wave information representing a pulse wave of a biological subject to be an identification target with identification information for identifying the biological subject, and identifies the identification information in the selected certain list information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuri Ariyama, Terumi Umematsu, Yuji Ohno, Katsumi Abe, Mineto Satoh, Takeshi Akagawa, Masahiro Kubo, Tan Azuma, Kenichiro Fujiyama, Soichiro Araki
  • Publication number: 20230080382
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an optical measurement method, an optical measurement apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable medium capable of specifying the position of a pore. The optical measurement method includes first, second, and third steps. In the first step (ST11), first 3D tomographic image data is acquired from a skin by using optical coherence tomography. In the second step (ST12), a line shown in a second planar image (B2) at a second depth is removed from a first planar image (B1) at a first depth, the second depth being deeper than the first depth. In the third step (ST13), a position of a pore is specified from the first planar image (B1) from which the line has been removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Akagawa
  • Publication number: 20220341785
    Abstract: A spectrum measurement device of the present invention includes a spectroscope configured to output a first measurement result that is a result of measuring characteristics of light from an object to be measured, an optical monitor configured to output a second measurement result that is a result of measuring intensity of light from the object to be measured, and a control circuit configured to correct the first measurement result, based on the second measurement result and output a third measurement result, based on the corrected first measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi AKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11436871
    Abstract: A living body determination device includes: a light irradiation device that irradiates a measuring object with a first light including a plurality of spectrums; a spectroscopic device that disperses a light at intensity depending on a wavelength and outputs the light; an image acquisition device that receives the light output by the spectroscopic device and outputs image information representing brightness depending on the intensity of the light; and a control unit. The control unit, for each spectrum of the first light, acquires image information with respect to the measuring object from the image acquisition device, based on the image information, selects one or more areas, for each of the areas, acquires spectroscopic information, and based on whether the spectroscopic information satisfies a predetermined condition, determines whether the measuring object is a living body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Ohno, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Ersin Altintas, Takeshi Akagawa, Tetsuri Ariyama
  • Patent number: 11380179
    Abstract: To provide a fire sensing system, fire sensing method, and program with which it is possible to identify the position of a fire using a low number of sensors A fire sensing system 1 provided with: gas sensors 11a, 11b, 11c for sensing a change in gas concentration at three locations P1, P2, P3; a gas propagation speed calculation unit 12 for sensing gas concentration increase times T1, T2, T3 at the three locations P1, P2, P3 and calculating the gas propagation speeds v1, v2, v3 at the three locations P1, P2, P3; and a fire information estimation unit 13 for estimating the position of the fire on the basis of the gas concentration increase times T1, T2, T3 and the gas propagation speeds v1, v2, v3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Akagawa
  • Patent number: 11298031
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sphygmomanometer that has a high level of measurement accuracy and places a low burden upon a subject whose systolic pressure is being measured. To this end, the sphygmomanometer according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: a cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit that detects cuff pressure and pulse waves; and a blood pressure calculating unit that divides pulse waves detected by the cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit into a plurality of sections within a specific period, and calculates an estimated value for systolic pressure on the basis of fluctuations in the symmetry of the pulse wave waveform in the plurality of sections, said fluctuations occurring along with variations in the cuff pressure detected by the cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuri Ariyama, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Ersin Altintas, Yuji Ohno, Takeshi Akagawa
  • Patent number: 11231272
    Abstract: Optical measuring apparatus includes: a light source irradiating an object to be measured; a splitter splitting transmitted light or reflected light from the object to be measured; a phase changer changing a phase of a first light which is one of the lights split; a phase fixer maintaining a phase of a second light which is the other light split; a multiplexer multiplexing lights output from the phase changer and the phase fixer; a detector detecting the light (interference image) output from the multiplexer; and a controller that extracts a reference point from the interference image, when a displacement of the reference point is detected, corrects a luminance value for each pixel of the interference images in accordance with a displacement of the object to be measured indicated by a displacement of the reference point, constructs an interferogram based on the luminance value for each pixel of the interference images after the correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takeshi Akagawa, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Ersin Altintas, Yuji Ohno, Tetsuri Ariyama, Ichiro Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 11000219
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrocardiogram measurement apparatus capable of significantly reducing the number of electrodes and measuring even a faint signal. The present invention provides an electrocardiogram measurement apparatus including a first electrode and a second electrode to be brought into contact with a body surface near an artery, an electrocardiogram measurement means for measuring a signal obtained from the first electrode and the second electrode, an artery position measurement means for identifying a position at which a measured value of a measured signal is largest as a position of an artery; and a notification means for notifying a user of information indicating the position of an artery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuri Ariyama, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Ersin Altintas, Yuji Ohno, Takeshi Akagawa
  • Publication number: 20210113097
    Abstract: This heart failure degree-of-exacerbation determination system comprises a storage device (11) and an arithmetic device (12). The arithmetic device (12) includes a heart failure degree-of-exacerbation determination means (121) for determining the degree-of-exacerbation of heart failure, on the basis of stored information which is stored in the storage device (11) and the correlation among a plurality of evaluation values which are associated with a acral portion of a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji OHNO, Masahiro KUBO, Katsumi ABE, Ersin ALTINTAS, Takeshi AKAGAWA, Tetsuri ARIYAMA, Hiroaki SHIMOKAWA, Yasuhiko SAKATA, Ryuji TUBURAYA
  • Publication number: 20210056824
    Abstract: To provide a fire sensing system, fire sensing method, and program with which it is possible to identify the position of a fire using a low number of sensors. A fire sensing system 1 provided with: gas sensors 11a, 11b, 11c for sensing a change in gas concentration at three locations P1, P2, P3; a gas propagation speed calculation unit 12 for sensing gas concentration increase times T1, T2, T3 at the three locations P1, P2, P3 and calculating the gas propagation speeds v1, v2, v3 at the three locations P1, P2, P3; and a fire information estimation unit 13 for estimating the position of the fire on the basis of the gas concentration increase times T1, T2, T3 and the gas propagation speeds v1, v2, v3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi AKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200333128
    Abstract: Optical measuring apparatus includes: a light source irradiating an object to be measured; a splitter splitting transmitted light or reflected light from the object to be measured; a phase changer changing a phase of a first light which is one of the lights split; a phase fixer maintaining a phase of a second light which is the other light split; a multiplexer multiplexing lights output from the phase changer and the phase fixer; a detector detecting the light (interference image) output from the multiplexer; and a controller that extracts a reference point from the interference image, when a displacement of the reference point is detected, corrects a luminance value for each pixel of the interference images in accordance with a displacement of the object to be measured indicated by a displacement of the reference point, constructs an interferogram based on the luminance value for each pixel of the interference images after the correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takeshi AKAGAWA, Masahiro KUBO, Katsumi ABE, Ersin ALTINTAS, Yuji OHNO, Tetsuri ARIYAMA, Ichiro ISHIMARU
  • Publication number: 20200288984
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sphygmomanometer that has a high level of measurement accuracy and places a low burden upon a subject whose systolic pressure is being measured. To this end, the sphygmomanometer according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: a cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit that detects cuff pressure and pulse waves; and a blood pressure calculating unit that divides pulse waves detected by the cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit into a plurality of sections within a specific period, and calculates an estimated value for systolic pressure on the basis of fluctuations in the symmetry of the pulse wave waveform in the plurality of sections, said fluctuations occurring along with variations in the cuff pressure detected by the cuff pressure and pulse wave detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuri ARIYAMA, Masahiro KUBO, Katsumi ABE, Ersin ALTINTAS, Yuji OHNO, Takeshi AKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10761017
    Abstract: A gas detection system, comprising: a humidity measuring apparatus that measures humidity; a transmitting apparatus that includes a light source which emits an optical signal of a plurality of wavelengths; and a receiving apparatus including: a light detection part that receives the optical signal from the transmitting apparatus; a discrimination part that determines whether or not condensation exists in at least one region of regions where the optical signal passes, based on the humidity measured by the humidity measuring apparatus and a light intensity of the optical signal received by the light detection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Akagawa
  • Publication number: 20200250449
    Abstract: A living body determination device includes: a light irradiation device that irradiates a measuring object with a first light including a plurality of spectrums; a spectroscopic device that disperses a light at intensity depending on a wavelength and outputs the light; an image acquisition device that receives the light output by the spectroscopic device and outputs image information representing brightness depending on the intensity of the light; and a control unit. The control unit, for each spectrum of the first light, acquires image information with respect to the measuring object from the image acquisition device, based on the image information, selects one or more areas, for each of the areas, acquires spectroscopic information, and based on whether the spectroscopic information satisfies a predetermined condition, determines whether the measuring object is a living body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji OHNO, Masahiro KUBO, Katsumi ABE, Ersin ALTINTAS, Takeshi AKAGAWA, Tetsuri ARIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200196879
    Abstract: An identification device including a wave extraction unit, a time difference unit, and an information identification unit. The wave extraction unit extracts an ejection wave occurring in reply to heartbeat and a reflected wave occurring in reply to passage of blood outflowing from a heart through a bifurcation of blood vessels, from pulse wave information representing a pulse wave of an identification target. The time difference unit generates time-difference information representing a time difference between the extracted ejection wave and the extracted reflected wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuri ARIYAMA, Terumi UMEMATSU, Yuji OHNO, Katsumi ABE, Mineto SATOH, Takeshi AKAGAWA, Masahiro KUBO, Tan AZUMA, Kenichiro FUJIYAMA, Soichiro ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20200196912
    Abstract: An identification device including a generation unit and an information identification unit. The generation unit generates factor information relating to pulse-wave information with respect to an identification target in accordance with biological model information representing a relevance between pulse-wave information representing a pulse wave and the factor information representing a factor of pulse wave. The information identification unit selects certain list information satisfying a predetermined determination criterion of the factor information generated by the generation unit out of list information associating the factor information generated based on the pulse-wave information representing a pulse wave of a biological subject to be an identification target with identification information for identifying the biological subject, and identifies the identification information in the selected certain list information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuri ARIYAMA, Terumi UMEMATSU, Yuji OHNO, Katsumi ABE, Mineto SATOH, Takeshi AKAGAWA, Masahiro KUBO, Tan AZUMA, Kenichiro FUJIYAMA, Soichiro ARAKI
  • Patent number: 10591407
    Abstract: Provided is an excrement analysis device capable of analyzing urine and feces simultaneously without increasing a burden of maintenance. The excrement analysis device 10 of the present invention includes: a light source 20 that emits an inspection light toward an inspection area in a toilet bowl; spectroscopic information acquisition means 30 that receives an inspection light emitted toward the inspection area and acquires spectroscopic information from the received inspection light; and analysis means 40 that extracts a first space containing the largest amount of urine components and a second space containing the largest amount of fecal components from the acquired spectroscopic information, and outputs a result of analysis of urine and feces on the basis of spectroscopic information regarding the first space and the second space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Akagawa, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Kimiyasu Takoh, Ersin Altintas, Yuji Ohno, Tetsuri Ariyama
  • Patent number: 10545016
    Abstract: A light measurement device that maintains high measurement precision. The light measurement device includes: light source that irradiates light upon measurement object; branch part that splits transmitted light or reflected light from measurement object; phase-changing unit that changes the phase of one beam of the branched light beams; phase-fixing unit that maintains the phase of the other beam of the branched light beams; adjustment mechanism, which is provided in phase-changing unit or phase-fixing unit, for adjusting the propagation direction of light; multiplexer that causes the light emitted by each of phase-changing unit and phase-fixing unit to interfere with each other; detection unit that detects light that is interfered with by multiplexer; and control unit that controls the adjustment mechanism on the basis of the luminance values of an interference image that is detected by detection unit and adjusts the propagation direction of light in phase-changing unit or phase-fixing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takeshi Akagawa, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Kimiyasu Takoh, Ersin Altintas, Yuji Ohno, Tetsuri Ariyama, Ichiro Ishimaru
  • Publication number: 20200018693
    Abstract: A gas detection system, comprising: a humidity measuring apparatus that measures humidity; a transmitting apparatus that includes a light source which emits an optical signal of a plurality of wavelengths; and a receiving apparatus including: a light detection part that receives the optical signal from the transmitting apparatus; a discrimination part that determines whether or not condensation exists in at least one region of regions where the optical signal passes, based on the humidity measured by the humidity measuring apparatus and a light intensity of the optical signal received by the light detection part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi AKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10503958
    Abstract: A living body is accurately determined while minimizing increases in the size of a device and increases in the number of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Ohno, Masahiro Kubo, Katsumi Abe, Kimiyasu Takoh, Ersin Altintas, Takeshi Akagawa, Tetsuri Ariyama, Ichiro Ishimaru