Patents by Inventor Takeshi Maeda

Takeshi Maeda 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: 20250085829
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical information processing system, a medical information processing method, and a program for enabling visualization of situations of entire operating rooms and situations of the respective medical staff members. A medical information processing system is provided, and the medical information processing system includes: a calculation unit that calculates the amount of activity in entire operating rooms and the amount of activity of each medical staff member, on the basis of operating room information including operating room camera images; and a generation unit that generates operating room graphics including graphics indicating a temporal change in the amount of activity in the entire operating rooms, and medical staff graphics including graphics indicating each medical staff member, the medical staff graphics visually changing with the amount of activity. The present disclosure can be applied to a system that manages the operating rooms in a hospital, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: KANA MATSUURA, TAKUYA NAKAMURA, TAKESHI MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20240320371
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily setting or changing an anonymization target to be anonymized according to use of an image captured in a medical facility. Anonymization candidates that can be an anonymization target included in a target image captured in a medical facility are detected, an anonymization target in the target image is determined on the basis of an operation of a user, and an anonymized image obtained by anonymizing an image region of the anonymization target determined by the anonymization target determination unit among the anonymization candidates detected by the image recognition unit is generated for the target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: TAKESHI MAEDA, KANA MATSUURA, TAKUYA NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 12080408
    Abstract: Efficiency of a surgery-related service can be further improved. An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a surgery information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding a surgery, and a display control unit that displays a surgery process area indicating an entire process of the surgery and a progress of the entire process, and a work process area indicating a work content of a part of the entire process and a progress of the work content. The display control unit calculates at least one of the progress of the entire process and the progress of the work content according to information regarding a surgery different from the surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Matsuura, Takeshi Maeda, Takuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12016522
    Abstract: A medical safety control apparatus that includes processing circuitry that obtains a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, determine whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined first restricted distance, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, issues an instruction for stopping a motion of an arm of a support arm apparatus that supports the surgical instrument, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, determines whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined second restricted distance, and in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined second restricted distance, issues a first instruction for restricting a motion speed of the arm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Kokubo, Takeshi Maeda, Tatsumi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230288456
    Abstract: A state determination device (10100) includes: a signal acquiring unit (1030) configured to acquire a signal corresponding to each of a plurality of electrical wiring lines constituting the electrical equipment X and indicating an energization state of each electrical wiring line in association with each electrical wiring line; and a state determination unit (1011) configured to determine an operating state of the target electrical equipment that can be distinguished by a combination of the energization states corresponding the plurality of electrical wiring lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Masahiro OHIRA, Shohei TAKARABE, Takeshi MAEDA, Keisuke MORI, Kohta HATAI, Akihiro HANAI, Naoya SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230248468
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a medical display system, a control method, and a control device which make it possible to prevent an unintended operation. Provided is a medical display system including: a display unit that provides a display on the basis of information output from a medical device; an imaging unit that images, as an imaging region, a part of a region from which at least the display unit is viewable; a voice acquisition unit that acquires a voice in the region from which at least the display unit is viewable; and a control unit that controls display information on the basis of the information output from the medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: KANA MATSUURA, SHINJI KATSUKI, TAKESHI MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11612306
    Abstract: [Problem] To prevent sight of an observation target from being lost from a visual field of a monitor. [Solution] A surgical arm system includes: an articulated arm in which a plurality of joints is rotatably connected by a plurality of links and which is capable of supporting an oblique-viewing endoscope at a tip; and a control system which controls the articulated arm to change a position and a posture of the oblique-viewing endoscope. The control system controls at least one of a rotation speed and a movement speed of the oblique-viewing endoscope in a visual field imaged through the oblique-viewing endoscope based on a position of the observation target in the visual field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Kuroda, Jun Arai, Masaru Usui, Takeshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11517395
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control device, a control method, and a surgical system that enable an operator to implement operation without a burden. A control unit controls a plurality of patterns of operations of a surgical instrument, and an acquisition unit obtains motion information indicating a motion of a user. Furthermore, the control unit controls the operations of the respective patterns corresponding to the motion information obtained by the acquisition unit in parallel using only a single operation performed by the user as a trigger. The present technology can be applied to a control device of a surgical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kana Matsuura, Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada
  • Publication number: 20220384022
    Abstract: Efficiency of a surgery-related service can be further improved. An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a surgery information acquisition unit (511) that acquires information regarding a surgery, and a display control unit (512, 513, and 514) that displays a surgery process area (620) indicating an entire process of the surgery and a progress of the entire process, and a work process area (630) indicating a work content of a part of the entire process and a progress of the work content. The display control unit calculates at least one of the progress of the entire process and the progress of the work content according to information regarding a surgery different from the surgery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu MATSUURA, Takeshi MAEDA, Takuya NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11512494
    Abstract: A case includes a first member and a second member configured in such a way that a closed space is formed between the first and second members in a state where the first and second members abut against each other. The first member includes a shaft portion extending toward the second member. The second member includes a shaft support portion including a circumferential wall portion that surrounds one end portion of the shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an enlarged-diameter portion that is the one end portion melted in such a way as to be enlarged in diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Inuzuka, Takeshi Maeda, Yasuo Kidena
  • Patent number: 11478133
    Abstract: A medical observation system includes a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is mutually coupled by joint parts, a medical observation apparatus attached on the multi-link structure, a control part configured to control the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus, and a user interface part by which a user inputs an instruction to change a visual field of the medical observation apparatus. When a user instructs to move a visual field of the medical observation apparatus vertically or horizontally, to rotate an oblique-viewing endoscope, or to change a magnification of the visual field via the user interface part, the control part controls the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takara Kasai, Yohei Kuroda, Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada
  • Patent number: 11471024
    Abstract: A surgical imaging system including a surgical imaging device including identification information; a holding arm that holds and controls a position of the imaging device; a user interface configured to provide non-contact operation of the holding arm; and processing circuitry configured to control the holding arm according to the identification information and an output of the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11439473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical control apparatus, a surgical control method, and a program that can prevent erroneous operations of surgical apparatuses when the surgical apparatuses are controlled with contactless inputs. A state estimation block (64) estimates a state of an operator recognized by a recognition block (61) on the basis of at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator. In accordance with the state estimated by the state estimation block (64), a command block (62) restricts a control operation of a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), or an image processing block (66) based on at least one type of contactless input sent from the operator recognized by the recognition block (61). The present invention is applicable to a surgical system and the like that have a surgical camera (11), a camera arm (12), an action recognition camera (13), a display (14), a control apparatus (15), a pair of glasses (17), a microphone (18), a marker, a foot switch (20), etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Maeda, Seiji Wada, Tatsumi Sakaguchi, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11278369
    Abstract: To provide a control device, control method, and surgical system that can further improve safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Wada, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11242496
    Abstract: A release agent for a hot-forging die, containing micronanobubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Takagaki, Yuzou Yamaga, Takeshi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210369351
    Abstract: [Problem] To prevent sight of an observation target from being lost from a visual field of a monitor. [Solution] A surgical arm system includes: an articulated arm in which a plurality of joints is rotatably connected by a plurality of links and which is capable of supporting an oblique-viewing endoscope at a tip; and a control system which controls the articulated arm to change a position and a posture of the oblique-viewing endoscope. The control system controls at least one of a rotation speed and a movement speed of the oblique-viewing endoscope in a visual field imaged through the oblique-viewing endoscope based on a position of the observation target in the visual field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei KURODA, Jun ARAI, Masaru USUI, Takeshi MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210322125
    Abstract: A medical safety control apparatus that includes processing circuitry that obtains a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, determine whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined first restricted distance, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, issues an instruction for stopping a motion of an arm of a support arm apparatus that supports the surgical instrument, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, determines whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined second restricted distance, and in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined second restricted distance, issues a first instruction for restricting a motion speed of the arm
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru KOKUBO, Takeshi MAEDA, Tatsumi SAKAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11149808
    Abstract: An excitation operation brake includes a braking shaft, an armature that rotates integrally with the braking shaft, and a field core including a disc portion facing the armature. The disc portion includes an outer magnetic shielding portion and an inner magnetic shielding portion, which make a magnetic flux flowing through the disc portion bypass to the armature a plurality of times. The outer magnetic shielding portion includes a low-magnetic resistance path having a magnetic resistance smaller than the magnetic resistance of a magnetic path that bypasses to the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: OGURA CLUTCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kidena, Keita Nakashima, Takeshi Maeda, Motoi Kato, Yoshihiro Kurosu, Hiroyasu Onai, Kosuke Murakami
  • Patent number: 11151804
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device for rotating an object relative to a viewpoint position of a user in further accordance with the user's desire, the information processing device including: a rotation center determination unit that determines a center of rotation based on a position of an object in a three-dimensional space and an instruction direction of a user in the three-dimensional space; and a rotation control unit that rotates the object relative to a viewpoint position of the user on the basis of the center of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Yasuda, Takuro Noda, Seiji Wada, Takeshi Maeda, Kana Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11058509
    Abstract: A medical safety control apparatus that includes processing circuitry that obtains a surgical instrument-biological tissue distance, determine whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined first restricted distance, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, issues an instruction for stopping a motion of an arm of a support arm apparatus that supports the surgical instrument, in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than the predetermined first restricted distance, determines whether the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is greater than a predetermined second restricted distance, and in response to determining that the surgical instrument-biological tissue distance is not greater than the predetermined second restricted distance, issues a first instruction for restricting a motion speed of the arm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Kokubo, Takeshi Maeda, Tatsumi Sakaguchi