Patents by Inventor Takeyasu KOBAYASHI

Takeyasu KOBAYASHI 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: 20220370029
    Abstract: A console includes a CPU and a GPU. Of the CPU and GPU, the CPU acquires an image to be processed, which is an object to be subjected to a support process that is a diagnosis support process or an imaging support process, and distributes a process to any one of the CPU, the GPU, or another GPU to execute the support process according to the content of the support process executed for the image to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Koji TANINAI, Hiromu HAYASHI, Kazuhiro MAKINO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Akihito BETTOYASHIKI, Masaaki OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220375076
    Abstract: A console of a mobile radiography apparatus includes a CPU that acquires a fluoroscopic image captured by a radiation detector and a visible light image captured by a visible light camera as a moving image related to the capture of the fluoroscopic image of a subject by the mobile radiography apparatus. The CPU extracts a frame to be subjected to a support process, which is a diagnosis support process or an imaging support process, from the moving image. A GPU executes the support process for the extracted frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Hidenori MATSUDA, Koji TANINAI, Kazuhiro MAKINO, Hiromu HAYASHI, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Akihito BETTOYASHIKI
  • Publication number: 20220346743
    Abstract: A CT apparatus includes an annular frame that rotates around a subject positioned in a bore, three columns that hold the frame to be rotatable and movable up and down in a vertical, an elevation mechanism that moves up and down the frame, and a rotation mechanism that rotates the frame. A radiation source and a radiation detector are attached to the frame at positions facing each other. The frame has a width smaller than a width of the radiation source and the radiation detector in a height direction over a whole periphery. An imaging controller performs control for operating the elevation mechanism in response to a return instruction from an operator to move the frame to a retreat height position set at a position of a highest point in an elevation range of the frame on an upper end side of the columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi TAJIMA, Munetaka KATO, Masakazu FUKUYO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Hisatsugu HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220346729
    Abstract: A CT apparatus includes a radiation source that emits radiation, a radiation detector that detects the radiation, an annular frame to which the radiation source and the radiation detector are attached and in which a subject is positioned in a bore, and three columns that hold the frame to be movable up and down in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi TAJIMA, Masakazu FUKUYO, Sho SHIMIZUKAWA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Hisatsugu HORIUCHI, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20220330908
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile radiography apparatus capable of performing relatively stable wireless communication even in a case in which the mobile radiography apparatus is moved due to traveling of a carriage or an arm is rotated. A mobile radiography apparatus includes a radiation source, a radiation image detector that detects a radiation image of a subject by receiving radiation emitted from the radiation source and transmitted through the subject, an arm that holds the radiation source and the radiation image detector, a body part to which the arm is rotatably attached, a carriage on which the body part is mounted, and an antenna that emits a radio wave for wirelessly communicating with an external apparatus, the antenna being provided in a portion in which a radiation direction of the radio wave is not changed even in a case in which the arm is rotated and capable of changing the radiation direction of the radio wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Ryo IMAMURA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI
  • 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: 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: 11253208
    Abstract: A control device includes a control unit and a determination unit. The control unit controls an operation of radiation tubes such that radiation is emitted at irradiation positions whose number is smaller than the total number of irradiatable positions preset so as to correspond to irradiation angles. The determination unit determines whether or not the radiation needs to be additionally emitted at the irradiatable positions different from the irradiation positions in order to obtain the tomographic image with an image quality level required for diagnosis, on the basis of a determination image obtained by the emission of the radiation at the irradiation positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Makino, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11219417
    Abstract: Fifteen radiation tubes are arranged in a radiation source of the mammography apparatus. An irradiation field limiter has a plurality of first irradiation opening portions which are provided in an X direction and each of which is configured by a pair of a first opening and a second opening facing each other in an irradiation direction of radiation and defines an irradiation field of the radiation. The irradiation field limiter includes a first rotating member that is rotated to a first rotation position and a second rotation position about a rotating shaft parallel to the X direction. At the first rotation position and the second rotation position, the first irradiation opening portions which are arranged at an interval of one radiation tube face the radiation tubes in the irradiation direction. The first irradiation opening portions deviate from each other in the X direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Konno, Takeyasu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11154263
    Abstract: An acquisition unit of a console acquires a first radiographic image and a second radiographic image. The first radiographic image and the second radiographic image are radiographic images which are output from a radiation detector by directing a radiation source to emit first radiation and second radiation in order to perform a moving image capture mode that continuously acquires a radiographic image required for the display of a moving image according to a preset frame interval. A receiving unit receives a request signal to request the generation of an energy subtraction image referred to for diagnosis. A generation unit generates the energy subtraction image in a case in which the receiving unit receives the request signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeyasu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210298702
    Abstract: A CPU acquires a distance image which indicates a distance to an imaging target and is captured by a TOF camera using, as an imaging region, a region including at least a portion of a region in which an attachable and detachable member is attached to a mammography apparatus. Further, the CPU acquires reference distance information related to a reference value of a distance between the attachable and detachable member and the TOF camera in a state in which the attachable and detachable member is attached to the mammography apparatus. Furthermore, the CPU determines whether or not the attachable and detachable member is attached to the mammography apparatus on the basis of the distance image and the reference distance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210275120
    Abstract: A CPU of a console comprises a color image acquisition unit, a distance image acquisition unit, a specification unit, and an estimation unit. The color image acquisition unit acquires a color image, in which a patient and a periphery of the patient are captured, from a visible light camera. The distance image acquisition unit acquires a distance image indicating a distance between a radiation tube and an object, from a TOF camera. The specification unit specifies a kind of the object in the color image. The estimation unit estimates intensity of radiation in an environment captured in the color image based on reference information including the distance image and a specification image as a specification result of the kind of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Akihito BETTOYASHIKI, Ryo IMAMURA, Kazuhiro MAKINO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Naoyuki NISHINO
  • Patent number: 11087946
    Abstract: An X-ray tube includes: a cathode assembly that emits electrons; an anode that receives the electrons and generates X-rays; an envelope that is a case having the cathode assembly and the anode accommodated therein; a first shielding portion that shields the X-rays between the envelope and the cathode assembly on a reference line that connects a center of a point where the electrons are generated and a center of a point where the X-rays are generated; and a second shielding portion that shields the X-rays between the envelope and the cathode assembly in a direction perpendicular to the reference line from the center of the electron generation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Matsuura, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20210068770
    Abstract: Fifteen radiation tubes are arranged in a radiation source of the mammography apparatus. An irradiation field limiter has a plurality of first irradiation opening portions which are provided in an X direction and each of which is configured by a pair of a first opening and a second opening facing each other in an irradiation direction of radiation and defines an irradiation field of the radiation. The irradiation field limiter includes a first rotating member that is rotated to a first rotation position and a second rotation position about a rotating shaft parallel to the X direction. At the first rotation position and the second rotation position, the first irradiation opening portions which are arranged at an interval of one radiation tube face the radiation tubes in the irradiation direction. The first irradiation opening portions deviate from each other in the X direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro KONNO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210063585
    Abstract: An electronic cassette includes an image detection unit that detects a radiographic image of a subject, a housing that houses the image detection unit and has a front surface, a rear surface, and side surfaces, a first indicator that is provided on the front surface and outside an imaging region of the image detection unit, and emits light to indicate a center of the imaging region, and a second indicator that is provided on the front surface and outside the imaging region, and emits light to represent a possibility of detection of the radiographic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke NOGUCHI, Hirotoshi ONO, Naoyuki NISHINO, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10916401
    Abstract: An X-ray tube includes: an envelope that is a case; a cathode assembly that emits electrons in the envelope; and an anode including a first member of which at least a portion extends to the outside of the envelope, a second member that is provided in a direction perpendicular to a central axis of the first member, comes into contact with the first member, and has a higher X-ray shielding performance than the first member, and a target that receives the electrons emitted from the cathode assembly and generates X-rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Matsuura, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20210030379
    Abstract: A radiation source includes: a plurality of radiation tubes that generates radiations; an interval change mechanism that changes an interval between the radiation tubes; and irradiation direction change mechanisms that change irradiation directions in which the radiation tubes emit the radiations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi TAJIMA, Takeyasu KOBAYASHI, Masayoshi MATSUURA