Patents by Inventor Tetsushi Hirano

Tetsushi Hirano 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: 11388387
    Abstract: An imaging system includes first and second light source devices configured to irradiate a subject with lights having different wavelength bands, first and second imaging devices configured to image the subject, and first and second video processing devices configured to process an imaged video of the subject imaged by either of the corresponding imaging devices and to output the processed video to an output unit. The first and second light source devices alternately perform lighting in synchronization with a frame period of the imaged video or an integer multiple thereof based on a genlock signal. The first imaging device performs imaging in synchronization with the lighting of each of the first and second light source devices. The second imaging device performs imaging in synchronization with the lighting of each of the first and second light source devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC l-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Hirano, Yuji Kiniwa, Haruo Kogane
  • Publication number: 20220109814
    Abstract: A projection system includes an imaging unit, a projection unit, and a controller. The imaging unit captures an image of a subject to generate a first captured image. The projection unit projects a projection image corresponding to the first captured image onto the subject. The controller generates the projection image, causes the projection unit to project the projection image, and adjusts a positional relationship that brings a position in the first captured image and a position in the projection image into correspondence with each other. The controller causes the projection unit to project a marker image including a marker indicating a reference in the positional relationship, acquires a second captured image generated by the imaging unit capturing an image of the projected marker image, and adjusts the positional relationship, based on the marker in the marker image and the marker in the second captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki SAITO, Yuji KINIWA, Tetsushi HIRANO, Yuuhi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200405152
    Abstract: This camera apparatus is provided with: a camera head that is able to perform imaging based on visible light having entered a medical optical device from a target portion of a subject to whom a florescence agent has been administered in advance and imaging based on fluorescence having entered the medical optical device from the target portion; and an image processing unit that, after amplifying the intensity of a fluorescence image inputted from the camera head and increasing the contrast between a black part and a white part in the fluorescence image, executes nonlinear conversion processing for the amplified fluorescence image, superimposes the fluorescence image having undergone the nonlinear conversion processing onto a visible image obtained by the imaging based on visible light, and generates a superimposed image for being outputted to an output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi HIRANO, Kenji TABEI, Tomoyuki SAITO, Yuji KINIWA
  • Publication number: 20200252601
    Abstract: An imaging system includes first and second light source devices configured to irradiate a subject with lights having different wavelength bands, first and second imaging devices configured to image the subject, and first and second video processing devices configured to process an imaged video of the subject imaged by either of the corresponding imaging devices and to output the processed video to an output unit. The first and second light source devices alternately perform lighting in synchronization with a frame period of the imaged video or an integer multiple thereof based on a genlock signal. The first imaging device performs imaging in synchronization with the lighting of each of the first and second light source devices. The second imaging device performs imaging in synchronization with the lighting of each of the first and second light source devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi HIRANO, Yuji KINIWA, Haruo KOGANE
  • Patent number: 10659756
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus which is connected to a camera head capable of imaging a left eye image and a right eye image having parallax on one screen based on light at a target site incident on an optical instrument, the apparatus including: an image processor that performs the signal processing of the left eye image and the right eye image which are imaged by the camera head; and an output controller that outputs the left eye image and the right eye image on which the signal processing is performed to a monitor, in which the image processor adjusts an extraction position of at least one of the left eye image and the right eye image in accordance with a user operation based on the left eye image and the right eye image which are displayed on the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Serizawa, Yuji Kiniwa, Akira Yamaguchi, Haruo Kogane, Tetsushi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20190037201
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus which is connected to a camera head capable of imaging a left eye image and a right eye image having parallax on one screen based on light at a target site incident on an optical instrument, the apparatus including: an image processor that performs the signal processing of the left eye image and the right eye image which are imaged by the camera head; and an output controller that outputs the left eye image and the right eye image on which the signal processing is performed to a monitor, in which the image processor adjusts an extraction position of at least one of the left eye image and the right eye image in accordance with a user operation based on the left eye image and the right eye image which are displayed on the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki SERIZAWA, Yuji KINIWA, Akira YAMAGUCHI, Haruo KOGANE, Tetsushi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20030048479
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus disclosed performs as follows:
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventor: Tetsushi Hirano