Patents by Inventor Tomoki Inoue
Tomoki Inoue 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).
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Patent number: 12115021Abstract: An ultrasound system (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2), a mobile information terminal (3), and an external apparatus (4). The ultrasound probe (2) includes a transmission and reception circuit (22) that transmits an ultrasonic wave from a transducer array (21) and generates a sound ray signal, and a reception data generation unit that generates reception data before imaging based on the sound ray signal. The mobile information terminal (3) includes a camera unit (33) that acquires a view image. The external apparatus (4) includes a display controller (44) that displays an ultrasound image generated based on the reception data and the view image on an external monitor (45), and an input device (47). In a case where a probe freeze instruction is input from the input device (47), the transmission of the ultrasonic wave from the transducer array (21) is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masato Hattori, Keiji Tsubota, Tomoki Inoue
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Publication number: 20240293106Abstract: Systems and methods for automated ultrasound credentialing are described. In some embodiments, a credentialing system for issuing a sonographer credential to a sonography candidate includes an ultrasound probe coupled to a computing device and configured to generate ultrasound data. The computing device is configured to generate, based on the ultrasound data and as part of an automated review, an ultrasound examination score. The computing device is configured to transfer, based on the ultrasound examination score, the sonography candidate from the automated review to a manual review by a reviewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Davin Dhatt, Paul Danset, Thomas Duffy, Hidetoshi Takayama, Tomoki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 12059304Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes a urinary bladder extraction unit (9), a feature quantity calculation unit (10), a candidate frame extraction unit (11), and a urine volume measurement unit (13). The urinary bladder extraction unit (9) extracts a urinary bladder region from ultrasound images of a plurality of frames. The feature quantity calculation unit (10) calculates a feature quantity related to the bladder region. The candidate frame extraction unit (11) extracts, from the ultrasound images of the plurality of frames, an ultrasound image of a frame for which the feature quantity becomes a local maximum, as an ultrasound image of at least one candidate frame that serves as a candidate subjected to measurement. The urine volume measurement unit (13) analyzes an ultrasound image of a measurement frame selected from the ultrasound image of the at least one candidate frame to measure a urine volume.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsurou Ebata, Tomoki Inoue
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Publication number: 20240252204Abstract: A puncture needle includes a shaft part, a needle tip part disposed at a tip of the shaft part, and a plurality of processed parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft part along a length direction of the shaft part and form a geometric progression with a geometric ratio of 2 in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle tip part, in which a distance between a reference point which is located on a needle tip part side from a first processed part closest to the needle tip part among the plurality of processed parts and is located at a predetermined distance from the needle tip part and the first processed part is equal to an arrangement interval between the first processed part and a second processed part which is second closest to the needle tip part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Tomoki INOUE
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Publication number: 20240225690Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately puncture a blood vessel of a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Tomoki INOUE
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Publication number: 20240225603Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a posture sensor detects whether an orientation of a monitor is a vertically long posture or a laterally long posture, and a display control unit displays an ultrasound image on a display screen on the basis of the orientation of the monitor. A hidden region detection unit detects whether or not a hidden region that is not displayed on the display screen is present in the ultrasound image, and a blood vessel detection unit detects a blood vessel in the ultrasound image. Then, in a case where it is detected that the hidden region is present and it is detected that the blood vessel is present in the hidden region, an orientation suggestion unit suggests to change the orientation of the monitor. Accordingly, in a case where blood vessel puncture is performed, an appropriate orientation of the monitor for observing the blood vessel in the ultrasound image is suggested to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Tomoki INOUE
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Patent number: 12016732Abstract: A puncture needle includes a shaft-part, a needle-tip-part disposed at a tip of the shaft-part, and processed-parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft-part along a length direction of the shaft-part and form an arithmetic progression in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle-tip-part, wherein among the processed-parts, an arrangement interval between a first-processed-part which is separated from the needle-tip-part by a predetermined distance and is closest to the needle-tip-part and a second-processed-part which is second closest to the needle-tip-part is equal to or less than a tolerance of the arithmetic progression, or a distance from the needle-tip-part to the first-processed-part which is closest to the needle-tip-part is equal to or less than the tolerance of the arithmetic progression and equal to a difference between the arrangement interval between the first-processed-part and the second-processed-part which is second closest to the needle-tip-partType: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Tomoki Inoue
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Patent number: 12016731Abstract: Systems and methods for automated ultrasound credentialing are described. In some embodiments, a credentialing system for issuing a sonographer credential to a sonography candidate includes an ultrasound probe coupled to a computing device and configured to generate ultrasound data. The computing device is configured to generate, based on the ultrasound data and as part of an automated review, an ultrasound examination score. The computing device is configured to transfer, based on the ultrasound examination score, the sonography candidate from the automated review to a manual review by a reviewer.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM SONOSITE, INC.Inventors: Davin Dhatt, Paul Danset, Thomas Duffy, Hidetoshi Takayama, Tomoki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20240188936Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a panoramic image generation unit generates a panoramic image from ultrasound image data or ultrasound images of a plurality of frames included in the same tomographic plane formed by moving an ultrasound probe. A hidden region detection unit detects whether or not a hidden region that is not displayed on a display screen is present in the panoramic image, a blood vessel detection unit detects a blood vessel in the panoramic image, and a notification unit notifies of a message in a case where it is detected that the hidden region is present and it is detected that the blood vessel is present in the hidden region. Accordingly, the user can easily understand a state of the blood vessel in the hidden region of the panoramic image in a case of performing the blood vessel puncture while observing the panoramic image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2024Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Tomoki INOUE
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Patent number: 11980391Abstract: A puncture needle includes a shaft part, a needle tip part disposed at a tip of the shaft part, and a plurality of processed parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft part along a length direction of the shaft part and form a geometric progression with a geometric ratio of 2 in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle tip part, in which a distance between a reference point which is located on a needle tip part side from a first processed part closest to the needle tip part among the plurality of processed parts and is located at a predetermined distance from the needle tip part and the first processed part is equal to an arrangement interval between the first processed part and a second processed part which is second closest to the needle tip part.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Tomoki Inoue
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Publication number: 20240130712Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a posture sensor detects whether an orientation of a monitor is a vertically long posture or a laterally long posture, and a display control unit displays an ultrasound image on a display screen on the basis of the orientation of the monitor. A hidden region detection unit detects whether or not a hidden region that is not displayed on the display screen is present in the ultrasound image, and a blood vessel detection unit detects a blood vessel in the ultrasound image. Then, in a case where it is detected that the hidden region is present and it is detected that the blood vessel is present in the hidden region, an orientation suggestion unit suggests to change the orientation of the monitor. Accordingly, in a case where blood vessel puncture is performed, an appropriate orientation of the monitor for observing the blood vessel in the ultrasound image is suggested to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Tomoki INOUE
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Publication number: 20240130760Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately puncture a blood vessel of a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Tomoki INOUE
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Publication number: 20240122579Abstract: Systems and methods for automated ultrasound credentialing are described. In some embodiments, a credentialing system for issuing a sonographer credential to a sonography candidate includes an ultrasound probe coupled to a computing device and configured to generate ultrasound data. The computing device is configured to generate, based on the ultrasound data and as part of an automated review, an ultrasound examination score. The computing device is configured to transfer, based on the ultrasound examination score, the sonography candidate from the automated review to a manual review by a reviewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Davin Dhatt, Paul Danset, Thomas Duffy, Hidetoshi Takayama, Tomoki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20240122571Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to smoothly and appropriately perform an examination. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that acquires an ultrasound image of a blood vessel using the ultrasound probe; a blood vessel detection unit that detects the blood vessel from the ultrasound image; an examination site discrimination unit that discriminates an examination site; an examination mode setting unit that sets an examination mode corresponding to the discriminated examination site; a compression detection unit that detects a compression motion on a body surface of a subject by the ultrasound probe; a compression motion determination unit that determines whether or not the detected compression motion is proper for the set examination mode; and a notification unit that notifies a user of a determination result by the compression motion determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Tomoki INOUE
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Publication number: 20240112344Abstract: The ultrasonography apparatus includes at least one processor, in which the processor acquires, from a detector that detects a posture of a palm of a subject in capturing an ultrasound image, information representing a posture of the palm at a first time point as a first detection result, acquires information representing a posture of the palm at a second time point, which is after the first time point and is a time point during capturing of the ultrasound image, as a second detection result, derives a difference between the posture of the palm at the first time point and the posture of the palm at the second time point based on the first detection result and the second detection result, and performs notification in a case in which the derived difference is equal to or greater than a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Riki IGARASHI, Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO, Tomoki INOUE
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Patent number: 11925436Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: an insertion object having a photoacoustic wave generator; an insertion object image signal generator that generates an insertion object image signal from a reception signal of an acoustic wave from the photoacoustic wave generator; a first signal width detector that detects a first signal width of a portion of a predetermined signal strength in the insertion object image signal; and an insertion object display image signal generator that generates, in a case where the first signal width is larger than a second signal width, an insertion object display image signal of a width having a center at a peak position of the insertion object image signal and corresponding to the second signal width, and generates, in a case where the first signal width is smaller than the second signal width, an insertion object display image signal having a width smaller than the second signal width.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Katsuya Yamamoto, Tomoki Inoue, Keiji Tsubota
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Publication number: 20240050055Abstract: A radiography system includes a radiography apparatus, a distance measurement device, and a processor. The processor generates subject posture information indicating a posture of a subject based on distance measurement information generated by the distance measurement device, generates positional relationship estimation information indicating a position, a posture, and/or an orientation of the subject with respect to the radiography apparatus by using the subject posture information and apparatus posture information indicating a posture of the radiography apparatus, and performs notification control of giving notification about capturing of the radiation image and/or imaging apparatus control with respect to the radiography apparatus based on the positional relationship estimation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Riki IGARASHI, Tomoki INOUE
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Publication number: 20240054202Abstract: In order to improve the safety and reliability of services provided by a computer, this authentication device is equipped with a transmission unit and a determination unit. The transmission unit transmits a challenge to a terminal device where the challenge is presented to a user to be authenticated, said challenge being information serving as the basis on which the user inputs information to be used for authentication processing. At this time, the transmission unit transmits a plurality of different challenges to the terminal device. The determination unit determines not only whether or not a response input to the terminal device by the user in response to each challenge is correct, but also whether or not time information regarding the challenge and the response thereto satisfies a condition regarding the response.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoki Inoue
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Patent number: 11872077Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic system includes an ultrasound diagnostic device that creates test images of an intima-media thickness of a blood vessel, a workstation connected to the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a database that sequentially stores the test images created by the ultrasound diagnostic device. The workstation includes an input unit for allowing a user to input various kinds of information, a display unit, a workstation control unit that retrieves test images in past tests for the patient as past images from the test images stored in the database to make the display unit display the past images stored in the database as thumbnails, after a current image that is a test image of a current test are created for the patient by the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a test report creation unit that automatically creates a test report on the basis of the current image, and at least one past image selected by the user via the input unit from the past images displayed as the thumbnails on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yukiya Miyachi, Tomoki Inoue
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Publication number: 20230363740Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a blood vessel extraction unit extracts a short-axis image of a blood vessel from an ultrasound image, an emphasis display unit displays in an emphasized manner the short-axis image of the blood vessel in the ultrasound image displayed on a monitor, and a movement amount detection unit detects a movement amount of the ultrasound image between adjacent frames on the basis of the ultrasound image. In a case where the movement amount is equal to or greater than a first threshold value after the emphasis display of the short-axis image of the blood vessel by the emphasis display unit is started, the apparatus control unit stops the emphasis display of the short-axis image of the blood vessel by the emphasis display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tomoki INOUE, Katsuya YAMAMOTO