Patents by Inventor Tomoki Iwasaki

Tomoki Iwasaki 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: 20170236280
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a movement of an organ that moves a subject and output a detection signal; an image pickup portion configured to pick up an image of the subject and output a plurality of picked-up images; and a freeze processing portion configured to calculate a movement evaluation value evaluated according to the detection signal of the detector for at least some of the plurality of picked-up images, and determine a still image from the plurality of picked-up images based on the evaluated movement evaluation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki IWASAKI, Ryuichi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170085831
    Abstract: An image playback apparatus includes: a moving image processing unit configured to generate playback-oriented moving image data from moving image data as a playback target, among moving image data recorded on a recording device; a display controller configured to play back, on a display device, the playback-oriented moving image data generated by the moving image processing unit; a release instruction input unit configured to receive input of a release signal during playback of the playback-oriented moving image data; a still image generation unit configured to generate, from the moving image data, still image data that correspond to a playback image being played back on the display device at a time of input of the release signal; and a recording controller configured to record, on the recording device, the still image data generated by the still image generation unit, in association with the moving image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susumu HASHIMOTO, Tatsuhiko SUZUKI, Tomoki IWASAKI, Yuji KUTSUMA, Toshihiro HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170084031
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes a first image signal including pixel signals, the first image signal having a picture portion in which a subject is shown and having a blank portion surrounding the picture portion. The apparatus includes: a blank detection unit configured to set similar frames different in size from one another within a display area of a screen representing the first image signal, in a stepwise manner from an outer periphery, and to detect the blank portion based on whether or not a part of the pixel signals belonging to a region outside each of the similar frames has the uniform color or brightness; a region-of-interest setting unit configured to set an initial region-of-interest corresponding to the picture portion in the first image signal, based on the blank portion; and a region-of-interest image generation unit configured to generate a region-of-interest image signal representing the initial region-of-interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki IWASAKI, Tatsuhiko SUZUKI, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Yuji KUTSUMA, Toshihiro HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170078586
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device configured to pick up an optical image formed by an objective optical system and generate an image; a cut-out range setting portion configured to set a cut-out area so that a center comes close to a field-of-view center as a zoom magnification set by an electronic zoom setting portion increases; and a zoom processing portion configured to cut out the set cut-out area from the image, perform enlargement or reduction corresponding to the zoom magnification and generate a zoomed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko SUZUKI, Tomoki IWASAKI, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Toshihiro HAMADA, Yuji KUTSUMA
  • Publication number: 20170055808
    Abstract: A display control device comprises an image acquiring unit which acquires observation image data, an image recording unit which records recorded image data, an image synthesizing unit which generates synthesized image data based on the observation image data and the recorded image data, a first selector, a second selector, and a selector interlock controller. The first selector outputs one of the observation image data and the synthesized image data to a first display device as first selected data. The second selector outputs one of the first selected data and the recorded image data to a second display device as second selected data. The selector interlock controller interlocks and controls the first selector 122 and the second selector 124.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro HAMADA, Tatsuhiko Suzuki, Tomoki IWASAKI, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Yuji KUTSUMA
  • Publication number: 20170041537
    Abstract: An endoscope system has an insertion portion, a forward observation window configured to acquire a forward-field-of-view image, a lateral observation window configured to acquire a lateral-field-of-view image, an image pickup device and a video processor. A positional displacement correcting portion of the video processor detects a positional relationship between a portion where the forward-field-of-view image is formed and a portion where the lateral-field-of-view image is formed, on the image pickup device, and generates displacement amount data. A boundary correcting portion generates an image signal in which the forward-field-of-view image and the lateral-field-of-view image are arranged with an image center point provided in the portion and an image center point provided in the portion caused to correspond to each other, based on the displacement amount data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki IWASAKI, Takeo SUZUKI, Kazuki HONDA
  • Publication number: 20170034437
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first input section configured to receive image data including images in a forward field of view and a lateral field of view; an enhancement processing section configured to enhance edges of images corresponding to the image data received; and a boundary correction section provided on a downstream side of the enhancement processing section and configured to perform a correction process non-commutative with an edge enhancement process, the correction process being performed on a boundary region between a forward field of view and a lateral field of view using the image data subjected to edge enhancement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KUTSUMA, Tatsuhiko SUZUKI, Tomoki IWASAKI, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Toshihiro HAMADA
  • Patent number: 9545193
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus has an illuminating unit that performs illumination with a first light once and performs illumination with a second light a plurality of times within a predetermined time period, an image pickup unit that outputs a first image pickup signal based on the illumination with the first light and a second image pickup signal based on the illumination with the second light, a clipping processing unit that clips the first and the second image pickup signals, a brightness calculating unit that calculates a first brightness, a composite ratio calculating unit that calculates a composite ratio according to a brightness target value and the first brightness, a composite processing unit that combines the first and the second image pickup signals according to the composite ratio, and a setting unit that sets a clip level according to the composite ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Kaneko, Tomoki Iwasaki, Susumu Hashimoto, Yuji Kutsuma, Susumu Kawata, Soichiro Koshika, Tadao Eto, Takahiro Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20170007095
    Abstract: A control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a first endoscope connected to the control device, identification information that contains switch information indicating the number of switches of the first endoscope and contains function information indicating a function that is executable or not executable by the first endoscope; a recording unit that records setting information that assigns predetermined functions to be executed corresponding to signals respectively input from switches of a second endoscope; a setting unit that generates function setting information that assigns and sets functions to be executed corresponding to signals respectively input from the switches of the first endoscope, based on the identification information and the setting information; and an executing unit that, when one of the signals is input from a switch, executes one of the functions assigned to the switch which inputs the one of the signals according to the function setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KUTSUMA, Tatsuhiko SUZUKI, Tomoki IWASAKI, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Toshihiro HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160353981
    Abstract: A video processor for an endoscope includes an image memory, an image processing unit, a display control unit and a recording unit. The image memory stores, as a sample image, an endoscope image which a user previously acquired. The image processing unit performs the image processing for changing an image quality of the sample image in accordance with a selection value selected by a user and produces a processed image. The display control unit causes a display unit to display the processed image. The recording unit records, as a setting value, a value relating to the selection value determined by the user. The image processing unit performs the image processing, based on the setting value, for the endoscope image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko SUZUKI, Tomoki IWASAKI, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Toshihiro HAMADA, Yuji KUTSUMA
  • Publication number: 20160269611
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an endoscope configured to have an image pickup section in which a plurality of pixels are provided, and a storage section configured to store scope individual information, a binning processing section configured to split an image into a plurality of regions so that one region includes a plurality of pixel signals, and add up the pixel signals for each region to obtain a binning pixel signal, a binning brightness detection section configured to detect brightness of the region, a blend processing section configured to set a weight in the region on the basis of the brightness, and weight and composite the pixel signals and the binning pixel signal to generate a composite image, and a control section configured to control the binning processing section in accordance with the scope individual information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KUTSUMA, Kazuma KANEKO, Tomoki IWASAKI, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Soichiro KOSHIKA
  • Publication number: 20160156822
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a light source apparatus emitting a first or a second illumination light to an object, an image pickup device acquiring an image of the object, and a CPU switching between a first mode where the image is picked up with the first illumination light and a second mode where the image is picked up with the second illumination light, being able to set at least one of a processing parameter for processing an image and a brightness control parameter before switching the illumination light to the illumination light corresponding to the mode or after switching to the corresponding illumination light is completed, and controlling whether the processing parameter is set before switching of the illumination light is started or after switching is completed according to the mode switching from the first to the second mode or from the second to the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki IWASAKI, Kazuma KANEKO, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Yuji KUTSUMA, Soichiro KOSHIKA
  • Publication number: 20150320301
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus has an illuminating unit that performs illumination with a first light once and performs illumination with a second light a plurality of times within a predetermined time period, an image pickup unit that outputs a first image pickup signal based on the illumination with the first light and a second image pickup signal based on the illumination with the second light, a clipping processing unit that clips the first and the second image pickup signals, a brightness calculating unit that calculates a first brightness, a composite ratio calculating unit that calculates a composite ratio according to a brightness target value and the first brightness, a composite processing unit that combines the first and the second image pickup signals according to the composite ratio, and a setting unit that sets a clip level according to the composite ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma KANEKO, Tomoki IWASAKI, Susumu HASHIMOTO, Yuji KUTSUMA, Susumu KAWATA, Soichiro KOSHIKA, Tadao ETO, Takahiro TANABE
  • Patent number: 8581972
    Abstract: According to the invention, a processor CPU includes a scope information extracting section, a light source information extracting section, a main white balance searching section, a sub-white-balance extracting section, a main white balance update section, a sub-white-balance update section, and an image processing control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Tomoki Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 8537209
    Abstract: An endoscope device in which endoscope images and patient information can be recorded in a removable storage medium and in which the endoscope images and patient information recorded in the storage medium can be reproduced. The endoscope device has a selection means for reproducing the endoscope images in a list form and selecting at least one endoscope image from the reproduced list; a display means for inputting additional information other than the patient information, adding the additional information to the endoscope image selected by the selection means, and displaying the result; and a recording/reproduction means for recording the selected endoscope image and the additional information in the storage medium or reproducing the image and the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Iwasaki, Tsutomu Hirai, Susumu Hashimoto, Katsuyuki Saito, Takehiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8531510
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus having a plurality of observation modes includes: an objective optical system including a moving lens; a CCD that picks up an image of an object via the objective optical system; a contour enhancement section that performs contour enhancement of the image outputted from the CCD and outputs contour component signals; a signal value comparison section that compares a maximum value of the contour component signals and a predetermined threshold value according to the observation mode; a focusing evaluation section that determines a focusing state by determining a signal distribution of the contour component signals; and an actuator drive section that controls movement of the moving lens based on the focusing state determined by the focusing evaluation section and a result of the comparison by the signal value comparison section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Tomoki Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20130038708
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus having a plurality of observation modes includes: an objective optical system including a moving lens; a CCD that picks up an image of an object via the objective optical system; a contour enhancement section that performs contour enhancement of the image outputted from the CCD and outputs contour component signals; a signal value comparison section that compares a maximum value of the contour component signals and a predetermined threshold value according to the observation mode; a focusing evaluation section that determines a focusing state by determining a signal distribution of the contour component signals; and an actuator drive section that controls movement of the moving lens based on the focusing state determined by the focusing evaluation section and a result of the comparison by the signal value comparison section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventor: Tomoki IWASAKI
  • Patent number: 8284244
    Abstract: A user system includes a log read-out section for reading out setting state log data, a log data sending section for sending the setting state log data, and a restoration operation activating section for receiving a restore command and performs a restoration operation. A remote operation system includes a log data receiving section for receiving the setting state log data, a log data analyzing section for analyzing the setting state log data, a communication requesting section for requesting sending of the setting state log data, and a restore command sending section for sending a restore command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoki Iwasaki, Susumu Kawata
  • Publication number: 20120201433
    Abstract: An image composition system includes: an image related information acquiring portion that acquires image related information between a first image and a second image; an image display form designating portion that designates a display form of the first image preferentially to the second image; a second image display form determining portion that determines a display form of the second image so as to display the second image in a predetermined area of the first image; a second image processing portion that processes the second image; and an image compositing portion that outputs a composite image obtained by compositing the second image processed by the second image processing portion on the predetermined area of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Tomoki IWASAKI, Yuji KUTSUMA
  • Patent number: 8189041
    Abstract: An endoscope signal processing apparatus has a first video signal generating circuit and a second video signal generating circuit which respectively generate a first video signal and a second video signal offering different resolutions depending on a first image capturing device and a second image capturing device respectively which are mounted in an endoscope removably connected to an endoscope connecting portion. The first and second video signals can be selectively output to an exterior through a common video signal output connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Konishi, Kentaro Hase, Tsutomu Hirai, Shoichi Amano, Tomoki Iwasaki, Katsuyuki Saito, Makoto Tsunakawa, Takehiro Nakagawa