Patents by Inventor Tomoro DAN

Tomoro DAN 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: 20240352397
    Abstract: A passage timing calculation device includes a processor and a memory encoded with instructions executed by the processor, wherein the instructions causing the processor to perform operations comprising calculating a time change in an area occupied by an extraction target region that is a region in which a striated pattern appears from a plurality of images of pluripotent stem cells captured at different times, detecting a change point of the time change in an area occupied by the extraction target region, and calculating a passage timing of the pluripotent stem cells on the basis of the change point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: NIKON CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tomoro DAN, Hiroaki KII, Takayuki UOZUMI, Yoshiko SATO, Shinsuke YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 12054701
    Abstract: A passage timing calculation device includes a processor and a memory encoded with instructions executed by the processor, wherein the instructions causing the processor to perform operations comprising calculating a time change in an area occupied by an extraction target region that is a region in which a striated pattern appears from a plurality of images of pluripotent stem cells captured at different times, detecting a change point of the time change in an area occupied by the extraction target region, and calculating a passage timing of the pluripotent stem cells on the basis of the change point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: NIKON CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tomoro Dan, Hiroaki Kii, Takayuki Uozumi, Yoshiko Sato, Shinsuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11953498
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a processor; and a memory encoded with instructions executed by the processor, including: imaging pluripotent stem cells with time in a culture process and acquiring a plurality of images, extracting a colony region of the cells from the image, extracting a high luminance region on the basis of a group of pixels with larger luminance values than a standard value from among pixels constituting the image, extracting an extraction target region with relatively high contrast in the colony region on the basis of the colony and high luminance regions, and outputting the extraction target region as an extraction result, wherein as a relationship among the colony, high luminance, and extraction target regions, the colony region is formed, the high luminance region is then formed therein, and the extraction target region is then formed in the high luminance region in the culture process of the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoro Dan, Hiroaki Kii, Takayuki Uozumi, Yasujiro Kiyota
  • Publication number: 20210301246
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a processor; and a memory encoded with instructions executed by the processor, including: imaging pluripotent stem cells with time in a culture process and acquiring a plurality of images, extracting a colony region of the cells from the image, extracting a high luminance region on the basis of a group of pixels with larger luminance values than a standard value from among pixels constituting the image, extracting an extraction target region with relatively high contrast in the colony region on the basis of the colony and high luminance regions, and outputting the extraction target region as an extraction result, wherein as a relationship among the colony, high luminance, and extraction target regions, the colony region is formed, the high luminance region is then formed therein, and the extraction target region is then formed in the high luminance region in the culture process of the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoro DAN, Hiroaki KII, Takayuki UOZUMI, Yasujiro KIYOTA
  • Publication number: 20210292703
    Abstract: A passage timing calculation device includes a processor and a memory encoded with instructions executed by the processor, wherein the instructions causing the processor to perform operations comprising calculating a time change in an area occupied by an extraction target region that is a region in which a striated pattern appears from a plurality of images of pluripotent stem cells captured at different times, detecting a change point of the time change in an area occupied by the extraction target region, and calculating a passage timing of the pluripotent stem cells on the basis of the change point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicants: NIKON CORPORATION, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tomoro DAN, Hiroaki KII, Takayuki UOZUMI, Yoshiko SATO, Shinsuke YOSHIDA