Patents by Inventor Toshio Oka

Toshio Oka 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: 11903765
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and an ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with an operation mode of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshio Oka, Takashi Sakai
  • Publication number: 20230363737
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe that transmits an ultrasound wave and receives a reflected wave; a display that displays an ultrasound image on a screen; and a hardware processor that activates a screen saver processing of displaying an image hiding information displayed on the screen or a freeze processing of stopping transmission and reception of the ultrasound wave when conditions (A1) or (A2) is continuously satisfied for a predetermined time or more while the ultrasound image is displayed, wherein the conditions (A1) and (A2) are: (A1) a state in which, in an input captured image, a change amount of the probe and surroundings is a first threshold or less; and (A2) a state in which a volume of input voice is a second threshold or less, or a state in which a volume of a specific frequency of input sound is a third threshold or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi SAKAI, Toshio Oka
  • Patent number: 11744556
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and the ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator, and reproducibly saves the display image in a storage; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with a usage when reading the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshio Oka, Takashi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11653901
    Abstract: There is provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: a first hardware processor that generates ultrasound image data based on a reception signal obtained through an ultrasound probe; a display; a second hardware processor that causes the display to display the generated ultrasound image data; and a console that has a plurality of physical operation devices that receive an operation input. The second hardware processor registers display position information, which is information regarding a display position within a display screen of a guide including an operation display component corresponding to each operation device of the console and information indicating a function set for the operation device, in a storage and displays the guide on the display based on the display position information stored in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Kimoto, Toshio Oka
  • Publication number: 20210386405
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and the ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator, and reproducibly saves the display image in a storage; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with a usage when reading the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: TOSHIO OKA, TAKASHI SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210386402
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and an ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with an operation mode of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: TOSHIO OKA, TAKASHI SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200261062
    Abstract: There is provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: a first hardware processor that generates ultrasound image data based on a reception signal obtained through an ultrasound probe; a display; a second hardware processor that causes the display to display the generated ultrasound image data; and a console that has a plurality of physical operation devices that receive an operation input. The second hardware processor registers display position information, which is information regarding a display position within a display screen of a guide including an operation display component corresponding to each operation device of the console and information indicating a function set for the operation device, in a storage and displays the guide on the display based on the display position information stored in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi KIMOTO, Toshio OKA
  • Patent number: 10747855
    Abstract: A watermarked content generating device including processing circuitry which performs active element conversion that converts a specified active modification target element from among elements included in an original content, based on a modification control code that is generated based on embedded information, when generating a structured content including at least a structured document, and performs passive element conversion that converts a specified passive modification target element from among elements included in the original content such that a change in a perceptual aspect of the original content corresponding to an active modification result element which results from the active element conversion is returned to having a same or equivalent perceptual aspect as that of the original content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka Minamikawa, Toshio Oka, Ryoji Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20190388063
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound image generation section that generates an ultrasound image from the reception signal obtained by an ultrasound probe; a panorama image generation section that stitches together a plurality of ultrasound images to generate a panorama image, the ultrasound images being successively acquired while the ultrasound probe is moved; a display processing section that causes a display section to display an object indicating information necessary for image diagnosis together with the ultrasound image or the panorama image; an acquisition section that acquires information on a moving speed of the ultrasound probe; and a display attribute setting section that changes a display attribute of a specific object which is at least one of objects in accordance with the information on the moving speed of the ultrasound probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Toshio OKA, Yusuke TANABE
  • Patent number: 9823837
    Abstract: This display control device can effectively reduce power consumption while assuring visibility of a display area. A display control device (400) carries out display control for a display panel with an integrated touch panel and has: a touch operation information acquisition unit (410) that acquires touch operation information from the touch panel; a user operation information estimation unit (420) that estimates a region of interest, which is a region that a user is giving attention to, from the display region on the display panel on the basis of the touch operation information that is acquired; and a display control indication unit (440) that sets the brightness level for regions of non-interest, which is a region other than the region of interest estimated within the display region, lower than the set brightness level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Toshio Oka
  • Publication number: 20170199993
    Abstract: A watermarked content generating device including processing circuitry which performs active element conversion that converts a specified active modification target element from among elements included in an original content, based on a modification control code that is generated based on embedded information, when generating a structured content including at least a structured document, and performs passive element conversion that converts a specified passive modification target element from among elements included in the original content such that a change in a perceptual aspect of the original content corresponding to an active modification result element which results from the active element conversion is returned to having a same or equivalent perceptual aspect as that of the original content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka MINAMIKAWA, Toshio OKA, Ryoji AKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9047846
    Abstract: Disclosed is a screen synthesizing device which can achieve greater power saving effects when synthesizing a plurality of display screens containing moving images, without affecting the display result. In the disclosed device, a synthesis destination allocation determination unit (105) determines to synthesize the display layer which is the object of determination among the plurality of display layers including a first display layer having the first frame as a synthesis destination candidate and a second display layer having the second frame as a synthesis destination candidate, in either the first frame or the second frame on the basis of layout information which shows the positional relationship between the display layer which is the object of determination and a determination reference region which corresponds to the display layer which is the object of determination, and on the basis of the synthesis processing costs of the first frame and the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Toshio Oka
  • Patent number: 9049492
    Abstract: A portable terminal wherein the amount of processing and power consumption when performing repair is reduced and video data can be reliably repaired, and video data repair method and program of the same. The portable terminal is provided with a video data repairer that repairs video data in which video is poor by replacing it with a portion of video data acquired from an external source, said video data repairer saving, without deleting at the time of repairing, all of partial video data necessary to decode subsequent video data continuing after the video data to be repaired, and performing control so that only the portion of the video data that is repaired is re-encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Toshio Oka, Ryo Yokoyama, Satoshi Senga
  • Publication number: 20140298276
    Abstract: This display control device can effectively reduce power consumption while assuring visibility of a display area. A display control device (400) carries out display control for a display panel with an integrated touch panel and has: a touch operation information acquisition unit (410) that acquires touch operation information from the touch panel; a user operation information estimation unit (420) that estimates a region of interest, which is a region that a user is giving attention to, from the display region on the display panel on the basis of the touch operation information that is acquired; and a display control indication unit (440) that sets the brightness level for regions of non-interest, which is a region other than the region of interest estimated within the display region, lower than the set brightness level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Toshio Oka
  • Patent number: 8749704
    Abstract: A video terminal and display image forming method are provided that enable power consumption to be reduced while maintaining a moving image display quality level sensed by a user, even if a variety of types of images are displayed superimposed on a moving image, and a method of representing such images is complicated. In a video output apparatus (100), an update rate adjustment section (104) decides a moving image update rate based on a “moving image exposure area.” Specifically, the update rate adjustment section (104) decides an update rate based on an update rate adjustment table in which moving image status pattern candidates are associated with update rate target values, and a moving image status pattern actually used in a display image forming section (103). A moving image status pattern candidate is a combination of “moving image exposure area,” presence or absence of special processing, and type of special processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Toshio Oka
  • Patent number: 8719880
    Abstract: Disclosed is a content management server that enables a playback restart from a suitable playback interruption position to be made possible even when editing processing has been executed on content copied to a content playback apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nakamura, Toshio Oka
  • Patent number: 8582543
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is quickly connectable to an access point of a destination service area without wasting power when the wireless communication device moves from a service area to a different one. When a state change detector of the wireless communication device detects that the received radio field intensity of the radio wave from the connected access point lowers to a threshold or less, a service area information acquirer acquires information on the service area where the wireless communication device is present and information on a neighboring service area. A profile information acquirer acquires profile information corresponding to the service area information. A priority order setter sets the order of priority to the acquired profile information in such a way that the access point of a neighboring service area neighboring to the service area formed by the connected access point is precedingly connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nakamura, Toshio Oka, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Satoshi Senga
  • Publication number: 20130100163
    Abstract: Disclosed is a screen synthesising device which can achieve greater power saving effects when synthesising a plurality of display screens containing moving images, without affecting the display result. In the disclosed device, a synthesis destination allocation determination unit (105) determines to synthesise the display layer which is the object of determination among the plurality of display layers including a first display layer having the first frame as a synthesis destination candidate and a second display layer having the second frame as a synthesis destination candidate, in either the first frame or the second frame on the basis of layout information which shows the positional relationship between the display layer which is the object of determination and a determination reference region which corresponds to the display layer which is the object of determination, and on the basis of the synthesis processing costs of the first frame and the second frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshio Oka
  • Patent number: 8379156
    Abstract: Disclosed are a digital broadcast reception device, a digital broadcast reception method and a program that shorten the period during which display is not possible that occurs when channels are switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nakamura, Toshio Oka
  • Publication number: 20120117603
    Abstract: Disclosed is a content management server that enables a playback restart from a suitable playback interruption position to be made possible even when editing processing has been executed on content copied to a content playback apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Nakamura, Toshio Oka