Patents by Inventor Tsukasa FUNANE
Tsukasa FUNANE 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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Publication number: 20240144369Abstract: An information processing device includes an input unit for inputting a human influence parameter influenced by a human activity and a natural environment parameter influenced by non-human ecosystem and non-ecosystem activities, a computing unit that calculates a natural capital stock prediction value from the human influence parameter and the natural environment parameter, using a function representing an integration of an amount of change per unit time in natural capital stock, which has elements of internal factors that may change over time and external factors including the human influence parameter and the natural environment parameter, and an output unit for outputting the natural capital stock prediction value calculated by the computing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Yosuke Tanabe, Ryuji Mine, Takeshi Kato, Koichi Watanabe, Tsukasa Funane
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Patent number: 11896205Abstract: A digestive organ internal contents sampling capsule for sampling internal contents in a digestive organ includes: a cylindrical container insoluble in a digestive tract for housing the internal contents in the digestive organ; an outer lid enclosing an orifice of the cylindrical container and to dissolve at least partially in the digestive organ; an inner lid arranged in the cylindrical container, and to swell in response to contact with the internal contents in the digestive organ to enclose the orifice of the cylindrical container after the orifice is exposed by dissolving of at least a part of the outer lid; and a marker material to be discharged together with the cylindrical container housing the internal contents in the digestive organ and feces.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ayako Nishimura, Akihiko Kandori, Tsukasa Funane, Akiko Obata, Hirokazu Atsumori, Masashi Kiguchi
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Patent number: 11872028Abstract: To perform respiratory monitoring and cardiac-output measurement on general patients, an aspect of a biological measurement apparatus includes: at least two electrodes that are attached to a living body; a power supply that causes an AC current to flow between the two electrodes; at least two coils that are placed so as to sandwich a line linking the two electrodes, and detect a magnetic field related to a change in the AC current accompanying a change in impedance of the living body; and a detection circuit that performs addition or subtraction of signals related to the magnetic field detected with the two coils, and outputs the signals as a change in the impedance.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: HITACHI, LTDInventors: Akihiko Kandori, Ryuzo Kawabata, Kuniomi Ogata, Takako Mizoguchi, Tsukasa Funane
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Publication number: 20230412124Abstract: Provided is a power receiving system having an increased energy conversion efficiency. The power receiving system according to the present disclosure includes a power converter that receives electromagnetic waves transmitted from space and converts the electromagnetic waves into electric power; a thermal energy converter that is disposed adjacent to the power converter and converts thermal energy generated in the power converter; and a controller that controls operation of the thermal energy converter based on an energy intensity distribution of the electromagnetic waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Tsukasa FUNANE, Koichi WATANABE, Yosuke TANABE, Jun HAYAKAWA
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Publication number: 20230306604Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit acquiring a medical image, a region setting unit setting a peripheral region around an inner region set in the medical image as a region including a lesion, an intensity value ratio distribution calculation unit calculating a histogram comprising a distribution of intensity value ratios for the inner region and calculating a histogram being a distribution of intensity value ratios for the peripheral region, a ratio difference calculation unit that calculates a ratio difference comprising a difference between intensity value ratios in the inner region and peripheral regions for each of predetermined intensity values, an intensity value determination unit selecting a pixel to be highlighted in the medical image based on the ratio difference, and a display processing unit outputting the medical image whereby the pixel selected by the pixel selection unit is highlighted in the medical image to a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Stephanie SUTOKO, Tsukasa FUNANE, Ayako NISHIMURA, Akihiko KANDORI
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Patent number: 11744486Abstract: A biometric system includes: a camera that captures a subject; a pressure information collection unit that detects a pressure value of at least one sole of the subject; a skeleton direction vector calculation unit that calculates a skeleton direction vector of the subject captured by the camera; a floor reaction force vector calculation unit that calculates a floor reaction force vector on a basis of information on pressure from the pressure information collection unit; and an analysis result output unit that displays, in a superimposing manner, the skeleton direction vector calculated by the skeleton direction vector calculation unit and the floor reaction force vector calculated by the floor reaction force vector calculation unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: Hiroshima University, Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ayako Nishimura, Hirokazu Atsumori, Tsukasa Funane, Akihiko Kandori, Yasuaki Nakamura, Akiko Obata, Yuto Komatsu, Seiji Hama, Toshio Tsuji
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Patent number: 11593518Abstract: Provided is a medical image processing apparatus including: an image acquisition unit that obtains a medical image of a subject; and an image processing unit that generates a second medical image by applying predetermined image processing on the medical image. The image processing unit includes: a surface area extraction unit that extracts a surface area including information that can lead to individuality determination or identification of the subject, from the medical image; a body orientation determination unit that determines body orientation on the basis of the surface area; a surface area deformation unit that deforms the surface area of the medical image; and an object assignment unit that assigns an object indicating the body orientation to the medical image in which the surface area has been deformed and that generates the second medical image.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Tsukasa Funane, Masashi Kiguchi
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Patent number: 11331048Abstract: Provided is a technique for comprehensively understanding the relationship between brain regions. A brain connectivity analysis system herein includes a memory configured to have stored therein a connectivity analysis program for analyzing the connectivity; and a processor configured to read the connectivity analysis program from the memory and analyze the connectivity. The processor is configured to execute a process of acquiring from a storage unit measured data on a plurality of selected regions of a brain, a process of determining at least two of the plurality of regions as seed regions and calculating a plurality of connectivity features for the seed regions and other regions from the measured data on the plurality of regions, and a process of generating a connectivity feature graph showing a relationship between a transfer delay time and another connectivity feature of each region that are included in the plurality of connectivity features.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Stephanie Sutoko, Masashi Kiguchi, Atsushi Maki, Tsukasa Funane, Hiroki Sato
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Publication number: 20220087655Abstract: A digestive organ internal contents sampling capsule for sampling internal contents in a digestive organ includes: a cylindrical container insoluble in a digestive tract for housing the internal contents in the digestive organ; an outer lid enclosing an orifice of the cylindrical container and to dissolve at least partially in the digestive organ; an inner lid arranged in the cylindrical container, and to swell in response to contact with the internal contents in the digestive organ to enclose the orifice of the cylindrical container after the orifice is exposed by dissolving of at least a part of the outer lid; and a marker material to be discharged together with the cylindrical container housing the internal contents in the digestive organ and feces.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Ayako NISHIMURA, Akihiko KANDORI, Tsukasa FUNANE, Akiko OBATA, Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Masashi KIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11244552Abstract: A watching system, which calculates a fall probability of an imaged person to be fallen using a computer which includes a processor and a memory, includes a trunk extraction unit that receives time-series skeleton information of the imaged person, calculates an angle between a head and a waist of the imaged person based on the skeleton information, extracts the angle as a trunk of the imaged person, calculates the center of the trunk as a trunk center based on trunk information set in advance, extracts a trunk to be reference as a reference trunk from a time-series trunk calculated from the time-series skeleton information, and holds a center of the reference trunk, and a fall probability calculation unit that calculates a distance between a trunk center of the reference trunk and a trunk center of the trunk as a deviation amount, and calculates the fall probability from the deviation amount.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTDInventors: Yuto Komatsu, Hirokazu Atsumori, Tsukasa Funane, Akiko Obata, Akihiko Kandori
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Publication number: 20210290127Abstract: An information processing device and an information processing method of the information processing device to optimize information presented by an information presenter to an information recipient determine a knowledge level and an understanding level of the information recipient with respect to the information based on a biological activity of the information recipient acquired by a sensor, and determine a feature of the information presented by the information presenter to the information recipient, and convert a presentation format of the information into a presentation format according to the knowledge level and the understanding level of the information recipient based on the determined knowledge level and the determined understanding level of the information recipient with respect to the information and the determined feature of the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Akiko OBATA, Tsukasa FUNANE
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Patent number: 11033230Abstract: There is disclosed a probe holder module that configures a part of a probe holder for an optical measurement which holds a light emission probe and a light detection probe and can be mounted on an object to be measured and configures the probe holder for optical measurement by combining a plurality of probe holder modules, the probe holder module including a holding part for mechanically holding at least one of the light emission probe and the light detection probe, at least one of an electric circuit and electric wiring to be electrically connected to at least one of the light emission probe and the light detection probe, a terminal for connecting at least one of the light emission probe and the light detection probe and at least one of the electric circuit and the electric wiring, a mechanical connection part to be mechanically connecting other probe holder module, and an electrical connection part to be electrically connected to the other probe holder module.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsukasa Funane, Masashi Kiguchi, Hiroki Sato
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Publication number: 20210121100Abstract: A biometric system includes: a camera that captures a subject; a pressure information collection unit that detects a pressure value of at least one sole of the subject; a skeleton direction vector calculation unit that calculates a skeleton direction vector of the subject captured by the camera; a floor reaction force vector calculation unit that calculates a floor reaction force vector on a basis of information on pressure from the pressure information collection unit; and an analysis result output unit that displays, in a superimposing manner, the skeleton direction vector calculated by the skeleton direction vector calculation unit and the floor reaction force vector calculated by the floor reaction force vector calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Ayako NISHIMURA, Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Tsukasa FUNANE, Akihiko KANDORI, Yasuaki NAKAMURA, Akiko OBATA, Yuto KOMATSU, Seiji HAMA, Toshio TSUJI
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Publication number: 20210090460Abstract: An information processing system visualizes brain states to optimize rehabilitation programs for rapid feedback of their effects to a patient and healthcare staff, to thereby promote the efficiency of rehabilitation. An embodiment of the system includes: a storage section that stores test-result brain-state relationship information associating results of activities of multiple examinees subjected to predetermined tests with brain states of the examinees; an input section that accepts a first test result as the result of the activity of a first examinee subjected to the predetermined tests; a control section that estimates the brain state from the first test result on the basis of the test-result brain-state relationship information; and an output section that outputs the estimated brain state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Tsukasa FUNANE, Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Akihiko KANDORI, Akiko OBATA, Ayako NISHIMURA, Yuto KOMATSU, Takashi NUMATA, Seiji HAMA, Toshio TSUJI
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Publication number: 20210076978Abstract: To perform respiratory monitoring and cardiac-output measurement on general patients, an aspect of a biological measurement apparatus includes: at least two electrodes that are attached to a living body; a power supply that causes an AC current to flow between the two electrodes; at least two coils that are placed so as to sandwich a line linking the two electrodes, and detect a magnetic field related to a change in the AC current accompanying a change in impedance of the living body; and a detection circuit that performs addition or subtraction of signals related to the magnetic field detected with the two coils, and outputs the signals as a change in the impedance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Akihiko KANDORI, Ryuzo KAWABATA, Kuniomi OGATA, Takako MIZOGUCHI, Tsukasa FUNANE
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Publication number: 20210082270Abstract: A watching system, which calculates a fall probability of an imaged person to be fallen using a computer which includes a processor and a memory, includes a trunk extraction unit that receives time-series skeleton information of the imaged person, calculates an angle between a head and a waist of the imaged person based on the skeleton information, extracts the angle as a trunk of the imaged person, calculates the center of the trunk as a trunk center based on trunk information set in advance, extracts a trunk to be reference as a reference trunk from a time-series trunk calculated from the time-series skeleton information, and holds a center of the reference trunk, and a fall probability calculation unit that calculates a distance between a trunk center of the reference trunk and a trunk center of the trunk as a deviation amount, and calculates the fall probability from the deviation amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yuto KOMATSU, Hirokazu ATSUMORI, Tsukasa FUNANE, Akiko OBATA, Akihiko KANDORI
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Patent number: 10828503Abstract: The present invention provides an energy emission device comprising: one or a plurality of energy emitters for emitting at least one type of energy selected from the group consisting of an electromagnetic wave or an electromagnetic stimulation, an elastic wave, an oscillatory wave and heat to at least one position of a subject selected from the group consisting of the brain, the spinal cord, the cerebrospinal fluid or the flow passage thereof and the brain cell interstitial fluid or the flow passage thereof; an energy controller for controlling an amount of energy emitted from the energy emitters; and a sensor for obtaining information relating to wakefulness and/or a sleeping state of the subject, in which the energy controller controls the amount of energy emitted depending on the information relating to the wakefulness and/or the sleeping state.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Tsukasa Funane, Hiroki Sato
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Patent number: 10638975Abstract: A biological light measurement device has one or more light emission means arranged on a surface of a subject, one or more light detection means arranged on the surface of the subject, a holding unit for holding the light emission means and the light detection means, a mounting jig for mounting the holding unit on the subject, and means for changing an SD distance defined by a distance between the light emission means and the light detection means. The holding unit holds the light emission means and the light detection means so that two or more types of the SD distance are configured.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsukasa Funane, Masashi Kiguchi, Hiroki Sato
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Patent number: 10548518Abstract: In a biophotonic measurement device based on the principles of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), in order to realize appropriate conditions in any light-source/detector arrangement and various required specifications, a photoirradiation module 13 including a light source 101, a photodetection module 14 including a photodetector 102, and a central control/analysis unit 18 are provided. The central control/analysis unit 18 acquires correspondence relations between each of photodetection units and photoirradiation units by using a correspondence acquiring unit 19. The photoirradiation module 13 and the photodetection module 14 switch signal detection methods at each measurement point by utilizing an evaluation function value determined by detection output of the photodetector 102 so that the plurality of signal detection methods are mixable, and the high-precision and optimum biophotonic measurement device is realized.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsukasa Funane, Takusige Katura, Hirokazu Atsumori, Masashi Kiguchi
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Publication number: 20200034564Abstract: Provided is a medical image processing apparatus including: an image acquisition unit that obtains a medical image of a subject; and an image processing unit that generates a second medical image by applying predetermined image processing on the medical image. The image processing unit includes: a surface area extraction unit that extracts a surface area including information that can lead to individuality determination or identification of the subject, from the medical image; a body orientation determination unit that determines body orientation on the basis of the surface area; a surface area deformation unit that deforms the surface area of the medical image; and an object assignment unit that assigns an object indicating the body orientation to the medical image in which the surface area has been deformed and that generates the second medical image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Tsukasa FUNANE, Masashi KIGUCHI