Patents by Inventor Yasufumi Takama

Yasufumi Takama 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: 8687863
    Abstract: One aspect of embodiments of the present invention relates to an image processing apparatus which specifies one of boundary positions of retina layers in a fundus image showing a retina tomosynthesis, sets a distance transfer function for converting the distance from the specified boundary position to a parameter expressing opacity such that the peak position of the opacity is set to a predetermined position in the retina, sets a luminance transfer function for converting a luminance value of the fundus image to the parameter expressing opacity, and generates a translucent display image by calculating the opacity of respective positions of the tomosynthesis using the distance transfer function and the luminance transfer function, and by volume rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasufumi Takama
  • Patent number: 8638992
    Abstract: A medical system comprising a selection unit configured to select at least one of layers in a three-dimensional tomographic image of a retina, and a generation unit configured to generate an opacity function indicating an opacity of each of a plurality of voxels constituting the selected layer, based on a frequency distribution of luminance values of the plurality of voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasufumi Takama
  • Publication number: 20120076381
    Abstract: A medical system comprising a selection unit configured to select at least one of layers in a three-dimensional tomographic image of a retina, and a generation unit configured to generate an opacity function indicating an opacity of each of a plurality of voxels constituting the selected layer, based on a frequency distribution of luminance values of the plurality of voxels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasufumi Takama
  • Publication number: 20120050308
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a structure of a tested eye from an OCT image obtained by optical coherence tomography, an extraction unit configured to extract a structure of the tested eye from an eyeground image obtained by a scanning laser ophthalmoscope or a fundus camera, a calculation unit configured to calculate a reliability degree of the extraction for each of the extracted structures, and a display control unit configured to display the extracted structures superimposed on a image of eyeground according to the calculated reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Nakano, Yasufumi Takama, Kenji Morita
  • Publication number: 20120050282
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an analysis unit configured to obtain information regarding an order of display of a plurality of layers from a cross-sectional image, and a display control unit configured to perform control such that methods for displaying the plurality of layers are sequentially changed and the plurality of layers are displayed on a display unit on the basis of the information regarding the order of display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukio Sakagawa, Yasufumi Takama
  • Publication number: 20120051611
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ophthalmic-image processing apparatus including a layer-specifying unit configured to specify at least one layer from an image generated based on volume data of a subject's eye, and a display-control unit configured to display a projected image on a display unit, where the projected image is achieved by projecting volume data of the specified layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasufumi Takama
  • Publication number: 20110243415
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a storage unit configured to store tomographic images in relation to fundus of an examined eye; a detection unit configured to detect a boundary of retinal pigment epithelium and an inner limiting membrane from each of the images and to detect a part where the boundary is discontinuous; a determination unit configured to determine a surface of a sclera model for each of the images by use of the boundary and the inner limiting membrane; a generation unit configured to generate a sclera model including an optic papilla periphery by use of the surface of the sclera model and the part where the boundary is discontinuous; a combining unit configured to combine each of the images and the sclera model to generate a combined image; and a display unit configured to display the combined image generated by the combining unit, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Yonezawa, Yasufumi Takama
  • Publication number: 20110243408
    Abstract: One aspect of embodiments of the present invention relates to an image processing apparatus which specifies one of boundary positions of retina layers in a fundus image showing a retina tomosynthesis, sets a distance transfer function for converting the distance from the specified boundary position to a parameter expressing opacity such that the peak position of the opacity is set to a predetermined position in the retina, sets a luminance transfer function for converting a luminance value of the fundus image to the parameter expressing opacity, and generates a translucent display image by calculating the opacity of respective positions of the tomosynthesis using the distance transfer function and the luminance transfer function, and by volume rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasufumi Takama
  • Publication number: 20110200242
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic image display apparatus for displaying information about an eye includes an input unit configured to input a tomographic image of the eye, an acquisition unit configured to acquire diagnostic supporting information associated with positional information about the tomographic image of the eye, a processing unit configured to perform processing for assigning a voxel value to volume data constituting the tomographic image based on a reflection intensity value indicating the tomographic image and the diagnostic supporting information, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image processed by the processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasufumi Takama, Yoshihiko Iwase