Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080292154 | Medical image processing method - A medical image processing method for image processing of a medical image picking up an image of a living mucous comprises a boundary information detecting step for detecting boundary information corresponding to a boundary portion of a living mucous from the medical image and a mucous feature detecting step for detecting presence of a living mucous with a different feature on the basis of the boundary information detected at the boundary information detecting step. | 11-27-2008 |
20080312501 | Capsule Medical System - A capsule medical system is provided that accurately detects the location at which biological information, such as an image captured in a living body, is acquired. A circular loop antenna | 12-18-2008 |
20090043164 | CAPSULE-TYPE MEDICAL DEVICE - The position of an antenna incorporated in a capsule-type endoscope | 02-12-2009 |
20090147308 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which is capable of generating XPS data having a data sequence suited to print settings for non-normal-order printing, from XPS data generated as a print spool file for normal-order printing. In the information processing apparatus, a layout filter receives an XPS document from a filter pipeline manager, and acquires print setting information indicative of print settings from the XPS document. Then, the layout filter determines a data sequence for printing based on the acquired print setting information. Then, the layout filter changes layout information described in the received XPS document according to the determined data sequence, and rearranges data files in the XPS document in a sequence determined based on the changed layout information, to thereby generate an XPS document. | 06-11-2009 |
20090149711 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope system includes an endoscope with a bending portion installed on a distal side of an insertion portion; a bending drive unit which drives and bends the bending portion electrically; a map information storage unit which stores map information digitized by associating an amount of bending and a corresponding three-dimensional position and direction of a distal end of the insertion portion with each other, with a position near a rear end of the bending portion being designated as a reference position; a position and direction detecting unit which detects the position and direction of the distal end of the insertion portion; and a bending control unit which controls the bending drive unit to orient the distal end of the insertion portion into a target direction using the map information. | 06-11-2009 |
20090208071 | Medical Image Processing Apparatus, Luminal Image Processing Apparatus, Luminal Image Processing Method, and Programs for the Same - There is provided a medical image processing apparatus including an image-extracting section extracting a frame image from in vivo motion picture data picked up by an in vivo image pickup device or a plurality of consecutively picked-up still image data, and an image analysis section analyzing the frame image extracted by the image-extracting section to output an image analysis result. The image analysis section includes a first biological-feature detection section detecting a first biological feature, a second biological-feature detection section detecting, based on a detection result obtained by the first biological feature detection section, a second biological feature in a frame image picked up temporally before or after the image used for detection by the first biological feature detection section; and a condition determination section making a determination for a biological condition based on a detection result obtained by the second biological feature detection section to output the determination. | 08-20-2009 |
20090292166 | MEDICAL DEVICE - A medical device for examination or treatment based on a reference point A | 11-26-2009 |
20100076263 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An endoscope system includes: an endoscope for picking up an image in a body cavity by an image pickup apparatus provided in a distal end of an insertion portion; a position detecting apparatus for detecting, based on luminal information acquired by the image pickup apparatus, position information used for inserting the distal end of the insertion portion; a recording apparatus for recording, in a time-sequential manner, the position information detected by the position detecting apparatus; a determining apparatus for determining whether or not the detecting operation of the position information performed by the position detecting apparatus satisfies a set condition; and a direction calculating apparatus for, when the determination result shows that the set condition is not satisfied, reading out the position information recorded in the recording apparatus and outputting information on a direction in which the distal end of the insertion portion is to be inserted. | 03-25-2010 |
20100183618 | ANTI-EPHA2 ANTIBODY - Problem to Be Solved | 07-22-2010 |
20100204545 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope system of the invention includes: an endoscope including an insertion portion, a distal end portion provided on a distal end side of the insertion portion, and a bending portion which is capable of changing a position and an orientation of the distal end portion; a position detecting section for acquiring position information on a position where the distal end portion is located; a passing target position setting section for setting a passing target position for the distal end portion; a path estimating section for estimating a path through which the distal end portion is to be passed; a bending control target position setting section for setting a bending control target position such that the distal end portion reaches the passing target position along the path; and a bending control information calculating section for calculating an amount of bending and a bending direction of the bending portion. | 08-12-2010 |
20100204547 | ENDOSCOPE BENDING CONTROL APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope bending control apparatus includes: an image feature value calculating section for calculating, based on an endoscopic image, an image feature value related to a luminal dark part; a bending control section for performing bending control on a bending portion in either one of a first bending operation mode in which a position of the luminal dark part is set as an insertion target and a distal end of the insertion portion is directed to the position and a second bending operation mode in which the distal end of the insertion portion is directed in a direction of the position of the luminal dark part; an operation mode switching section for switching an operation mode from one bending operation mode to the other according to a first switching condition based on the calculated image feature value; and a switching condition changing section for changing the first switching condition. | 08-12-2010 |
20100289087 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor substrate with an active element formed in the semiconductor substrate, an element isolating insulating film formed around the active element and semiconductor substrate, a polysilicon resistance element formed over the element isolating insulating film with terminal areas and a resistance portion formed between the terminal areas, the polysilicon resistance element having plural reticulations which have the same shapes and the same size. | 11-18-2010 |
20110098533 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A medical instrument including a distortion detection probe disposed in an insertion portion to be inserted into the interior of an examinee provided with a plurality of FBG sensor sections that detect distortion of the insertion portion, a coordinate calculation section that calculates first three-dimensional coordinates of the respective FBG sensor sections according to a first three-dimensional coordinate system whose origin is a predetermined position based on the detection results of the FBG sensor sections, a coordinate system setting section that sets a second three-dimensional coordinate system based on the first three-dimensional coordinates of the respective FBG sensor sections, a coordinate transformation section that transforms the first three-dimensional coordinates of the respective FBG sensor sections into second three-dimensional coordinates according to the second three-dimensional coordinate system set by the coordinate system setting section and a shape display section that displays the shape of the insertion portion based on the second three-dimensional coordinates transformed by the coordinate transformation section. | 04-28-2011 |
20110282145 | CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - A signal processing circuit of an external device includes a CPU and a memory which are not shown. A program for estimating at least one of the position and orientation of a capsule endoscope on the basis of strength signals received through respective antennas is installed in the signal processing circuit. A single-core coil to generate a magnetic field is arranged in the capsule endoscope. The generated magnetic field is detected by a plurality of coils arranged outside a body, whereby a distance that the capsule endoscope has traveled can be obtained with accuracy. This arrangement controls image-capture timing to reliably capture images necessary for a diagnosis and prevent unnecessary image capture. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282146 | CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - A signal processing circuit of an external device includes a CPU and a memory which are not shown. A program for estimating at least one of the position and orientation of a capsule endoscope on the basis of strength signals received through respective antennas is installed in the signal processing circuit. A single-core coil to generate a magnetic field is arranged in the capsule endoscope. The generated magnetic field is detected by a plurality of coils arranged outside a body, whereby a distance that the capsule endoscope has traveled can be obtained with accuracy. This arrangement controls image-capture timing to reliably capture images necessary for a diagnosis and prevent unnecessary image capture. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282147 | CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - A signal processing circuit of an external device includes a CPU and a memory which are not shown. A program for estimating at least one of the position and orientation of a capsule endoscope on the basis of strength signals received through respective antennas is installed in the signal processing circuit. A single-core coil to generate a magnetic field is arranged in the capsule endoscope. The generated magnetic field is detected by a plurality of coils arranged outside a body, whereby a distance that the capsule endoscope has traveled can be obtained with accuracy. This arrangement controls image-capture timing to reliably capture images necessary for a diagnosis and prevent unnecessary image capture. | 11-17-2011 |
20110299748 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, LUMINAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, LUMINAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMS FOR THE SAME - There is provided a medical image processing apparatus including an image-extracting section extracting a frame image from in vivo motion picture data picked up by an in vivo image pickup device or a plurality of consecutively picked-up still image data, and an image analysis section analyzing the frame image extracted by the image-extracting section to output an image analysis result. The image analysis section includes a first biological-feature detection section detecting a first biological feature, a second biological-feature detection section detecting, based on a detection result obtained by the first biological feature detection section, a second biological feature in a frame image picked up temporally before or after the image used for detection by the first biological feature detection section; and a condition determination section making a determination for a biological condition based on a detection result obtained by the second biological feature detection section to output the determination. | 12-08-2011 |
20130225981 | POSITION DETECTING APPARATUS OF CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE, CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A position detecting apparatus of a capsule endoscope includes a receiving antenna unit that receives a wireless signal transmitted together with an image data signal from the capsule endoscope in a subject via a plurality of receiving antennas, a correlation level calculating unit that calculates a correlation level between the image received by the receiving antennas and an image received immediately before the image was received, a determining unit that determines whether a position and/or direction of the capsule endoscope is changed, based on the correlation level calculated by the correlation level calculating unit, and an estimating unit that estimates the position and/or direction with respect to the position of the capsule endoscope at the time the image was captured if the determining unit determines that the position and/or direction of the capsule endoscope is changed. | 08-29-2013 |
20130237809 | POSITION DETECTING APPARATUS OF CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE AND CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - A position detecting apparatus of a capsule endoscope includes a receiving antenna unit for receiving, by a plurality of receiving antennas, a wireless signal transmitted from a capsule endoscope within a subject, a storage unit for storing theoretical electric field strengths of the wireless signal received by the receiving antennas depending on positions or positions and orientations of the capsule endoscope in the subject, a comparing unit for comparing specified values that are calculated from a difference between received electric field strengths of the wireless signal received by the receiving antennas and the theoretical electric field strengths stored in the storage unit, and a determination unit for determining a position or a position and orientation of the capsule endoscope where image data has been taken, based on a comparison result by the comparing unit. | 09-12-2013 |
20130253269 | CAPSULE-TYPE MEDICAL DEVICE - The position of an antenna incorporated in a capsule-type endoscope | 09-26-2013 |
20140010817 | Novel Antibodies and Uses Thereof - The present invention provides an antibody that recognizes a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 15 in the Sequence Listing and has an anti-arthritic function, or a functional fragment thereof. | 01-09-2014 |
20140163357 | POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS, CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A position detection apparatus includes: a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a first distance between each of a plurality of receiving antennas and the capsule endoscope based on each reception strength of a signal received by the plurality of receiving antennas, a total distance calculation unit configured to calculate a total sum of distances from spherical surfaces inside a region where at least three or more spheres out of a plurality of spheres are overlapped, each of the plurality of spheres having a center at each of the plurality of receiving antennas and having a radius of the first distance, and a position determination unit configured to detect, as the position of the capsule endoscope, a position where the total sum of distances from the spherical surfaces is minimum. | 06-12-2014 |
20140184768 | SCANNING ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - A scanning endoscope system has a light guide portion that guides an illuminating light, a drive portion capable of causing the light guide portion to swing so that an irradiation position of the illuminating light draws a locus corresponding to a predetermined scanning pattern, a light detecting portion that receives a return light of the illuminating light and outputs a signal, a control portion that drives the drive portion to perform scan so that the irradiation position of the illuminating light becomes a locus in a spiral shape, and an image generating portion that generates an image of an object based on a signal outputted from the light detecting portion in a predetermined timing, wherein the control portion further performs control for driving the drive portion so that the irradiation position of the illuminating light circles on a same circumference in the predetermined timing. | 07-03-2014 |
20140187918 | POSITION DETECTION DEVICE, CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A position detection device includes: a region acquiring unit that acquires a region where at least two of spheres with receiving antennas as centers and distances between each receiving antenna and a capsule endoscope as radii overlap with one another; an orientation estimating unit that estimates orientations of the capsule endoscope at points in the region based on positional relationships between the points and the receiving antennas, and received strength of signals received by the receiving antennas; and a position determination unit that determines the position of the capsule endoscope based on the positions of the points and the orientations, wherein the position determination unit calculates theoretical values of the received strength at the points, acquires measured values of the received strength at the receiving antennas, and detects a point having a minimum error between the theoretical value and the measured value as the position of the capsule endoscope. | 07-03-2014 |
20140212439 | Anti-EPHA2 Antibody - The present invention provides an antibody which recognizes an epitope recognized by an antibody produced by a hybridoma SH348-1 (FERM BP-10836) or a hybridoma SH357-1 (FERM BP-10837), an antibody produced by the hybridoma SH348-1 or the hybridoma SH357-1, an antibody obtained by humanizing the antibody produced by the hybridoma SH348-1 or the hybridoma SH357-1, a pharmaceutical agent comprising the antibody as an active ingredient, etc. | 07-31-2014 |
20140302040 | Novel Antibodies and Uses Thereof - The present invention provides an antibody that recognizes a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 15 in the Sequence Listing and has an anti-arthritic function, or a functional fragment thereof. | 10-09-2014 |
20150025316 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - An endoscope system includes an insertion portion, an objective optical window, an image pickup device, a position/direction detection section that acquires position information of the objective optical window, and a memory that records the subject internal image acquired by the image pickup device in association with the position information of the objective optical window. The endoscope system aligns the position information of the objective optical window with a reference position of a predetermined organ in the subject in a coordinate system of a three-dimensional model image based on an amount of change or the like of the subject internal image information in the subject and generates an image with the subject internal image pasted onto the two-dimensional model image of the predetermined organ which is the three-dimensional model image two-dimensionally developed in which the position of the objective optical window is associated with the position in the coordinate system. | 01-22-2015 |