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| 20080249401 | Remote Ultrasonic Diagnostic Subject-Side Apparatus, Remote Ultrasonic Diagnostic Examiner-Side Apparatus and Remote Ultrasonic Diagnostic System - A subject-side apparatus | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090118615 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - The present invention aims at providing an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of displaying a stable spatial distribution of elastic characteristics for each hear beat without depending on the accuracy or stability of measurement of blood pressure and without involvement of measurement of blood pressure. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090143675 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - The present invention aims at providing an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of acquiring more accurate tissue character values such as strain, an average elastic modulus, and an average viscosity. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090207530 | Disk drive device and magnetic disk drive - Embodiments of the present invention securely latch an actuator rotated by an external impact. In an embodiment of the present invention, a latch and an actuator have a structure in which the latch can latch the actuator at two different swing angles. The swing angle of the latch is an angle in rotation centered on a rotational shaft (rotation angle). The latch may be engaged with the actuator at a shallow angle, or the latch may be engaged with the actuator at a deeper angle. Since the latch is able to latch the actuator at different swing angles, the actuator can be securely latched. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090275834 | ULTRASONOGRAPH - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section for driving an ultrasonic probe to transmit an ultrasonic wave toward a measuring region of a subject, including an arterial vascular wall; a receiving section for receiving a reflected wave, produced by getting the ultrasonic wave reflected from the subject, at the probe, thereby generating a received signal; a displacement detecting section for calculating the magnitude of displacement of each measuring point in the measuring region on the wall by analyzing the received signal; a tissue-to-present determining section, which defines at least one boundary between tissues included in the measuring region on the wall and which selects one of at least two areas divided by the boundary defined; and a property value calculating section for calculating a property value of the subject based on the magnitude of displacement of each measuring point. The distribution of property values of the measuring points in the area selected by the tissue-to-present determining section is presented as a two-dimensional image. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100020196 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD, IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD - An image processing system including: an image pickup apparatus for picking up an image of a subject; and an image reproducing apparatus for reproducing the image picked up by the image pickup apparatus; wherein the image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit for obtaining an image by image pickup, an image pickup rate controlling unit for controlling an image pickup rate of the image pickup unit, a line reducing unit for removing a plurality of lines from the image obtained by the image pickup, and an image storing unit for storing a reduced image in which the plurality of lines are removed on a storage medium, and the image reproducing apparatus includes an image reading unit for reading the image stored on the storage medium, an up-converter for up-converting the read image, and a reproduction displaying unit for displaying the up-converted image. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100081929 | POSITION TRACKING METHOD, POSITION TRACKING DEVICE, AND ULTRASONOGRAPH - The location tracking method of the present invention is a method for tracking the motion of a measuring point on an object by repeatedly irradiating the object with waves and analyzing received signals that are based on the waves reflected from the object, and includes the steps of: (A) irradiating the object with a wave and calculating an initial phase curve showing a phase shift of a received signal in a wave propagation direction with respect to a reference signal, the received signal being based on the wave reflected; (B) setting an initial location in the propagating direction and assigning the measuring point to the initial location; (C) defining a displacement line, which passes the initial location on the initial phase curve and of which the gradient is calculated based on the frequency of the reference signal; and (D) irradiating the object with the waves multiple times, thereby calculating phase curves, each representing a phase shift of the received signal with respect to the reference signal, and defining the intersection between the displacement line and each phase curve as a location to which the measuring point has been displaced. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20110015524 | ULTRASONOGRAPH - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitting section for driving a probe to send out ultrasonic waves toward a subject one after another; a receiving section for getting an echo, produced as a result of reflection of each ultrasonic wave from the subject, received by the probe, thereby generating a received signal; a tissue tracking section for generating position tracking waveforms, each representing the positional displacement of an associated one of measuring points on the subject, based on the received signals; a boundary detecting section for determining the boundary location of the subject's tissue; a tracking waveform choosing section for choosing at least two position tracking waveforms, including the one associated with the boundary, from the position tracking waveforms by reference to at least one of the waveforms associated with the measuring points, the location of the boundary, and the amplitudes of the received signals; and a tissue attribute value calculating section for calculating a tissue attribute value of the subject using the position tracking waveforms chosen. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110080943 | VIDEO DATA COMPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SAME - A video data compression apparatus with which compressed video data of suitable amounts of data can be produced and the time required for processing is short. The apparatus approximates a real difficulty data D | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110109997 | DISK DRIVE INCLUDING A LATCH CONFIGURED TO LOCK AN ACTUATOR IN RESPONSE TO AN EXTERNAL FORCE - A disk drive. The disk drive includes: a head for accessing a data recording area of a disk; an actuator for pivoting to move the head; a voice coil motor; and, a latch configured to lock the actuator from pivoting toward the data recording area in response to an external force. The voice-coil motor includes a voice coil, a magnet, and a yoke. The latch is positioned at a closed position when the actuator is positioned at a stand-by position, and is configured to pivot by application of a magnetic bias force with pivoting of the actuator from the stand-by position into proximity with the data recording area such that the latch is configured to stop at an open position. The yoke includes a protrusion which protrudes toward the magnetic body at the open position. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110141627 | MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND GUIDE MEMBER FOR GUIDING A FLEXIBLE WIRING BOARD - A disk drive comprising a guide member configured to guide a strip-shaped flexible wiring board, wherein the strip-shaped flexible wiring board has one end attached to a side portion of a carriage that is rotatably supported, in such a way that another end thereof is oriented toward a mounting position. A U-shaped component of the guide member which comprises a pair of edge components and is formed into a U-shape, wherein the U-shaped component is inserted between two projecting components comprising a front-side projecting component and a rear-side projecting component which are arranged to a front and a rear portion of the carriage respectively and are provided on a side portion of the carriage, and the pair of edge components come into contact with the two projecting component, respectively, wherein the U-shaped component is elastically deformed in such a way that the pair of edge components come closer together. | 06-16-2011 |
