公开(公告)号：US10828503B2

公开(公告)日：2020-11-10

申请号：US15761115

申请日：2016-05-12

Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.

Inventor： Tsukasa Funane ,  Hiroki Sato

IPC: A61N2/00 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61H23/00 ,  A61B5/145 ,  A61H23/02 ,  A61F7/00 ,  A61N2/02 ,  A61N7/00 ,  A61N5/06 ,  A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/0205 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/03 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  A61B5/107 ,  A61B5/11 ,  A61N5/067

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US20240144369A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：US18494207

申请日：2023-10-25

Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.

Inventor： Yosuke Tanabe ,  Ryuji Mine ,  Takeshi Kato ,  Koichi Watanabe ,  Tsukasa Funane

IPC: G06Q40/04

CPC classification number: G06Q40/04

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US11744486B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17074345

申请日：2020-10-19

Applicant: HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY ,  Hitachi, Ltd.

Inventor： Ayako Nishimura ,  Hirokazu Atsumori ,  Tsukasa Funane ,  Akihiko Kandori ,  Yasuaki Nakamura ,  Akiko Obata ,  Yuto Komatsu ,  Seiji Hama ,  Toshio Tsuji

IPC: A61B5/11 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61H3/02

CPC classification number: A61B5/1128 ,  A61B5/0077 ,  A61B5/112 ,  A61B5/742 ,  A61H3/02 ,  A61H2201/5071

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US10548518B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-04

申请号：US15311647

申请日：2014-06-23

Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.

Inventor： Tsukasa Funane ,  Takusige Katura ,  Hirokazu Atsumori ,  Masashi Kiguchi

IPC: A61B5/1455 ,  A61B5/00

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US12291355B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-06

申请号：US18584242

申请日：2024-02-22

Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.

Inventor： Makoto Ito ,  Tsukasa Funane ,  Koichi Watanabe ,  Yosuke Tanabe ,  Hisatoshi Kimura

IPC: B64G1/24 ,  B64G1/10 ,  B64G1/66 ,  H01Q1/28

Abstract: The space structure control system includes: a space structure; an artificial satellite connected to the space structure; and a propulsion device installed on the artificial satellite and configured to control an orbit and an attitude of the artificial satellite, in which the space structure includes a film-like structure, a solar reflectance control device that controls a spatial pattern of a solar reflectance in a reflecting mirror provided in the film-like structure, and a shape retaining device that is connected to the film-like structure, the propulsion device rotates the film-like structure to generate a centrifugal force, the solar reflectance control device controls a solar reflectance in the reflecting mirror to control a solar radiation pressure to be applied to the reflecting mirror, a three-dimensional shape of the film-like structure is controlled based on the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the film-like structure and the solar radiation pressure, and the shape of the film-like structure is retained or stabilized by the shape retaining device.

公开(公告)号：US11872028B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US16988176

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.

Inventor： Akihiko Kandori ,  Ryuzo Kawabata ,  Kuniomi Ogata ,  Takako Mizoguchi ,  Tsukasa Funane

IPC: A61B5/08 ,  A61B5/282

CPC classification number: A61B5/0809 ,  A61B5/282 ,  A61B2562/0223

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US11331048B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US15723605

申请日：2017-10-03

Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.

Inventor： Stephanie Sutoko ,  Masashi Kiguchi ,  Atsushi Maki ,  Tsukasa Funane ,  Hiroki Sato

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  G16H40/63 ,  G16H10/60 ,  G16H50/50 ,  A61B5/369

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US11244552B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-08

申请号：US16988099

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.

Inventor： Yuto Komatsu ,  Hirokazu Atsumori ,  Tsukasa Funane ,  Akiko Obata ,  Akihiko Kandori

IPC: G08B21/04 ,  A61B5/11

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US11896205B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US17204001

申请日：2021-03-17

Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.

Inventor： Ayako Nishimura ,  Akihiko Kandori ,  Tsukasa Funane ,  Akiko Obata ,  Hirokazu Atsumori ,  Masashi Kiguchi

IPC: A61B10/00 ,  A61B5/07 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61M31/00

CPC classification number: A61B10/0045 ,  A61B5/073 ,  A61B5/6861 ,  A61B10/0038 ,  A61B5/6871 ,  A61B2010/0061 ,  A61B2560/0406 ,  A61B2562/02 ,  A61B2562/162 ,  A61M31/00

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US11593518B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16505746

申请日：2019-07-09

Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.

Inventor： Tsukasa Funane ,  Masashi Kiguchi

IPC: G06N7/00 ,  G16H10/00 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/194 ,  G16H30/40 ,  G06V10/44 ,  G06T19/20 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G16H10/60

Abstract: 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.