Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

Nikon Corporation

General Electric Company

Ge Yokogawa Medical Systems, Limited

Gni Kk

Takao Goto

Koji Nagaoka

Yuji Inoue

Osamu Katsuda

Takayuki Funaoka

Tetsuo In

Nobuaki Takahashi

Takami Sato

Shigemasa Sato

Akio Nishizawa

Kazuya Hoshino

Noboru Akami

Masaaki Sakuma

Shoei Miyamoto

Seiyo Imoto

Satoru Miyano

Kosuke Tashiro

Michiel De Hoon

Christopher J Savoie

Saturo Kuhara

An accessory for a camera body including a plurality of camera-side terminals, a camera-side protruding portion, and an elastic member, the accessory includes: a first terminal that changes a voltage at the first camera-side terminal by contacting with a first camera-side terminal; an eighth terminal to which a first clock signal is input by contacting with a first camera-side clock terminal; a tenth terminal that outputs a second clock signal by contacting with a second camera-side clock terminal; and an accessory-side protruding portion that is to be pressed toward the camera body side by the elastic member, wherein: the accessory-side protruding portion has a contacting portion to contact with the elastic member; and a distance between the eighth terminal and the contacting portion and a distance between the tenth terminal and the contacting portion are shorter than a distance between the first terminal and the contacting portion.

Camera accessory including a plurality of contact terminals

An accessory for a camera body including a plurality of camera-side terminals, a camera-side protruding portion, and an elastic member, the accessory includes: a first terminal that changes a voltage at the first camera-side terminal by contacting with a first camera-side terminal; an eighth terminal to which a first clock signal is input by contacting with a first camera-side clock terminal; a tenth terminal that outputs a second clock signal by contacting with a second camera-side clock terminal; and an accessory-side protruding portion that is to be pressed toward the camera body side by the elastic member, wherein a distance between the eighth terminal and the accessory-side protruding portion and a distance between the tenth terminal and the accessory-side protruding portion are shorter than a distance between the first terminal and the accessory-side protruding portion.

An MRI apparatuscomprising an image producing unitfor producing a plurality of axial images Dto Din a plurality of slices defined in a body part to be imaged containing a blood vessel; a classifying unitfor classifying the plurality of axial images Dto Dinto a plurality of classes I to IV based on which a portion of the imaged body part each of the plurality of axial images Dto Drepresents; and a defining unitfor defining a search region for searching for a blood vessel from within an axial image based on within which of the plurality of classes I to IV the axial image falls.

Blood vessel detecting apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and program

An MRI apparatus comprises a image producing unit 101 for producing an image of a first body part containing a blood vessel; a defining unit 108 for defining a slice intersecting the image based on a reference position Q within the first body part, the slice being defined so that an angle of the slice is changeable with respect to the blood vessel VE; a unit for obtaining an index VI for deciding whether or not the blood vessel VE is contained within the slice for each angle &#x3b8;; and a determining unit 111 for determining an angle of the slice at which the blood vessel VE is contained in the slice based on the index VI.

Blood vessel detection apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and program

The MR apparatuscomprises: image producing unitfor producing coronal images of a part to be imaged; search-region defining unitfor defining a region Rsto be searched; unit for determining an indicator VI representing a likelihood that a pixel contained in the region Rsto be searched lies on an edge E of a liver adjacent to lungs; and unit for, by dividing the region Rsto be searched into a plurality of sub-regions R-Rarranged in an SI-direction, determining a position of the edge E of the liver in the SI-direction based on indicators VI obtained on a sub-region-by-sub-region basis.

Apparatus and method for detecting position of a part in magnetic resonance imaging

An image processing apparatus comprising an image producing unitfor producing an axial image of a body part to be imaged including an aorta and an esophagus; a map generating unitfor generating a map Mfor locating a region in which a probability that the aorta lies is high in the axial image; a detecting unitfor detecting a temporary position of the aorta based on the map M; and a deciding unitfor making a decision on whether or not the temporary position of the aorta falls within the region of the aorta in the axial image based on a distribution model DM containing information representing a reference position (x, y) of the esophagus and information representing a range over which the aorta distributes relative to the reference position (x, y) of the esophagus, and on the map M

Image processing device, medical device, and program

An MR apparatuscomprising an image producing unitfor producing axial images Dthrough D; a binarizing unitfor executing binarization processing for binarizing the axial images; a separating unitfor executing separation processing for separating a left-arm region HL and a right-arm region HR from a torso region HB; an extracting unitfor executing extraction processing for extracting the torso region HB from the images obtained by the separating unit; and a unit for locating a centerline of a body of a subject by executing first removal processing on an extracted region HEextracted by the extraction processing, and locating a centerline of the body of the subject based on the first-removal-processed extracted region.

Centerline determining apparatus, medical apparatus, and program

A detecting apparatus configured to detect a position of a predetermined part of a subject, based on image data of a region including the predetermined part is provided. The detecting apparatus includes a first detecting unit configured to detect a reference position used when the position of the predetermined part is detected, the reference position detected from within the image data, a determining unit configured to rotate a window for detecting the position of the predetermined part about the reference position, and configured to determine a rotational angle of the window when the predetermined part is included in the window, and a second detecting unit configured to set an actual rotational angle of the window to the determined rotational angle and configured to detect the position of the predetermined part from within the window.

Detecting apparatus, medical apparatus and method for detecting a position of a predetermined part of a subject

A detection apparatus for detecting the position of a boundary between a first part and a second part of a subject, includes a pixel extraction unit for extracting a plurality of candidate pixels acting as candidates for a pixel situated on the boundary on the basis of image data of a first section crossing the first part and the second part, and a pixel specification unit for specifying the pixel situated on the boundary from within the plurality of candidate pixels by using an identifier which has been prepared by using an algorithm of machine learning.

Image-based detection of the boundary between a first part and a second part

An illuminating optical system includes: a substantially rectangular-shaped light source that includes a light emitting surface with a split pattern formed thereat by a splitting line, the splitting line extending along a predetermined direction and splitting the light emitting surface into a plurality of separate areas; an illumination-target member that includes a rectangular radiation-target area; and an optical member in that condenses light departing the light emitting surface and radiates the condensed light toward the radiation-target area, wherein: an extent of uneven illumination attributable to an image of the split pattern at the light emitting surface of the light source, formed at the illumination-target member, is reduced.

Illuminating optical system and projector device

A median plane determination apparatus determines a median plane based on volume data of a brain of a subject. The median plane is determined based on voxel values of voxels which intersect with a reference surface cutting across the brain.

Median plane determination apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging system

A camera with a built-in projector includes: a camera unit equipped with photographing components including an optical system; and a projector module equipped with a projecting optical system, with an optical axis extending along a longer side of the projector module running substantially parallel to an optical axis of the camera unit extending along a longer side of the camera unit.

Camera with built-in projector and projector device

An image processing method of performing an imaging process on an original image having a connection figure including a first figure and a second figure connected to the first figure to generate an extraction image of the first figure extracted, includes the steps of: obtaining a first image in which the connection figure in the original image is selectively extracted by performing a segmentation process on the original image; obtaining a second image including a third figure separated from the second figure and a fourth figure separated from the first figure in the connection figure by sequentially performing an erosion process and a dilation process in a morphologic operation so as to separate the first and second figures from each other, in the connection figure included in the first image; obtaining a third image by performing a segmentation process so as to selectively extract the third figure in the second image; obtaining a fourth image by performing a process of obtaining the difference between the first image and the third image; obtaining a fifth image by determining whether the size of a figure included in the fourth image obtained in the fourth image processing step is equal to or larger than a reference value, and when the size is equal to or larger than the reference value, eliminating the figure from the fourth image and, when the size is less than the reference value, processing the fourth image so as to leave the figure in the fourth image; and obtaining the extraction image by adding the third image and the fifth image.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus

Described is an electronic device and an electronic device control method. If voltage generated by the fuel cell, acquired from the voltage detection part, is greater than a specified voltage reference value (VRV), a display part displays the fuel cell as normal. However, if the generated voltage is smaller than the VRV, the residual fuel amount (RFA) detection part detects the RFA. If the RFA is smaller than a specified fuel reference value (FRV), the display part displays that the fuel is insufficient. However, if the RFA is greater than the FRV, the oxidizing agent concentration (OAC) detection part detects the OAC of the fuel cell. If the OAC is smaller than a specified OAC reference value, the display part displays that the oxidizing agent is insufficient. However, if the OAC is greater than the OAC reference value, the display part displays that the fuel cell is abnormal.

Electronic device and electronic device operating control method

The present invention relates to a portable terminal in which the orientation of the displayed subject is the same as the actual orientation of the subject. The reference attitude when taking a picture is shown in FIG., with the lidbeing rotated substantially about 90 degrees about the X-axis with respect to the main body, and a perpendicular of the displayis in the same orientation as the optical axis of the CCD. In this attitude, the image captured by the CCDis displayed as it is in the display. On the other hand, when the angle detectordetects that the lidis rotated by a further 90 degrees with respect to the main bodyfrom the attitude of FIG.and the lidand the main bodyare opened by about 180 degrees, the image captured by the CCDis rotated by 90 degrees, and the rotated image is displayed in the display. The present invention can be applied to portable type terminals such as mobile phones having a two axially rotatable structure, PDA, personal computers.

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Takao Goto