Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Akebono Research and Developement Centre Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Subaru Corporation

Takashi Sakai

Hisao Okita

Toshio Oka

Yasufumi Ogasawara

Shinya Ishikawa

Toru Oshika

Nobukazu Suzuki

Tsukasa Matsuda

Akihiro Kawabata

Kimihiko Fukawa

Yasuhiro Nakamura

Toshifumi Maehara

Masahiko Kubo

Masahiro Saito

Kiyoshi Hosoi

Masanori Ichimura

Yutaka Sugizaki

Yuka Ishihara

Fumio Kawamoto

Takashi Kimoto

Takehiko Suginouchi

Yoshio Shoji

Mitsuru Amimoto

Daisuke Fujikura

Kazushi Ota

Norikazu Honda

Minoru Kaneko

Yuichi Yanagiwara

Kazuo Asaka

Tomohito Sakai

Masashi Kunita

Yukiko Okamoto

Koichi Makiyama

Seiichi Fukai

Kishio Jinbo

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe that transmits an ultrasound wave and receives a reflected wave; a display that displays an ultrasound image on a screen; and a hardware processor that activates a screen saver processing of displaying an image hiding information displayed on the screen or a freeze processing of stopping transmission and reception of the ultrasound wave when conditions (A1) or (A2) is continuously satisfied for a predetermined time or more while the ultrasound image is displayed, wherein the conditions (A1) and (A2) are: (A1) a state in which, in an input captured image, a change amount of the probe and surroundings is a first threshold or less; and (A2) a state in which a volume of input voice is a second threshold or less, or a state in which a volume of a specific frequency of input sound is a third threshold or less.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, method for controlling ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and control program of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and an ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with an operation mode of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, control method of ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and control program of ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and the ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator, and reproducibly saves the display image in a storage; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with a usage when reading the display image.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus including ultrasonic probe, camera and ultrasonic image generator, control method of ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and control program of ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for providing camera image with different display style depending on usage

An image reading apparatus comprises a first reading unit configured to output an analog signal by reading an original, a second reading unit different from the first reading unit, a conversion unit configured to convert analog signals outputted from the first reading unit and the second reading unit to digital signals, a wire connection control unit configured to control wire connection between the first reading unit and the second reading unit, and the conversion unit, and an output control unit configured to control an output of an analog signal from the first reading unit.

Image reading apparatus

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe including a plurality of transducers arranged in a plurality columns and a switching element which switches input of a driving signal to the transducers and output of a receiving signal, a transmitter which outputs the driving signal to the transducers, a receiver which acquires the receiving signal corresponding to the transducers, and a hardware processor which generates ultrasound image data corresponding to each of the columns from the receiving signal, makes partial images in the ultrasound image data respectively have representations, synthesizes the ultrasound image data respectively including the partial images to generate composite image data, generates first identification information indicating to which position in a depth direction of the composite image data each of the representations of the partial images in the composite image data corresponds, and displays the generated first identification information and composite image data on a display.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

First transmission information in which an optimum transmitting voltage and a transmitting waveform are associated with each other for each display mode, and second transmission information in which a plurality of transmitting voltage candidates and pulse-width modulation transmitting waveforms that are pulse-width-modulation controlled to respectively correspond to the plurality of transmitting voltage candidates are associated with each other for each display mode are used to extract a maximum transmitting voltage candidate that does not exceed an optimum transmitting voltage of a first display mode from a plurality of transmitting voltage candidates included in the second transmission information of a second display mode so as to determine a common transmitting voltage used in common for the first display mode and the second display mode based on the optimum transmitting voltage of the first display mode and/or the maximum transmitting voltage candidate.

Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, a transmission condition setting method, and program

A catalyst abnormality diagnostic device is configured to diagnose an abnormality of a first purification catalyst having an oxygen storage capacity and a second purification catalyst having the oxygen storage capacity and a function of a particulate filter provided on an exhaust passage on a downstream side of the first purification catalyst. The catalyst abnormality diagnostic device adjusts a fuel injection amount so that an air-fuel ratio of an exhaust gas is repeatedly in a rich state and a lean state, obtains a first determination value indicating a catalytic performance of the first purification catalyst, obtains a second determination value indicating a catalytic performance of the second purification catalyst, and determines whether there is an abnormality in one or both of the first purification catalyst and the second purification catalyst on the basis of the first determination value, the second determination value, and a predetermined determination reference value.

Catalyst abnormality diagnostic device and catalyst abnormality diagnostic method

Disclosed is a technology that prevents a part of a touch panel-equipped display displaying an ultrasonic tomographic image from getting dirty with a fingerprint or scratch when using a drag operation to change the content of the ultrasonic tomographic image displayed on the touch panel-equipped display. According to this technology, the display screen is divided into an ultrasonic image area Awhich displays an ultrasonic image P and an operating part display area Awhich displays buttons (Fov, Pos, ROI, and Dop) for selecting a change to be made in the ultrasonic image P. The operating part display area Ahas a touch panel, and when a finger F selectively touches one of the displayed buttons and is dragged, the displayed image P of the ultrasonic image area Ais changed on the apparatus side according to the selected changes and drag direction.

Ultrasonograph

A power supply apparatus includes a power source unit configured to supply electric power to an electric load, a capacitor connected to a power supply line extending from the power supply unit to the electric load, a charge circuit configured to charge the capacitor while restricting a current value of the electric power supplied from the power source unit, a specifying unit configured to specify a voltage value of the capacitor, a first determination unit configured to determine whether the charge of the capacitor is completed in accordance with the voltage specified by the specifying unit, and a second determination unit configured to determine whether the voltage specified by the specifying unit is equal to or smaller than an error threshold value after the first determination unit determines that the charge of the capacitor is completed.

Power supply apparatus, printer, and control method

A control apparatus including a power supply unit configured to supply electric power, comprises: a capacitor connected to a power supply line extending from the power supply unit to a printhead; a discharge circuit configured to release charge stored in the capacitor; and a control unit configured to control a current value during a discharge operation by the discharge circuit, such that the current value increases as a voltage value of the capacitor decreases.

Control apparatus and control method of the same

A power supply apparatus includes a power source unit supplying power to an electric load through a power supply line, a capacitor connected to the power supply line, a charge circuit charging the capacitor while restricting a current value of the power supplied from the power source unit, a detection unit detecting a voltage value of the capacitor, a controller which switches, after the charge of the capacitor is completed, a current value of the charge circuit to a first current value smaller than a current value supplied before the charge of the capacitor is completed, a first determination unit determining whether a first condition is satisfied based on the voltage value detected by the detection unit after the charge of the capacitor is completed, and a second determination unit determining whether an error process is to be performed based on a determination result of the first determination unit.

Power supply apparatus and control method

Correction of brightness of image data outputted by an image sensor which includes a light emitting portion, a photoelectric conversion portion in which a plurality of photoelectric transducers are arrayed in line, and a charge transfer portion. For a smear occurred at the charge transfer portion, reference smear amount data is stored, corresponding to each of color components of light from the light emitting portion and a correction target pixel. A correction amount for brightness is based on a difference between brightness values of a first color component and a second color component and the reference smear amount data.

Image reading apparatus and image data processing method

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a plurality of vibration elements () that transmit and receive an ultrasonic beam; a plurality of transmission circuits () that are connected to the respective vibration elements and output a transmission driving signal to be used for driving the vibration elements; and a transmission power source () that supplies electric power to the transmission circuits. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus further includes: a pulse detection unit () that detects a transmission signal to be used for generating the transmission driving signal; an electric power measurement unit () that detects an amount of electric power supplied to the transmission circuits as a whole; a distribution calculation unit () that calculates an amount of electric power distributed into each of the vibration elements based on outputs of the pulse detection unit and the electric power measurement unit; and a power distribution derivation unit () that derives electric power having been supplied to each of the plurality of vibration elements based on an output of the distribution calculation unit, wherein the transmission driving signal is controlled based on the power distribution derived in the power distribution derivation unit. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a more compact and highly reliable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of performing a temperature monitoring that detects local heat generation of the vibration elements based on the actual transmission power by using a circuit with a reduced number of components.

Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus

This invention has as its object to provide an image scanning method which can reduce the load of user operation, and can improve operation efficiency. To achieve this object, a scanning driver is started, and then the current scanning mode is detected on the basis of the previous scanning mode.

Image scanning apparatus, method, and system, control method thereof, storage medium, and external apparatus

An image processing apparatus easily and reliably realizes complicated 1-line processing by a simple method, and controls accumulation period for respective colors without any particular function such as shutters on the line sensor side. One line period is divided into a reading section for reading valid image data, a dummy section for sweeping electric charge accumulated in the reading section and for synchronization, and a section for setting accumulation periods for the respective colors. In the reading section, the line sensor is driven by a necessary transfer frequency, and in the other sections, the sensor is driven at a high speed.

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Takashi Sakai