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20130317361 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus with which elastic modulus can be measured when measuring elastic modulus using shear wave generation. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe that sends and receives echo signals, a strain-computing unit that receives an echo signal from the body by radiating a first displacement-detecting beam and computes strain information in a Region | 11-28-2013 |
20150025385 | ULTRASONIC IMAGING DEVICE - According to a method of adaptive signal processing, compensation for deterioration of image quality caused by wavefront distortion is provided in an ultrasound imaging apparatus, with a low computing amount and with a precision. The elements | 01-22-2015 |
20150133783 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS - When subject tissue such as a living body is a viscoelastic body, a shear wave propagation velocity is changed according to the frequency of a shear wave. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus applies a displacement generating transmission beam from an ultrasound probe based on a signal from a displacement generating unit to generate a shear wave, applies a pulse wave to the biological tissue by a displacement detecting unit, detects the particle velocity of the shear wave, estimates a viscosity parameter from a temporal extent of a waveform of the particle velocity of the shear wave detected at a viscoelasticity analyzing unit, and displays the estimated viscoelasticity on a display unit. | 05-14-2015 |
20150141821 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ELASTIC EVALUATION METHOD - Provided is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus provided with an elasticity evaluation technology that an error caused by a tissue structure has been reduced. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that measures a velocity of a shear wave that propagates in a test object by utilizing an ultrasonic wave to evaluate elasticity of the aforementioned test object transmits and receives a first ultrasonic wave to the test object to detect a position and a size of the tissue structure of the test object and to automatically decide a measurement region except the tissue structure, transmits a second ultrasonic wave to the measurement region to make it generate the shear wave, and transmits and receives a third ultrasonic wave to the measurement region to measure an amount of displacement in association with propagation of the shear wave and to calculate the shear wave velocity by utilizing this displacement amount. | 05-21-2015 |
20150148673 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ELASTICITY EVALUATION METHOD - Provided is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus configured to perform speed measurement while lessening the influence of the wave surface feature and scattering resulting from the shear wave propagation, which transmits burst wave as first ultrasonic wave to the subject from the probe | 05-28-2015 |
20150173718 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD - There is provided an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus capable of measuring hardness information of a subject with high time resolution and spatial resolution. | 06-25-2015 |
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20110082665 | STICK-SLIP DETECTING DEVICE AND DETECTING METHOD - A diagnosing operation controlling portion compares the magnitude of change of a control instruction value that controls the dislocation of a valve stem to a reference value that has been set in advance, and stops the malfunction evaluation operation in a diagnosing portion if the magnitude of change per unit time in the control instruction value exceeds a reference value. If the magnitude of change per unit time in the control instruction value exceeds the reference value, then the evaluation may be the same as for a case wherein a stick-slip has occurred, even if the operation is functioning properly. In contrast, it is possible to prevent incorrect stick-slip evaluations by stopping the operation of the diagnosing portion when the magnitude of change per unit time in the control instruction value exceeds a reference value. | 04-07-2011 |
20110146415 | PRESSURE GUIDING TUBE BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING DEVICE AND BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING METHOD - A differential pressure transmitting device detects, through two pressure guiding tubes, a differential pressure that is generated when that which is to be measured, such as a liquid, a slurry, or a gas, that has fluctuation in the pressure thereof, passes through a differential pressure generating mechanism. A pressure guiding tube blockage diagnosing device comprises: a rising/falling frequency detecting portion for segmenting the differential pressure values detected by the differential pressure transmitting device into a plurality of intervals, and for detecting, for each interval, the rising/falling frequency of the fluctuation of the differential pressure; and an evaluating portion for comparing the rising/falling frequency of the fluctuation to a specific threshold value to evaluate the state of blockage of the pressure guiding tubes. | 06-23-2011 |
20110188705 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A frequency component of noise that is included in both images, and a frequency component of a first image that does not include said noise are estimated based on first image data obtained through imaging, using an imaging device, a first image that includes a specific image pattern, and based on second image data, obtained by imaging, using the imaging device, second image data that does not include the specific image pattern; and weighting is controlled, relative to frequencies, when calculating a correlation between the first image data and third image data, obtained through imaging a third image through the imaging device, based on the estimated individual frequency components. | 08-04-2011 |
20110224949 | STICK-SLIP DETECTING DEVICE AND DETECTING METHOD - For example, a regulator valve may be controlled from the outside through a positioner, or may be controlled autonomously by an adjusting mechanism in the valve. The result of the control is a change in the dislocation of the valve stem (movable portion). Additionally, there will be a change in a process change magnitude, such as the magnitude of flow of a fluid that passes through the regulator valve, in accordance with the magnitude of dislocation of the valve stem. In this way, the diagnosing operation controlling portion controls the operation of the diagnosing portion based on the magnitude of dislocation of the valve stem or on the magnitude of change of the measurement results (the measurement value) of a process change magnitude. | 09-15-2011 |
20110232369 | PRESSURE GUIDING TUBE BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING DEVICE AND BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING METHOD - A pressure transmitting device detects, through a pressure guiding tube, a pressure of a liquid, slurry, gas, or the like to be measured, wherein there are fluctuations in the pressure; where the pressure guiding tube blockage diagnosing device comprises: a rising/falling frequency detecting portion for segmenting into a plurality of continuous intervals a time series of pressure values detected by the pressure transmitting device, and for detecting, in each time interval, the rising/falling frequency of the fluctuations; and an evaluating portion for evaluating the state of blockage of the pressure guiding tube through comparing, to a specific threshold value, the rising/falling frequency of the fluctuations. | 09-29-2011 |
20110308299 | PRESSURE GUIDING TUBE BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING DEVICE AND BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING METHOD - A pressure transmitting device detects, through a pressure guiding tube, a pressure of a liquid, slurry, gas, or the like to be measured, wherein there are fluctuations in the pressure; where the pressure guiding tube blockage diagnosing device comprises: a rising/falling frequency detecting portion for segmenting into a plurality of continuous intervals a time series of pressure values detected by the pressure transmitting device, and for detecting, in each time interval, the rising/falling frequency of the fluctuations; an evaluating portion for evaluating the state of blockage of the pressure guiding tube through comparing, to a specific threshold value, the rising/falling frequency of the fluctuations; and a detecting interval adjusting portion for adjusting a detecting interval for the rising/falling frequency of the fluctuations based on an autocorrelation coefficient for the pressure value. | 12-22-2011 |
20130014593 | PRESSURE GUIDING TUBE BLOCKAGE DETECTING SYSTEM AND DETECTING METHODAANM Tabaru; TetsuyaAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Tabaru; Tetsuya Tokyo JPAANM Aota; NaoyukiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Aota; Naoyuki Tokyo JP - A vessel is attached to a pressure guiding tube near the point of connection between a process pipe and a pressure transmitter. Doing so increases the rate of deformation, relative to a change in pressure, of a fluid when the fluid is a compressible fluid, making the change in the pressure fluctuation more easily detected, thereby increasing the sensitivity of detection of blockages in the pressure guiding tube. If the fluid is a non-compressible fluid, then a part that has a diaphragm (a pressure bearing surface that deforms easily through pressure) is connected instead of the vessel. | 01-17-2013 |
20140025317 | PRESSURE GUIDING TUBE BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING DEVICE AND BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING METHOD - A pressure guiding tube blockage diagnosing device includes a feature quantity calculating portion partitioning a time series of pressure data into intervals, and calculating, for each interval, a feature quantity indicating the state of pressure fluctuation, an indicator value calculating portion calculating, for each individual interval, an indicator value indicating a state of blockage of pressure guiding tubes, from the feature quantities for a given time interval up until that interval, a change rate calculating portion performing, for each interval, a smoothing process on the indicator values over a specific time interval up to that interval, and calculating, from the indicator values that have been subjected to the smoothing process, a change rate for the indicator values for each interval, and an evaluating portion evaluating the state of blockage of a pressure guiding tube based on a change rate of the indicator value calculated by the change rate calculating portion. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025318 | PRESSURE GUIDING TUBE BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING DEVICE AND BLOCKAGE DIAGNOSING METHOD - A pressure guiding tube blockage diagnosing device includes a receiving portion that receives pressure data from a pressure detecting portion, a feature quantity calculating portion that partitions a time series of pressure data, received by the receiving portion, into a plurality of intervals, and calculates, for each interval, a feature quantity indicating the state of fluctuation of a pressure, a change rate calculating portion that performs, for each interval, a smoothing process on the feature quantities over a specific time interval up to that interval, and calculates, from the feature quantities that have been subjected to the smoothing process, a change rate, for each interval, indicating the change of state of blockage of a pressure guiding tube therein, and an evaluating portion that evaluates the state of blockage of the pressure guiding tube based on the change rate calculated by the change rate calculating portion. | 01-23-2014 |
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20090164773 | DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION SUPPORTING METHOD, DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION SUPPORTING APPARATUS, AND DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION SYSTEM - A dynamic reconfiguration supporting method that generates a driver function to cause a dynamic reconfiguration circuit to execute a program of an application described in a predetermined language, includes acquiring a configuration defining file representing a configuration of a cluster of the dynamic reconfiguration circuit in execution of the process of the application, generating an address map representing an address of a processing element (to be referred to as “PE” hereinafter) in the cluster on the basis of the configuration defining file acquired by the acquiring operation, generating a driver function that associates the function and an address of the PE which executes the function with reference to the address map, when a PE which executes a function described in the application is allocated from the PE, and creating a driver function file that stores the driver function. | 06-25-2009 |
20100017761 | DATA CONVERSION APPARATUS, DATA CONVERSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A data conversion apparatus for converting circuit description related to a dynamically-reconfigurable circuit to circuit configuration information, the data conversion apparatus includes a first generation section that generates a data flow graph from the circuit description; a segment count determining section that determines a number of segments for segmenting the data flow graph generated by the first generation section; a virtual circuit creating section that creates a virtual circuit that has as many resources of the dynamically-reconfigurable circuit as the number of the resources multiplied by the number of segments determined by the segment count determining section; a second generation section that generates, from the circuit description, a data flow graph corresponding to the virtual circuit created by the virtual circuit creating section; and a conversion section that allocates and adjusts the resources of the virtual circuit in accordance with the data flow graph. | 01-21-2010 |
20100017776 | DESIGN PROGRAM, DESIGN APPARATUS, AND DESIGN METHOD FOR DYNAMIC RECONFIGURABLE CIRCUIT - A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program for designing a dynamic reconfigurable circuit in which a plurality of circuit configurations are implemented with a single circuit, the computer program enabling a computer to execute: acquiring a plurality of contexts having connection information between operation devices and network modules, wherein the operation devices and network modules are disposed in clusters, and connection information among the network modules; calculating a cluster count of the clusters and an operation device count for each operation device type of the operation devices in each cluster based on the acquired plurality of contexts; generating a circuit configuration for each context in which disposition of the operation devices in each cluster and connection of the network modules are made to satisfy the calculated cluster count and operation device count; and outputting the generated circuit configuration. | 01-21-2010 |