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20080233997 | Information processing apparatus - The present invention is capable of preferably performing the establishment of a session using a predetermined protocol. In a mobile phone device applicable to an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, the CPU of a main control unit executes NAI middleware, performs connection using a predetermined protocol via a system layer, acquires a connection request or a disconnection request from an individual application program, and controls, on the basis of the acquired connection request or disconnection request, the connection using the predetermined protocol performed by a connection unit. | 09-25-2008 |
20080301484 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device, such as cellular phone, includes a first timer set for executing count processing applied to a preassigned first processing, a second timer set for executing count processing applied to the preassigned first processing, a display state determination unit configured to determine a display state of a display unit, and a timer switching unit configured to select and set the first timer for the preassigned first processing at a time when the display state determination unit determines that the display unit is in an “ON” state and to select and set the second timer for the preassigned first processing at a time when the display state determination unit determines that the display unit is in an “OFF” state. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301680 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - To realize a situation that while the number of inspection performed on a stack used as a variable storage area is reduced, a use efficiency of a CPU is improved and the stack used as the variable storage area is preferably inspected. In a cellar phone according to an embodiment of the present invention, a main control section controls an execution of an intermittent operation in the cellar phone, when the cellar phone returns from the intermittent operation in accordance with the control, a timer for a stack inspection is set in a first state, and each time the timer for the stack inspection times out, the stack inspection is executed. | 12-04-2008 |
20090010413 | Information processing apparatus - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit for storing a state information set by a first program and a callback information set by a second program, which are associated with each other, a detection unit for detecting a change in the state information set by the first program, an acquisition unit for acquiring the callback information set by the second program if the detection unit detects the change in the state information set by the first program, and an execution unit for calling a callback on the basis of the callback information acquired by the acquisition unit. | 01-08-2009 |
20100107175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a cellular phone applicable to an information processing apparatus according to the present invention, a CPU of a main control unit executes monitor threads | 04-29-2010 |
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20130106701 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130187848 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An electronic device includes an input control processing unit that culls first input data by generating second input data from the first input data; an output control processing unit that culls output data; and a congestion control unit that instructs the input control processing unit to increase a quantity of the first input data to be culled, when delay in output relative to input is increasing, and instructs the output control processing unit to increase a quantity of the output data to be culled when the delay in output relative to input continues to increase despite the increase in the quantity of the first input data to be culled. | 07-25-2013 |
20140184923 | OUTPUT METHOD AND OUTPUT SYSTEM - A disclosed output method includes: receiving, from an output apparatus of plural output apparatuses, notification that represents that a radio wave from a portable apparatus was received; and causing the output apparatus that received the radio wave to restart both or either of an image output and a sound output, which were stopped, for example, in another output apparatus of the plural output apparatuses after detecting that no radio wave was received from the portable apparatus. For example, when the timing of the stop in the image such as video and/or sound is stored, the output apparatus restarts both or either of the image output and the sound output from the stored timing. | 07-03-2014 |
20150269360 | CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A control method executed includes acquiring, from a storage medium, content data and first encrypted information encrypted by a first unique key associated with the first information processing device, the first encrypted information including a first value for controlling a use right of the content data, obtaining the first value by decrypting the first encrypted information with the first unique key, enabling the first information processing device to use the content data when the first value is identified with a second value allocated to the first information processing device, generating second encrypted information by encrypting a third value with a second unique key that is associated with the second information processing device, the third value being for moving the use right from the first information processing device to the second information processing device, and updating the first encrypted information in the storage medium with the second encrypted information. | 09-24-2015 |
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20150018684 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image acquirer, a volume information calculator, a wall motion information calculator, a time change rate calculator, an extremum detector, and an index calculator. The image acquirer acquires ultrasonic image data including data for a left ventricle. The volume information calculator calculates time-series data of volume information of the left ventricle. The wall motion information calculator calculates time-series data of wall motion information of the left ventricle. The time change rate calculator calculates time-series data of the time change rate of volume information (first time-series data) and time-series data of the time change rate of wall motion information (second time-series data). The extremum detector detects extremums in early diastole of the first time-series data and the second time-series data (first extremum and second extremum). The index calculator calculates an index using the first extremum and the second extremum. | 01-15-2015 |
20150038846 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image obtaining unit, a contour position obtaining unit, a volume information calculating unit, and a controlling unit. The image obtaining unit obtains a plurality of groups of two-dimensional ultrasound image data each of which is generated by performing ultrasound scans, the ultrasound scans being performed on each of a plurality of predetermined cross-sectional planes, and performed for predetermined time. The contour position obtaining unit obtains, by performing a tracking process over the predetermined time period, time-series data of contour positions, the contour positions being either one of, or both of, a cavity interior and a cavity exterior of a predetermined site. The volume information calculating unit calculates, on a basis of a plurality of the time-series data of contour positions, volume information of the predetermined site. The controlling unit exercises control so as to output the volume information. | 02-05-2015 |
20150094584 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a calculating unit, an obtaining unit, a determining unit, and a controlling unit. By using a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional ultrasound image data in a time series corresponding to a three-dimensional region including a myocardium of a subject, the calculating unit calculates first movement information indicating a movement of the myocardium by tracking a movement of a region of interest that corresponds to the myocardium and that is set in each of the plurality of pieces of three-dimensional image data. The obtaining unit obtains direction information indicating a direction of a myocardial fiber in the myocardium. The determining unit determines second movement information indicating a movement of the myocardium with respect to the direction of the myocardial fiber, on the basis of the first movement information and the direction information. The controlling unit causes a display unit to display the second movement information. | 04-02-2015 |
20150173707 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes a combined image generator and a controller. The combined image generator projects, on three-dimensional data indicating three-dimensional heart function information obtained from a first volume data group obtained by imaging the heart of a subject, a three-dimensional shape of blood vessels nourishing a cardiac muscle included in second volume data obtained by imaging the heart, thereby producing three-dimensional combined data, and produces combined image data in which the three-dimensional combined data is developed on a surface. The controller causes a display unit to display the combined image data. | 06-25-2015 |
20150216509 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an ultrasound transducer, an evaluation value acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. The evaluation value acquisition unit obtains an evaluation value for evaluating the function of tissue including a predetermined site based on biological information acquired for a predetermined period of time by the ultrasound transducer. The determination unit determines whether the function of the tissue is abnormal based on the evaluation value. The output unit outputs information based on a result of determination by the determination unit. | 08-06-2015 |
20150223778 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a controller, a processor, and an image generator. The controller selects at least one transducer element in a reception aperture formed of a transducer element group arranged in a predetermined direction, based on at least a deflection angle of an ultrasonic wave transmitted to a subject. The processor performs processing on at least one reception signal of a plurality of reception signals generated in the reception aperture such that a signal intensity of a reception signal generated in the at least one transducer element selected by the controller is reduced to be lower than a signal intensity of reception signals generated in transducer elements other than the at least one transducer element, to output the reception signal of the reception aperture. The image generator generates ultrasonic image data, based on the reception signal of the reception aperture. | 08-13-2015 |
20150223781 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an ultrasound transceiver and a controller. The ultrasound transceiver includes a changer that changes transmission direction of ultrasound waves. The ultrasound transceiver transmits ultrasound waves in a direction set while being inserted in a subject to acquire biological information of an observation site of the subject. The controller obtains a direction toward the observation site based on the biological information, and controls the changer to adjust the transmission direction of ultrasound waves to the direction thus obtained. | 08-13-2015 |
20150223782 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes an ultrasound transducer and a controller. The ultrasound transducer transmits and receives ultrasound waves while being inserted in a subject to acquire biological information of a predetermined site of the subject. The controller controls the ultrasound transducer to transmit ultrasound waves based on a trigger signal that is set according to conditions of the predetermined site that exhibits periodic motion, or that is obtained according to the conditions. | 08-13-2015 |
20150257731 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry sets a ROI in ultrasound image data that corresponds to at least one temporal phase and is among moving image data of two-/three-dimensional ultrasound image data acquired while using a region containing a tissue in motion as an image taking target. The processing circuitry obtains first position information of an estimated ROI based on movement information and second position information of an estimated ROI based on information other than the movement information, in ultrasound image data corresponding to the other remaining temporal phases within an acquisition period of the moving image data. The processing circuitry tracks the ROI, by obtaining position information combining the first and second position information based on an index related to reliability of the movement information, as position information of the ROI. | 09-17-2015 |
20150305707 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an acquirer, first and second generators, and a display controller. The acquirer acquires a 3D ultrasonic image including a heart. The first generator generates a first cross-sectional image of the 3D ultrasonic image including a first axis passing through a second portion in the 3D ultrasonic image and including a third portion. The second portion is a portion by which one of blood inflow into a first portion which is an atrium or a ventricle and blood outflow from the first portion is performed. The third portion is a portion by which another of the blood inflow and the blood outflow is performed. The second generator generates a second cross-sectional image of the 3D ultrasonic image which includes a second axis passing through the third portion and which intersects with the first cross-sectional image. The display controller displays the cross-sectional images. | 10-29-2015 |
20150320396 | ULTRASONOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGING METHOD - An ultrasonography apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a calculating unit, a multiplying unit, and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of reception signals that are generated by assigning various kinds of weights on multiple reflected wave signals to which a delay according to a position in a reception aperture is given, and by adding the weighted signals for respective kinds of the weights. The calculating unit calculates a coefficient corresponding to each of positions on a scan line of the reception signals, based on any one of a signal and pixel value of each of positions based on at least one reception signal. The multiplying unit multiplies any one of the values of each of positions based on at least one different reception signal from said reception signal(s) by the coefficient to acquire output data. The generating unit generates ultrasonic image data based on the data. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324957 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - A signal processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry and control circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of IQ signals obtained by performing a plurality of processing with different conditions on reflected wave signals generated at a transducer element included in an ultrasound probe. The processing circuitry generates a compound signal compounded by non-linear processing of the IQ signals. The control circuitry causes a display to display image data based on the compound signal. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327840 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND CORRECTION METHOD - An ultrasonic diagnostic device includes transmission circuitry, reception circuitry, and signal processing circuitry. The transmission circuitry causes an ultrasonic probe including a plurality of elements to transmit plane waves at a plurality of different deflection angles. The reception circuitry generates reception signal groups based on reflection waves that the individual elements included in the probe receive in response to the transmission of the plane waves. The signal processing circuitry acquires a plurality of complex images corresponding to the respective deflection angles and estimates wavefront distortion at the time of transmission using the complex pixel values of the complex images, and performs correction processing on the reception signal groups based on the wavefront distortion at the time of the transmission to generate image data based on the complex pixel values of the complex images for the respective deflection angles that are acquired from the reception signal groups after the correction processing. | 11-19-2015 |
20150342571 | MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus includes identification-information-changing circuitry and comparison-result-calculating circuitry. The identification-information-changing circuitry changes identification information given to a plurality of points corresponding to contours of tissue in first medical-image-data in a first medical-image-data group each including a plurality of pieces of medical-image-data of different time phases. The comparison-result-calculating circuitry associates the identification information on the points in the first medical-image-data after a change and identification information given to a plurality of points corresponding to the contours of tissue in second medical-image-data corresponding to the time phase of the first medical-image-data out of a second medical-image-data group each including a plurality of pieces of medical-image-data of different time phases, compares pieces of motion information representing motion of the tissue in the respective pieces of medical-image-data in the first and the second medical-image-data groups between corresponding time phases based on the association, and calculates a comparison result. | 12-03-2015 |