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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184886 | Deformable 2D-3D registration A method for deformable registration including determining a vector field from a two-dimensional matching of a volume of an object of interest and a two-dimensional image of the object of interest, providing a deformation profile, and finding a volume deformation th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184650 | Filtering of redundant frames in a network node A method of filtering redundant frames including a MAC source address, a frame ID and a CRC value, in a network node with two ports each including a transmitting device and a receiving device, is provided. The transmitting device includes a transmission list in whic... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184120 | Framework for processing and rendering large volume data Described herein is a system and method for facilitating large volume data processing and rendering. An exemplary system includes at least one processor coupled to a first memory, wherein the processor is configured to organize the large volume data in the first mem... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183850 | Power converting device and power supply apparatus Each voltage converting unit outputs a first signal at a first output and second signal at a second output. Each first transforming unit includes a magnetically coupled primary and secondary coil, the first output of each one of the converting units is connected to ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183816 | Method for field-oriented operation to zero speed of an encoder-less asynchronous machine In a method for field-oriented operation to zero speed of an encoder-less asynchronous machine, wherein the associated field-oriented regulation device has a monitor with a machine model and rotation-speed adaptation, a model flux and a model current are calculated ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183815 | Method and control device for automatically determining a mass of a door system A method is disclosed for automatically determining an effective mass of a door system that is driven by a motor and has at least one door. In this case a speed change accomplished during an acceleration movement is established, and a force variable, for example the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183809 | Drive device for at least one electric motor and drive control unit interacting with the drive device A drive device for an electric motor is provided. The drive device decides based on signals it receives from outside whether it is monitoring an actual value of the electric motor with respect to the adherence to an actual value condition (monitoring operation). Dur... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183529 | Method for three-dimensional presentation of a moved structure using a tomographic method The invention relates to a method for three-dimensional presentation of a moved structure using a tomographic method, in which a plurality of projection images are recorded from different imaging angles between a start angle with a start node point and an end angle ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181464 | Swirler with concentric fuel and air tubes for a gas turbine engine A swirler passage is provided for mixing fuel and compressor air with at least two side walls; at least first and second conduits arranged inside at least one of the at least two side walls, the first conduit forming a fuel gas conduit and the second conduit forming... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181172 | Method for operation of an automation system A method for operation of an automation system is specified, with programming elements for integration into a control program provided for the control and/or monitoring of a technical process being transferred or being able to be transferred from a programming devic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180135 | Method for providing variously processed image data and X-ray image system Modern image processing systems for the postprocessing of X-ray images require a large number of input parameters and take a great deal of time. So that calculations do not need to be made sequentially for different sets of input parameters, parallel processors are ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176806 | Two-axle drive system In a two-axle drive system (10) for holding and moving large sunlight-absorbing, concentrating or reflecting surfaces about an azimuth axis (14) and an elevation axis (15), in the case of which a first gear unit which is driven by a first drive ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176778 | Capacitive level sensor with a plurality of segments comprising each a capacitor and a circuit A capacitive level sensor comprises a probe which is longitudinally segmented into a plurality of segments. Each segment comprises an electrode forming an electrical capacitor to a common ground electrode. Each electrode is connected to a measuring circuit via an as... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175834 | Measurement system and method for monitoring the measurement system In a method for monitoring a measurement system having a transmitter which determines the position of a moveable element and has a transmitter clock, and an electrical energy store which, in the event of a failure of an external electrical supply voltage for the tra... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170321 | System and method for contour tracking in cardiac phase contrast flow MR images A method for tracking a contour in cardiac phase contrast flow magnetic resonance (MR) images includes estimating a global translation of a contour in a reference image in a time sequence of cardiac phase contrast flow MR images to a contour in a current image in th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170306 | Automatic partitioning and recognition of human body regions from an arbitrary scan coverage image A recognition pipeline automatically partitions a 3D image of the human body into regions of interest (head, rib cage, pelvis, and legs) and correctly labels each region. The 3D image is projected onto a 2D image using volume rendering. The 3D image may contain the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170304 | Modeling cerebral aneurysms in medical images Methods and systems for modeling cerebral aneurysm and their incoming and outgoing vessels from 3D image data are disclosed. Aneurysms and vessels are segmented from their background using a graph-cuts method. Begin and end of vessels are determined. Construction of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8163245 | Microfluidics system for mixing at least two starting materials A microfluidics system for mixing at least two starting materials having a prescribed number of parallel and identical mixing or reaction branches, in which a number of supply ducts corresponding to the number of starting materials open into a mixing or reaction cha... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157252 | Machine tool The invention relates to a machine tool, wherein the machine tool has a workpiece clamping device (10) for clamping a workpiece (9), wherein the workpiece clamping device (10) and in this way the workpiece (9) can be moved by means of a p... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157079 | Transporting apparatus for a vehicle assembly plant A transporting apparatus for a vehicle assembly plant having a base element that is displaceable on a transporting plane, at least two pedestal elements connected to the base element, where each pedestal element is rotatable about a rotational axis perpendicular to ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150543 | Methods, apparatus and articles for an air jet loom In some embodiments, a method includes providing a first controller; providing a second controller; using the second controller to control a plurality of valves to provide a sequence of air jets that propel a weft thread across at least a portion of a weft insertion... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150133 | System and method for automatic registration of 4D (3D plus time) renal perfusion MRI data A method for registering digital renal perfusion images includes selecting a volume of interest (VOI) containing a kidney in a reference renal perfusion image, computing 3D intensity gradients for a plurality of points in the VOI of the reference renal perfusion ima... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139831 | System and method for unsupervised detection and gleason grading of prostate cancer whole mounts using NIR fluorscence A method for unsupervised classification of histological images of prostatic tissue includes providing histological image data obtained from a slide simultaneously co-stained with NIR fluorescent and Hematoxylin-and-Eosin (H&E) stains, segmenting prostate gland unit... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138632 | Control method for redundant use in the event of a fault in a polyphase converter with distributed energy stores The invention relates to a method for controlling a power converter having at least two phase modules, which each have an upper and a lower valve branch, each having at least three series-connected two-pole subsystems, in the event of failure of at least one subsyst... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134273 | Electrical machine with skew-running magnet pole boundaries According to the invention, the torque ripple of electrical machines is supposed to be further reduced. For this purpose, it is provided to dispose the magnetic poles, for example, on the surface of a rotor in a plurality of sections (A1, A2) at differ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134070 | Busbar pack The invention relates to a busbar pack comprising n busbars (2) and at least n−1 insulating bars (4) the surfaces of which project beyond the busbars (2), one insulating bar (4) being interposed between two busbars (2), said stac... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131076 | Editing of pre-segmented images using seeds derived from contours A method for processing an object in image data includes the steps of drawing a contour on a pre-segmentation of an object in image data, generating at least one seed point on the pre-segmentation from an intersection of the contour and the pre-segmentation, providi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131075 | Fast 4D segmentation of large datasets using graph cuts A method for segmenting at least a pair of regions of an image. High resolution data is obtained of the image. Each one of the pair of the regions in the image is marked. Graph cuts are used on the downsampled data to obtain first voxels along an outer boundary of a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131038 | System and method for global-to-local shape matching for automatic liver segmentation in medical imaging A method for automatically segmenting a liver in digital medical images includes providing a 3-dimensional (3D) digital image I and a set of N training shapes {φi}i=1, . . . , N for a liver trained from a set of manually segmented images, sele... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130523 | Method and apparatus for setting a feedback power of a fundamental frequency clocked converter A method and an apparatus for setting a feedback power of a converter clocked at a fundamental frequency on the power supply side are disclosed. The converter includes a bridge circuit equipped with controllable semiconductor switches, wherein the semiconductor swit... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126671 | Measurement system and method for monitoring a measurement system A measurement system has a transmitter for determining the position of a movable element, and a first energy store which, in the event of failure of an external electrical supply unit of the transmitter, supplies at least a part of the transmitter with electrical po... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126239 | Registering 2D and 3D data using 3D ultrasound data A fluoroscopy image is registered with data representing a volume, identifying a catheter position relative to a volume represented by preoperative volume data. The catheter position relative to a patient volume represented by data acquired without scanning the cath... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126232 | System and method for 3D vessel segmentation with minimal cuts A method for segmenting tubular structures in digital medical images includes extracting a subregion from a 3-dimensional (3D) digital medical image volume containing a vessel of interest, identifying potential vessel centerpoints for each voxel in the subregion by ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125955 | High-density wireless local area network A data communication system includes an access point and a plurality of stations each for exchanging wireless data communication messages with the access point. At least some of the messages are in a format that includes at least one message header and a plurality o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122835 | Undercarriage for a rail vehicle An undercarriage (1) for a rail vehicle has an undercarriage frame (2) comprising two longitudinal supports (3) and at least one transverse support (4) connected thereto. The undercarriage has at least two wheelsets (7) supported i... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122793 | Tool for aligning wind turbine tower fasteners A tool for aligning a wind turbine tower fastener includes a shaft having a first end and a second end. A first stop is disposed on the shaft proximate a first end of the shaft and a second stop is disposed on the shaft between the first end and the second end. The ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120219 | Transmitter cover with mounting ring The production costs of electrical machines are to be reduced. To this end, it should be possible to use standard transmitters for different axis heights of the electrical machine. The invention therefore provides a transmitter cover for an electrical machine, havin... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118890 | Method and device for producing synthesis gases by partial oxidation of slurries prepared from fuels containing ash and full quenching of the crude gas A method and device for the gasification of solid fuels such as bituminous coals, and cokes such as those from bituminous coals, lignite coals, and biomasses, as well as petroleum cokes, that are ground fine and mixed with water or oil to obtain fuel-in-liquid suspe... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116108 | Method for operating a converter and corresponding apparatus A method for operating a line-side fundamental-frequency-clocked converter is disclosed. The converters has a bridge circuit with, for example three, upper and, for example three, lower semiconductor switches, which are connected to respective positive and negative ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115360 | Electric machine with stepped winding structure An electric machine for direct drive or braking applications with coils providing improved power efficiency and heat transfer is disclosed. The electric machine has a coil body and a winding with a plurality of turns wound on the coil body. Each of the various turns... | 02/14/2012 |
