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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7450743 | Method and system of affine registration of inter-operative two dimensional images and pre-operative three dimensional images A system and method for registering a sequence of inter-operative two dimensional (2D) medical images of a target feature with pre-operative three dimensional (3D) medical images of the target feature is disclosed. The 3D image of the target feature is converted to ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7421101 | System and method for local deformable motion analysis A system and method for local deformable motion analysis accurately tracks the motion of an object such that local motion of an object is isolated from global motion of an object. The object is viewed in an image sequence and image regions are sampled to identify ob... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7339586 | Method and system for mesh-to-image registration using raycasting A method of registering a digital image with a polygonal mesh comprising the steps of providing a digital image, providing a polygonal mesh comprising a plurality of vertices that approximates an object in the digital image, propagating a ray from a vertex of the po... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7301535 | 3D summary display for reporting of organ tumors A computer-implemented method for visualizing a tumor in a volume data includes providing a plurality of tumors, detected and segmented from the volume data, storing locations of a plurality of voxels corresponding to each of the plurality of tumors, and determining... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299162 | Method and apparatus for providing a polynomial based virtual age estimation for remaining lifetime prediction of a system A method for providing a virtual age estimation for predicting the remaining lifetime of a device of a given type, comprises the steps of monitoring a predetermined number of significant parameters of respective ones of a training set of devices of the given type, t... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298923 | Method and system for focus-adaptive reconstruction of spine images A method for aligning a pair of digital images includes providing a pair of digital images, wherein each said image comprises a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in a D-dimensional space, and the pair of images present adjacent views of a ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295869 | Method and apparatus for needle placement and entry point determination in percutaneous procedures A method for determining the best entry point for a percutaneous procedure, such as with a biopsy needle, comprises selecting first and second arbitrary entry points on a patient; determining the three dimensional (3-D) orientation of the needle at the first arbitra... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7248718 | System and method for detecting a passing vehicle from dynamic background using robust information fusion A system and method for detecting a passing vehicle is disclosed. A video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames is received. Image intensity is measured and image motion is estimated in each image frame. A hypothesis model describing background dynamics is... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245958 | Trigonometric depth gauge for biopsy needle Apparatus for determining a proper insertion depth of a biopsy needle to be inserted at a selected point on the body of a patient so that a sampling end of the needle just reaches to a designated target area within the body, comprises at least one straight calibrate... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243777 | Omega package sorter A method and apparatus for sorting or pre-sorting objects contains a system of conveyors and crossover diverters incorporating the topology of an omega network. The sorter interconnects a series of perfect shuffle networks, interleaved with banks of crossover switch... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240042 | System and method for biological data analysis using a bayesian network combined with a support vector machine A method for analyzing biological data includes classifying a first set of biological data in a first classifier, classifying a second set of biological data in a second classifier, combining the results of the first classifier with the results of the second classif... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239330 | Augmented reality guided instrument positioning with guiding graphics There is provided a method for augmented reality guided instrument positioning. A graphics guide is determined for positioning an instrument that provides a substantially unobstructed view of the instrument during the positioning. The graphics guide is rendered in a... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7190378 | User interface for augmented and virtual reality systems A user interface for augmented reality (AR) systems and virtual reality (VR) systems which include a computer and virtual graphics and in which a user experiences a virtual viewing direction, includes: a virtual line pointer included in the virtual graphics and fixe... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188050 | Method and apparatus for detecting out-of-range conditions in power generation equipment operations A method and apparatus for detecting out-of-range conditions representing normal operations is disclosed. A support vector machine is used to generate an improved representation of historical training data from power generation equipment that facilitates a more accu... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176936 | Augmented reality guided instrument positioning with modulated guiding graphics There is provided a method for augmented reality guided instrument positioning. A graphics guide is determined for positioning an instrument. The graphics guide is rendered such that an appearance of at least one portion of the graphics guide is modulated with respe... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7095401 | System and method for gesture interface A method for determining a gesture includes determining a change in a background of an image from a plurality of images, determining a object in the image, determining a trajectory of the object through the plurality of images, and classifying a gesture according to... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7087018 | System and method for real-time feature sensitivity analysis based on contextual information A system and method for assigning feature sensitivity values to a set of potential measurements to be taken during a medical procedure of a patient in order to provide a medical diagnosis is disclosed. Data is received from a sensor that represents a particular medi... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7072494 | Method and system for multi-modal component-based tracking of an object using robust information fusion A system and method for tracking an object is disclosed. A video sequence including a plurality of image frames are received. A sample based representation of object appearance distribution is maintained. An object is divided into one or more components. For each co... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064742 | Input devices using infrared trackers An interaction/input device for use in systems utilizing infrared video-based trackers is provided. The interaction/input device is employed by placing markers, e.g., small retroreflective disks, in a predetermined configuration on a planar surface to simulate physi... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7031950 | Method and apparatus for providing a virtual age estimation for remaining lifetime prediction of a system using neural networks A method for providing a virtual age estimation for predicting the remaining lifetime of a device of a given type, comprises the steps of monitoring a predetermined number of significant parameters of respective ones of a training set of devices of the given type, t... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6983063 | Computer-aided diagnosis method for aiding diagnosis of three dimensional digital image data There is provided a computer-assisted diagnosis method for assisting diagnosis of three-dimensional digital image data. The method includes the step of receiving indicia identifying at least one region of interest in a digital medical image. Three-dimensional object... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6456711 | Method for placing a call intended for an enhanced network user on hold while the enhanced network user is unavailable to take the call using a distributed feature architecture A method for placing a call intended for an enhanced network user on hold is disclosed. A calling party is enabled to select the type of information which is provided to the calling party while the calling party is on hold by using a Distributed Feature N... | 09/24/2002 |
| 5590370 | Intelligent memory system for processing varibable length I/O instructions A memory system contains one or more active storage elements. Each active storage element includes a memory element and a processing element associated with the memory element. The memory element contains microcode for implementing a specific function. A ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5574837 | Method of generating a browser interface for representing similarities between segments of code A cluster interface is generated which represents similarities of semantics between segments of code with respect to both the physical constructs of the code and the underlying operations performed by the code. The generated interface represents one or mo... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5564082 | Diversity antenna for a wrist telephone A radiotelephone wrist device includes a case having a transceiver and a strap attached to the case for fastening the device to a user's wrist. The strap has a top layer and a bottom layer. The top layer is attached to the bottom layer by a pivot mechanis... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5511159 | Method of identifying parameterized matches in a string Methods are disclosed for finding maximal matches in data strings and for finding matches in parameterized strings, that is, strings containing symbols from more than one alphabet in which the symbols from one of the alphabets are treated as parameters. I... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5499292 | On hook/off hook mechanism for wrist telephone A radiotelephone wrist device includes a case having a transceiver and a strap attached to the case for fastening the device to a user's wrist. The strap has a top layer and a bottom layer in which the top layer is releasable from the bottom layer of the ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5461707 | Method of reducing document size for digital display A method of reducing the size of an image of a document page selected rows and columns are eliminated from an image of a document page. The image is made up of a plurality of pixels which form rows and columns. Low information areas in the image are ident... | 10/24/1995 |
