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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120038641 | Displaying Graphics in Multi-View Scenes A computing device includes a memory for storing instructions and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to identify a location for a graphical element in a predefined three-dimensional scene using depth information of content included in t... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038642 | Systems and Methods for Imaging Waveform Volumes Systems and methods for imaging waveform volumes. An image of the waveform volume may be drawn on a display device as a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional image of a sampling probe and redrawn in real-time at interactive rates using a graphics accelerator or a... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120032959 | RESECTION SIMULATION APPARATUS This resection simulation apparatus comprises a tomographic image information acquisition section (6), a memory (9) that is connected to this tomographic image information acquisition section (6), a volume rendering computer (13) that is conn... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026169 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING AN ATRIUM OF THE HEART IN A PATIENT A method is disclosed for visualizing at least one section of the wall of an atrium of the heart in a patient after an ablation for treating atrial fibrillation, in which, based on a volume data record of the heart in the patient obtained after the ablation, at least th... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120001910 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, CURVED LINE SPECIFYING APPARATUS, CURVED LINE SPECIFYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A curved line specifying apparatus includes a curved surface specifying section for receiving a curved surface specifying operation in which a curved surface S in a virtual three-dimensional space is specified and a cross section image display section for outputting, to... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110306468 | CALORIC BURN DETERMINATION FROM BODY MOVEMENT A system and method is disclosed determining caloric burn via an HCI system. Using a capture device which is able to detect the thickness of a user's arms, legs, torso, etc., the system determines a mass for each of a user's body parts. Thereafter, in one example, the s... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110292047 | Method of Three-Dimensional Image Data Processing The present invention relates to the field of data processing, and particularly to a software system and associated method for 3D image processing. The invention is to transform 3D images into space codes, and further align code-associated 3D images with known data with... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110254843 | System and Method for Real-Time Co-Rendering of Multiple Attributes Systems and methods for enhancing the combined image of multiple attributes without comprising the image of either attribute. The combined image of the multiple attributes is enhanced for analyzing a predetermined property revealed by the attributes. The combined image ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110254842 | ACOUSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACOUSTIC IMAGING WITH CONTRAST QUANITFICATION A system (100) and method (400) of acoustic imaging receives an acoustic signal that is scanned to interrogate a target volume within a subject (430), processes the received acoustic signal to produce three-dimensional acoustic image data for a regi... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110234589 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING A MODEL An image such as a depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device. A grid of voxels may then be generated based on the depth image such that the depth image may be downsampled. A model may be adjusted based on a location or position of one or ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110221751 | SPACE DEBRIS VISUALIZATION Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods visualizing space debris events. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for visualizing positional probability of objects in space. The method includes receiving init... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110202510 | SUPPORTING MULTIPLE DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS HAVING DIFFERENT DATA NEEDS USING A VOXEL DATABASE A system can include a voxel database and the set of applications. The voxel database can include a set of voxel indexed records, wherein the voxel database manages a volumetric storage space corresponding to a real-world volumetric space, where units of real-world volu... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199376 | VOXEL BASED THREE DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIROMENTS Geospatial information specific to a real-world volumetric space can be gathered. The gathered information can be stored in a voxel database. The stored information can be indexed against voxels, which correspond to volume units of the real-world volumetric space. Store... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110181590 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING 3D IMAGE RECORDS IN 2D IMAGES The invention relates to method and an apparatus for depth cueing, i.e. improving the sense of depth in two-dimensional images of three-dimensional volume data, said 2D images being generated using volume rendering. The invention is characterized in that a second depth ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110169830 | ACCELERATED VOLUME RENDERING Performing accelerated volume rendering of a scene in a computer system by: loading volumetric data into a first part of a system memory, the volumetric data represented as a three-dimensional array of data values; determining intersection points of each of a set of sam... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110170658 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus comprises a storage unit configured to store a plurality of volume data acquired by imaging a predetermined part of an object, the plurality of volume data corresponding to a plurality of phases, a calculation u... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110157177 | AUTOMATIC TRACING ALGORITHM FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CONTINUOUS STRUCTURES This invention provides an automatic tracing algorithm for quantitative analysis of continuous structures, such as the images of tree-like or network-like structures. The algorithm includes the steps of encoding 3-D image voxels by using a source field encoding methodol... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110158494 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING BONE MARROW IN MEDICAL IMAGES Systems and method for identifying bone marrow in medical images are provided. A method includes obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) volume data set corresponding to an imaged volume and identifying voxels in the 3D CT volume data set having a Ho... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110142321 | DYNAMIC TRANSFER OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA A method for transferring volumetric image data from a server to at least one client comprising: transforming said volumetric images into a hierarchical representation comprising a plurality of coefficients, said hierarchical representation comprising a plurality of lev... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110144964 | Special Treatment on Circular Ring Part of the OLED Bank Structure with Surface Evolver Systems and methods for representing a surface with faces. Defining a face with inner and outer concave constraint lines. Representing the face with five initial vertices spread equidistant on each of the inner and outer concave constraint lines. Using a triangulation r... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110141111 | 3D RECONSTRUCTION FROM OVERSAMPLED 2D PROJECTIONS A method is presented for generating a 3D image of an object using x-rays. The invention describes a method of generating an image of a slice through the object using a large number of detector elements as employed in commonly used x-ray scanners. The method described i... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110128286 | IMAGE RESTORATION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF An image restoration apparatus includes: a control processor unit for separating foreground and background from a loaded input image to transmit each of the separated foreground and background images as a three-dimensional (3D) texture; and a graphic processor unit for ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110122133 | METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONSTRUCTING THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECT MODEL A present invention provides a method for constructing a highly accurate visual hull from multi view point images without highly accurate silhouettes. A method of the present invention comprises calculating continuous values to represent background likelihood of each pi... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110122134 | IMAGE DISPLAY OF A TUBULAR STRUCTURE Described herein is a technology for facilitating visualization of a tubular structure. Digitized image data of the tubular structure is received and processed to determine a centerline. A first transformation operation is performed on a first set of coordinates represe... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110118596 | AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS IN VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY A computer system and a computer-implemented method are provided for interactively displaying a three-dimensional rendering of a structure having a lumen and for indicating regions of abnormal wall structure. A three-dimensional volume of data is formed from a series of... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109630 | Preparation and Presentation of Patient-Individual Panoramic Visualizations The invention relates to a method for generating and presenting a panorama image of a jaw region, wherein first a set of volume data representing the jaw region of a patient is generated by means of a tomographic method, wherein the volume data is composed of a pluralit... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110109629 | RENDERING IMPROVEMENT FOR 3D DISPLAY A method of creating image data, the image data suitable for use with an autostereoscopic display, the method comprising taking a plurality of samples of a 3D scene, each sample taken for the combination of a pixel on a 2D display and an aperture of the autostereoscopic... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110102435 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VISUALIZING SURFACE-LIKE STRUCTURES IN VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS The present invention relates to a method and a device for visualizing surface-like structures in volumetric data sets, including defining local coordinate systems at sample points of the volumetric data set, transforming external parameters from a global coordinate sys... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102434 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND INTERFACING WITH A HAPTIC VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT A method for generating a haptic interactive representation including the steps of defining a haptic interaction space and building a hierarchical construct, for use within the haptic interaction space, using a plurality of underlying constructs. In one embodiment the m... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110090222 | VISUALIZATION OF SCARING ON CARDIAC SURFACE A method for imaging a myocardial surface includes receiving an image volume. A myocardial surface is segmented within the received image volume. A polygon mesh of the segmented myocardial surface is extracted. A surface texture is calculated from voxel information take... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110075885 | VOLUMETRIC IMAGE DATA PROCESSING A method, apparatus, computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions are disclosed for processing volumetric image data. According to the method, 3-dimensional data points are collected. A plurality of 2-dimensional image maps is obtained from the 3-dime... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074780 | Level set segmentation of volume data A method for segmenting a volume dataset is provided. During initialization a level set field within a volume dataset is initialized and an initial set of active voxels is determined in dependence upon the initialized level set field. In an iteration process the level s... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069066 | INTERACTIVE CHANGING OF THE DEPICTION OF AN OBJECT DISPLAYED USING VOLUME RENDERING A depiction of a three-dimensional object that is displayed using volume rendering is influenced. A representation of the object, in which values of a variable characterizing the object are given at spatial points of the object and in which color values are allocated to... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110050692 | INTERPOLATING AND RENDERING SUB-PHASES OF A 4D DATASET A technique for rendering a deformable volume includes acquiring 3D images of a deformable volume including an object during phases of a deformation motion. The 3D images include voxels, a portion of which move from original coordinate locations during a primary phase t... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110043521 | RAY-AGGREGATION FOR RAY-TRACING DURING RENDERING OF IMAGERY A computer-enabled method for rendering a scene of objects representing physical objects includes projecting a first plurality of rays against a scene and aggregating a second plurality of rays that intersect a bounding volume, wherein the bounding volume encloses an ob... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110025691 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY EXAMINATION DATA FROM AN EXAMINATION OBJECT A method and a device are disclosed for displaying computed-tomography examination data from an examination object. In at least one embodiment, there firstly is of the examination object at least one first CT image data record with pixel or voxel values, which were reco... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110013817 | METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING STREAK ARTIFACTS IN IMAGES PRODUCED WITH AN X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM A method for reconstructing images from a set of acquired projection views weights the value backprojected into each image voxel depending on whether the backprojected raysum passes through a highly attenuating region in the subject of the image. If the raysum exceeds a... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007933 | 3D Image Processing Three dimensional image processing is described for example, for digital rendering of real-world objects, medical imaging applications and digital effects rendering. In an example, a 3D image processing apparatus takes a binary volume representation of a three dimension... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100296713 | System and Method for Detecting Poor Quality in 3D Reconstructions A system and method for detecting poor quality images in an optical tomography system includes an acquisition apparatus for acquiring a set of pseudo-projection images of an object having a center of mass, where each of the set of pseudo-projection images is acquired at... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100290684 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE FROM MEDICAL IMAGE DATA In a methods and apparatus for generating an image for display from medical image data of a subject, image data is processed to reconstruct a pre-image data set, and a filter applied to the pre-image data set to produce a filtered image for display, while a value of a v... | 11/18/2010 |
