Patents by Inventor Klaus-Peter Kreuzer

Klaus-Peter Kreuzer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system
    Patent number: 7587235
    Abstract: A method for assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system is provided. The method includes: producing digital image information from a digital image recording device for a patient being monitored by means of the navigation system; transmitting a signal from the image recording device to the navigation system when an image is produced, the signal including assignment information for assigning the image information to the navigational data which apply to the image information; and transmitting the image information from the image recording device to the navigation system, wherein the image information and the corresponding navigational data are assigned to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: BrainLAB AG
    Inventors: Henrik Wist, Alf Ritter, Mario Zeiss, Hanna Rotermund-Buwen, Helmar Werner Lang, Jörg Peter Strobel, Klaus-Peter Kreuzer
  • METHOD FOR GENERATION OF AN X-RAY IMAGE
    Publication number: 20070183637
    Abstract: In a method for generation of an x-ray image of a subject in a patient, a first x-ray image showing the subject in the patient is acquired. A subject image containing only image information in the imaging region of the subject is created from the first x-ray image by image regions of the first x-ray image that do not belong to the imaging region of the subject being removed. A second x-ray image of the patient is acquired in the region of the subject. The subject image is associated with the second x-ray image with positional accuracy and both are merged into a sum image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Kreuzer, Michael Leigart
  • Method for assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system
    Publication number: 20030139670
    Abstract: The invention relates to assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system, wherein:
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Henrik Wist, Alf Ritter, Mario Zeiss, Hanna Rotermund-Buwen, Helmar Werner Lang, Jorg Peter Strobel, Klaus-Peter Kreuzer