Patents by Inventor Tom Buytaert

Tom Buytaert 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).

  • Combined identification and preview system for use in digital radiography
    Patent number: 6359628
    Abstract: A combined system for identifying a radiographic image that has been stored in a photostimulable phosphor screen and for displaying a preview image of that image on a single personal computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventor: Tom Buytaert
  • Radiographic image identification method
    Patent number: 6271536
    Abstract: Data identifying a radiographic image are entered manually into an identification station. Then, the radiographic image is transferred by radio frequency transmission from the identification station to a radio frequency tag provided on a cassette conveying a photo stimulable phosphor screen in which a radiographic image has been stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventors: Tom Buytaert, Piet Dewaele
  • Method of locating saturated pixels in the display of a radiographic image
    Patent number: 6249596
    Abstract: Method of locating saturated pixels in the display of a radiographic image. In order to locate saturated pixel values in the display of a digital image representation that was subjected to a signal-to-density transformation, the pixel values of the digital image representation are subjected to a second signal-to-density transformation that is substantially equal to the first transformation with the exception of at least one discontinuity situated in (a) saturated pixel value(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert
    Inventors: Tom Buytaert, Stefan Van de Velde
  • System for supplying a processed radiographic image to a remote device
    Patent number: 5654555
    Abstract: A system for supplying a processed radiographic image to a remote device. The system is disclosed for supplying a radiographic image obtained by reading an exposed photostimulable phosphor screen that has been processed in a processing station to a remote device such as a display device that is connected with said processing station via a network and a distributed network filing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert
    Inventors: Tom Buytaert, Lucien Hayen