Patents Examined by Mathew C. Bella
  • Patent number: 10304217
    Abstract: An image is reconstructed based upon a filtered backprojection (FBP) technique using a reconstruction filter which is customized or shaped by parameters including a weight value that is determined for weighing projection data according to a predetermined noise model. The weight value is determined based upon rays or views in the projection data. A regularization term is also combined with the noise-weighted FBP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH REASEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Gengsheng L. Zeng, Alexander Zamyatin
  • Patent number: 7916152
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing data representative of a full color image. Such systems may comprise the steps of assisting a color blind person to indicate portions of an image which to their color-deficient vision are indistinguishable, and altering the image to cause those portions to become distinguishable and identifiable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Tenebraex Corporaton
    Inventors: Peter W. J. Jones, Dennis W. Purcell
  • Patent number: 7221776
    Abstract: A video stabilization system processes a video segment to remove unwanted motion, resulting in a stabilized video segment. The video stabilization system tracks one or more features through multiple frames, identifies ideal positions for the features, and then generates information (e.g., rotation, scaling, shearing, and/or translation) to transform all pixels in each frame to ideal positions based on the ideal positions of the features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: ArcSoft, Inc.
    Inventor: Wei Xiong
  • Patent number: 7184606
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, the head top of a subject is detected, and the positions of a camera and a mirror are adjusted so that the coordinates of the detected head top coincide with the coordinates of a reference head top. When it is determined that the coordinates coincide with each other, the image size of a face of the subject is detected, and the zoom of the camera is controlled so that the detected image size and a reference image size coincide with each other. When it is determined that the image size of the face and the reference image size coincide, the positions of the camera and the mirror are adjusted again so that the coordinates of the head top of the subject and the coordinates of the reference head top coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Shindo, Hiroaki Takano, Toshiaki Nakanishi