Patents Examined by Shervin Nakhjavan
  • Patent number: 9974511
    Abstract: A medical imaging apparatus according to a present embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains pieces of medical image data, the pieces each being generated in each of multiple time phases and each including bone information. The processing circuitry sets first regions each being included in each of the pieces. The processing circuitry generates pieces of corrected medical image data by aligning the pieces of medical image data so that the first regions are substantially a same position. The processing circuitry specifies second regions each corresponding to a bone moving in the pieces of the corrected medical image data. The processing circuitry displays the second regions so as to be recognized on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Megumu Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9971775
    Abstract: A method and system for processing a user request for a recommended area of interest includes the steps of receiving the request including an indication of an electronic device geo-location and a user defined search constraint; receiving data associated with photographs associated with geo-objects, the data comprising geo-location coordinates of the photographs, the geo-location coordinates of the photographs being in proximity with the device geo-location; computing a plurality of region representations based on the geo-location coordinates of the photographs, each region representation being associated with a unique photograph density calculation parameter, the computing comprises determining a potential area of interest in each region representation, each region representation being a candidate for an optimal region representation; determining the optimal region representation based on the user defined search constraint; and displaying to the user the recommended area of interest that corresponds to the po
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Dmitry Anatolievich Laptev, Pavel Viktorovich Serdyukov, Aleksey Viktorovich Tikhonov, Gleb Gennadievich Gusev
  • Patent number: 9972086
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image quality evaluation method for a digital pathology system according to the present invention. The image quality evaluation method includes receiving a digital slide image by an image quality evaluation unit; dividing the digital slide image into a plurality of blocks by the image quality evaluation unit; analyzing the plurality of blocks to extract a foreground; calculating a blur for the extracted foreground; calculating brightness distortion for the extracted foreground; calculating contrast distortion for the extracted foreground; and evaluating the overall quality of the digital slide image using the blur, the brightness distortion, and the contrast distortion by the image quality evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Inventor: Duy Hien Pham
  • Patent number: 9965842
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus sets a predetermined reading resolution for acquiring image data and a division size for performing a predetermined process on the image data and extract a unique portion from image data resulting from performing the predetermined process. The predetermined process includes an averaging process on the image data for each of division areas obtained by dividing the image data by the predetermined division size, a quantization process for quantizing values obtained by the averaging process, and an addition process for adding values obtained by the quantization process, that are different in the dividing way of the image data in the averaging process. The setting unit sets the predetermined reading resolution so as to make the width of the unique portion in the image correspond to N read pixels (N?2), and sets the division size so as to have a width larger than N pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Suwa, Shinjiro Hori, Tohru Ikeda, Tomokazu Ishikawa, Wakako Tanaka, Hidetsugu Kagawa, Yumi Yanai
  • Patent number: 9962125
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image compression method of a digital pathology system. The image compression method is a method of compressing digital slide images having first to nth original plane images (n is a natural number greater than or equal to 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Man Won Hwang
  • Patent number: 9965855
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sample similarity measurement method for a digital pathology system. The sample similarity measurement method during a process of a digital pathology system includes extracting a first main area and a second main area of each of a first digital slide image and a second digital slide image; aligning the first main area and the second main area; classifying sample types of the first main area and the second main area when the alignment is successful; and measuring similarity of the first main area and the second main area when the sample types are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Sung Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 9965875
    Abstract: A method of generating a synthesized digital projection image, executed at least in part by a computer, acquires x-ray projection images at corresponding acquisition angles, and reconstructs a first volume image. Forward projection generates a preceding forward projection image at a first acquisition angle; a following forward projection image at an adjacent second acquisition angle; and an intermediate forward projection image for an intermediate angle. A synthesized projection image is formed by identifying a candidate patch of pixels from the intermediate forward projection image, matching a first patch of pixels from the preceding forward projection image and identifying a corresponding first acquired patch of pixels from the first acquired x-ray projection image, matching a second patch of pixels from the following forward projection image and matching a second acquired patch of pixels from the forward projection image. The first and second acquired patches are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Ray, Richard A. Simon, Levon O. Vogelsang
  • Patent number: 9959468
    Abstract: A method for classifying at least one object of interest in a video is provided. The method includes accessing, using at least one processing device, a frame of the video, the frame including at least one object of interest to be classified, performing, using the at least one processing device, object detection on the frame to detect the object of interest, tracking, using the at least one processing device, the object of interest over a plurality of frames in the video over time using a persistent tracking capability, isolating, using the at least one processing device, a segment of the frame that includes the object of interest, classifying, using the at least one processing device, the object of interest by processing the segment using deep learning, and generating an output that indicates the classification of the object of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Aaron Y. Mosher, David Keith Mefford
  • Patent number: 9949700
    Abstract: A system and method for providing image guidance for planning approach paths for one or more medical devices at a target location. The system can receive a volumetric medical image, determine a density of content within the volumetric medical image, receive an indication of a target location within the volumetric medical image, identify obstructing objects within the volumetric medical image, and determine a plurality of pathways from an approach region of the volumetric medical image to the target location. The system can cause a display to concurrently display the volumetric medical image and a plurality of emplacements for one or more medical imaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: InnerOptic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sharif Razzaque, Luv Kohli, Andrei State
  • Patent number: 9943282
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an estimation unit, a noise reduction unit, and an output unit. The estimation unit estimates a scattered-ray component contained in a radiation image acquired by irradiating an object with a radiation, wherein the scattered-ray component originates from a scattered ray which is a radiation scattered in the object. The noise reduction unit reduces a noise component included in the radiation image in accordance with first noise information obtained from the radiation image and second noise information obtained from a scattered-ray reduction image obtained by reducing the scattered-ray component from the radiation image. The output unit outputs a correction image obtained by reducing the scattered-ray component and the noise component in the radiation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinya Katsumata
  • Patent number: 9940728
    Abstract: System and techniques for computer vision assisted item search are described herein. A composite image, including visual data and depth data, may be obtained. The composite image may be filtered to isolate a clothing article represented in the composite image. A classifier may be applied to the depth data to produce a set of clothing attributes for the clothing article. The clothing attributes may then be provided to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jim S Baca, David Stanasolovich
  • Patent number: 9940510
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide for the sharing of digital content stored on a device via an image that is representative of the digital content. The device, in response to selection of digital content stored on the device, extracts frames from the digital content that are representative of the digital content. In response to selection of one of the frames, the device captures digitally handwritten customizations made to the selected frame to create a customized image. The device extracts features at least from the handwritten customizations made to the selected frame to identify the customized image. The device uploads the digital content, the customized image, and the extracted features to a remote database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Andre Le, Mark Dorn, Alexis Katherine Gregorich, Elaine Yan Chi Yuan
  • Patent number: 9934588
    Abstract: A method of providing multimodal medical images includes: loading first image data and second image data obtained by two different imaging modalities; generating object modeling data based on at least one of the first image data and the second image data; and displaying, on a display, the first image data, the second image data, and the object modeling data. The object modeling data is a virtual model of a body tissue of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun-hee Jo
  • Patent number: 9922243
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods for predicting one or more characteristics of an individual, such as a human or non-human animal, by applying computational methods to image(s) of the individual to generate one or more metrics indicative of the characteristics. Embodiments determine predictors of characteristics by creating a sample library of individuals, determining facial measurements for each individual, determining relationships between facial measurements and additional library data, and selecting predictors from these relationships. Embodiments include methods for predicting characteristics of individuals not in the library. Embodiments include methods for predicting characteristics of groups using predicted characteristics of individuals. Embodiments determine suitability of a pair of individuals (from the same or different species) for a particular purpose, task, or relationship based on characteristics of individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventor: Catherine G. McVey
  • Patent number: 9916491
    Abstract: A first method comprises using an imaging device to produce a plurality of images of a culture device, analyzing a first image to identify a microorganism colony at a first location, analyzing a second image to identify a gas bubble at a second location, and determining whether the first location is proximate the second location. A second method comprises analyzing an image of a culture device to detect gas bubbles and classifying the gas bubbles according to a size parameter associated with each of the gas bubbles. A third method comprises analyzing a first area of an image of a culture device to detect a first number of gas bubbles, analyzing a second area of the image to detect a second number of gas bubbles, and comparing the first number of gas bubbles to the second number of gas bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Phillip A. Bolea, Michael G. Williams
  • Patent number: 9911208
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided to predict a regularization parameter for regularized iterative reconstruction of radiation detection data (e.g., computed tomography (CT) data or positron-emission tomography (PET) data) to generate a reconstructed image having specified statistical properties. The predicted regularization parameter is determined using a root-finding method performed on a transcendental objective function. The objective function is calculated using a three-dimensional Fourier transforms of an approximation to a shift invariant Hessian matrix and of matrix products between the forward-projection and back projection matrices of the system model and various (statistical) weight matrices. The specified statistical properties can include the standard deviation within a region of interest, a local spatial resolution, a low-contrast-detectability metric, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian Zhou, Wenli Wang, Yi Fan, Zhou Yu
  • Patent number: 9911190
    Abstract: Method, system and computer program for generating a database of pixel patterns includes obtaining images using an imaging system of mobile devices, each image including a pixel pattern, and determining a position of the mobile device using a positioning system at least partly situated on the mobile device when each image is obtained using the imaging system of the mobile device. Positional relationships between a size and/or angular orientation of the pattern of pixels and an associated determined position of the mobile device when the at least one image including the pattern of pixels was obtained are generated and enables retrieval of an estimation of the position of the mobile device upon input of another image including the pattern of pixels. The generated positional relationships between the size and/or angular orientation of the pattern of pixels and the associated determined position of the mobile device are stored in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Vortex Intellectual Property Holding LLC
    Inventor: Cyril Houri
  • Patent number: 9889855
    Abstract: A method for determining an incline in a road that is some distance ahead of a motor vehicle relative to the section of road that is currently being driven on by the motor vehicle, wherein images of the road that is ahead of the motor vehicle are recorded by a camera, road path lines are identified ahead of the motor vehicle in the recorded images and the relative incline is calculated with reference to the differences in the courses of the road path lines at different distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christoph Arndt, Uwe Gussen, Frederic Stefan
  • Patent number: 9881410
    Abstract: A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus according to embodiments includes storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry stores therein volume data concerning a three-dimensional region inside an object. The processing circuitry calculates an index value concerning a region of interest in the volume data, and generates a first medical image and a second medical image based on the index value. The respective positions in the first medical image and the second medical image are associated with each other by a certain coordinate conversion. The region of interest is divided into a plurality of first regions by a first boundary position. The second medical image is divided into a plurality of second regions by a second boundary position that is not altered in accordance with the alteration of the first boundary position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Abe, Tomoya Okazaki
  • Patent number: 9881026
    Abstract: Disclosed are method and apparatus to recognize actors during normal system operation. The method includes defining actor input such as hand gestures, executing and detecting input, and identifying salient features of the actor therein. A model is defined from salient features, and a data set of salient features and/or model are retained, and may be used to identify actors for other inputs. A command such as “unlock” may be executed in response to actor input. Parameters may be applied to further define where, when, how, etc. actor input is executed, such as defining a region for a gesture. The apparatus includes a processor and sensor, the processor defining actor input, identifying salient features, defining a model therefrom, and retaining a data set. A display may also be used to show actor input, a defined region, relevant information, and/or an environment. A stylus or other non-human actor may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Atheer, Inc.
    Inventors: Sleiman Itani, Allen Yang Yang