Patents by Inventor Clément Forest

Clément Forest 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).

  • Process and system for simulation or digital synthesis of sonographic images
    Patent number: 8241041
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the simulation or digital synthesis of echographic images, characterised by the direct transformation in real time, or quasi real time, of the information contained in a 3D scanographic (or tomodensitometric) medical or veterinary image, without delimitation or segmentation of the bodies or structures contained in the volume of scanographic data, according to at least one two-dimensional observation window which can be modified in real time, or quasi real time, in terms of the dimension, position, directions and orientation thereof, the characteristics thereof depending on the type of virtual echographic probe determined, and reproducing all of the attenuation, reflection, refraction and dispersion effects, and the regulation effects of a real echographic image, each echographic image supplied cumulating the results of the simulations of the pre-cited effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Institut de Recherche sur les Cancers de l'Appareil Degestif (IRCAD)
    Inventors: Alexandre Hostettler, Luc Soler, Clément Forest, Jacques Marescaux
  • Process and system for simulation or digital synthesis of sonographic images
    Patent number: 8235726
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the simulation or digital synthesis of echographic images, characterized by the direct transformation in real time, or quasi real time, of the information contained in an IRM-type medical or veterinary image, without delimitation or segmentation of the bodies or structures contained in the volume of data of the IRM image, according to at least one two-dimensional observation window which can be modified in real time, or quasi real time, in terms of the dimension, position, direction and orientation thereof, the characteristics thereof depending on the type of virtual echographic probe determined, and reproducing all of the attenuation, reflection, refraction and dispersion effects, and the regulation effects of a real echographic image, each echographic image supplied cumulating the results of the simulations of the pre-cited effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Institut de Recherche sur les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif (IRCAD)
    Inventors: Alexandre Hostettler, Luc Soler, Clément Forest, Jacques Marescaux