Patents by Inventor Heinz Horbaschek

Heinz Horbaschek 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).

  • Publication number: 20090110149
    Abstract: A high frame rate X-ray system has an X-ray generator and detector for detecting the X-ray radiation from the X-ray generator, wherein the X-ray generator continuously generates X-rays while X-ray images are captured with a high frame rate by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: Heinz HORBASCHEK
  • Patent number: 7142706
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for processing a radiation image sequence composed of a number of successively acquired radiation images acquired with a dynamic image converter, particularly a solid-state image detector, the images having been acquired with a radiation examination device in a fluoroscopic mode or in a digital cinematographic mode, the spatial frequency spectra of the individual images or frames are subjected to a signal-dependent, temporal filtering with separate filter functions and are merged for forming a filtered overall image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Patent number: 6742929
    Abstract: A universal X-ray device has a movably suspended holder at which an X-ray radiator and a radiation detector are arranged, with the radiator being mounted so as to be pivotable around at least one axis perpendicular to the plane of the holder, and with the detector being displaceably mounted in the detector plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Patent number: 6735280
    Abstract: In a method for the operation of a medical X-ray installation having at least one C-arm at which a solid-state image detector is rotatably arranged and also having a control device that controls the operation thereof, whereby the control device determines an arbitrary position for the solid-state image detector relative to the C-arm, for positioning the solid-state image detector, at which the collision risk of the solid-state image detector with an object is lowest; and the image is computationally rotated dependent on the position data of the solid-state image detector after the image exposure in order to enable a perpendicular presentation of the examination region at an output medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Patent number: 6714622
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for producing an overall image from a number of partial images which are produced successively for common playback, a first partial image is produced and stored, and at least a portion of the first partial image, that adjoins a second partial image to be produced, is played back. A survey image is produced for the second partial image and this survey image is simultaneously played back with the first partial image, with overlapping regions adjoining each other. From this simultaneous playback, the correct orientation of the exposure region for the second partial image is selected, and the image acquisition device is correspondingly positioned and the second partial image is produced, The first and second partial images are then joined to form the overall image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Publication number: 20030210835
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for processing a radiation image sequence composed of a number of successively acquired radiation images acquired with a dynamic image converter, particularly a solid-state image detector, the images having been acquired with a radiation examination device in a fluoroscopic mode or in a digital cinematographic mode, the spatial frequency spectra of the individual images or frames are subjected to a signal-dependent, temporal filtering with separate filter functions and are merged for forming a filtered overall image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Publication number: 20030091151
    Abstract: A universally employable radiography system has a first ceiling-suspended system for an X-ray radiator that is movable in the three spatial coordinates by means of the first ceiling-suspended system and is pivotable around at least two axes, a second ceiling-suspended system independent of the first for a radiation receiver that is movable in the three spatial coordinates by means of the second ceiling-suspended system, and a bracket, attached to the second ceiling-suspended system, at which the radiation receiver is suspended so as to be movable around at least two axes. The X-ray radiator and the radiation receiver can be positioned opposite one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Heinz Horbaschek, Claudius Molz
  • Publication number: 20030016786
    Abstract: In a method for the operation of a medical X-ray installation having at least one C-arm at which a solid-state image detector is rotatably arranged and also having a control device that controls the operation thereof, whereby the control device determines an arbitrary position for the solid-state image detector relative to the C-arm, for positioning the solid-state image detector, at which the collision risk of the solid-state image detector with an object is lowest; and the image is computationally rotated dependent on the position data of the solid-state image detector after the image exposure in order to enable a perpendicular presentation of the examination region at an output medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Publication number: 20030016787
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for producing an overall image from a number of partial images which are produced successively for common playback, a first partial image is produced and stored, and at least a portion of the first partial image, that adjoins a second partial image to be produced, is played back. A survey image is produced for the second partial image and this survey image is simultaneously played back with the first partial image, with overlapping regions adjoining each other. From this simultaneous playback, the correct orientation of the exposure region for the second partial image is selected, and the image acquisition device is correspondingly positioned and the second partial image is produced, The first and second partial images are then joined to form the overall image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Publication number: 20020118793
    Abstract: A universal X-ray device has a movably suspended holder at which an X-ray radiator and a radiation detector are arranged, with the radiator being mounted so as to be pivotable around at least one axis perpendicular to the plane of the holder, and with the detector being displaceably mounted in the detector plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Publication number: 20020071101
    Abstract: In a display system for image systems for the playback of medical images, a number of images are projected onto a passive imaging surface with a laser. The images are built up with a scan procedure. An arrangement is provided that acquires the attitude and position of the imaging surface relative to the laser and automatically sets a properly sized and attitudinally correct, distortion-free projection on the imaging surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Heinz Horbaschek, Bernd Keuenhof, Thomas Mertelmeier
  • Patent number: 6404850
    Abstract: An x-ray diagnostic system, particularly for cardioangiography, has an x-ray and an x-ray image intensifier/video chain or other x-ray image converters, with the x-ray and the x-ray image intensifier being cyclically moved during the production of a number of successive images. The motion of the vessel due to the heartbeat is compensated with a cardiac motion compensation unit in a small image region having an abnormality to be investigated, particularly a stenosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz Horbaschek, Johann Seissl
  • Patent number: 6370417
    Abstract: In a method for positioning a catheter that has been inserted into a vessel and a device for implementing the method, the road map technique is used, wherein as a mask image, a three-dimensional mask image of the vessel which is composed of number of individual mask images is employed. From these individual mask images, that individual mask image is selected whose exposure direction corresponds optimally to the exposure direction of an instantaneously captured individual image, in order to combine this selected individual mask image with the instantaneously captured mask image and to display the resulting combined image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Akiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz Horbaschek, Johann Seissl, Ali-Reza Bani-Hashemi
  • Patent number: 6304627
    Abstract: Radiographic diagnostic device has a projection unit that is formed as a computer tomography system with a radiation emitter and a line detector, which are constructed such that they can be rotated around a projection area opposite one another. A support apparatus with a support plate for an examination subject is provided. The radiographic diagnostic device has an additional radiation receiver allocated to it so that the additional radiation receiver can be moved from a standby position into a pick-up position for receiving a radiation beam that emanates from the radiation emitter of the computed tomography system. Both computed tomography projections and conventional X-ray projections can be obtained with the radiographic diagnostic device when the additional radiation receiver is realized as a radiographic film, a solid-state detector, or a storage foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Patent number: 5630414
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostics installation has an X-ray source and an X-ray image intensifier video chain, including an X-ray image intensifier, a video camera, a control circuit that derives control pulses for producing images of a subject from data supplied thereto identifying exposure conditions, and a subtraction circuit for forming the difference between stored video signals and continuing, current video signals given the same exposure conditions. The X-ray source is cyclically moved during the production of a number of successive images, with the control circuit deriving the control pulses for the production of images from apparatus positions and, possibly, from the ECG of the subject. The subtraction circuit forms the difference between predetermined video signals stored for different apparatus positions and heart phases of a heart cycle and continuing, current video signals obtained at the same apparatus positions and at the same heart phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Patent number: 5509044
    Abstract: A medical radiological diagnostics system having an automatic exposure unit employs signal acquisition and a processing circuitry for controlling the radiation source so as to obtain easily diagnosed exposures with a low radiation load. This is accomplished by disposing a stray radiation grid between the radiation receiver and a radiation sensor, or by selecting the spacing between the radiation receiver and the radiation sensor such that scattered radiation is not incident on the radiation sensor, or, in a system having an x-ray image intensifier and a light sensor, by supplying the output signal of the light sensor to the control circuit through a high-pass filter. In all versions, the measured signal is not disadvantageously influenced by scattered radiation, so that a correct exposure of x-ray film is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Heinz Horbaschek
  • Patent number: 5495514
    Abstract: An x-ray diagnostics installation has an x-ray source connected to a parameter setting unit which sets exposure parameters (operating characteristics) of the x-ray source, and an x-ray image intensifier video chain. The x-ray image intensifier video chain includes a processing circuit connected to a video pick-up stage and a motion detector. The processing unit controls the parameters of a filter unit for chronological filtering of the video signal. The motion detector is connected to the parameter setting unit for the x-ray source, and controls the filter unit depending on the exposure parameters which are set for a given exposure, such as the level of the video signal, the tube voltage, the radiation dose, and the imaging format of the x-ray image intensifier, all of which are set at the parameter setting unit and which characterize the exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz Horbaschek, Heinz Eschenbacher
  • Patent number: 5479468
    Abstract: An x-ray diagnostics installation has an operating voltage generator, an x-ray tube, an x-ray image intensifier, a video camera, a video amplifier having controllable gain, an integration circuit and a control circuit that acts on the operating voltage for dose rate control. The x-ray diagnostics installation is fashioned such that the control circuit is connected to the video amplifier and to the integration circuit and controls these components such that the gain of the video amplifier is raised when a limit value of the dose rate control is reached, with parameters of the integration circuit being simultaneously modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz Horbaschek, Anton Nekovar
  • Patent number: 5473659
    Abstract: A radiological system includes an image pick-up chain which includes an image processor having at an N-output, at which images having a number of lines which is standard, and an H-output for an H-image having a higher number of lines than the standard image. A video recorder is connectable to the N-output, an H-image playback unit is connectable to the H-output. The video recorder is in the image transmission chain, and has an output connected through an up-scan standards converter to a switch, by means of which the H-image playback unit can be connected to an output of the up-scan standards converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joerg Haendle, Heinz Horbaschek
  • Patent number: 5448613
    Abstract: An x-ray diagnostics installation has an x-ray image intensifier video chain which includes a semiconductor detector composed of pixels arranged in a matrix, serving as the video pick-up and a detector for identifying the average image brightness at the output luminescence screen of the x-ray image intensifier within a predetermined image region. A first read-out circuit is provided for pixels of a first group in the image, which is operated with a read-out clock at a first frequency, and a second read-out circuit is provided for pixels of a second group distributed over the area of the semiconductor detector, which is operated with a read-out clock at a second frequency. The second frequency is higher than the first frequency. The output signals of the pixels of the second group are supplied to an evaluation circuit, and the output signals of the first group of pixels are supplied to the video chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joerg Haendle, Heinz Horbaschek