Patents by Inventor Ian R. Greenshields

Ian R. Greenshields 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).

  • Patent number: 6166853
    Abstract: An adaptive structure of a Wiener filter is used to deconvolve three-dimensional wide-field microscope images for the purposes of improving spatial resolution and removing out-of-focus light. The filter is a three-dimensional kernel representing a finite-impulse-response (FIR) structure requiring on the order of one thousand (1000) taps or more to achieve an acceptable mean-square-error. Converging to a solution is done in the spatial-domain and therefore does not experience many of the problems of frequency-domain solutions. Alternatively, a three-dimensional kernel representing an infinite-impulse-response (IIR) structure may be employed. An IIR structure typically requires fewer taps to achieve the same or better performance, resulting in higher resolution images with less noise and faster computations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: The University of Connecticut
    Inventors: Mark A. Sapia, James C. Schaff, Ian R. Greenshields, Leslie M. Loew, Frank R. Morgan