Patents by Inventor Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans

Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans 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: 10039521
    Abstract: A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device 100 from a body comprising a needle is provided. It has been realized it is advantageous to display 150 a plane intersecting the image data volume showing the needle to a user of the system. This allows better positioning of the needle. The system comprises a needle-plane determination 110 module for determining a plane being parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle and being parallel to a viewing direction. The needle plane determination module may make use of pixel processing and/or spectral transformation, in particular the Gabor transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrikus Hubertus Maria Korsten, Peter Hendrik Nelis De With, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Publication number: 20170238899
    Abstract: A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device 100 from a body comprising a needle is provided. It has been realized it is advantageous to display 150 a plane intersecting the image data volume showing the needle to a user of the system. This allows better positioning of the needle. The system comprises a needle-plane determination 110 module for determining a plane being parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle and being parallel to a viewing direction. The needle plane determination module may make use of pixel processing and/or spectral transformation, in particular the Gabor transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: HENDRIKUS HUBERTUS MARIA KORSTEN, PETER HENDRIK NELIS DE WITH, JOHANNES WILHELMUS MARIA BERGMANS
  • Patent number: 9655588
    Abstract: A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device 100 from a body comprising a needle is provided. It has been realized it is advantageous to display 150 a plane intersecting the image data volume showing the needle to a user of the system. This allows better positioning of the needle. The system comprises a needle-plane determination 110 module for determining a plane being parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle and being parallel to a viewing direction. The needle plane determination module may make use of pixel processing and/or spectral transformation, in particular the Gabor transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrikus Hubertus Maria Korsten, Peter Hendrik Nelis De With, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Publication number: 20160000400
    Abstract: A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device 100 from a body comprising a needle is provided. It has been realized it is advantageous to display 150 a plane intersecting the image data volume showing the needle to a user of the system. This allows better positioning of the needle. The system comprises a needle-plane determination 110 module for determining a plane being parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle and being parallel to a viewing direction. The needle plane determination module may make use of pixel processing and/or spectral transformation, in particular the Gabor transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: HENDRIKUS HUBERTUS MARIA KORSTEN, PETER HENDRIK NELIS DE WITH, JOHANNES WILHELMUS MARIA BERGMANS
  • Patent number: 9125592
    Abstract: A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device 100 from a body comprising a needle is provided. It has been realized it is advantageous to display 150 a plane intersecting the image data volume showing the needle to a user of the system. This allows better positioning of the needle. The system comprises a needle-plane determination 110 module for determining a plane being parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle and being parallel to a viewing direction. The needle plane determination module may make use of pixel processing and/or spectral transformation, in particular the Gabor transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN
    Inventors: Hendrikus Hubertus Maria Korsten, Peter Hendrik Nelis De With, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Publication number: 20120321154
    Abstract: A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device 100 from a body comprising a needle is provided. It has been realized it is advantageous to display 150 a plane intersecting the image data volume showing the needle to a user of the system. This allows better positioning of the needle. The system comprises a needle-plane determination 110 module for determining a plane being parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle and being parallel to a viewing direction. The needle plane determination module may make use of pixel processing and/or spectral transformation, in particular the Gabor transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Hendrikus Hubertus Maria Korsten, Peter Hendrik Nelis De With, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Publication number: 20080266149
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modulation code system and a corresponding modulation method. Said modulation system comprises an encoder 100 for transforming an original signal s into an encoded signal c satisfying predefined second constraints. Said modulation code system further comprises a decoder 200 for decoding the encoded signal c after restoration back into the original signal s. It is the object of the invention to improve such a known modulation code system and method in the way that the amount of required hardware is reduced. This object is solved according to the invention by designing the encoder 100 such that it comprises a series connection of a modulation code encoder 110 and of a transformer encoder 120 serving for filtering an intermediate signal t output by said modulation code encoder 110 and satisfying predefined first constraints in order to generate said encoder output signal c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik Dirk Lodewijk Hollmann, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Publication number: 20080253438
    Abstract: Method for equalizer adaptation and/or target adaptation in a receiver for a transmission channel. The method provides for detecting data in the received signal, deriving an error sequence representing potential errors in the data detection, deriving a first value representing the likelihood of an error in the data detection, the first value based on the error sequence and the received signal, and enabling and disabling adaptation of the equalizer and/or the target response depending on the first value being below or above a predefined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Jamal Riani, Steven J-M., L. Van Beneden, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans, Albert Hendrik Jan Immink
  • Publication number: 20080232213
    Abstract: On existing DVD and CD players a control loop is required for the adaptation and timing recovery. For Two-Dimensional Optical Storage such a control loop has drawbacks because PRML detection in the form of a stripe-wise Viterbi detector is used. Such a detector introduces an increasing detection delay when going from the outer rows towards the center of the broad spiral. A feedback loop is arranged to determining an error signal from a first area of the data block where the first area is that area where the error signal can be determined within the shortest period of time. This reduces the duration of the detection step and thus increases the stability of the control loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONIC, N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans, Albert Hendrik Jan Immink, Jamal Riani, Willem Marie Julia Marcel Coene, Steven Jena-Marie Lucie Van Beneden, Massimo Ciacci, Ali Nowbakht Irani
  • Publication number: 20080219392
    Abstract: A communication system includes a communication channel (110) for time-synchronous transfer of data symbols a1, . . . , aN to a receiver (130). A sampling unit (132) is used for time-sequential sampling the channel under control of a sampling clock signal that is synchronous with transmittal of the data symbols. Each sample includes a representation of a data symbol and noise. A data-aided timing error detector (133) receives a representation of the samples. The detector includes a data-dependent noise predictor (310) for generating a predicted noise sequence ñ1, . . . , ñN where each predicted noise value nk for the k-th sample of the sequence depends on a cluster of a plurality of sampled data symbols and a noise whitening unit (320) for whitening of noise in the sample sequence by removing the predicted noise value ñk. The detector is arranged to provide a signal for correcting the sampling clock signal in dependence on the whitened sample sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Jamal Riani, Steven J-M.L. Van Beneden, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans, Albert Hendrik Jan Immink
  • Patent number: 7206349
    Abstract: Described is a transmission system for transmitting a multicarrier signal from a transmitter (10) to a receiver (20). The multicarrier signal comprises a plurality of subcarriers. The receiver (20) comprises a channel estimator (28) for estimating amplitudes of the subcarriers and for estimating time derivatives of the amplitudes. The receiver (20) further comprises an equalizer (24) for canceling intercarrier interference included in the received multicarrier signal in dependence on the estimated amplitudes and derivatives (29). The channel estimator (28) and/or the equalizer (24) are arranged for exploiting an amplitude correlation between the derivitives of different subcarriers. By making use of this correlation the complexity of the receiver (20) can be substantially reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Johan Paul Marie Gerard Linnartz, Alexei Gorokhov, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans, Antonius Adrianus Cornelis Maria Kalker
  • Patent number: 7111225
    Abstract: A Viterbi bit detection method for detecting the bit values of bits of a channel data stream stored on a record carrier along an N-dimensional channel tube, N being at least two, of at least two bit rows one-dimensionally evolving along a first direction and being aligned with each other along at least a second of N?1 other directions, the first direction together with the N?1 other directions constituting an N-dimensional lattice of bit positions, includes application of a row-based one-dimensional Viterbi bit detection method independent for each of the bit rows of said channel tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V.
    Inventors: Willem Marie Julia Marcel Coene, Albert Hendrik Jan Immink, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Patent number: 7110448
    Abstract: The invention concerns an asynchronous receiver for digital transmission and recording systems. The receiver comprises a sampling rate converter (SRC) for timing recovery, preceded by a digital adaptive equalizer operating at the sampling rate 1/Ts, asynchronous to the data rate 1/T. An equalizer adaptation method using zero-forcing (ZF) techniques is described for adapting equalizer taps asynchronously to the data rate via a control loop. To this end, the control loop comprises temporal interpolation means performing time-base conversion for converting signals from the synchronous domain (1/T) to the asynchronous domain (1/Ts) and spatial conversion means to convert T-spaced signals into Ts-spaced signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans, Charalampos Pozidis, Jianjiang Wang
  • Patent number: 6980606
    Abstract: A branch metric calculation unit calculates a set of branch metric values for subsequent samples of the sampled input signal. Each of the set of branch metric values is an indication for the likelihood that an amplitude value of a sample corresponds to a particular state, a state being defined as a sequence of n-ary digits. A delay unit, which forms part of a delay chain of delay units, includes a first delay unit of the delay chain which is coupled to the branch metric calculation unit. A path metric calculation chain of path metric calculation units includes one or more path metric calculation units having first inputs coupled to a delay unit and second inputs coupled to a preceding path metric calculation unit. The path metric calculation unit calculates the path metric values from the branch metric values, a path metric value being on indication for the likelihood that a sequence of samples corresponds to a sequence of states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Rob Otte, Willem Marie Julia Marcel Coene, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Patent number: 6788749
    Abstract: A receiver for restoring a data signal from a data input signal, comprises a data detector and a control signal generator coupled to the data detector for controlling one or more loops in the data detector, such as an automatic gain control, an equalizer adaptation and/or a timing recovery loop. The receiver also comprises erasure means for generating an instantaneous erasure information signal in case the data input signal to be restored falls within an erasure zone, which erasure means are coupled to the control signal generator for essentially instantaneous use of the instantaneous erasure information for accurate loop control. Preferably the respective control signals are kept constant in time during periods of erasure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Otto Voorman, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans, Ho Wai Wong-Lam
  • Publication number: 20040156293
    Abstract: Domain bloom, also known as asymmetry, is a systematic imperfection caused by the writing process in optical discs. During disc read-out it causes signal transitions to shift with respect to their nominal positions. State-of-the-art equalization and detection methods suffer significant performance losses if directly applied to replay signals with asymmetry. A non-linear model for replay signals with asymmetry is used for new equalization and detection techniques that are applicable to signals in the presence of asymmetry. Modifications are described of the threshold bit-detector, the run-length pushback bit-detector, and the PRML sequence detector, which have significant performance benefits. These benefits come at almost no additional cost with respect to existing detectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Charalampos Pozidis, Willem Marie Julia Marcel Coene, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Patent number: 6731699
    Abstract: A detector (30) is described for detecting a digital signal (Bio) out of an input information signal (Ai) which represents a runlength limited sequence, the runlength having a minimal value m. The detector (30) generates (60, 62) a preliminary binary signal (Bi) out of the input information signal (Ai). A composed sequence of subsequent bits is identified (86) within the preliminary binary signal (Bi) which subsequently includes at least a first neighboring bit of a run of length greater or equal than m+1, one or more further runs of length m and at least a second neighboring bit of a run of length greater or equal than intl. A set of sequences are generated (84, 86). These sequences can be obtained from said composed sequence by changing polarities of binary values within the composed sequence without violating the runlength constraint. The set includes the composed sequence obtained from the preliminary binary signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Charalampos Pozidis, Willem Marie Julia Marcel Coene, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Patent number: 6678862
    Abstract: A partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) bit detection apparatus is disclosed for deriving a bit sequence (xk) from an input information signal. The apparatus comprises input means for receiving the input information signal. The apparatus further comprises sampling means for sampling the input information signal at sampling instants so as to obtain samples (zk) of the information signal at said sampling instants. The apparatus also comprises calculating means (50, 70) for (a) calculating (50) at a sampling instant ti for one or more of a plurality of states sj (Sa, Sb, Sc) at said sampling instant, an optimum path metric value PM(sj,ti) and for determining for said one or more states a best predecessor state at the directly preceding sampling instant ti−1, a state at said sampling instant identifying a sequence of n subsequent bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans, Willem Marie Julia Marcel Coene, Rob Otte, Simon Derek Bramwell
  • Publication number: 20030028839
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and devices for converting a stream of data bits of a binary information signal 2 into a stream of data bits of a constrained binary channel signal 3 using multiple channel codes Cst, Cpc. Apart from a standard code Cst, that is designed for a high coding rate, a parity-check enabling code Cpc is used that allows realization of a certain, predefined parity-check constraint imposed on the constrained binary channel signal 3. This parity-check constraint is related to a predetermined error event of the channel. The amount of use of the parity-check enabling code Cpc is dependent on the need for preventing the certain error event. Also another channel code Csub can be used in this method in order to realise DC-control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Willem Marie Julia Marcel Coene, Charalampos Pozidis, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans
  • Patent number: 6515812
    Abstract: A new embedded-servo format is proposed for use in disk drives, preferably hard disk drives. It is based on biphase modulation (more generally, p-phase modulation, where p>1) and offers significant advantages, in terms of SNR and timing content, over existing formats. It is shown that for biphase, at the low linear densities typically employed for servo information, near maximum-likelihood performance may be attained by a simple bit-detector consisting of a full-response linear equalizer and a binary slicer. When compared with an optimal detector for the commonly used technique of dibit signalling, a SNR gain of some 4 dB is achieved. The same equalizer may be used as the basis for near-maximum-likelihood Position Error Signal (PES) amplitude estimation and timing recovery. Investigations carried out on a practical servo demodulator based on a 5th order analog filter show that, at typical linear densities, this ideal performance is closely approached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Bergmans, Kofi Afolabi Anthony Makinwa, Johannes Otto Voorman