Patents by Inventor Miao Peng

Miao Peng 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: 7965893
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting borders in a chest image. The method comprises calculating the gray level difference between neighboring pixels of the chest image to get a differential image; filtering the differential image to reduce noise and enhance the target; binarizing the filtered image; picking out the outside edges of the area with high gray level from the binarized image; and determining a final border from the edges according to the character of the border to be found. The present invention also provides an apparatus and a storage medium for implementing the above-mentioned method and a method and an apparatus for automatically measuring the Cardiothoracic Ratio of a chest image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Dawei Wu, Miao Peng
  • Publication number: 20060285751
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of detecting borders in a chest image. The method comprises calculating the gray level difference between neighboring pixels of the chest image to get a differential image; filtering the differential image to reduce noise and enhance the target; binarizing the filtered image; picking out the outside edges of the area with high gray level from the binarized image; and determining a final border from the edges according to the character of the border to be found. The present invention also provides an apparatus and a storage medium for implementing the above-mentioned method and a method and an apparatus for automatically measuring the Cardiothoracic Ratio of a chest image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: DAWEI WU, Miao Peng
  • Patent number: D747873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventor: Dong Miao Peng