Patents by Inventor Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil 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).

  • Real-time image enhancement for X-ray imagers
    Patent number: 9785860
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for an X-ray imaging system. An X-ray source is configured to provide X-ray radiation and has an associated focal spot. A detector is configured to generate a digital image representing attenuation of the X-ray radiation as it passes through a subject. An image enhancement component is configured to apply a separable deconvolution kernel, derived from an estimate of a point spread function associated with the focal spot as a vector function applied to the rows and subsequently to the columns of the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventor: Robert Cecil
  • REAL-TIME IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR X-RAY IMAGERS
    Publication number: 20160019678
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for an X-ray imaging system. An X-ray source is configured to provide X-ray radiation and has an associated focal spot. A detector is configured to generate a digital image representing attenuation of the X-ray radiation as it passes through a subject. An image enhancement component is configured to apply a separable deconvolution kernel, derived from an estimate of a point spread function associated with the focal spot as a vector function applied to the rows and subsequently to the columns of the digital image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Cecil