Patents by Inventor Scott D. Otterson

Scott D. Otterson 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: 6176143
    Abstract: A method of calibrating Doppler time-velocity waveforms obtained using a duplex ultrasound scanner. A spectral broadening error margin for the maximum velocity waveform is determined based on a unified theory of intrinsic spectral broadening for pulsed Doppler signals. The error margin is colorized or highlighted in the Doppler waveform display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Larry Y. L. Mo, Scott D. Otterson
  • Patent number: 5956634
    Abstract: A system and method for combining the results of different analysis portions to produce a single YES/NO decision regarding the validity of a present cellular telephone call. A soft data analysis portion of the system analyzes soft data, such as the results of a signature analyzer and a customer call profile and determines the likelihood that the particular call is a valid call from an authorized cellular telephone or an invalid call from a fraudulent cellular telephone. In addition, the system performs a deterministic analysis of the particular phone call to independently designate the particular phone call as valid or invalid. The outputs from the deterministic analyzer and the soft data analyzer portion are combined in a combinatorial logic circuit to produce a single binary output having one logic level for valid calls from the authorized cellular telephone and the opposite logic level for invalid calls from the fraudulent cellular telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Cellular Technical Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Otterson, Dmitry Kaplan
  • Patent number: 5845004
    Abstract: An ultrasound system produces composite color flow images of tissue samples. To reduce image flicker, the ultrasound system stores the data required to produce two sequential color flow images and computes a series of interpolated images that are displayed between the actual color flow images. A piece-wise interpolation function is used to create the interpolated images in order to prevent artificial smoothing of the image data. In addition, the ultrasound system quantizes the ultrasound data used to compute the interpolated images in order to reduce the amount of memory required to store the data for the sequential color flow images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Zoran Banjanin, King-Yuen Wong, Robert N. Phelps, Jin Kim, Jeffrey T. Reeve, Scott D. Otterson
  • Patent number: 5676148
    Abstract: A Doppler audio dealiasing system has a zero inserter that inserts zeros between input samples of signal. The resultant signal is then processed in various ways. After the zeros are inserted and a new signal is formed, the newly formed signal is filtered with or without a modulator and otherwise processed to remove inappropriate parts to generate forward and reverse audio signals corresponding to the adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Ja-il Koo, Scott D. Otterson
  • Patent number: 5553621
    Abstract: A Doppler audio dealiasing system has a zero inserter that inserts zeros between input samples of signal. The resultant signal is then processed in various ways. After the zeros are inserted and a new signal is formed, the newly formed signal is filtered and otherwise processed to remove inappropriate parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott D. Otterson