Patents by Inventor Stamatia GIANNAROU

Stamatia GIANNAROU 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).

  • Image processing method and apparatus for tracking a site in a series of images
    Patent number: 9934569
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for tracking a site in a series of images, the method comprising identifying a site to be tracked; selecting at least three non-collinear locations distributed around the sire in the reference image; selecting, from the reference image, a region of image data around each of the at least three non collinear locations; comparing each selected region with a second image and, based on these comparisons, identifying for each selected region a corresponding location in the second image, determining a single common affine transformation to map the at least three locations from the reference image onto the corresponding locations in the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Imperial Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Menglong Ye, Stamatia Giannarou, Guang-Zhong Yang
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160196652
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for tracking a site in a series of images, the method comprising identifying a site to be tracked; selecting at least three non-collinear locations distributed around the sire in the reference image; selecting, from the reference image, a region of image data around each of the at least three non collinear locations; comparing each selected region with a second image and, based on these comparisons, identifying for each selected region a corresponding location in the second image, determining a single common affine transformation to map the at least three locations from the reference image onto the corresponding locations in the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Menglong YE, Stamatia GIANNAROU, Guang-Zhong YANG