Patents by Inventor Thorsten Koopmann

Thorsten Koopmann 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).

  • Publication number: 20070238948
    Abstract: In a method and system for finding an image slice in a volume data set obtained from a scanner which scans a region of interest of a patient having a medical problem where that medical problem is located within said region of interest, the patient is scanned creating a patient volume data set. At least one of information types prior medical reports of said patient or a-priori knowledge of the type of medical problem are input to a natural language processor. With the natural language processor analyzing the information types to find a most likely volume of interest. The volume of interest is supplied to a navigation component which also receives the volume data set from the scanner, the navigation component also creating landmarks of human anatomy lying within the patient region from the volume data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Ernst Bartsch, Thorsten Koopmann, Susanne Laumann
  • Publication number: 20060161442
    Abstract: A method or system is provided for analyzing or identifying customer requirements. The identified requirements may be used to design a product family or redesign a process. The product can be, but is not necessarily, a computer program. For the analysis or identification, a master diagram is used in which time is defined along a first axis and a plurality of different information systems or alternatively stakeholders, user groups, or user types, are defined along a second axis, the diagram illustrating a plurality of case types, also known as tasks or task types, applicable for the product family or available solutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Susanne Laumann, Thorsten Koopmann