Stereoscopy Patents (Class 378/41)
  • Patent number: 11940393
    Abstract: An X-ray inspection apparatus includes: an X-ray irradiation unit; a transport unit; an X-ray detection unit; and an X-ray shielding door. An inclined portion that is inclined downward from the one side toward the other side in the width direction when seen in the transport direction in the closed state is formed in at least a part of an inner surface of the X-ray shielding door. In the closed state, a lower end portion of the inclined portion in the vertical direction is located closer to the other side of the width direction than a position of an end portion of the transport unit on the one side of the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ishida Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hori
  • Patent number: 11896848
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for patient setup and registration for the irradiation of target tissue regions. A method for positioning a patient for radiation therapy may include acquiring an image of a first patient target region and a second patient target region. A first set of patient position-shift vectors may be calculated based on the acquired image and a treatment planning image of the first patient target region. A second set of patient position-shift vectors may be calculated based on the acquired image, a treatment planning image of the second patient target region, and the first set of patient position-shift vectors. The patient may be positioned according to the first set of patient position-shift vectors in a first location. The patient may be moved to a second location and positioned according to the second set of patient position-shift vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: RefleXion Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jayakrishnan Janardhanan, Michael Kirk Owens
  • Patent number: 11798676
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for surgical and interventional planning, support, post-operative follow-up, and functional recovery tracking. In general, a patient can be tracked throughout medical treatment including through initial onset of symptoms, diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment. In one embodiment, a patient and one or more medical professionals involved with treating the patient can electronically access a comprehensive treatment planning, support, and review system. The system can provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, surgical treatment, and recovery from the surgical treatment based on data gathered from the patient and the medical professional(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Namal Nawana, William C. Horton, William J. Frasier, Cody Cranson, Max Reinhardt, Mark T. Hall, Matthew Parsons, Jennifer DiPietro, Douglas Raymond, James Paiva
  • Patent number: 11769261
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for operating an imaging system. The imaging system may move or be moved to acquire image data of a subject at different positions relative to the subject. The image data may, thereafter, be combined to form a single image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Xavier Tomas Fernandez, Andre Souza, Robert A. Simpson, Kyo C. Jin, Hong Li, Xiaodong Tao, Patrick A. Helm, Michael P. Marrama
  • Patent number: 11730978
    Abstract: A positional pattern of an irradiation unit for irradiating a patient with treatment radiation is determined based on optimal order data describing an order of the irradiation unit positions for which the statistical value is optimal. The optimal order data is determined based on irradiation unit position data describing irradiation unit positions of the irradiation unit for which the imaging device has a free viewing direction onto the position of the patient, position orders data describing all possible orders of the irradiation unit positions for which the imaging device has a free viewing direction onto the position of the patient, and intersection angle data describing a statistical quantity of the intersection angles between free viewing directions of the imaging unit for irradiation unit positions which are immediately subsequent in the order described by the position orders data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Kajetan Berlinger, Hagen Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11380510
    Abstract: The X-ray tube disclosed herein includes an electron emission part including an electron emission element using a cold cathode; an anode part having an anode surface with which an electron emitted from the electron emission part collides; and a focusing structure disposed between the electron emission part and a target part disposed on the anode surface. The focusing structure has a plurality of focal point areas that are applied with a voltage in a mutually independent manner. The electron emission part has first and second electron beam emission areas that are on/off controlled in a mutually independent manner. The X-ray tube is designed in such a way that a collision area of the electron beam emitted from each of the first and second electron beam emission areas on the anode surface moves in response to a voltage applied to the focusing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NANO-X IMAGING LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Iida, Jun Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11177106
    Abstract: Provided is a miniaturized X-ray tube including an extractor and provides a miniaturized X-ray tube including a filament that emit electrons if a voltage is applied, a base having two filament through-holes for fixing the filament and for connecting power to both electrodes of the filament, a cylindrical extractor in close contact with the base and surrounding the filament without being in contact with the filament, a cutoff voltage providing unit configured to apply a cutoff voltage between one electrode of the extractor and one electrode of the filament, a body that is formed of a ceramic material, surrounds the extractor, and includes one end in close contact with the base, and a target that is connected to the other end of the body, receives the electrons emitted from the filament, and emits X-rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: RE-MEDI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Re Na Lee, Suk Young Shin, Hyun Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 10878572
    Abstract: In part, the disclosure relates to method for identifying regions of interest in a blood vessel. The method includes the steps of: providing OCT image data of the blood vessel; applying a plurality of different edge detection filters to the OCT image data to generate a filter response for each edge detection filter; identifying in each edge detection filter response any response maxima; combining the response maxima for each edge detection filter response while maintaining the spatial relationship of the response maxima, to thereby create edge filtered OCT data; and analyzing the edge filtered OCT data to identify a region of interest, the region of interest defined as a local cluster of response maxima. In one embodiment, one or more indicia are positioned in one or more panels to emphasize a reference vessel profile as part of a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LightLab Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Gopinath, Desmond Adler
  • Patent number: 10722202
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a first X-ray irradiation apparatus and a second X-ray irradiation apparatus for irradiating a subject with X-rays; an X-ray generation unit supporting so that first and second X-rays irradiated onto the subject are detected by a set detector when the subject is irradiated with the first and second X-rays from the first and second X-ray irradiation apparatuses, respectively; and a mode selection unit for allowing selection of any one mode from among a 2D imaging mode and 3D imaging mode, wherein the angles with respect to the subject of the first and second X-ray irradiation apparatuses are determined on the basis of said any one mode selected by means of the mode selection unit from among the 2D imaging mode and 3D imaging mode. According to the present invention, the mode can be easily selected according to need from among the 2D imaging mode and 3D imaging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Seoul National University Hospital
    Inventors: Chang Hwan Yoon, Dong Hoon Han
  • Patent number: 10722201
    Abstract: Novel and advantageous systems and methods for performing X-ray imaging by using an X-ray source with source grating functionality incorporated therein are provided. An electron beam can be electromagnetically manipulated such that the X-ray source emits radiation in a pattern that is the same as if the radiation had already passed through a source grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Ge Wang, Wenxiang Cong
  • Patent number: 10702713
    Abstract: An X-ray fluoroscopic apparatus is capable of irradiating exactly a therapeutic beam considering a specific-regional area, and in addition is able to perform an easy confirmation of the specific region even when the specific region is difficult to visually recognize by a user. A control element 30 has a DRR image generation element 31, an X-ray fluoroscopic radiograph generation element 32, a template area selection element 33, a template generation element 34, a position detection element 35, a radiation area projection element 36, a specific region projection element 37, a superimposition element 38, an image display element 39, a gating element 40 and a memory storing element 41 that stores a variety of data including image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Mori, Wataru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10663341
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a weighing method of a touchscreen terminal, and a touchscreen terminal. When a to-be-weighed object is placed in a preset area of a touchscreen of a touchscreen terminal, a reported first capacitance value and reported coordinates of a compensation point are obtained. The first capacitance value is compensated according to a compensation relationship, the coordinates of the compensation point, and the first capacitance value to obtain a second capacitance value. In this way, no additional external structure is needed for the touchscreen terminal, making the touchscreen terminal convenient to carry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Xu, Feng Dong, Hao Wu, Hang Li
  • Patent number: 10605748
    Abstract: An X-ray inspection apparatus includes a stage that moves an inspection object, an X-ray source, and/or an X-ray camera by driving a motor, a position detection unit that periodically obtains a position detection value of the motor, and stores the value in association with time, an imaging timing obtaining unit that stores an imaging timing at which imaging is performed by the X-ray camera in association with time, an imaging position calculation unit that calculates relative positions of the inspection object, and the X-ray source and the X-ray camera corresponding to the imaging timing using the position detection value of the motor at the imaging timing, and a reconstruction unit that performs reconstruction using image data captured by the X-ray camera and the relative positions in the image data at the imaging timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Sugita, Yuji Umemoto, Takako Onishi
  • Patent number: 10556128
    Abstract: With a screen-filter-mirror unit installed in a sandwich architecture, an x-ray window on a patient or an object can also be visualized during an x-ray recording with a light window. It is advantageous that a screen, a filter and a light window unit are combined in just one unit and with a changing x-ray window only the unit is replaced and/or the attack angle of the unit and the alignment of a light source directed hereto can be attuned to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Tom Weidner, Ulf Zimmermann, Stefan Veitenhansl
  • Patent number: 10535184
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a control method thereof. The ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes: an ultrasonic collector configured to collect ultrasonic waves from an object; a volume data generator configured to generate volume data based on the ultrasonic waves; and an image processor configured to perform volume rendering on the volume data with reference to a texture image, wherein a translucency property and multi-layer tissue of the object are reflected to each texel of the texture image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Ihn Kho, Hee Sae Lee
  • Patent number: 10365396
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional radiograph in a security scanner. A first X-ray image of an object is generated by the security scanner from a first viewpoint. A second X-ray image of the object is generated by the security scanner from a second viewpoint. The first X-ray image and the second X-ray image form a stereogram. The stereogram is displayed by the security scanner on a display system for the security scanner such that a first eye of a viewer sees the first X-ray image in the stereogram and a second eye of the viewer sees the second X-ray image in the stereogram. A parallax between the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint in the stereogram results in a three-dimensional visualization of the object on the display system for the security scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Steven Jimenez, Jr., Tod Tracy Amon, Kyle R. Thompson
  • Patent number: 10140752
    Abstract: A medical image diagnosis system according to an embodiment includes a determining unit, a rendering processing unit, and an output unit. The determining unit is configured to, based on information related to a stereoscopic function of a display unit connected to an output target apparatus serving as an output target, determine a parallax image number of images that are for realizing a stereoscopic view and are to be displayed by the display unit. The rendering processing unit is configured to generate rendering images corresponding to the parallax image number, by performing a rendering process on volume data that represents three-dimensional medical images. The output unit is configured to output the rendering images corresponding to the parallax image number to the output target apparatus, as the images that are for realizing the stereoscopic view and are to be simultaneously displayed by the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Wakai, Yoshiyuki Kokojima
  • Patent number: 10110874
    Abstract: A medical-image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a reconstructing circuitry and a display control circuitry. The reconstructing circuitry performs a volume rendering operation on volume data while moving the viewpoint position by a predetermined parallactic angle, and generates a parallax image group that includes a plurality of parallax images with different viewpoint positions. The display control circuitry causes a stereoscopic display monitor to display the parallax image group as a stereoscopic image. With regard to the volume data that is acquired by each of the multiple types of medical-image diagnostic apparatus, the reconstructing circuitry adjusts each parallactic angle during generation of the parallax image group and, in accordance with each of the adjusted parallactic angles, generates each parallax image group on the basis of the volume data that is acquired by each of the multiple types of medical-image diagnostic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Takashi Tsutsumi, Kenji Fujii
  • Patent number: 10022565
    Abstract: A method of delivering external radiation beams to a target volume in a body portion includes positioning a radioactive isotope source at a plurality of locations spaced apart around the body portion, and collimating radiation beams of the radioactive isotope source from the plurality of locations, whereby the target volume in the body portion is deposited with a predetermined dose distribution. A radiation device employs a member having a configuration adapted to surround a body portion to be irradiated. The member has a channel and a plurality of collimators spaced apart along and coupled to the channel. The plurality of collimators define a plurality of dwelling locations for a radioactive isotope source in the channel and are configured to collimate radiation beams of the radioactive isotope source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Stavros Prionas, Michael C. Green, Edward Seppi, Larry D. Partain, James Clayton, Stanley Mansfield, John Boone
  • Patent number: 10015872
    Abstract: A x-ray tube mounting assembly, including a mounting bracket, a first x-ray tube support configured for supporting a first x-ray tube, a second x-ray tube support configured for supporting a second x-ray tube, and a control assembly for moving the first and second x-ray tube supports substantially simultaneously between a first position, wherein the first x-ray tube support is in an operating position and the second x-ray tube support is in a first stowed position not for operation of a second x-ray tube operably supported thereby, and a second position, wherein the second x-ray tube support is in the operating position and the first x-ray tube support is in a second stowed position not for operation of a first x-ray tube operably supported thereby. The first x-ray tube may be of different focus source magnitude than the second x-ray tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Avonix Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Diehm, Brian Ruether, Joel Ostby
  • Patent number: 9984308
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for extracting a feature region from a point cloud are provided. The apparatus may divide the point cloud into a plurality of regions, and may extract at least one feature region from among the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyoseok Hwang, Dong Kyung Nam
  • Patent number: 9958286
    Abstract: An image display system includes: a server having a storage device that stores images; and a mobile terminal having a display device that displays the images acquired from the server. The mobile terminal includes: an operation input device that input a refinement condition of images and selects a display image; and a control device that sets a location related to a selected image as a destination. The server includes an extraction device that extracts multiple images according to the refinement condition obtained from the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Ukai
  • Patent number: 9940723
    Abstract: In part, the disclosure relates to method for identifying regions of interest in a blood vessel. The method includes the steps of: providing OCT image data of the blood vessel; applying a plurality of different edge detection filters to the OCT image data to generate a filter response for each edge detection filter; identifying in each edge detection filter response any response maxima; combining the response maxima for each edge detection filter response while maintaining the spatial relationship of the response maxima, to thereby create edge filtered OCT data; and analyzing the edge filtered OCT data to identify a region of interest, the region of interest defined as a local cluster of response maxima. In one embodiment, one or more indicia are positioned in one or more panels to emphasize a reference vessel profile as part of a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: LIGHTLAB IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Ajay Gopinath, Desmond Adler
  • Patent number: 9895118
    Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to one embodiment comprises: an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a supporting arm configured to support the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector in directions to face each other, a moving mechanism configured to move the supporting arm around a plurality of rotation axes and processing circuitry configured to set an imaging sequence concerning a plurality of left-eye imaging positions with respect to the object and a plurality of right-eye imaging positions respectively corresponding to the plurality of left-eye imaging positions and configured to control the moving mechanism to move the supporting arm in accordance with the set imaging sequence. The imaging sequence includes a sequence of continuously performing imaging at at least two of the plurality of left-eye imaging positions or a sequence of continuously performing imaging at at least two of the plurality of right-eye imaging positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuji Zaiki
  • Patent number: 9846258
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an X-ray backscattering safety inspection system, comprising: one or more backscattering inspection subsystem configured to inspect an object to be inspected by emitting X-ray beams towards the object to be inspected and inspecting scattering signals; and a control subsystem configured to adjust a distance between the backscattering inspection subsystem and locations on a side of the object to be inspected where are irradiated by the X-ray beams in real time according to a size of the object to be inspected such that the scattering signals inspected are optimized. The system may be adapted to objects to be inspected with different sizes or shapes while enhancing backscattering signals for imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Wanlong Wu, Yingkang Jin, Le Tang, Chengcong Xu, Ming Ruan, Guangwei Ding
  • Patent number: 9675306
    Abstract: This specification discloses methods and systems for generating a stereo image of an object that is positioned within an imaging volume. The object is positioned within the imaging volume. Two stationary X-ray source points are selected and activated. X-rays from both stationary X-ray source points are transmitted through the object being scanned and detected using detector elements positioned across the imaging volume and opposite the stationary X-ray source points. Image data sets from the X-rays detected by the detector elements are generated and then combined to produce the stereo image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Rapiscan Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward James Morton
  • Patent number: 9615802
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging system includes an x-ray image acquisition unit, a display unit, an input unit, and adapting means. The x-ray image acquisition unit acquires a first image of a volume of interest of an object in a first projection direction and acquires a second image in a second projection direction. The display unit displays the first and the second image. The input unit determines the second projection direction by an input of a user. The user input includes a change in a viewing-direction of the user viewing the first image. The adapting means adapt a spatial relation between the projection direction of the image acquisition unit and the volume of interest of the object such that the projection direction correlates with the second viewing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Jacobs, Frans Henk Kremer, Heidrun Steinhauser
  • Patent number: 9561007
    Abstract: To provide an X-ray diagnostic apparatus capable of providing a stereoscopic perspective image in the form of a video image while reducing exposure dose. An X-ray diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a main row X-ray source group including a plurality of X-ray sources; an X-ray detection section disposed opposite to the X-ray sources; a timing controller that controls a switching timing of the X-ray sources and an X-ray generation position; an image acquisition section that acquires output image data from the X-ray detection section in synchronization with the switching timing; and a stereoscopic image display section that displays the output image data as a plurality of images having different disparities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Fumio Ishiyama
  • Patent number: 9449381
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for generating and/or analyzing medical images having elongated structures are provided. In some embodiments, a method for analyzing medical images is provided, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of images, wherein each of the plurality of images includes a portion of an elongated structure; receiving a location of interest within a least one of the plurality of images; determining an orientation of the elongated structure in response to receiving the location of interest; adjusting image planes of each of the plurality of images to correspond with the orientation of the elongated structure; and causing the elongated structure to be displayed in the adjusted image planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventor: Jianming Liang
  • Patent number: 9445082
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing system includes a stereoscopic display device and an image processing apparatus. The stereoscopic display device is configured to enable a stereoscopic image constituted by using a predetermined parallax number of parallax images to be stereoscopically viewed. The image processing apparatus comprises a rendering processor configured to apply rendering processing to volume data serving as three-dimensional medical image data, a rendering processing controller configured to control the rendering processor so as to generate from the volume data a parallax image group composed of the predetermined parallax number or more of parallax images, and a storage controller configured to store in a memory the parallax image group generated by the rendering processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Satoshi Wakai, Yoshiyuki Kokojima, Go Mukumoto
  • Patent number: 9427286
    Abstract: A method, an imaging apparatus and a computer readable medium are enabled for automatically registering medical images. The imaging apparatus may be an amended C-arm. The image acquisition apparatus has a primary x-ray source and at least one auxiliary x-ray source, a detector for receiving radiation of the primary and auxiliary x-ray source, and an interface to a registration unit. The registration unit computes a 3D/2D registration of a provided 3D image and at least two acquired 2D images. An output interface is configured to provide an output and to display the registered images on a monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Jeffrey Siewerdsen, Yoshito Otake, Ali Uneri, J. Webster Stayman
  • Patent number: 9424682
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods are disclosed for acquiring, using a processor, digital data of a portion of an elongate object, and identifying, using a processor, a centerline connecting a plurality of points within the portion of the elongate object. The methods also may include defining a first half-plane along the centerline, traversing a predetermined angular distance in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction from the first half-plane to a second half-plane to define an angular wedge, and calculating, using a processor, a view of the angular wedge between the first half-plane and the second half-plane and generating an electronic view of the angular wedge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HeartFlow, Inc.
    Inventors: Ying Bai, Jonathan Tang, Razik Yousfi
  • Patent number: 9414788
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an X-ray imaging apparatus and a method for generating a stereoscopic image by using the apparatus. The stereoscopic image generation method includes emitting first X-rays toward a target object at a first emission angle, detecting the first X-rays which have propagated through the target object in order to acquire a first X-ray image, emitting second X-rays toward the target object at a second emission angle which is different from the first emission angle, detecting the second X-rays which have propagated through the target object in order to acquire at least a second X-ray image, and generating a stereoscopic image based on the first X-ray image and the at least second X-ray image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Hun Sung, Kang Eui Lee
  • Patent number: 9402068
    Abstract: A system which has two lens devices 10R and 10L and in which a baseline length of the lens devices 10R and 10L can be changed is equipped with a knob 60 for commanding of the degree of three-dimensionality; and a baseline length calculation unit 52 for calculating a baseline length that is most suitable to produce 3D video data that conforms to shooting conditions, being dependent on a subject to be shot by camera devices 20R and 20L, of the camera devices 20R and 20L to which the two lens devices 10R and 10L are attached with the degree of three-dimensionality specified by the knob 60 using information indicating the degree of three-dimensionality specified by the knob 60 and the shooting conditions, and outputting information of the calculated baseline length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Sasaki, Atsushi Misawa
  • Patent number: 9349207
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for parsing a human body image may be implemented by acquiring a depth image including a human body, and detecting a plurality of points in the acquired depth image by conducting a minimum energy skeleton scan on the depth image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhilan Hu, Lujin Gong, Xun Sun, Chang Kyu Choi, Fan Zhang, Ji Yeun Kim, Kee Chang Lee, Maolin Chen
  • Patent number: 9336751
    Abstract: In an image processing system according to an embodiment, a display unit simultaneously displays a predetermined number of parallax images. A parallax image generation control unit performs control such that a group of parallax images of point-of-view positions which are larger in number than the predetermined number is generated. A display control unit classifies the group of the parallax images into a first parallax image sub group including a set of parallax images whose point-of-view positions are discontinuous to each other and a second parallax image sub group including parallax images whose point-of-view positions are between the set of the parallax images, and performs control such that the display unit displays the first parallax image sub group and the second parallax image sub group while switching the first parallax image sub group and the second parallax image sub group at a predetermined switching speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Takumi Hara
  • Patent number: 9277893
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a rotating mechanism, a high voltage generating unit, a reconstruction processing unit, a projection image generating unit configured to generate a projection image based on output from the X-ray detector, an image display unit, and a fluoroscopy control unit configured to control the rotating mechanism, the high voltage generating unit, the X-ray detector, the projection image generating unit and the image display unit to implement stereo fluoroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tsukagoshi, Masaharu Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 9273956
    Abstract: A method for determining a distance between a first point and a second point on an object under examination inside the body of a person under examination by way of x-ray imaging by an x-ray device. The method includes the recording of x-ray images at different relative positionings of the x-ray device, which contain the first and the second point respectively. The relative positionings are substantially shifted in relation to one another in parallel to a central beam. Stereo reconstruction is carried out to define a 3D position of the first point and of the second point. The distance between the first point and the second point is determined from the 3D position of the first point and the 3D position of the second point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Adrian Egli, Adrian John, Gerhard Kleinszig
  • Patent number: 9089696
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for pre-treatment verification of radiation dose delivery in arc-based radiation therapy devices using a time-dependent gamma evaluation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Frans Verhaegen, Mark Podesta, Sebastiaan M. J. J. G. Nijsten, Lucas C. G. G. Persoon, Christof Baltes, Stefan G. Scheib
  • Patent number: 9049996
    Abstract: A stereoscopic X-ray imaging apparatus includes: right and left X-ray tubes; a diaphragm unit in which right and left openings are formed through which X-rays radiated by the right and left X-ray tubes pass, respectively; an X-ray sensor on which the X-ray radiated by each of the right and left X-ray tubes is projected; a controller configured to control positions and sizes of the right and left openings; and right and left visible light sources configured to radiate a visible light to the X-ray sensor in the same area as each of the right and left X-ray tubes through each of the right and left openings. Spectra of the visible light emitted by the right and left visible light sources are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Tsujii, Takashi Ogura
  • Patent number: 9036777
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an imaging unit configured to image an affected area in two directions using X-rays; a fluoroscopic image generating unit configured to generate two X-ray fluoroscopic images corresponding to the two directions, on a basis of imaging signals outputted from the imaging unit; a rendering image generating unit configured to project the affected area contained in three-dimensional image data acquired in advance, in two directions according to a same X-ray geometry as that used for imaging the X-ray fluoroscopic images, to thereby generate two affected area rendering images; and an image combining unit configured to combine the X-ray fluoroscopic images with the affected area rendering images for each corresponding direction, to thereby generate combined parallax images in two parallax directions corresponding to the two directions, and to output the two generated combined parallax images to a 3D display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Ohishi, Hisato Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20150117602
    Abstract: A stereoscopic imaging system and method is disclosed. In one aspect the system includes a ray source that emits a plurality of ray fanbeams. The system includes columns of detectors. Each column of detectors is arranged at a preset angle with respect to the ray source. The detectors detect a strength of a ray fanbeam penetrating an object under inspection. The detectors form a transmission images when the object intersects, or moves along a direction intersecting with, the ray fanbeams. The system includes a reconstruction apparatus that uses any two of the formed transmission images as a binocular image. The reconstruction apparatus calculates depth information of the object on the transmission images. The reconstruction apparatus superposes and fuses the calculated depth information to obtain 3D information. The reconstruction apparatus performs 3D reconstruction so that the detected object can be presented in a stereoscopic manner from different view angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Chen, Zhuowen Tu, Liang Li, Ziran Zhao, Duokun Zhang, Zhi Peng, Jin Cui, Dong Lin
  • Publication number: 20150117601
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an X-ray source for irradiating an object to be imaged with X-ray radiation, wherein the X-ray source is moveable into a plurality of defined recording positions relative to the object to be imaged. A module is arranged directly on the X-ray source, said module being designed to project a marking onto the object to be imaged and/or to check a position of the object to be imaged and/or of the marking, wherein the module for checking the position of the object to be imaged and/or of the marking comprises a detector for optical radiation. In addition, the present invention relates to an X-ray device comprising the X-ray source and a method for using the X-ray device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Erwin Keeve, Fabian Stopp, Marc Käseberg, Sabastian Engel, Eckart Uhlmann
  • Publication number: 20150085975
    Abstract: An X-ray generation unit irradiates a subject with X rays. The X-ray detection unit detects the X rays. An image data generation/processing unit generates data of an original image based on output from the X-ray detection unit, and generates a first image data and a second image data based on the data of the original image. A display unit displays one of the first image and the second image as a right-eye image and the other as the left-eye image. One image of the first image and the second image has, when compared with the other image, a high resolution concerning at least one resolution of a plurality of resolutions of different kinds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hisanori KATO, Takayuki Tomisaki, Naoya Fujita
  • Publication number: 20150071404
    Abstract: The present invention relates to monoscopic and stereoscopic X-ray viewing. In order to provide an improved fluent work flow for X-ray viewing with an improved visual perception of depth information, it is provided to generate an electron beam from a cathode arrangement towards a target area of an anode; to deflect the electron beam such that the electron beam hits the anode at different target spots (94a, 94b), wherein the variation is provided as gradual variation of an impinging direction of the electrons such that a stepless transition between monoscopic and stereoscopic viewing is provided. In the monoscopic viewing, X-ray radiation is generated from a single focal spot position, and wherein in the stereoscopic viewing, X-ray radiation is generated from two focal spot positions spaced apart from each other in a first stereo-direction transverse to a viewing direction (92).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Heidrun Steinhauser
  • Publication number: 20150071405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to providing spatial information of a volume of interest of an object. In order to reduce complexity of a work flow in a hospital environment when X-ray imaging is used, an X-ray imaging system (10) for providing spatial information of a volume of interest (20) of an object is provided, wherein the system comprises an x-ray image acquisition unit (12), a display unit (14), an input unit (16), and adapting means (18). The x-ray image acquisition unit is configured to acquire a first image of a volume of interest of an object in a first projection direction and to acquire a second image in a second projection direction. Further, the display unit is adapted to display the first and the second image. In addition, the input unit is configured for a determination (22) of the second projection direction by an input of a user (24); wherein the user input comprises a change in a viewing-direction (15) of the user viewing the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Jacobs, Frans Henk Kremer, Heidrun Steinhauser
  • Publication number: 20150063537
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an X-ray imaging apparatus including: an X-ray generator including a first X-ray source configured to irradiate a first X-ray onto an object, and at least one second X-ray source spaced apart from the first X-ray source and configured to irradiate at least one second X-ray onto the object; an X-ray detector configured to detect the first X-ray which has propagated through the object and the at least one second X-ray which has propagated through the object; and an image processor configured to produce a first X-ray image of the object based on the detected first X-ray, to produce at least one second X-ray image of the object based on the detected at least one second X-ray, and to produce a stereoscopic image of the object based on the first X-ray image and the at least one second X-ray image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hak LEE, Dong Goo KANG, Sung Hoon KANG, Young Hun SUNG, Seok Min HAN
  • Patent number: 8963917
    Abstract: Generating a right-eye image by combining a right-side capturing image (4° capturing image) of a right breast with a left-side capturing image (0° capturing image) of a left breast rotated by 180° such that the chest walls of the breasts face to each other and a left-eye image by combining a left-side capturing image (0° capturing image) of the right breast with a right-side capturing image (4° capturing image) of the left breast rotated by 180° such that the chest walls of the breasts face to each other. Based on the right-eye and left-eye images generated in the manner described above, displaying a stereoscopic image on a monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuko Yahiro, Takao Kuwabara, Yasunori Ohta, Akira Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20150043712
    Abstract: A portable imaging apparatus for obtaining stereoscopic radiography images has a transport frame that has a support structure and an x-ray source array that is coupled to the support structure and that has three or more x-ray sources, each x-ray source separately energizable to emit radiation toward a subject. There is at least one x-ray detector adapted to acquire digital image data according to radiation received from the x-ray sources of the x-ray source array. An image processor is in signal communication with the at least one x-ray detector and adapted to generate, from the acquired digital image data, a right-eye digital image and a left-eye digital image of the subject. A display apparatus is in signal communication with the image processor and is adapted to display the right-eye and left-eye digital images of the subject to a viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Xiaohui Wang, Richard A. Simon, David H. Foos
  • Publication number: 20150036905
    Abstract: A 3D result image of an object is reconstructed from a set of X-ray two-dimensional projections of the object. A 3D reference image of the object is reconstructed by employing a compressed sensing technique based on at least some of the 2D projections at a reference motion state of the object. By employing an algebraic and/or analytic reconstruction technique, 3D intermediate images are reconstructed for various motion states of the object. The 3D intermediate images are registered with the 3D reference image to obtain spatial transformations for the various motion states of the object. Based on the spatial transformations, the 3D intermediate images are transformed to a joint phase and combined to obtain the 3D result image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Kerstin Mueller, Christopher Rohkohl, Günter Lauritsch, Chris Schwemmer