Image analysis – Image transformation or preprocessing – Changing the image coordinates
Reexamination Certificate
2002-11-20
2008-08-19
Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image transformation or preprocessing
Changing the image coordinates
C382S266000, C382S130000, C382S287000, C623S001110, C606S007000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07415169
ABSTRACT:
A viewing system and method for enhancing objects of interest represented on a moving background in a sequence of noisy images and for displaying the sequence of enhanced images, comprising extracting means (11) for extracting features related to an object of interest in images of the sequence; registering means (12) for registering the features related to the object of interest with respect to the image referential, yielding registered images (13); similarity detection means for determining the resemblance of the representations of a registered object of interest in succeeding images and weighing means for modulating the intensities of the pixels of said object of interest over the images of the sequence; temporal integrating means (14, 33b) for integrating the object of interest and the background over a number, or at least two, registered images (13) of the sequence; and display means (54) for displaying the processed images (15, 45) of the enhanced registered object of interest on faded background. Application: Medical Imaging. X-ray Fluoroscopic Imaging.
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Florent Raoul
Lelong Pierre
Nosjean Lucile
Rongen Peter Maria Johannes
Bella Matthew C.
Chu Randolph
Koninklijke Philips Electronics , N.V.
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