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a System and Method for Extracting a Physiological Information from Video Sequences
10 Jun 20
There is provided a method of extracting a physiological information which comprises, for a defined time-period, extracting a plurality of signal segments in a time-domain form, selecting a subset of the plurality of signal segments according their maximum signal level, converting at least said subset to produce a plurality of transformed signal segments, and combining the at least said subset of the plurality of transformed signal segments to produce a combined signal segment.
Albertus Cornelis Den Brinker, Murtaza Bulut, Vincent Jeanne, Michel Jozef Agnes Asselman, Gerrit Maria Kersten
Filed: 25 Apr 18
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Skin-mountable Device and Mounting Method
10 Jun 20
A skin-mountable device (10) is disclosed comprising a surface (11) carrying an adhesive layer (20) for adhering the device to a skin region (1) and a removable non-adhesive cover layer (30) shaped as a loop having a first loop portion (31) covering the entire adhesive layer and a second loop portion (35) returning over the first loop portion, the second loop portion containing a pull (37) for pulling the cover layer from the adhesive layer when the skin-mountable device is positioned on said skin region.
Mart Kornelis-Jan TE VELDE, Paul Jean GEELEN
Filed: 17 Jul 18
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Unlocking a Respiratory Mode
10 Jun 20
The present disclosure pertains to a system to configure respiratory therapy modes for users of respiratory therapy devices.
MARK D'ANGELO, JOHN RAYMOND PUJOL
Filed: 13 Feb 20
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Device and Method for Determining the Pollution Status of a Particle Filter In an Air-cleaning Device
10 Jun 20
The present invention relates to a device and method for determining the pollution status of a particle filter (10) for an air-cleaning device (1) with increased accuracy at low extra costs.
Johannes MARRA, Achim Gerhard KOERBER, Cornelis Reinder RONDA
Filed: 22 Nov 17
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Motion Transmission Unit, Drive Train and Hair Cutting Appliance
10 Jun 20
The present disclosure relates to a motion transmission unit (40) for a drive train (30) of a hair cutting appliance (10) and to a hair cutting appliance (10), the unit (40) comprising an input shaft (42) defining a longitudinal axis (44) and comprising an eccentric portion (68) that is arranged to revolve about the longitudinal axis (44) when the input shaft (42) is rotated, a motion converter (44) comprising a motion converter input interface (74) and a motion converter output interface (76), and a tilting lever (46) that is pivotably mounted and comprises a tilting lever input interface (80) and a tilting lever output interface (82) that engages a driving portion (86) of a blade set (16) of the appliance (10), wherein the motion converter (44) is arranged between the input shaft (42) and the tilting lever, wherein the eccentric portion (68) of the input shaft (42) engages the motion converter input interface (74), wherein the motion converter output interface (76) engages the tilting lever input interface (80), and wherein the motion converter input interface (74) and the motion converter output interface (76) are arranged at the same longitudinal level (140) with respect to the input shaft (42), wherein the motion converter output interface (76) comprises a cylindrical portion (102) defining a cylinder axis (104) that is basically parallel to a swivel axis (58) of the tilting lever (46), wherein the tilting lever output interface (82) is arranged as a cylindrical portion (126) defining a cylinder axis (130) that is basically parallel to a swivel axis (58) of the tilting lever (46), and wherein the cylinder axis (130) of the head portion (126) of the tilting lever (46) and the cylinder axis (104) of the cylindrical portion (102) of the motion converter (44) are basically parallel to the swivel axis (58).
Marcus Cornelis PETRELLI, Alwin William DE VRIES
Filed: 1 Jul 18
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Hair Cutting Apparatus Comprising a Light Indicator
10 Jun 20
The present invention is directed to a hair cutting apparatus (600), such as a shaver, which comprises a cutting detector to actually detect any hair-cutting actions of the hair cutting apparatus.
JEROEN CHRISTIAN NIJDAM
Filed: 30 Nov 17
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Audio Processing Apparatus and Method Therefor
10 Jun 20
An audio processing apparatus comprises a receiver (705) which receives audio data including audio components and render configuration data including audio transducer position data for a set of audio transducers (703).
Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Aki Sakari Harma, Arnoldus Werner Johannes Oomen
Filed: 11 Feb 20
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Question Generation
10 Jun 20
Methods and systems for generating a question from free text.
Reza Ghaeini, Sheikh Sadid Al Hasan, Oladimeji Feyisetan Farri, Kathy Mi Young Lee, Vivek Varma Datla, Ashequl Qadir, Junyi Liu, Adi Prakash
Filed: 28 Sep 17
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Power Doppler Imaging System and Method with Improved Clutter Suppression
10 Jun 20
A method of power Doppler imaging may include receiving a plurality of temporally sequential frames of wall-filtered power Doppler signals, wherein the plurality of temporally sequential frames includes at least one previously adjusted output frame.
LIANG ZHANG, DAVID HOPE SIMPSON, KEITH WILLIAM JOHNSON
Filed: 16 Apr 18
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System and Method for Facilitating Configuration Modifications for a Patient Interface Computer System Based on a Patient-specific Risk Alert Model
10 Jun 20
The present disclosure pertains to a system for facilitating configuration modifications for a patient interface computer system based on a patient-specific risk alert model.
Steffen Clarence PAUWS, Daniele DE MASSARI, Nicolaas Gregorius Petrus DEN TEULING, Ioanna SOKORELI, Jarno Mikael RIISTAMA
Filed: 23 Apr 18
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Predictive Maintenance for Large Medical Imaging Systems
10 Jun 20
A predictive maintenance alerting device (40) comprises a server computer (42) operatively connected with an electronic in network (46) to receive time stamped machine log data (30) and time stamped service log data (32) from a medical imaging device (10), and to transmit maintenance alerts (44) to a service center (12).
Dimitrios MAVRIEUDUS, Michael Leonardus Helena BOUMANS
Filed: 4 Jul 18
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Digital Twin Operation
10 Jun 20
Disclosed is a computer system (20) comprising a processor arrangement (22) communicatively coupled to a data storage arrangement (30) storing a virtual model of a patient, said virtual model comprising at least one of a digital representation of at least a part of the anatomy of the patient and a physiological model of a bodily process of the patient; and a communication module (24) communicatively coupled to said processor arrangement and arranged to receive sensor data from one or more sensors (12, 14, 16) arranged to monitor said patient, wherein the processor arrangement is arranged to retrieve (103) said virtual model from the data storage arrangement; receive (105) said sensor data from the communication module; evaluate said sensor data with said virtual model; generate (111, 121) an instruction for altering a mode of operation of at least one sensor of the one or more sensors in response to said evaluation or in response to a user request; and transmit said instruction to the at least one sensor or to a device for invoking control of said at least one sensor with the communication module.
LIEKE GERTRUDA ELISABETH COX, CORNELIS PETRUS HENDRIKS, MURTAZA BULUT, VALENTINA LAVEZZO, OLAF VAN DER SLUIS
Filed: 4 Dec 19
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Computer-implemented Method and an Apparatus for Use In Detecting Malingering by a First Subject In One or More Physical And/or Mental Function Tests
10 Jun 20
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus (2) for use in detecting malingering by a first subject in one or more physical and/or mental function tests, the apparatus (2) comprising a memory unit (10) and a processing unit (8).
JAN JOHANNES GERARDUS DE VRIES
Filed: 4 Dec 19
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Ultrasound System with Deep Learning Network for Image Artifact Identification and Removal
3 Jun 20
An ultrasound system with a deep learning neural network feature is used to eliminate haze artifacts in B mode images of the carotid artery by analysis of orthogonal information.
Anup Agarwal, Keith William Johnson, Liang Zhang, Earl M. Canfield
Filed: 1 Aug 18
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Diagnostics of Periodontitis Based on Salivary HGF and MMP-8
3 Jun 20
Disclosed is an in vitro method for assessing whether a human subject has periodontitis.
Bart Jacob BAKKER, Marinus Karel Johannes DE JAGER, Amir Hussein RMAILE, Philip PRESHAW, John TAYLOR
Filed: 23 May 18
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Imaging System Extended Field-of-view
3 Jun 20
An imaging system (100) includes a rotating gantry (212) with a bore (150), and an X-ray radiation source (100) supported by the rotating gantry, which rotates around the bore and emit X-ray radiation that traverses at least a portion of the bore.
KEVIN MARTIN BROWN
Filed: 7 Aug 18
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Crf-based Span Prediction for Fine Machine Learning Comprehension
3 Jun 20
A method for determining, from a document, an answer to a query using a query answering system, comprising: (i) encoding, using an encoder, one or more documents; (ii) encoding a received query; (iii) generating, using an attention mechanism, a query-aware document representation comprising alignment between one or more words in one of the plurality of documents and one or more words in the query; (iv) generating, using a hierarchical self-attention mechanism, a word-to-sentence alignment of the query-aware document representation; (v) labeling, using a conditional random field classifier, each of a plurality of words in the word-to-sentence alignment with one of a one of a plurality of different sequence identifiers, resulting in possible labeled answering spans; and (vi) generating, from the one or more possible labeled answering spans, a response to the query.
SHEIKH SADID AL HASAN, TAO LI, VIVEK VARMA DATLA
Filed: 12 Nov 19
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Ultrasound System with Extraction of Image Planes from Volume Data Using Touch Interaction with an Image
3 Jun 20
An ultrasound system includes an image extraction processor which is responsive to the touching of at least a portion of desired anatomy in an ultrasound image on a touchscreen display to extract an image of the desired anatomy from a 3D volumetric data set which includes the desired anatomy.
David Nigel Roundhill
Filed: 9 Aug 18
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System and Method for Registering a Position of Loss of an Object
3 Jun 20
Thus there is provided an object retrieval apparatus for retrieving an object which has been lost which comprises a location module arranged to determine a location indication indicative of the location of the apparatus, a first body-coupled communication (BCC) device configured to establish a communication link with a second body-coupled communication device in a tag (3) attachable to the object, wherein the first BCC device is further configured to check the communication link at check times, the check times occuring at repeated intervals, and to generate a link status signal indicating whether the communication link is intact or not, a control module arranged to receive the link status signal, and, if the link status signal indicates a broken link, to set a flag, record the location as a loss recorded location and generate an alert.
VINCENTIUS PAULUS BUIL, LUCAS JACOBUS FRANCISCUS GEURTS
Filed: 22 Jul 18
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Quantified Aspects of Lesions In Medical Images
3 Jun 20
A system (100) comprises a segmenter (130) and a quantification tool (140).
RAFAEL WIEMKER, HEIKE RUPPERTSHOFEN, NICOLE SCHADEWALDT, TOBIAS KLINDER
Filed: 24 May 18