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Adjustment of Display Optimization Behaviour for HDR Images
18 Aug 22
To enable a better and more adjustable manner of HDR video display adaptation, applicants inventor contributed an image pixel luminance adaptation apparatus (500), comprising: a connection (501) to a comprised or connectable video decoder (207), which video decoder is arranged to receive an encoded high dynamic range image (Im_COD), which is encoded according to a first maximum codeable luminance (PB H), and which video decoder is arranged to receive metadata specifying at least one luma mapping function (F_ct; FL_50t1_1), which at least one luma mapping function specifies the offsets of luminances of a secondary image corresponding to the encoded high dynamic range image compared to the luminances of the same pixel positions as encoded in the encoded high dynamic range image, which secondary image has a second maximum codeable luminance (PB_S) which preferably is at least 4× smaller or larger than the first maximum codeable luminance (PB_H), and the video decoder being arranged to output a decoded high dynamic range image (Im_RHDR) and the luma mapping function; a display adaptation unit (401) arranged to receive a value of a display maximum luminance (PB_D) that a particular display can display as brightest pixel color, and an input luma mapping function, and the display adaptation unit being arranged to apply an algorithm which calculates at least one display adapted luma mapping function based on the input luma mapping function and the display maximum luminance (PD_D), wherein this at least one display adapted luma mapping function corresponds in shape to the input luma mapping function but lies closer to a 45 degree increasing diagonal of a graph of the input luma mapping function in perceptually uniformized axes, depending on the difference between the value of the display maximum luminance (PB_D) and the first maximum codeable luminance (PB_H) relative to the difference between the second maximum codeable luminance (PB_S) and the first maximum codeable luminance (PB_H); characterized in that the image pixel luminance adaptation apparatus comprises an alternative luma mapping function determination unit (502) arranged to determine an alternative luma mapping function (ALT_FL_50t1_1) and wherein the display adaptation unit (401) comprises a combination unit (503) which is arranged to combine the at least one luma mapping function (F_ct; FL_50t1_1) and the alternative luma mapping function (ALT_FL_50t1_1) into a combined luma mapping function (CMB_FL_50t1_1), and wherein the display adaptation unit is arranged to apply its algorithm on as input luma mapping function the combined luma mapping function; the image pixel luminance adaptation apparatus comprising a luma mapping unit (510) arranged to receive pixel lumas of the decoded high dynamic range image (Im_RHDR) and to apply to those pixel lumas the combined luma mapping function to obtain output lumas of an output image (Im_DA); the image pixel luminance adaptation apparatus comprising an output image or video communication cable or wireless channel, to which a display can be connected, and an output signal formatter (230) arranged to send the output image (Im_DA).
Rutger NIJLAND
Filed: 30 Jun 20
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Radiology-based Risk Assessment for Biopsy-based Scores
18 Aug 22
A computer-implemented method for determining tumor heterogeneity is provided.
Reinhold WIMBERGER-FRIEDL, Pedro Jorge DA SILVA RODRIGUES, Vanda Lucia De Carvalho VITTORINO DE ALMEIDA
Filed: 22 Jul 20
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Radiation Shield for Operating Table
18 Aug 22
A shielding system of an operating table is provided for shielding a body from scatter radiation during a medical intervention.
Cedric VAN DE GEER
Filed: 29 Jun 20
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Tracking System and Marker Device to Be Tracked by the Tracking System for a Medical Procedure
18 Aug 22
A tracking system for tracking a marker device for being attached to a medical device is provided, whereby the marker device includes a sensing unit comprising a magnetic object which may be excited by an external magnetic or electromagnetic excitation field into a mechanical oscillation of the magnetic object, and the tracking system comprises a field generator for generating a predetermined magnetic or electromagnetic excitation field for inducing mechanical oscillations of the magnetic object, a transducer for transducing a magnetic or electromagnetic field generated by the induced mechanical oscillations of the magnetic object into one or more electrical response signals, and a position determination unit for determining the position of the marker device on the basis of the one or more electrical response signals.
BERNHARD GLEICH, JUERGEN ERWIN RAHMER, MICHAEL GRASS, MARCO VERSTEGE, DIRK SCHAEFER, WIM CROOIJMANS
Filed: 20 Dec 21
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Chemoreceptor Stimulus for Sedation Status Ascertainment
18 Aug 22
A system (SYS) and related method for imaging support.
MICHAEL GÜNTER HELLE, STEFFEN WEISS, MARK THOMAS JOHNSON, GEREON VOGTMEIER, SUNIL KUMAR VUPPALA, RAJENDRA SINGH SISODIA
Filed: 3 Jul 20
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Cantilever-type Pump for an Oral Irrigator
18 Aug 22
The present disclosure is directed to a cantilever-type pump subassembly for an oral irrigator which provides noise and vibration reduction and simpler assembly.
Le Gia PHAM, Eric VONDERREITH, Yan GAO
Filed: 24 Jul 20
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Intensity Modulated Particle Therapy Plan Normalization Scheme
18 Aug 22
A method and system for normalizing an IMPT plan are provided as well as an arrangement for planning IMPT and a computer program product comprising instructions to perform the method.
Vaitheeswaran RANGANATHAN, Bojarajan PERUMAL, Natarajan RAMAR
Filed: 25 May 20
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Assessment of the P13K Cellular Signaling Pathway Activity Using Mathematical Modelling of Target Gene Expression
18 Aug 22
The present invention relates to a method comprising inferring activity of a PI3K cellular signaling pathway in a tissue and/or cells and/or a body fluid of a medical subject based at least on expression levels of one or more target gene(s) of the PI3K cellular signaling pathway measured in an extracted sample of the tissue and/or the cells and/or the body fluid of the medical subject.
Hendrik Jan VAN OOIJEN, Wilhelmus Franciscus Johannes VERHAEGH, Anja VAN DE STOLPE
Filed: 17 Jan 22
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Apparatus for Providing Semantic Information and a Method of Operating the Same
18 Aug 22
An apparatus including a display surface for presenting an image of a user; a light emitting portion for using light to convey semantic information to the user; a sensor for measuring the position of the user relative to the light emitting portion; and a control unit to control the light emitting portion based on the measured position of the user relative to the light emitting portion so as to minimize an effect of the light conveying the semantic information provided by the light emitting portion on the presented image of the user.
VINCENTIUS PAULUS BUIL, FREDERIK JAN DE BRUIJN, DANIEL WILLEM ELISABETH SCHOBBEN
Filed: 9 May 22
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Quench Protection for High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Leads
18 Aug 22
An apparatus (200) includes a cryostat (202) containing a volume of myogenic fluid.
Ezra Petrus Antonius VAN LANEN, Matthew Jonathan VOSS, John Robert ROGERS, John Arthur URBAHN, Alexander James PYNE
Filed: 6 Oct 20
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Enhanced 3D Radial MR Imaging
18 Aug 22
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) positioned in an examination volume of a MR device (1).
HOLGER EGGERS
Filed: 9 Jul 20
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Method to Enhance System Analysis
18 Aug 22
A wireless network comprises access points (APs) implementing roaming by way of handover of wireless devices between APs.
SERVERIUS PETRUS PAULUS PRONK, MARC ANDRE PETERS, JOHANNES HENRICUS MARIA KORST, MAURO BARBIERI
Filed: 17 Jun 20
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an Apparatus and Method for Performing Image-based Food Quantity Estimation
11 Aug 22
A computer-implemented method for performing image-based food quantity estimation is provided.
Adrienne Heinrich, Lu Wang, Zhaorui Yuan, Marija Despenic
Filed: 8 Jul 20
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a Method for Multi-component Analysis on Mri Measurement Data
11 Aug 22
It is an object of present invention to provide for a faster method of multi-component analysis.
MARIYA IVANOVA DONEVA, MARTIJN ARIE NAGTEGAAL
Filed: 14 Apr 20
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Systems and Methods for Detecting the Status of a Particle Filter
11 Aug 22
The invention provides a monitoring device for monitoring an air cleaning system for determining when a particle filter of the air cleaning system needs cleaning or replacement.
Jing Su, Qiushi Zhang, Weizhong Chen, Declan Patrick Kelly
Filed: 29 May 20
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Assessment of Multiple Signaling Pathway Activity Score In Airway Epithelial Cells to Predict Airway Epithelial Abnormality and Airway Cancer Risk
11 Aug 22
The present invention relates to means and methods that can identify subjects, who have abnormal changes in airway epithelium and/or are at increased risk for developing an airway cancer, based on a combination of activities of signaling pathways in an epithelial cell sample derived from an airway of the subject.
Anja VAN DE STOLPE, Igor JACOBS, Steven Paulus Lambertus KUIJPERS
Filed: 8 May 20
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Device, Control Method and Computer Program
11 Aug 22
According to an aspect, there is provided a cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, device (1) for enhancing the delivery of CPR to a patient.
Timothy Beard, Christopher John Wright, David Duffy
Filed: 17 Apr 20
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Deep Learning of Eletrical Properties Tomography
11 Aug 22
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining electrical properties, EP, of a target volume (708) in an imaged subject (718).
Ulrich KATSCHER, Nils HAMPE
Filed: 1 Jul 20
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Estimating Contact Angle Between a Catheter and Tissue, and Associated Devices, Systems and Methods
11 Aug 22
Systems and methods for determining a contact angle of a catheter relative to tissue are provided.
Oran GERBAT, Shlomo BEN HAIM, Asi ELAD
Filed: 6 Jul 20
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System and Method for Assisted Ultrasound Shear Wave Lastography
11 Aug 22
A system (100) and method (2000): specify image features (1342/1344/1346) which are to be avoided in selecting a region of interest (10) in tissue of a body for making a shear wave elasticity measurement of the tissue; receive (2020) one or more image signals from an acoustic probe (120) produced from acoustic echoes from an area of the tissue; process (2030) acoustic images (504/506/508) in real-time to identify the image features which are to be avoided in selecting the region of interest; provide (2040) visual feedback to a user to choose a location for the region of interest based on the identified image features; select (2050) the region of interest in response to the visual feedback; and make (2060) the shear wave elasticity measurement of the tissue within the selected region of interest using one or more acoustic radiation force pulses.
Carolina Amador Carrascal, Claudia Errico, Grzegorz Toporek, Shyam Bharat, Raghavendra Srinivasa Naidu, Hua Xie, Faik Can Meral, Haibo Wang
Filed: 5 Jun 20