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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Pierre Grangeat, Saint Ismier, FR;
Jerome De Murcia, Lyons, FR;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428195 ; 351205 ; 351206 ; 351214 ; 351221 ;
Abstract
The present invention consists of obtaining from a series of measurements or original images of varying precision of a mobile object, such as a beating heart, a sequence of restored images minimizing an error function comprising an adequation term between the restored images and the measurements, a space moving term of images to be restored and a time smoothing term of restored images, taking account of an evaluation of the movement of the object between the original image during the considered phase of the movement and the image of the object in a neighboring phase.