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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. 06, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sebastian Budz, Erlangen, DE;
Klaus Ludwig, Nuremberg, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 ; G06T 1/740 ; A61B 6/03 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 ; G06T 1/740 ; A61B 6/03 ;
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for presenting and processing an image reproducible at a display monitor, wherein digital image data of an examination volume of a subject are registered with an image pickup system, such as a medical examination installation, the examination volume or a part thereof is played back at the display monitor as a three-dimensional image, and a volume region of the image is defined with a marker, this volume region or the image environment thereof being removed from the image and no longer displayed in a subsequent image presentation.