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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:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2002
Applicants:
Leon Kaufman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph W. Carlson, Kensington, CA (US);
Inventors:
Leon Kaufman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph W. Carlson, Kensington, CA (US);
Assignee:
Accuimage Diagnostics Corp., So. San Francisco, unknown;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G01D 18/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and devices for improving the machine-to-machine and temporal (e.g., inter and intra-machine) and database consistency of coronary calcium scoring by applying a filtering algorithm that sharpens and/or smoothes the image so as to return a filtered image having a spatial resolution of a certain reference value.