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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:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2003
Applicants:
William F. Long, Quebec, CA;
Yves Bérubé-lauzière, Sherbrooke, CA;
Laura Mcintosh, Saint-Laurent, CA;
Inventors:
William F. Long, Quebec, CA;
Yves Bérubé-Lauzière, Sherbrooke, CA;
Laura McIntosh, Saint-Laurent, CA;
Assignee:
ART, Advanced Research Technologies, Inc., Ville Saint-Laurent, Québec, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is provided a method and system for positioning a mammal for optical imaging in which a digital image of the mammal is obtained using a camera and a region of interest is selected using the digital image. The selected region is registered with an optical imaging system and the mammal is positioned in the imaging system to image the selected region of interest.