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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
May. 26, 2004
Applicants:
Marc Busch, Aachen, DE;
Gundolf Kiefer, Aachen, DE;
Jürgen Weese, Aachen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Konninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/10 (2006.01); G06T 15/20 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Sampling frequency of a ray casting for generating a projection image is varied in dependence of information derived from a 3D volume data during rendering. Furthermore, an interpolation is performed for skipped pixels for which no ray casting was performed in the projection image, based on this information.