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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2008
Gianluca Paladini, Skillman, NJ (US);
Mathia Scucchiari, Padua, IT;
Thomas Moeller, Nürnberg, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In response to a request from a client, a server for volume rendering loads a volume dataset from a storage archive, creates a low resolution sub-sampled copy of such volume dataset and transmits it to a client. In response to subsequent requests from the client, the server for volume rendering renders a high quality image of the full resolution volume dataset and renders a low quality image of the sub-sampled copy of the volume dataset, then generates a pixel mask or a hybrid pixel mask indicative of a difference between the high quality image and the low quality image and transmits such pixel mask to the client. The client receives from the server the pixel mask and computes a high quality image based at least in part on the pixel mask and on a selective rendering of its local low resolution sub-sampled copy of the volume dataset.