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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:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2008
Applicant:
Stefan Brabec, Starnberg, DE;
Inventor:
Stefan Brabec, Starnberg, DE;
Assignee:
Tomtec Imaging Systems GmbH, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to method and an apparatus for depth cueing, i.e. improving the sense of depth in two-dimensional images of three-dimensional volume data, said 2D images being generated using volume rendering. The invention is characterized in that a second depth color chart generated from the original color chart by permuting at least two color channels is used in the depth dimension. Alternatively, all three color channels can be permuted.