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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Philippe Cinquin, Saint Nazaire les Eymes, FR;
Sandrine Voros, Grenoble, FR;
Inventors:
Philippe Cinquin, Saint Nazaire les Eymes, FR;
Sandrine Voros, Grenoble, FR;
Assignee:
Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble Cedex, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device for detecting a surgical tool in an image, the surgical tool going through an incision made in a patient's skin or one of his organs, the device including: means for storing shape parameters of the surgical tool. means for determining the position of the projection of the incision in the image plane and means for determining points and/or straight lines characteristic of the projection of the surgical tool on the image based on the shape parameters and on the position of the projection of the incision.