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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:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2011
Applicants:
Zhimin Huo, Pittsford, NY (US);
Zhiqiang Lao, Newton, PA (US);
Fan Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06T 5/40 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/009 (2013.01); G06T 5/40 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30061 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10116 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for enhancing a radiographic image. The method includes obtaining image data for the radiographic image, generating conditioned image data by increasing differences between neighboring portions of at least a relatively uniform area of the radiographic image, generating an enhanced image by applying contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization to the conditioned image data, applying interpolation to the enhanced image, and displaying, storing, or transmitting the enhanced image.