Portable fluoroscopy system with spatio-temporal filtering

US9506882B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-9506882-B2
Application numberUS-201213352865-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateJan 18, 2012
Priority dateJan 18, 2011
Publication dateNov 29, 2016
Grant dateNov 29, 2016

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A system for processing real-time fluoroscopy image sequences. A first image frame is loaded into an upper level memory of a hierarchical memory system that is coupled to at least one processing core. The first image frame is processed with an object detection filter to form a likelihood image frame. The first image frame and the likelihood image frame is spatially filtered using a spatial filter look up table (LUT) stored in an L1 level memory of the processing core. The likelihood image frame is temporally filtering using a temporal filter LUT stored in the L1 level memory.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method for performing real-time fluoroscopy image sequence processing in a fluoroscopy system, the method comprising: loading at least a first image frame of the fluoroscopy image sequence into an upper level memory of a hierarchical memory system that is coupled to at least one processing core, wherein the hierarchical memory system comprises at least the upper level memory and an L1 level memory having a faster access time than the upper level memory;…

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What does patent US9506882B2 cover?
A system for processing real-time fluoroscopy image sequences. A first image frame is loaded into an upper level memory of a hierarchical memory system that is coupled to at least one processing core. The first image frame is processed with an object detection filter to form a likelihood image frame. The first image frame and the likelihood image frame is spatially filtered using a spatial filt…
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Dasgupta Udayan, Ali Murtaza, Texas Instruments Inc
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G01N23/223. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Nov 29 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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