Patent №
US 7,664,326
Granted
2010-02-16
Filed 2005
Owner
ALOKA CO. LTD.
Lab
—
AI components
1
vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11065626
A method for detecting and enhancing edges in an ultrasound image includes the steps of applying an edge detection filter to at least one of a plurality of pixels of an ultrasound image to compute an edge detection value having a magnitude and a direction; and applying either a directional edge enhancement filter or a non-directional smoothing filter to at least one of the plurality of pixels of the ultrasound image.
AI classification
Vision1.00
AI hardware0.15
Natural language0.02
Machine learning0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00
Ownership
ALOKA CO. LTD.
assignment · 163280263
Assignors
TAMURA, TADASHI
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.
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