公开(公告)号：US09094580B2

公开(公告)日：2015-07-28

申请号：US13372916

申请日：2012-02-14

申请人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Douglas P. Boyd

发明人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Douglas P. Boyd

IPC分类号： H04N9/47 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G08B13/196

CPC分类号： H04N7/18 ,  G08B13/19608 ,  G08B13/19656 ,  G08B13/19663 ,  G08B13/19693

摘要： Integrating a plurality of security imaging units for an airport security checkpoint into networked common workstations, including: scanning items with a first security imaging unit at a primary inspection area, wherein the first security imaging unit is coupled to a first networked common workstation; displaying the scanned items as a displayed image on a display of the first networked common workstation located at the primary inspection area; re-scanning the items with a second security imaging unit coupled to the first networked common workstation when a possible concealment is observed, wherein the first networked common workstation includes a conversion unit which converts outputs of the first and second security imaging units into a common format for the displayed image; routing the displayed image to a second networked common workstation located at a secondary inspection area when the possible concealment is observed, wherein the secondary inspection area is remote from the primary inspection area.

摘要翻译： 将多个用于机场安全检查点的安全成像单元集成到联网的公共工作站中，包括：在主检查区域用第一安全成像单元扫描物品，其中第一安全成像单元耦合到第一联网的公共工作站; 将显示的图像显示在位于主检查区域的第一网络公共工作站的显示器上; 当观察到可能的隐藏时，与耦合到第一联网的公共工作站的第二安全成像单元重新扫描物品，其中第一联网的公共工作站包括转换单元，其将第一和第二安全成像单元的输出转换为公共格式 用于显示图像; 当观察到可能的隐藏时，将显示的图像路由到位于辅助检查区域的第二网络公共工作站，其中辅助检查区域远离主检查区域。

公开(公告)号：US08917927B2

公开(公告)日：2014-12-23

申请号：US13212041

申请日：2011-08-17

申请人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Douglas P. Boyd

发明人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Douglas P. Boyd

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/34 ,  G06K9/46 ,  G01N23/04 ,  G01N23/20 ,  G01N23/201 ,  G01V5/00

CPC分类号： G01V5/0016 ,  G01V5/0025

摘要： A portable backscatter advanced imaging technology scanner with automated threat or target recognition including: a floor assembly having a cantilever drive assembly for rotating the floor assembly, the floor assembly being able to be partitioned into multiple parts for reassembly; at least one x-ray tube oriented towards selected sides of a test subject; a detector assembly oriented on the circumference of the floor assembly, the detector assembly being able to partitioned into multiple parts for reassembly; a storage unit to store images from detected scattered photons on the detector assembly; and a processing unit to detect, identify and classify concealed objects on the test subject.

摘要翻译： 一种具有自动威胁或目标识别的便携式后向散射先进成像技术扫描仪，包括：具有用于旋转地板组件的悬臂驱动组件的地板组件，地板组件能够被划分成多个部分用于重新组装; 至少一个X射线管朝向测试对象的选定侧; 检测器组件，其定向在地板组件的圆周上，检测器组件能够被划分成多个部分用于重新组装; 存储单元，用于将检测到的散射光子的图像存储在检测器组件上; 以及处理单元，用于检测，识别和分类测试对象上的隐藏对象。

公开(公告)号：US20120229631A1

公开(公告)日：2012-09-13

申请号：US13372916

申请日：2012-02-14

申请人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Douglas P. Boyd

发明人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Douglas P. Boyd

IPC分类号： H04N7/18

CPC分类号： H04N7/18 ,  G08B13/19608 ,  G08B13/19656 ,  G08B13/19663 ,  G08B13/19693

摘要： A vendor and scanner independent common workstation (CW) for security, as discussed above, including the abilities to: plug into any existing, past or future scanners; utilize expedited bag-check, bag-search and remote monitor/view features; and scroll the display of the CW so that the “re-scan” operation may not necessarily be performed on the CW display, for instance.

摘要翻译： 如上所述，用于安全的供应商和扫描仪独立公用工作站（CW），包括以下能力：插入任何现有的，过去的或未来的扫描仪; 利用加快行李检查，行李搜索和远程监控/查看功能; 并且滚动CW的显示，使得例如不一定在CW显示器上执行“重新扫描”操作。

公开(公告)号：US20120069963A1

公开(公告)日：2012-03-22

申请号：US13205370

申请日：2011-08-08

申请人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Yoohwan Kim ,  Douglas P. Boyd

发明人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Yoohwan Kim ,  Douglas P. Boyd

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  G01N23/203

CPC分类号： G01V5/0025 ,  G06K2209/09

摘要： Dual-energy backscatter x-ray shoe scanning including: pre-processing input image information received from a shoe scanning device and image calibration data received from a database to output an atomic number image; detecting at least one suspect region based off the atomic number image; identifying the at least one detected suspect region as an object class using a changeable list of attributes; and classifying the object class according to a changeable list of categories.

摘要翻译： 双能量反向散射x射线靴扫描，包括：从鞋类扫描装置接收的预处理输入图像信息和从数据库接收的图像校准数据，以输出原子序数图像; 基于原子序数图像检测至少一个可疑区域; 使用可更改的属性列表将所述至少一个检测到的可疑区域识别为对象类; 并根据可更改的类别列表对对象类进行分类。

公开(公告)号：US5432447A

公开(公告)日：1995-07-11

申请号：US107476

申请日：1993-08-11

申请人： Samuel M. Song

发明人： Samuel M. Song

IPC分类号： G01R33/56 ,  G01R33/563 ,  G01R33/565 ,  G01V3/00

CPC分类号： G01R33/565 ,  G01R33/5608 ,  G01R33/56316 ,  G01R33/56563

摘要： Disclosed is a phase unwrapping technique based on the solution of the Poisson equation. The problem of phase unwrapping in the continuous domain is formulated using an optimization approach where a cost functional is minimized. The minimizer is shown to be a solution of the Poisson equation with an appropriate boundary condition; the choice of the boundary condition depends on the particular application. The solution to the Poisson equation, i.e., the phase that minimizes the cost functional is referred to as the least squares phase. The least squares phase has thereby been unwrapped but, in general, will differ from the absolute phase due to noise. Using the least squares phase, the absolute phase is finally determined with an operator that maps the least squares phase to the absolute phase so that the computed absolute phase and the measured phase differ by multiples of 2.pi..

摘要翻译： 公开了基于泊松方程解的相位展开技术。 在连续域中的相位展开的问题是使用最小化成本函数的优化方法来制定的。 最小化显示为具有适当边界条件的泊松方程的解; 边界条件的选择取决于具体的应用。 泊松方程的解，即将成本函数最小化的相称为最小二乘相。 因此，最小二乘相被展开，但是通常将由于噪声而与绝对相位不同。 使用最小平方相，绝对相位最终用操作者来确定，该算子将最小二乘相位映射到绝对相位，使得计算的绝对相位和测量相位相差2 pi的倍数。

公开(公告)号：US5309100A

公开(公告)日：1994-05-03

申请号：US968754

申请日：1992-10-30

申请人： Samuel M. Song ,  Sandy A. Napel ,  Norbert J. Pelc

发明人： Samuel M. Song ,  Sandy A. Napel ,  Norbert J. Pelc

IPC分类号： G01F1/716 ,  G01P5/00 ,  G01R33/56 ,  G01R33/563 ,  G01R33/20

CPC分类号： G01R33/56316 ,  G01F1/716 ,  G01P5/001

摘要： A method and apparatus to reduce the noise in three-dimensional phase contrast magnetic resonance velocity measurements exploits the property that blood is incompressible and therefore the velocity field describing its flow must be divergence-free. The divergence-free condition can be incorporated by the projection operation on Hilbert space where the velocity measurements are projected onto the space of divergence-free velocity fields. The reduction of noise is achieved since the projection operation eliminates the noise component that is not divergence-free. Higher quality angiograms are produced due to the noise reduction in the velocity measurement signals.

摘要翻译： 降低三维相位对比磁共振速度测量中的噪声的方法和装置利用血液不可压缩的特性，因此描述其流动的速度场必须是无差异的。 通过在希尔伯特（Hilbert）空间上的投影操作可以将无差异条件并入，其中速度测量被投影到无发散速度场的空间上。 实现了噪声的降低，因为投影操作消除了不分散的噪声分量。 由于速度测量信号中的噪声降低，产生了较高质量的血管造影。

公开(公告)号：US09036782B2

公开(公告)日：2015-05-19

申请号：US13205370

申请日：2011-08-08

申请人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Yoohwan Kim ,  Douglas P. Boyd

发明人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Yoohwan Kim ,  Douglas P. Boyd

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  G01N23/203 ,  G01V5/00

CPC分类号： G01V5/0025 ,  G06K2209/09

摘要： Dual-energy backscatter x-ray shoe scanning including: pre-processing input image information received from a shoe scanning device and image calibration data received from a database to output an atomic number image; detecting at least one suspect region based off the atomic number image; identifying the at least one detected suspect region as an object class using a changeable list of attributes; and classifying the object class according to a changeable list of categories.

摘要翻译： 双能量反向散射x射线靴扫描，包括：从鞋类扫描装置接收的预处理输入图像信息和从数据库接收的图像校准数据，以输出原子序数图像; 基于原子序数图像检测至少一个可疑区域; 使用可更改的属性列表将所述至少一个检测到的可疑区域识别为对象类; 并根据可更改的类别列表对对象类进行分类。

公开(公告)号：US20120045127A1

公开(公告)日：2012-02-23

申请号：US13212041

申请日：2011-08-17

申请人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Douglas P. Boyd

发明人： Samuel M. Song ,  Brian Kauke ,  Douglas P. Boyd

IPC分类号： G06K9/46 ,  G06K9/34 ,  G01N23/201

CPC分类号： G01V5/0016 ,  G01V5/0025

摘要： A portable backscatter advanced imaging technology scanner with automated threat or target recognition including: a floor assembly having a cantilever drive assembly for rotating the floor assembly, the floor assembly being able to be partitioned into multiple parts for reassembly; at least one x-ray tube oriented towards selected sides of a test subject; a detector assembly oriented on the circumference of the floor assembly, the detector assembly being able to partitioned into multiple parts for reassembly; a storage unit to store images from detected scattered photons on the detector assembly; and a processing unit to detect, identify and classify concealed objects on the test subject.

摘要翻译： 一种具有自动威胁或目标识别的便携式后向散射先进成像技术扫描仪，包括：具有用于旋转地板组件的悬臂驱动组件的地板组件，地板组件能够被划分成多个部分用于重新组装; 至少一个X射线管朝向测试对象的选定侧; 检测器组件，其定向在地板组件的圆周上，检测器组件能够被划分成多个部分用于重新组装; 存储单元，用于将检测到的散射光子的图像存储在检测器组件上; 以及处理单元，用于检测，识别和分类测试对象上的隐藏对象。

公开(公告)号：US5680862A

公开(公告)日：1997-10-28

申请号：US381801

申请日：1995-02-01

申请人： Samuel M. Song ,  Norbert J. Pelc

发明人： Samuel M. Song ,  Norbert J. Pelc

IPC分类号： G06T7/20 ,  A61B5/055

CPC分类号： G06T7/20

摘要： Several algorithms are presented for determining the trajectory of a particle in motion given cine phase contrast (PC) velocity field data. The PC velocity field is usually measured in a fixed frame of reference (spatial coordinates) and must be transformed to the velocity in material coordinates, i.e., the velocity experienced by individual points in the medium. The material velocity field can then be integrated to yield the trajectory of a particular point. Therefore, to determine the trajectory of a particular point, the given spatial velocity field must be transformed to the material velocity field. While there exists a mathematical relationship that maps velocity fields in spatial coordinates to material coordinates, this mapping can be applied only if particle trajectories are known. Although there appears to be a dilemma here, through an optimization technique, we have devised an iterative procedure to determine the optimal trajectory in the sense to be defined.

摘要翻译： 提出了几种算法来确定给定电影相位对比（PC）速度场数据的运动中的粒子的轨迹。 PC速度场通常以固定的参考坐标（空间坐标）测量，并且必须被转换为材料坐标中的速度，即介质中各个点所经历的速度。 然后可以将材料速度场积分成一个特定点的轨迹。 因此，为了确定特定点的轨迹，必须将给定的空间速度场转换为材料速度场。 虽然存在将空间坐标中的速度场映射到材料坐标的数学关系，但是只有当粒子轨迹是已知的时，才能应用该映射。 虽然在这里似乎有一个困境，通过优化技术，我们设计了一个迭代过程，以确定在要定义的意义上的最佳轨迹。