Patent ID: 11972857
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. The medical instrument of claim 1, wherein at least one of the following is continually updated while the subject support is in the initial position:
detection of the placement of one or more background objects that at least partially obscure the support surface within the successive images;
detection of the one or more foreground objects that obscure at least a portion of the one or more background objects in the successive images;
construction of the object surface image at least partially by stitching together the successive images to replace image regions containing background objects obscured by the one or more foreground objects;
determining the three-dimensional object surface using the object surface image;
detecting the subject in one of the successive images from the one or more foreground objects;
calculating the subject segmentation of the subject in the one of the successive images;
determining the visible subject surface using the subject segmentation and the one of the successive images; or
calculation a three-dimensional subject model by estimating a volume defined by the three-dimensional object surface and the visible subject surface.