PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974850
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "424000"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus generates intermediate volume data from a plurality of volume data segments obtained as time passes so as to implement high-speed volume data. A medical imaging apparatus that includes the image processing apparatus, an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, an image processing method, and a medical image generation method are disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a displacement vector generator configured to detect corresponding voxels between reference volume data and target volume data that has been acquired at intervals of a predetermined time period, and to generate a displacement vector between the corresponding voxels; and an intermediate volume data generator configured to generate at least one piece of intermediate volume data between the reference volume data and the target volume data by using the generated displacement vector.

Claim (Index 1):
An ultrasonic imaging apparatus comprising:\n an ultrasonic probe configured to repeatedly acquire an ultrasonic image signal at intervals of a predetermined time period in an elevational direction; and at least one processor configured to:\n generate reference volume data and target volume data by using the repeatedly acquired ultrasonic image signal, \n detect a reference voxel of the generated reference volume data and a corresponding target voxel of the generated target volume data, and generate a displacement vector that relates to the detected reference voxel and the detected target voxel, and \n generate at least one piece of intermediate volume data with respect to the reference volume data and the target volume data by using the generated displacement vector, \n wherein the at least one processor is further configured to detect the target voxel of the target volume data by using voxel values of each of a plurality of contiguous voxels contained in the reference volume data, and wherein the at least one processor is further configured to calculate a cost value that relates to a measurement of a similarity between a voxel of the reference volume data and a voxel of the target volume data, to detect the target voxel based on the calculated cost value, and to determine a voxel having a minimum belief value that is determined based on the calculated cost value for each voxel of the target volume data to be the target voxel that corresponds to the reference voxel of the reference volume data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19355
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14934484', '14632614', '11760341', '14276019', '14235114']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6648735005746548
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.583798688463446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.656766019363534
- Mean Citation Score: 282.814188
- Max Citation Score: 470.8509
- Similarity Product: 468.1446577614069

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test