213 results about "Body contour" patented technology

A computer assisted method of detecting and classifying lung nodules within a set of CT images includes performing body contour, airway, lung and esophagus segmentation to identify the regions of the CT images in which to search for potential lung nodules. The lungs are processed to identify the left and right sides of the lungs and each side of the lung is divided into subregions including upper, middle and lower subregions and central, intermediate and peripheral subregions. The computer analyzes each of the lung regions to detect and identify a three-dimensional vessel tree representing the blood vessels at or near the mediastinum. The computer then detects objects that are attached to the lung wall or to the vessel tree to assure that these objects are not eliminated from consideration as potential nodules. Thereafter, the computer performs a pixel similarity analysis on the appropriate regions within the CT images to detect potential nodules and performs one or more expert analysis techniques using the features of the potential nodules to determine whether each of the potential nodules is or is not a lung nodule. Thereafter, the computer uses further features, such as speculation features, growth features, etc. in one or more expert analysis techniques to classify each detected nodule as being either benign or malignant. The computer then displays the detection and classification results to the radiologist to assist the radiologist in interpreting the CT exam for the patient.

Cooling devices are provided to reduce a person's temperature by evaporative, convective, and / or conductive cooling. One such device maximizes evaporative cooling by aiding the flow of air to the person and the removal of vapor-laden air from the person. An upper sheet and a base sheet are adhered to define numerous elongated, parallel, inflatable cooling chambers separated by flat connecting membranes. Ventilating cross-members interconnect the cooling chambers. Air enters the chambers through an inlet, exits the chambers toward the person through air permeable regions of the base sheet. Air heated by the person's body exits the device upward through evaporation openings in the connecting membranes. The foregoing device, or different variations thereof, may be modified for use in conductive cooling by adding an absorbent sheet beneath the base sheet, or substituting the absorbent sheet for the base sheet itself This device directs air upon the wetted absorbent sheet to cool this layer, and thereby conductively cool the patient's skin in thermal contact with the absorbent sheet. As one example, this device may be configured in serpentine shape, with multiple winding segments. The device may include body-contour slits extending inward from the perimeter, permitting the device to conform to a person's legs and outstretched arms. Cooling devices may also include optional features to enhance thermal contact between the absorbent sheet and the person's skin, and / or to prevent water runoff from the cooling field.

Cooling devices are provided to reduce a person's temperature by evaporative, convective, and / or conductive cooling. One such device maximizes evaporative cooling by aiding the flow of air to the person and the removal of vapor-laden air from the person. An upper sheet and a base sheet are adhered to define numerous elongated, parallel, inflatable cooling chambers separated by flat connecting membranes. Ventilating cross-members interconnect the cooling chambers. Air enters the chambers through an inlet, exits the chambers toward the person through air permeable regions of the base sheet. Air heated by the person's body exits the device upward through evaporation openings in the connecting membranes. The foregoing device, or different variations thereof, may be modified for use in conductive cooling by adding an absorbent sheet beneath the base sheet, or substituting the absorbent sheet for the base sheet itself. This device directs air upon the wetted absorbent sheet to cool this layer, and thereby conductively cool the patient's skin in thermal contact with the absorbent sheet. As one example, this device may be configured in serpentine shape, with multiple winding segments. The device may include body-contour slits extending inward from the perimeter, permitting the device to conform to a person's legs and outstretched arms. Cooling devices may also include optional features to enhance thermal contact between the absorbent sheet and the person's skin, and / or to prevent water runoff from the cooling field.

3D morphological data representative of reference size models of garment brands and respective categorizing data are introduced into an information processing system. These 3D morphological data are indexed by brand names, categorizing data, and volumetric, dimensional, and angular data derived from the morphological data in order to build a database of virtual human body profiles. For selecting a suitable profile matching a consumer's body, his / her personal measurements and categorizing data are introduced into the system, either directly if they are known, or acquired by scanning only a minimum numbers of points on the customer's body in a scanning booth so as to derive these measurements. Instead of methods of the prior art defining the body profiles of the consumers per se from the general population, this method attempts to categorize the body profiles of the specific brands' reference size human models, and all offered sizes, through the brands' grading rules.

A figure-enhancing garment, which outlines and defines a wearer's body contours in a comfortable manner, includes a pair of pants having first and second pant leg portions, a front panel portion, and a waistband with a tunnel formed therein. The first and second pant leg portions are attached to the front panel portion via first and second interconnected tunnel seams that extend divergently from the crotch area and interconnect with the waistband tunnel. A third tunnel steam interconnects with the first and second tunnel seams and the waistband tunnel while extending upwardly from the crotch portion to the waistband. An adjustable pulley system extends through the waistband tunnel and the first, second and third tunnel seams to adjust the fit of the figure enhancing garment. Alternatively, the first and second seams are simple seams without tunnels. A pair of drawstrings anchored in the crotch portion of the pants, extend upwardly through the tunnel of the third seam and divergently through the tunnel in the waistband to adjust the fit of the figure enhancing garment.

A bone fixation plate, comprises an elongated body contoured to conform to the anatomy of a clavicle, the elongated body comprising a head at a first end and a shaft extending therefrom to a second end, the second end further comprising a reduced diameter tapered tip configured to permit insertion of the elongate body through a minimally invasive incision formed adjacent the clavicle. The bone fixation plate also comprises a first plate hole extending through the shaft from a proximal face to a distal face, the first plate hole formed as a combination hole and a second plate hole extending through the head from the proximal face to the distal face, the second plate hole being threaded.

A bone fixation plate, comprises an elongated body contoured to conform to the anatomy of a clavicle, the elongated body comprising a head at a first end and a shaft extending therefrom to a second end, the second end further comprising a reduced diameter tapered tip configured to permit insertion of the elongate body through a minimally invasive incision formed adjacent the clavicle. The bone fixation plate also comprises a first plate hole extending through the shaft from a proximal face to a distal face, the first plate hole formed as a combination hole and a second plate hole extending through the head from the proximal face to the distal face, the second plate hole being threaded.

A drape or wrap, kit, and methods of use thereof. The drape may be used with an infant. The drape may be a sheet of biocompatible medical grade plastic such as polyethylene. The sheet may be substantially: sterile, without static, transparent, non-abrasive to skin of the infant, and fluid-impermeable. The sheet may allow for folding over or around the infant, or to conform to body contours. The sheet may allow for heat from an external source to penetrate to the infant. The sheet may include a fenestration, and may include a perforation from the fenestration to the sheet's edge. An adhesive strip on the sheet may be used to secure it. A kit may include a package enclosing a sterilized folded wrap. The package may be opened to allow removal of the wrap. The wrap may be unfolded to a size to cover all but the head of the infant.

The invention discloses a people recognition method and device based on video images. The people recognition method includes the steps of firstly, extracting N images from target video images, and determining a background image and a foreground area in the target video images, wherein the foreground area includes a body contour image; secondly, extracting a plurality of body contour characteristic points from the body contour image; thirdly, setting up a three-dimensional body model based on a human skeleton, wherein the three-dimensional body model includes a plurality of three-dimensional joint angle parameters; fourthly, conducting rectangular projection on the three-dimensional body model to obtain a body smooth curve; fifthly, matching the body contour characteristic points extracted from the images with the body smooth curve to determine all the three-dimensional joint angle parameters; sixthly, conducting dimensionality reduction on all the three-dimensional joint angle parameters to obtain gait data to be recognized; seventhly, matching the gait data to be recognized with well-trained gait data to complete people recognition. According to the technical scheme, the people recognition method and device have the advantages of improving the capacity for analyzing the body contour characteristic information, reducing the operational amount, being high in robustness, and the like.

The systems described herein provide an improved skin care system including a handheld device having a contact head movable in a three-dimensional orbital manner having a contact surface for contacting the skin. A skin care product can be applied to the skin via the contact surface. The contact head is adaptable to skin and body contours. The handheld device can include an activatable motion system for moving the contact surface in an angular orbital manner about an axis normal to the surface. The motion system can also cause the contact surface to deflect in a direction and radially rotate the direction of deflection in a clockwise or counter-clockwise manner. The orbital rotation can be continuous, stepped, random and the like.

3D morphological data representative of reference size models of garment brands and respective categorizing data are introduced into an information processing system. These 3D morphological data are indexed by brand names, categorizing data, and volumetric, dimensional, and angular data derived from the morphological data in order to build a database of virtual human body profiles. For selecting a suitable profile matching a consumer's body, his / her personal measurements and categorizing data are introduced into the system, either directly if they are known, or acquired by scanning only a minimum numbers of points on the customer's body in a scanning booth so as to derive these measurements. Instead of methods of the prior art defining the body profiles of the consumers per se from the general population, this method attempts to categorize the body profiles of the specific brands' reference size human models, and all offered sizes, through the brands' grading rules.

The systems described herein provide an improved skin care system including a handheld device having a contact head movable in a three-dimensional orbital manner having a contact surface for contacting the skin. A skin care product can be applied to the skin via the contact surface. The contact head is adaptable to skin and body contours. The handheld device can include an activatable motion system for moving the contact surface in an angular orbital manner about an axis normal to the surface. The motion system can also cause the contact surface to deflect in a direction and radially rotate the direction of deflection in a clockwise or counter-clockwise manner. The orbital rotation can be continuous, stepped, random and the like.

A folding knife light tool with an ergonometric handle in which an illuminating means whether an LED or light bulb or a laser light is incorporated into the handle housing in the spaces existing between the blade, the locking mechanism, and the handle. A knife handle is provided having a body contoured for the hand. The housing is made from one molded piece with a slit in the middle. The handle includes a pivot point for supporting a blade between the longitudinal sides or scales of the blades. A conventional locking or non-locking system is utilized for keeping the blade open once it is unfolded. When the blade is folded, a portion of the blade extends above the sides of the knife handle for digital engagement in the opening operation.

A temperature sensing device and method of using the same, for detecting breathing of a patient. The temperature sensing device comprises a sensor body contour for supporting the temperature sensing device on an upper lip of a patient and preventing undesired movement thereof and at least one temperature sensor being supported by the sensor body. The sensor body spaces the temperature sensor(s) from the skin of a patient, during use, so that a remote end of the at least one temperature sensor can be positioned adjacent at least one of a nasal cavity and a mouth of the patient for detecting breathing of the patient. The sensor body is preferably curved both upwardly and rearwardly with respect to planes extending through the sensor body.

A guide for administering an injection including a guide body contoured for a human mandible; and at least one needle indexing guide on the guide body for the insertion of a needle there through, the guide use to provide a predictable and repeatable way of administering an injection to block a nerve.

The invention relates to a device and a method for testing brake performances based on stereoscopic vision, and belongs to vehicle performance testing road test equipment. The device reconstructs a vehicle body contour line three-dimensional coordinate according to vehicle body images shot by two cameras and by utilizing a computer image processing technique to obtain motion trails of a vehicle in the brake process; and speed, braking deceleration and braking deviation displacement are calculated in real time, so that vehicle braking performances are evaluated. The device comprises two DH-HV3150 UC cameras, two stepping motors, two tensioning wheels, a camera support, an industrial control computer, a millimeter-wave radar, three calibrated drones of a same specification and the like. According to the device and the method for testing brake performances based on stereoscopic vision, motion trails of the vehicle in the brake process can be calculated in real time. The method design idea is unique, the testing accuracy and the repeatability are good, and further, the structure is simple, and the installation is convenient. Research results have certain theoretical values and economic values and have good application and promotion prospects.

A method for shaping an aerosol container (10) to a desired body contour. A container body (12) is formed into a cylindrical shape and installed into a mold (30) whose inner surface defines the desired body contour. A bladder (74) is fitted onto a tool (50) insertable into an open end (M) of the container body. Once the tool is inserted, the bladder is inflated with a hydraulic fluid. Pressurizing the bladder forces the bladder against a sidewall of the body forcing the body outwardly and deforming it against the inside of the mold. After the container body is shaped, the bladder is de-pressurized and the tool withdrawn leaving the container with a defined body contour. The hydraulic fluid with which the bladder is pressurized is, at all times, contained within the bladder and does not contact the container sidewall so no subsequent drying of the container is required after the shaping process is complete.

The present invention adopts digital camera to make tongue image acquisition, and transfers the image into computer to make the operations of processing and transmission. Said method includes the following steps: 1. according to the statistical danalysis of tongue body form defining a tongue body contour template uisng rectangular region as outer boundary; 2. adopting gray projection analysis method to obtain a rectangular region so as to define the position and size of tongue body; 3. providing a tongue body contour initializatino method based on gray projectino and rigid template; 4. addinga priori knowledge about tongue body contour in energy function of Snakes model; and 5. adopting Catmull-Rom spline Snakes model to represent tonguke body contour and adopting existent Greedy method to make optimization. The tongue body contour can be obtained from colour tongue image, and the tongue body regino can be cut out.

When securing a frame (7) made of a rigid member for carrying a heavy object such as a drive unit (3) for a walking assistance device on the hip of a wearer, a hip protective belt (4) made of fabric is wrapped around the hip of the wearer, and the frame (7) is secured thereon via a flexible plate (5) and a pressure plate (6) located on an outer side of the flexible plate (5) and having a higher rigidity than the flexible plate (5). The intermediate members allow the wearer to feel the rigidity of the frame in a mitigated manner, and the wearer would not experience any discomfort from the pressure of the frame even when the posture of the wearer is changed. The hip protective belt can readily conform to the body contour of the wearer, but the frame would not deform. Because the intermediate members absorb the difference in the builds of different wearers, the frame may come in a small number of different sizes to fit almost any wearer. Thereby, the hip support member can be mass produced at low cost.

A massage apparatus includes: a supporting body 1 that supports a body of a massage recipient on his front side and a massage mechanism 2 that causes a massage head 28 which is disposed behind the supporting body 1 to massage a back of the body of the massage recipient. The massage apparatus further includes a contour measurement unit 3 that measures contour of the body of the massage recipient supported by the supporting body 1, and the massage mechanism 2 includes a controller C that controls the movement of the massage head 28 based on information of the body contour obtained by the contour measurement unit 3. The massage apparatus can give a suitable massage to the back of the massage recipient in accordance with a different size of the back different per each massage recipient and a position of a part to be massaged depending on the size.

A wire-free nursing camisole with detachable front straps is described. The nursing camisole allows the top of the camisole to be folded down in order to facilitate nursing. The lower half of the camisole encircling the tummy and lower back region is lined with a second layer of fabric capable of creating a smoothing effect of the tummy area, making it appear firmer and tighter. The camisole provides for fashionability, body shaping, and contouring, in a single garment.

The invention discloses a car ride protection method and device and a computer readable storage medium, and belongs to the field of vehicle engineering. The method comprises the steps that a compartment scene graph of a car is acquired, wherein the compartment scene graph is an image describing the compartment condition of the car; body contours of passengers taking the car are detected from the compartment scene graph; when a body contour matched with a preset child body contour exists in the body contours of the passengers taking the car, it is determined that a child takes the car, and theride state of the child taking the car is determined; when the ride state of the child is a dangerous state, the car is controlled to execute a preset vehicle-mounted function to complete the car rideprotection for the child. According to the car ride protection method and device and the computer readable storage medium, when it is determined through the compartment scene graph that a child takesthe car, the ride state of the child is determined, when the ride state of the child is the dangerous state, the car is controlled to execute the vehicle-mounted function to prevent the child from being injured during the car ride, thereby achieving the purpose of protecting the child.

A full-body non-invasive laser scanner for mapping or measuring a patient's body and for treating a patient's body with laser energy comprises a patient support, one or more laser devices, a laser guidance system, a control center, and optionally feedback sensors. The patient support aids in maintaining body alignment during treatment, and the laser devices are moveably positioned on a laser guidance system such that they can be driven about a stationary patient. To map and contour a patient's body, the patient aligns himself on the patient support. With the control center, an operator chooses whether to map, contour, or map and contour the patient's body either manually or according to preprogrammed treatment protocols. The carriage assembly translates and the laser devices apply laser energy to the surfaces of the patient's body according to the chosen protocol. Feedback sensors provide data for mapping the contours of the patient's body.

In one embodiment, a method includes performing a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging sequence to acquire MR image slices or volumes of a first station representative of a portion of a patient; applying a first phase field algorithm to the first station to determine a body contour of the patient in the first station; identifying a contour of a first anatomy of interest within the body contour of the first station using the first phase field algorithm or a second phase field algorithm; segmenting the first anatomy of interest based on the identified contour of the first anatomy of interest; correlating first attenuation information to the segmented first anatomy of interest; and modifying a positron emission tomography (PET) image based at least on the first correlated attenuation information.

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store information about the contour of an object to be examined and information about the position of a specified region of the ultrasonic image of the object both corresponded to a body contour model coordinate system and a coordinate calculating unit configured to correspond the object coordinate system to the body contour model coordinate system according to the information about the position of the specified region of the object, associating with each other the object coordinate system and the body contour model coordinate system used when comparing an ultrasonic tomographic image based on ultrasonic tomographic data stored in an image storage unit with a real-time ultrasonic tomographic image scanned by an ultrasonic probe, and thereby calculating the coordinates of the scanned plane of the real-time ultrasonic tomographic image in association with the object coordinate system.

The invention relates to a method for extracting and identifying small sample character contour features which comprises the following steps: firstly extracting body contour images in a target character video; secondly dividing gait cycles, unifying the size of the body contour images, and extracting feature factors of the body contour; and then working out a gait energy diagram and feature factors of each gait cycle, and obtaining contour feature data of the character by multiplying a gray-scale histogram of the gait energy diagram by the feature factors of the gait energy diagram; and then putting the contour feature data of a well-trained target character into a training library; finally working out the contour feature data of the character to be identified, carrying out improved nearest neighbor matching with the character in the training library, wherein the character in the training library which has a minimum distance with the character is identified to be the character to be identified, and finishing the character identification. The invention eliminates the influence of a great deal of noises in actual complex environments, shows body contour information, extracts effective character features and can be used for identifying the characters in household scenes.

The invention provides a multi-inner-cavity structure design method for a hollow fan blade. The method comprises the following steps: constructing a blade body contour 3D model; performing region partition on a blade body; building cavity entities in corresponding regions; and lastly, performing subtract of the Boolean operation to obtain a final hollow fan blade. The method has the beneficial effects that a complete multi-cavity hollow fan blade structure design method is provided, and a plurality of control points are provided in each of cavity regions in order to ensure implementation of smooth transition and setting of unequal wall thicknesses. Through use of the method, a multi-cavity region accurate layout can be obtained and a multi-cavity blade can be generated automatically in a way of only inputting wall thickness parameters and position parameters. The method has no limitation on a platform of three-dimensional software, and multi-cavity hollow fan blade design can be performed on a plurality of software platforms through the method.

A system provides a means to detect and track a patient silhouette which may be used to instruct him / her in positioning a medical sensing device on his / her chest with guidance from a computer or from a remotely located physician. The medical sensing device may be, for example a stethoscope or other device.