Philips Patente

The present disclosure provides a subject monitoring system, and methods for processing an input to subject monitoring systems. A plurality of subject windows are displayed by the subject monitoring system, each presenting at least part of subject data associated with a respective subject. An input indicating a target action to be performed on subject data associated with a target subject window is received. Based on the input, an action is initiated to be performed on subject data associated with a further subject window amongst the subject windows. Accordingly, a need to repeat the input for the further subject windows is obviated by the automated application of actions across multiple subject windows, potentially saving time for clinicians and improving consistency in data handling across different subjects.

The present disclosure provides a method for speech control of a system. The method includes predicting an input for control of the system based on detected speech of a user, generating a confirmation code, displaying the predicted input and the generated confirmation code, and responsive to receiving a further input from the user including the confirmation code, generating a control signal for controlling the system based on the predicted input. The method enhances accuracy and reliability in speech-controlled systems by incorporating user verification through dynamic generation of a confirmation code to be displayed with the predicted input.

A system and method for infection prediction. An infection prediction model, trained using a training dataset acquired in a first set of circumstances, and a set of physiological parameters for a subject, acquired in a second, different set of circumstances, are obtained. Data values identified as contextually different to the training dataset are identified in and removed from the set of physiological parameters to generate a modified set of physiological parameters. Input features are generated from the modified set of physiological parameters and provided to the infection prediction model to generate an infection prediction score for the subject.

The invention relates to a method of MR imaging which addresses the interplay of patient-induced artifacts, operational complexity, and the need for precise imaging of clinically relevant areas. The method comprises: acquiring MR imaging data from a patient's anatomy by executing at least one (pre-) scan to generate an image of the anatomy and to extract information including at least one of coil sensitivity distribution, Bu field distribution, Bl field distribution, spatial distribution of flow characteristics, spatial distribution of motion characteristics; identifying an anatomic structure or region of interest within the imaged anatomy; automatically adapting settings of an MR scanner used and/or parameters of an MR imaging sequence or protocol taking the extracted information into account for enhancing image quality or diagnostic utility for the identified anatomic structure or region of interest; and acquiring further MR imaging data from the patient's anatomy using the MR imaging sequence or protocol with the adapted settings and/or parameters to generate one or more optimized images of the identified anatomic structure or region of interest. Moreover, the invention relates to an MR imaging system and to a computer program.

The subject-matter of the present disclosure relates to a radiography system (100). The system comprises an imaging device (101) configured to expose a target area (106) to ionizing radiation and capture a radiographic image of the target area, an audio sensor (112) disposed proximate to the target area, and a controller (122) configured to receive an audio signal from the audio sensor, analyse the audio signal, and control an operating state of the imaging device based on the analysed audio signal.

A system (SS) and related method for supporting procedure in respect of entity (PAT). The procedure is guidable based on a stream of frames (mj) acquirable by an interventional imaging apparatus (IA) of the entity (PAT). The system comprises an input interface (IN) for receiving input data (d) indicative of an intended one implements (Pi, P1,P2) in a current FOV as per a current frame (mt0) displayable by a display device (DID). A selector module (SM) selects, based on the input data, a trained machine learning model. The selected ML model (M*) supports the procedure by being capable of providing a detection response, based on a current frame, of a part (Pij) of the intended implement as per the current frame (mt0), and in at least one future frame (mt'). Output interface (OUT) provides output data (e) including feedback data on the selected model.

Provided is an oral relief device (10) for an infant, the oral relief device being configured to be disassembled by a carer of the infant. The oral relief device has a disassembly control system (16) that is transformable, in a manner defined by the disassembly control system, from a first state to a second state. In the first state the disassembly control system provides a hinderance to disassembly of the oral relief device. Transformation of the disassembly control system to the second state removes said hinderance. The disassembly control system is further configured so that transformation from the first state to the second state is irreversible, with the first state being no longer adoptable by action of the carer once the disassembly control system has been transformed from the first state to the second state. Also provided is a method for disassembling the oral relief device, and a waste collection method for the used oral relief device.

A method for measuring biological signals, such as oxygen saturation levels in the blood, using optical sensors. The method is based on computing a biological signal using a plurality of optical signals, the plurality of optical signals acquired across multiple ray paths through the tissue. In some embodiments, the optical signals of the group are acquired simultaneously, and each optical signal in the group corresponds to a different spatial ray path through the tissue of the subject from at least one optical source to at least one optical detector.

The present invention relates to an X-ray system and an apparatus for controlling X-ray imaging, in particular a footswitch having at least one pedal comprising a pedal plate configured to be moveable by a user operation, and a base plate configured to provide an end position for a movement of the pedal in which contact between the pedal plate and the base plate in established in a contact area having a relatively limited size of 200 mm2 or less. In one aspect, at least one of the base plate and the pedal plate is provided with a cut-out overlapping with at least part of the other one of the based plate and the pedal plate, the contact area being adjacent to the cut-out arranged along a periphery of the cut-out. In another aspect, the contact area is defined by one or more contact structures or elements on a contact side of the base plate and/or the pedal plate.

Disclosed herein is a medical method. The method comprises retrieving (200) application usage data (126) from a log (122). The application usage data (126) is descriptive of user interface actions performed during performing at least one medical image generating protocol with at least one image processing application (124). The method further comprises generating (202) protocol-specific lists (128) descriptive of the at least one medical image generating protocol by reformatting the application usage data (126). The method further comprises constructing (204) a semantically encoded database (130) from the protocol-specific lists (128). The method further comprises providing (206) a task monitor system (134) constructed from a general purpose large language model (132) configured to integrate the semantically encoded database (130) into prompt responses.

A bitstream, an encoder and method for encoding the bitstream, and a decoder and method for decoding the bitstream. The bitstream comprises one or more texture patches and one or more depth patches for each region in the scene that does not contain a non-Lambertian reflecting surface, one or more texture patches and one or more depth patches for any non-Lambertian reflecting surface in the scene, and at least one texture patch and at least one depth patch for each virtual object in any non-Lambertian reflecting surface. The one or more texture patches for any non-Lambertian reflecting surface and the at least one texture patch for each virtual object each comprises a color value and a density value for each pixel.

A breast pump for expressing milk from a nipple of a breast, the breast pump comprising a pump system to provide a pressure profile to be applied to at least a part of the breast and wherein the breast pump is configured to be received in a user's bra during use, characterized in that, the breast pump is configured such that, during use, no part of the breast pump blocks a user's unobstructed view of the nipple.

An automatic hair curler device (1) comprises a barrel (2) and a rotating mechanism (3) for wrapping hair around the barrel. The barrel is tapered and includes a movement mechanism (4) for translating the barrel in the vertical direction to adjust the diameter of the curl. This movement mechanism enhances the performance of the curl by increasing tension on the hair and improving heat exchange, resulting in sharper and longer-lasting curls.

A personal care apparatus comprising a body contacting portion and a handle assembly coupling portion. The body contacting portion is able to rotate with respect to the handle assembly coupling portion, as the handle assembly coupling portion moves over a surface of a housing of the body contacting portion. The center of this rotation, i.e., the effective pivot point of the body contacting portion, lies near a first plane. The first plane is defined as a plane in which three body contacting elements of the body contacting portion lie.

Disclosed is a computer-implemented method (100) for performing image quality checks using a control system (200), the method comprising by the control system (200): receiving (102) screen capture medical image data (202) of a user interface (204) of a medical imaging system (206); extracting (104) exam context information (208) and medical images (210) from the screen capture medical image data (202); based on the extracted exam context information (208), selecting (106) an image evaluation protocol (212), wherein the image evaluation protocol (212) comprises at least one image metric (214); executing (108) the image evaluation protocol (212) on the extracted medical images (210), resulting in at least one value of the at least one image metric (214); and based on the at least one value of the at least one image metric (214), providing (110) a control signal (216) to the medical imaging system (206).

Disclosed herein is a method of magnetic resonance imaging. The method comprises receiving (200) a sequence of magnetic resonance imaging scans (122) to be performed on a single examination subject (318) during a continuous time interval for a magnetic resonance imaging system (302).The method further comprises receiving (202) metadata (124) descriptive of the single examination subject and the magnetic resonance imaging system. The method further comprises receiving (204) a set of inter-scan time intervals (126) for time intervals between the sequence of magnetic resonance imaging scans in response to inputting the metadata and the sequence of magnetic resonance imaging scans into a trained artificial intelligence module (132). The set of inter-scan time intervals comprises: paired time intervals (128) and confidence levels (130) of the time intervals. The method further comprises providing (206) the set of inter-scan time intervals as control data for the magnetic resonance imaging system.

Disclosed is a medical imaging method comprising receiving (200) reference medical camera data (122). The method further comprises receiving (202) reference anatomical keypoint data (126) by inputting the reference medical camera data into an anatomical keypoint detection neural network (124). The method comprises iteratively generating (204) synthetic medical camera data (138) by: generating (206) intermediate medical camera data (130) by inputting the reference medical camera data into an image synthesis machine learning module (128); receiving (208) intermediate anatomical keypoint data (132) from the anatomical keypoint detection neural network; calculating (210) a loss function (134) using the intermediate anatomical keypoint data and the reference anatomical keypoint data; providing (214) the intermediate medical camera data as synthetic medical camera data (138) if the loss function meets (212) a predetermined convergence criterion; and otherwise, modifying (216) the image synthesis machine learning module using the loss function and repeating the iterative steps.

A method and system for object instance segmentation. Imaging and/or audio data is obtained, and a plurality of prompts for an object instance in the imaging and/or audio data is defined. Each prompt is provided to a prompt-based segmentation model to generate a respective initial segmentation mask for each prompt. At least some of the initial segmentation masks are processed to generate a final segmentation mask for the object instance.

The invention concerns a computer-implemented method for optimizing an examination, wherein the method comprises the steps of instructing the patient by displaying instructions via a user interface for simulating the examination; receiving image data comprising information about at least one portion of the patient via an optical sensor; analyzing, by a processor, the image data from the patient when the patient has been instructed; determining visible patient properties based on the analyzed image data; providing the visible patient properties to an external examination unit; and adapting a workflow of the examination based on the determined visible patient properties. The invention further concerns a system for optimizing an examination.

A patient environment information providing system is provided that comprises a data collection device, a data synchronization device, and a data diagnose support device. The data collection device is configured to provide a data provider access to the system via at least one on-line user interface for inputting data that is relevant to the event from a plurality of information sources. The data synchronization device is configured to analyze the input data to obtain synchronizing information and to synchronize the input data based on the synchronizing information to provide a support data set for the patient and the event. The data diagnose support device is configured to provide a data diagnose support interface to at least one patient environment information obtaining device to provide the support data set for the patient and the event to the at least one patient environment information obtaining device.

Disclosed is a device for culturing a three-dimensional cell cluster in at least one recess having a recess depth of at least substantially 50 µm, an effective recess diameter of at least substantially 50 µm, and a recess opening area of at least substantially 0.002 mm<2>

A blade set (26, 226, 326) for a hair cutting appliance (10) comprises a guard blade (46) and a cutter blade (66). The guard blade (46) comprises a top wall portion (56) and a bottom wall portion (58) that define a guide slot (60), a series of outer cutting slots (48) alternating with corresponding comb-like teeth (112), and a series of elongated inner cutting slots (50) inwardly offset from the outer cutting slots (48). The cutter blade (66) is slidingly accommodated in the guide slot (60) and comprises a series of outer cutting slots (68) alternating with corresponding comb-like teeth (122), and a series of elongated inner cutting slots (70) inwardly offset from the outer cutting slots (68). The outer cutting slots (48, 68) together define an outer cutting zone (74). The inner cutting slots (50, 70) together define an inner cutting zone (76). The cutter blade (66) is arranged to be reciprocally moved relative to the guard blade (46) to cut hair therebetween in a scissor action in the outer cutting zone (74) and the inner cutting zone (76). The outer cutting slots (48) of the guard blade (46) have a main extension direction (116). The outer cutting zone (74) and the inner cutting zone (76) are coplanar. The inner cutting slots (50) of the guard blade (46) have a main extension direction (118) that is inclined with respect to the main extension direction (116) of the outer cutting slots (48).

A blade set (26, 226, 326) for a hair cutting appliance (10) comprises a guard blade (46) comprising a top wall portion (56) and a bottom wall portion (58) at least partially offset from the top wall portion (56), thereby defining a guide slot (60), and a cutter blade (66) slidingly accommodated in the guide slot (60) to be reciprocally moved relative to the guard blade (46). The guard blade (46) and the cutter blade (66) together form at least one outer cutting zone (74) and at least one inner cutting zone (76) that is inwardly offset from the outer cutting zone (74). The guard blade (46) comprises, in the outer cutting zone (74), a series of outer cutting slots (48) alternating with corresponding comb-like teeth (112), and, in the inner cutting zone (76), a series of elongated inner cutting slots (50) inwardly offset from the outer cutting slots (48). The cutter blade (66) comprises, in the outer cutting zone (74), a series of outer cutting slots (68) alternating with corresponding comb-like teeth (122), and, in the inner cutting zone (76), a series of elongated inner cutting slots (70) inwardly offset from the outer cutting slots (68). At the bottom wall portion (58) of the guard blade (46), an outer protruding contact portion (88) and an inner protruding contact portion (90) are formed. The outer protruding contact portion (88) extends towards the cutter blade (66) and is arranged between the outer cutting zone (74) and the inner cutting zone (76). The inner protruding contact portion (90) extends towards the cutter blade (66) and is inwardly offset from the outer protruding contact portion (88) such that the inner cutting zone (76) is arranged therebetween.

Proposed concepts aim to provide schemes, solutions, concepts, designs, methods, and systems pertaining to tooth identification in dental imaging. In particular, embodiments aim to provide accurate and robust methods for classifying or identifying teeth in images from oral scans. Such classification of teeth is proposed to use sequences of images rather than single images, providing more context for prediction. Embodiments may therefore enable reliable tooth identification and classification without requiring a highly accurate universal tooth classification model.

Proposed concepts thus aim to provide schemes, solutions, concepts, designs, methods and systems pertaining to controlling imaging modality of an oral imaging device. In particular, embodiments aim to provide a method for controlling imaging modality of an oral imaging device by basing the decision to switch imaging modality on the location and/or motion of the camera of the oral imaging device. In other words, it is proposed that by determining a location, velocity, and/or acceleration of the camera of the oral imaging device, the oral imaging device can time its switching of imaging modality more optimally.

An X-ray imaging system has a visible light source and associated optics for directing the visible light source output to an X-ray collimator, in order to generate a collimation light field. A 2D camera has an offset between an optical axis of the 2D camera and an optical axis of the X-ray source. The camera is for capturing reflected images formed from the visible light source output, so that a depth of an object between the X-ray source and the X-ray detector can be determined from the 2D camera images based on a parallax shift.

This disclosure provides a method for reception mode switching and a terminal. The method includes: switching a reception mode of the terminal from a first reception mode to a second reception mode if a reception mode switching event occurs.

There is provided methods and devices arranged for the controlling media access in a wireless network. The wireless network may comprise a first device allowing a pre-emption of part of a reservation it holds. A second device may send a request to use the pre-emption. In a message, the first device sends, there is a duration in which the pre-emption is allowed. Upon expiry or the receipt of a message indicating that the second device has finished with the pre-emption, the first device may access the wireless medium.

There is provided methods and devices arranged for the controlling media access in a wireless network. The wireless network may comprise a first device and a second device. The first device may obtain a reservation to the wireless medium for a duration and then relinquish the reservation for a part of the duration and be arranged to go into a power-saving state. The first device may receive a power-saving allowed or disallowed indication from another device and enter or not a power-saving state.

A wireless device receives a configured grant (CG) configuration comprising a parameter to disable starting a discontinuous reception (DRX) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round trip time (RTT) timer. The DRX HARQ RTT timer is for a HARQ process associated with a transport block transmitted via a CG resource indicated by the CG configuration.

A bitstream, an encoding apparatus and method for encoding the bitstream, and a decoding apparatus and method for decoding the bitstream. The bitstream comprises encoded 3D Gaussian splat data for one or more frames. The encoded 3D Gaussian splat data comprises at least one reference set of parameters for a reference frame representing a 3D scene at a first moment in time and at least one set of decoding instructions. Each set of decoding instructions describes a transformation to be applied to one of the at least one reference set of parameters. The at least one reference set of parameters and the at least one set of decoding instructions are decoded using at least one processing unit configured to perform serial processing. The transformation described by each set of decoding instructions is applied using massively parallel processing.

It would be desirable to provide a sensor apparatus that facilitates precise mapping of signals to sensor nodes in an image coordinate system. There is therefore provided a sensor apparatus (110) comprising a plurality of sensor nodes. The sensor apparatus is configured to be used in conjunction with an imaging device (104). The imaging device is configured to acquire image data, wherein the image data uses an image coordinate system. The sensor apparatus comprises a plurality of fiducial markers each having a uniquely identifiable pattern which is detectable by the imaging device. The sensor apparatus is configured to hold the fiducial markers in a predetermined spatial relationship with the sensor nodes for mapping of signals obtained from the sensor nodes to locations of the sensor nodes in the image coordinate system.

In the field of transmission of a rotational motion from one member to another, an adjustable transmission system (1) is provided which is configured to selectively transmit a rotational motion of a primary member (10) about a rotational axis (R) to a secondary member (20), to cause the secondary member (20) to selectively rotate about the rotational axis (R). The transmission system (1) comprises a coupling member (30) which is configured to selectively be in first and second axial positions relative to the primary member (10), for decoupling from and coupling to the secondary member (20), respectively, wherein the primary member (10) is configured to enable displacement of the coupling member (30) in axial direction on the basis of changes of the direction of the rotational motion, and wherein use is made of a pattern of guiding channels (12) which are engaged by a guided element (31).

An audio apparatus comprises a downmixer (107) generating a mono downmix by downmixing a stereo signal resulting from applying downmix filters (103, 105) to an input stereo signal. Residual filters (109,113) generate compensation signals from the mono downmix and residual signals are generated by compensators (111, 115) compensating the input channel signals by the compensation signals. A renderer 117 renders the mono downmix and residual signals to generate an output stereo signal. The filter responses of the downmix filter (103, 105) and the residual filters (109,113) for a given channel have a fixed relationship, typically being complex conjugates in the frequency domain, and are updated by an adapter (119) to reduce error values determined from the residual signals. The error values may be energy or power level measures for the residual signals.

An audio apparatus renders a stereo signal and comprises a weight processor (105) determining frequency subband downmix weights from spatial parameters for the stereo signal. A downmixer (107) determines a mono downmix by downmixing the stereo signal using the downmix weights. A residual circuit (109) arranged to generate at least a first residual signal from a first channel of the stereo signal by generating frequency subband residual weights from the downmix weights, generating frequency subband compensation values downmix and the residual weights; and generating frequency subband values of the residual signal by compensation of the channel by the compensation values. A renderer (111) renders an output stereo signal by a directional rendering of the downmix to generate a first intermediate stereo signal and a second rendering of the residual signals to generate a second intermediate stereo signal with the output stereo signal being generated by combining the intermediate stereo signals.

An imaging system is used for capturing images of a subject during X-ray examination. It comprises a video camera system, separate to the X-ray image generation, for generating video camera images. The video camera images are processed to determine that a captured video camera image is synchronized with an X-ray exposure, based on saturation of one or more pixels of the captured video camera image. Timing information can then be generated associating the timing of the video camera images with the timing of the X-ray exposure.

A mechanism for generating a query response to a search query for use in a clinical environment. A conversion module is configured to convert metadata, produced during segmentation mesh modification by a model-based segmentation method, into a text-based file. A search module is configured to process the search query and the text-based file to produce a query response to a user at an output user interface.

Disclosed herein is a method for synchronizing MRI data acquisitions of a heart of a subject (118) with a cardiac cycle of the heart using photoplethysmography data (320; 410). The method comprises receiving the photoplethysmography data (320; 410), detecting a first cardiac trigger (322; 412), which is indicative of a start of a first ventricular systole (420) of a first cardiac cycle, using the received photoplethysmography data (320; 410), and, in response to the detecting of the first cardiac trigger (322; 412), performing a time-delayed first triggering of a first magnetic resonance imaging data acquisition before a start of a ventricular contraction of a second ventricular systole (434) of a second cardiac cycle following the first cardiac cycle.

An audio apparatus comprises a first renderer (205) applying a directional rendering to a mono downmix with the rendering being based on a channel transfer function retrieved from a store (211) storing transfer functions for different directions. The rendering is for a direction determined in response to spatial upmix parameters provided for the downmix by a direction determining circuit (209). A second intermediate stereo signal may be rendered from a decorrelated version of the mono downmix by a second renderer (217) using a predetermined rendering, such as for example from a specific direction/position that is not signal dependent. A combiner (219) generates an output stereo signal by combining the intermediate stereo signals. An adapter (221) adapts the level of the first intermediate stereo signal relative to the level of the second intermediate stereo signal in the output stereo signal dependent on a first scaling value determined from the spatial parameters.

An image processing system (100) and related method. The image processing system comprises an input interface (102) configured to receive X-ray image data of an object acquired by an X-ray imaging apparatus during a scan and to receive camera image data of the object acquired by a camera system having a field of view of the object. A geometry determiner (104) of the system is configured to analyze the camera image data of the object to determine geometry information of the object and distance information of the object to a detector of the X-ray imaging apparatus. A scatter estimation module (106) of the system is configured to estimate a scatter profile of scatter present in the X-ray image data by use of the determined geometry information of the object and the determined distance information of the object to the detector of the X-ray imaging apparatus.