US 12,229,984 B2
Positioning of a patient carrier
Sascha Krueger, Hamburg (DE); and Julien Senegas, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/289,926
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Oct. 15, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/079881
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/089417, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18204048 (EP), filed on Nov. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0005220 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 7/73 (2017.01) [A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/704 (2013.01); A61B 6/0487 (2020.08); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A positioning control system for a patient carrier of a diagnostic imaging system, the positioning control system comprising:
a camera system having a detection range, wherein the camera system is configured to acquire image information from the detection range; and
an analysis module configured to:
access the acquired image information from the detection range;
compute operator-activity within the detection range from the acquired image information, the operator-activity representing a spatio-temporal pattern of motions of hands and arms of an operator in the detection range associated with tactile manipulation of objects by the operator within the detection range; and
from the operator-activity, compute a location of a target anatomy of a patient on the patient carrier that is selected to be imaged by the diagnostic imaging system.