Three-dimensional radiograph security system
| DWPI Title: Method for displaying three-dimensional radiograph in three-dimensional security scanner located in e.g. airport, involves displaying stereogram on display system for security scanner such that eyes of viewer view images in stereogram |
| Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional radiograph in a security scanner. A first X-ray image of an object is generated by the security scanner from a first viewpoint. A second X-ray image of the object is generated by the security scanner from a second viewpoint. The first X-ray image and the second X-ray image form a stereogram. The stereogram is displayed by the security scanner on a display system for the security scanner such that a first eye of a viewer sees the first X-ray image in the stereogram and a second eye of the viewer sees the second X-ray image in the stereogram. A parallax between the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint in the stereogram results in a three-dimensional visualization of the object on the display system for the security scanner. |
| Use: Method for displaying a three-dimensional radiograph in a three-dimensional security scanner (claimed) located in an airport, a courthouse, a stadium and an office building (all claimed). |
| Advantage: The method enables overcoming a technical problem with increasing an amount of information that a viewer obtains from the X-ray image of the object. The method allows a person to carefully view the object inside a bag when an alert e.g. audible alert or graphical indicator, is generated. |
| Novelty: The method involves generating a first X-ray image of an object i.e. bag (106), from a first viewpoint. A second X-ray image of the object is generated from a second viewpoint, where the images form a stereogram. The stereogram is displayed on a display system (114) for a security scanner (102) such that a first eye of a viewer sees the first image in the stereogram and a second eye of the viewer sees the second image in the stereogram, where a parallax between the viewpoints in the stereogram results in a three-dimensional visualization of the object on the display system for the scanner. |
| Filed: 9/29/2016 |
| Application Number: US15279969A |
| Tech ID: SD 13715.0 |
| This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |
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