US Patent Issued to MEDICALIP on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for displaying translucent image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,099, issued on May 27, was assigned to MEDICALIP Co. LTD. (Gangwon-do, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for displaying translucent image" was invented by Sang Joon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Chul Kee Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yun Sik Dho (Seoul, South Korea) and Byeong Cheol Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying a translucent image. An image display apparatus detects a plurality of voxels overlapping in a depth direction in three-dimensional (3D) image data, determines a first combination ratio for two colors based on transparency values of a first voxel and a se...