Please forgive a little horn-blowing, but I have to note this press release with pride: Aperio Awarded Patent for High Performance Viewing of Digital Slides:
Aperio Technologies, Inc., (Aperio), a global leader in digital pathology for the healthcare and life sciences industry, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. 7,738,688 entitled, “System and Method for Viewing Virtual Slides.”
The field of digital pathology is enabled by converting glass microscope slides into digital whole- slide images that can be viewed, managed, and analyzed. A key feature of any digital pathology system is the ability to view digital slides remotely, across local and wide area networks. The ‘688 patent describes novel techniques for processing and displaying digital slide images stored on a server, which facilitate rapid viewing of digital slides. This technology also enables real-time panning and continuous and rapid zooming of very large digital slide images without loss of image fidelity, as well as simultaneous collaborative viewing of digital slides and associated data.
Viewing digital slides across a network is of course a basic capability of digital pathology, at the core of many of the value propositions for the technology, and we've worked long and hard on the underlying software to make our viewing experience as fast and seamless as possible. It is great to add this patent on our techniques to Aperio's portfolio...
