Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus for self-diagnosis and remote-diagnosis, and method of operating the ultrasound diagnosis apparatus
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Application No.: US15500398Application Date: 2015-08-28
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Publication No.: US10660607B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Jae-young Ryu , Dong-ki Kim , Young-hwan Kim , Min-woo Seo , Jei-young Lee
- Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@7025f925
- International Application: PCT/KR2015/009098 WO 20150828
- International Announcement: WO2016/032298 WO 20160303
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; G06F19/00 ; A61B8/06 ; A61B8/08

Abstract:
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and method enabling general users to easily acquire ultrasound images even when the users are unskilled at using ultrasound diagnosis apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having the ultrasound diagnosis method recorded thereon are provided. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a probe configured to acquire ultrasound data of an object; an image generation unit configured to generate an ultrasound image of the object by using the ultrasound data; a probe location acquisition unit configured to acquire a location of the probe on the object; a display unit configured to display the location of the probe and a reference location on an image representing the object; and a control unit configured to determine whether the location of the probe corresponds to the reference location.
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