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- Patent Title: Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus with enhanced image resolution
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Application No.: US16377408Application Date: 2019-04-08
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Publication No.: US11744525B2Publication Date: 2023-09-05
- Inventor: Yoshihiro Takeda
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: LUCAS & MERCANTI, LLP
- Priority: JP 18094034 2018.05.15
- Main IPC: A61B8/08
- IPC: A61B8/08 ; A61B8/00 ; A61B5/00 ; G06T3/40 ; G06T7/40

Abstract:
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a transmission/reception part that sequentially supplies a drive signal to each of a plurality of ultrasound transducers, and receives and processes a reception signal output from each of the plurality of ultrasound transducers; and a hardware processor that: converts sampling data of each of positions into pixel values, and generates a first ultrasound image; upscales the first ultrasound image in accordance with a predetermined sample number increase magnification, and thereafter applies resolution enhancement processing on the first ultrasound image and thereby generates a second ultrasound image; converts the second ultrasound image into a display image; and controls transmission/reception conditions of the transmission/reception part so that an image size of the second ultrasound image becomes close to an image size of the display image, on the basis of the image size of the display image and the sample number increase magnification.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190350533A1 ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-11-21
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