公开(公告)号：US11083438B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-10

申请号：US16004225

申请日：2018-06-08

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.

Inventor： Kazushi Ota ,  Akihiro Kawabata ,  Tomohito Sakai ,  Takashi Sakai

IPC: A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/00 ,  G01S15/89 ,  G01S7/52

Abstract: First transmission information in which an optimum transmitting voltage and a transmitting waveform are associated with each other for each display mode, and second transmission information in which a plurality of transmitting voltage candidates and pulse-width modulation transmitting waveforms that are pulse-width-modulation controlled to respectively correspond to the plurality of transmitting voltage candidates are associated with each other for each display mode are used to extract a maximum transmitting voltage candidate that does not exceed an optimum transmitting voltage of a first display mode from a plurality of transmitting voltage candidates included in the second transmission information of a second display mode so as to determine a common transmitting voltage used in common for the first display mode and the second display mode based on the optimum transmitting voltage of the first display mode and/or the maximum transmitting voltage candidate.

公开(公告)号：US12059302B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-13

申请号：US17193497

申请日：2021-03-05

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Kazushi Ota

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/08 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/08

CPC classification number: A61B8/5207 ,  A61B8/461 ,  A61B8/56 ,  A61B8/565 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/08 ,  A61B2560/0214

Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including a transceiver that transmits and receives first ultrasound of a low acoustic output and second ultrasound of a high acoustic output, and a first hardware processor that generates the ultrasound image based on a first reception signal acquired by transmitting and receiving the first ultrasound. The first hardware processor includes a learning model formed of a neural network, and generates the ultrasound image based on an output result of the learning model.

公开(公告)号：US10813625B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-27

申请号：US15283790

申请日：2016-10-03

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.

Inventor： Makiko Urabe ,  Kazushi Ota ,  Manami Okada

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/08

Abstract: An ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus includes the following. An ultrasound probe outputs transmission ultrasound into a subject in response to reception of a pulsed signal and outputs a reception signal in response to reception of ultrasound reflected from the subject. A transmitter generates the pulsed signal and outputs the generated pulsed signal to the ultrasound probe. A receiver receives the reception signal from the ultrasound probe and generates sound-ray data. An image generator generates ultrasound image data from the sound-ray data. An input receiver receives target position information on a target position. A highlighted-area determiner determines a first highlighted area among multiple areas in a body mark based on the target position information. A display combiner combines the body mark including the first highlighted area with the generated ultrasound image data and displays the resulting image on a display unit.

公开(公告)号：US11602333B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-14

申请号：US16904631

申请日：2020-06-18

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.

Inventor： Kazushi Ota ,  Akihiro Kawabata ,  Masumi Osugi

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  G01S15/89 ,  A61B8/14 ,  A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/06

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitter; a receiver; a Doppler processor that detects a Doppler shift frequency resulting from a blood flow in a subject, based on a reception signal corresponding to a reflected wave from a sample gate position in the subject; and a velocity scale adjuster that adjusts a velocity scale determining a pulse repetition frequency, based on a Doppler waveform corresponding to the Doppler shift frequency during an observation target period. In a case where a recommendation value of the velocity scale calculated based on the Doppler waveform is larger than a critical value of the velocity scale at which a measurement state calculated based on the sample gate position transitions from a non-high-pulse-repetition-frequency state to a high-pulse-repetition-frequency state, the velocity scale adjuster sets the critical value as the velocity scale to be used in measurement.

公开(公告)号：US10342512B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US14167750

申请日：2014-01-29

Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.

Inventor： Kazushi Ota

IPC: A61B8/00

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus which displays an ultrasound image on a display screen of a display unit based on ultrasound image data. The ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus includes a touch panel and a control unit. The control unit is able to execute a vertical display mode to display two ultrasound images aligned vertically on the display screen and a horizontal display mode to display two ultrasound images aligned horizontally on the display screen. In each display mode, the control unit sets operation reception regions aligned vertically or horizontally on the touch panel. When the control unit detects an operation of touching one of the operation reception regions, the control unit sets an ultrasound image displayed in the touched side to a selected state.