公开(公告)号：US11903765B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US17326491

申请日：2021-05-21

Applicant: Konica Minolta Inc.

Inventor： Toshio Oka ,  Takashi Sakai

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/08

CPC classification number: A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/468 ,  A61B8/5261

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and an ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with an operation mode of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US11744556B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17331729

申请日：2021-05-27

Applicant: Konica Minolta Inc.

Inventor： Toshio Oka ,  Takashi Sakai

IPC: A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/00

CPC classification number: A61B8/5207 ,  A61B8/461 ,  A61B8/468 ,  A61B8/54

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and the ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator, and reproducibly saves the display image in a storage; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with a usage when reading the display image.

公开(公告)号：US11324482B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-10

申请号：US16248005

申请日：2019-01-15

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Takashi Sakai ,  Takashi Kimoto ,  Akihiro Kawabata

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/14 ,  A61B8/08

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe including a plurality of transducers arranged in a plurality columns and a switching element which switches input of a driving signal to the transducers and output of a receiving signal, a transmitter which outputs the driving signal to the transducers, a receiver which acquires the receiving signal corresponding to the transducers, and a hardware processor which generates ultrasound image data corresponding to each of the columns from the receiving signal, makes partial images in the ultrasound image data respectively have representations, synthesizes the ultrasound image data respectively including the partial images to generate composite image data, generates first identification information indicating to which position in a depth direction of the composite image data each of the representations of the partial images in the composite image data corresponds, and displays the generated first identification information and composite image data on a display.

公开(公告)号：US12207971B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-28

申请号：US18309495

申请日：2023-04-28

Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.

Inventor： Takashi Sakai ,  Toshio Oka

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/14

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe that transmits an ultrasound wave and receives a reflected wave; a display that displays an ultrasound image on a screen; and a hardware processor that activates a screen saver processing of displaying an image hiding information displayed on the screen or a freeze processing of stopping transmission and reception of the ultrasound wave when conditions (A1) or (A2) is continuously satisfied for a predetermined time or more while the ultrasound image is displayed, wherein the conditions (A1) and (A2) are: (A1) a state in which, in an input captured image, a change amount of the probe and surroundings is a first threshold or less; and (A2) a state in which a volume of input voice is a second threshold or less, or a state in which a volume of a specific frequency of input sound is a third threshold or less.

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.