公开(公告)号：US20180130556A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15567729

申请日：2016-04-15

Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.

Inventor： Iulia DOBAI ,  Njin-Zu CHEN ,  Marleen Johanna Jacoba VAN LEENGOED

IPC: G16H40/60 ,  G16H40/40 ,  G16H80/00 ,  G06Q10/10

Abstract: A method of operating a device by controlling the device based on input received from group members, uses a sensor unit for monitoring each group member for detecting an instruction provided by a group member. The instruction includes a visual or audible instruction. Upon detecting, a control unit associates a control command with the instruction. The control unit provides the control command to the device. For establishing the group the method includes performing, by user input means for interacting with a user, an authentication for adding said user as group member. For identifying the control command, the method comprises associating the detected instruction with the instructing group member among the group members, accessing member profile from a memory unit comprising a set of reference instructions, and matching the instruction with a reference instruction selected from the set of reference instructions in the profile. An apparatus is arranged for performing the method.

公开(公告)号：US20220330914A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-20

申请号：US17634015

申请日：2020-08-11

Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.

Inventor： Alvin CHEN ,  Kunal VAIDYA ,  Alyssa TORJESEN ,  Sibo LI ,  Ramon Quido ERKAMP ,  Shyam BHARAT ,  Molly Lara FLEXMAN ,  Ameet Kumar JAIN ,  Hendrik Roelof STAPERT ,  Vincentius Paulus BUIL ,  Njin-Zu CHEN ,  Ralph Theodorus Hubertus MAESSEN ,  Niels NIJHOF ,  Elise Claude Valentine TALGORN

IPC: A61B8/14 ,  A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/00

Abstract: A steerable multi-plane ultrasound imaging system (MPUIS) for steering a plurality of intersecting image planes (PL1 . . . n) of a beamforming ultrasound imaging probe (BUIP) based on ultrasound signals transmitted between the beamforming ultrasound imaging probe (BUIP) and an ultrasound transducer (S) disposed within a field of view (FOV) of the probe (BUIP). An ultrasound tracking system (UTS) causes the beamforming ultrasound imaging probe (BUIP) to adjust an orientation of the first image plane (PL1) such that a first image plane passes through a position (POS) of the ultrasound transducer (S) by maximizing a magnitude of ultrasound signals transmitted between the beamforming ultrasound imaging probe (BUIP) and the ultrasound transducer (S). An orientation of a second image plane (PL2) is adjusted such that an intersection (AZ) between the first image plane and the second image plane passes through the position of the ultrasound transducer (S).