Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and method of controlling ultrasonic imaging apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11000260B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-11

    申请号:US15725015

    申请日:2017-10-04

    Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.

    Inventor: Naoto Adachi

    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes a plurality of transducers aligned in a line, a select circuit configured to cause transducers selected from the plurality of transducers to transmit an ultrasonic pulse and receive a plurality of received signals, respectively, and a digital signal processing circuit configured to align in time and add up the plurality of received signals weighted by a plurality of respective weighting factors, wherein the digital signal processing circuit changes the plurality of weighting factors according to a time position on the plurality of received signals such that ratios between the plurality of weighting factors change.

    ULTRASONIC IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180116636A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-03

    申请号:US15860086

    申请日:2018-01-02

    Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.

    CPC classification number: A61B8/5207 A61B8/4472 A61B8/462 A61B8/54

    Abstract: An ultrasonic image generation system having an ultrasonic unit configured to transmit and receive an ultrasonic signal, a drive control/signal processing unit configured to repeat processing to generate an ultrasonic image signal by processing a received signal of the ultrasonic unit as well as to generate a drive signal that is supplied to the ultrasonic unit; and a display unit configured to repeat displaying an ultrasonic image based on the ultrasonic image signal, to stop updating of a displayed image in response to a stop signal input, and to resume updating of the displayed image in response to a start signal input, wherein the drive control/signal processing unit stops at least part of an operation in response to the stop signal input and resumes the stopped operation in response to the start signal input.

    Ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic system, method of controlling ultrasonic probe, and non- transitory computer-readable recording medium

    公开(公告)号:US11925509B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US17560113

    申请日:2021-12-22

    Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.

    CPC classification number: A61B8/546 A61B8/4472

    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe includes a transducer; a pulser; an amplifier; a wireless transmitter; temperature detectors at two or more locations from among a location of the pulser, a location of the amplifier, and a location of the wireless transmitter; and a processor comparing temperatures detected by the temperature detectors with first temperature thresholds set for the temperature detectors, and, when one or more temperature detectors detect temperatures that exceed corresponding first temperature thresholds, selecting any one of low power consumption operating modes based on which temperature detectors are the one or more temperature detectors detecting the temperatures that exceed corresponding first temperature thresholds, and switching an operating mode of each of one or more from among the pulser, the amplifier, and the wireless transmitter from a normal operating mode to the selected low power consumption operating mode.

    Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic diagnostic system

    公开(公告)号:US11452505B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-27

    申请号:US16923229

    申请日:2020-07-08

    Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.

    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a probe configured to transmit ultrasonic waves to a living body and receive ultrasonic waves reflected by the living body; and a processor configured to, in a moving image mode, cause ultrasonic image data based on ultrasonic waves received by a first subset of the total number of oscillators that the probe has to be output, and, in a static image mode, cause ultrasonic image data based on ultrasonic waves received by a second subset of the total number of oscillators that the probe has to be output, wherein the number of oscillators used in the second subset is greater than the number of oscillators used in the first subset.

    Ultrasonic probe control method and computer-readable storage medium holding program

    公开(公告)号:US11234730B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-01

    申请号:US16113373

    申请日:2018-08-27

    Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.

    Abstract: A processor of a general-purpose terminal acquires position information indicating whether a biological body is punctured from a first side of an ultrasonic probe apparatus or a second side opposite to the first side and angle information indicating a puncture angle, where these items of information are entered on a touch panel of a display, transmits these items of information to the probe apparatus via a wireless communication circuit, acquires, via the communication circuit, image information generated and transmitted by the probe apparatus based on reflected waves obtained by transmitting ultrasonic waves into the biological body from the probe apparatus at a first angle based on the above information, superimposes a puncture guide indicating a puncture path based on the above information on an ultrasonic image of the biological body or a puncture needle based on the image information, and displays a result of the superimposing on the display.

    Ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic system, method of controlling ultrasonic probe, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

    公开(公告)号:US12059299B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-13

    申请号:US17567507

    申请日:2022-01-03

    Applicant: Socionext Inc.

    CPC classification number: A61B8/4472 A61B8/54 A61B8/565

    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe includes a wireless transmitter-receiver configured to perform communication through a wireless network having a plurality of channels and obtain identification information of apparatuses connected to the wireless network from the apparatuses; a memory configured to store identification information for identifying other ultrasonic probes from among the apparatuses; and a processor configured to count other ultrasonic probes connected with the wireless network on a per channel basis with respect to the plurality of channels based on the identification information obtained by the wireless transmitter-receiver and the identification information stored in the memory, and determine to connect to a channel at which the number of the other ultrasonic probes counted by the processor is smallest.

    Ultrasonic imaging apparatus and method of controlling ultrasonic imaging apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10660606B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-26

    申请号:US15725918

    申请日:2017-10-05

    Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.

    Inventor: Naoto Adachi

    Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes a plurality of transducers aligned in an array, a select circuit configured to cause transducers selected from the plurality of transducers to transmit an ultrasonic pulse and receive received signals, respectively, and a digital signal processing circuit configured to perform a first operation of adding up an odd number of the received signals, arranged in an order corresponding to the aligned array, with delays that are symmetrical between two sides across a center that is a centrally located signal, and to perform a second operation of adding up an even number of the received signals, arranged in an order corresponding to the aligned array, with delays that are symmetrical between two sides across a center that is situated between two centrally located signals.

    Receiver and signal processing method
    9.
    发明授权
    Receiver and signal processing method 有权
    接收机和信号处理方法

    公开(公告)号:US09118514B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-25

    申请号:US14183191

    申请日:2014-02-18

    CPC classification number: H04L25/0232 H04B17/336 H04L25/022 H04W52/367

    Abstract: A receiver includes a detector to detect an interfered-with carrier from a received and demodulated signal, a fast Fourier transform computation part to perform fast Fourier transform to convert a time domain signal to a frequency domain signal and adjust an output power level of a desired carrier wave contained in the frequency domain signal based upon the detected interfered-with carrier, and a channel estimation part to estimate a channel characteristic based upon a non-interfered-with pilot signal that is not subject to influence of the interfered-with carrier and an interpolation value interpolated based upon the non-interfered-with pilot signal, the non-interfered-with pilot signal being obtained by removing, based upon the interfered-with carrier, an interfered-with pilot signal that is subject to the influence of the interfered-with carrier and an interpolation value interpolated based upon the interfered-with pilot signal.

    Abstract translation: 接收机包括:检测器,用于从接收和解调的信号中检测干扰载波;快速傅里叶变换计算部分,执行快速傅里叶变换,以将时域信号转换为频域信号,并调节所需的信号的输出功率电平 基于检测到的干扰载波的频域信号中包含的载波,以及基于不受受干扰载波的影响的不受干扰的导频信号来估计信道特性的信道估计部,以及 基于未被干扰的导频信号内插的内插值,通过基于受干扰载波去除受干扰导频信号的受干扰导频信号而获得的非干扰导频信号, 受干扰的载波和基于被干扰的导频信号内插的插值。

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