Anatomic Image Produced By Reflective Scanning Patents (Class 600/443)
  • Patent number: 11413011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasound-based system for localizing a medical device within the field of view of an ultrasound imaging probe. A localization system is provided that includes at least three ultrasound emitters that are arranged on a frame; and a position triangulation unit. The frame is adapted for attachment to an ultrasound imaging probe. The position triangulation unit determines a spatial position of the ultrasound detector relative to the at least three ultrasound emitters based on signals received from an ultrasound detector that is attached to the medical device. The frame includes a detachable reference volume comprising a background volume and an inclusion or void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Van De Pas, Hendrik Roelof Stapert
  • Patent number: 11411604
    Abstract: An automotive Ethernet physical-layer (PHY) transceiver includes an analog Front End (FE) and a digital processor. The FE is configured to receive an analog Ethernet signal over a physical Ethernet link while the Ethernet PHY transceiver is operating in a vehicle, and to convert the received analog Ethernet signal into a digital signal. The digital processor is configured to hold one or more noise profiles that characterize respective predefined noise types of noise signals that are expected to corrupt the received analog Ethernet signal, to classify an actual noise signal present in the digital signal into one of the noise types, using the noise profiles, and in response to deciding that the actual noise signal matches a given noise type among the predefined noise types, to apply a noise mitigation operation selected responsively to the given noise type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
    Inventors: Hon Wai Fung, Dance Wu, Christopher Mash
  • Patent number: 11403778
    Abstract: An ultrasound image processing apparatus (16) is disclosed comprising a processor arrangement (46, 50) adapted to receive a temporal sequence (15) of ultrasound images (150) of at least a chest region (151) of a fetal entity (62) from an ultrasound probe (14), said chest region including the fetal heart (171), said temporal sequence capturing at least part of a cardiac cycle of the fetal heart; identify the chest region of the fetal entity in one or more of the ultrasound images of said temporal sequence; identify a portion of the spine in the identified chest region; calculate an orientation axis (160) of the fetal chest from the identified chest region and the identified spine portion; identify the septum of the fetal heart as a linear structure which is temporally more stable than its surrounding structures in said temporal sequence of ultrasound images and which defines a region of convergence of the movements of the fetal heart during said cardiac cycle; calculate an orientation axis (170) of the fetal h
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Cybèle Ciofolo-Veit, Laurence Rouet, Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud, David Nigel Roundhill
  • Patent number: 11399802
    Abstract: This invention is the improved methods and ultrasound apparatus with the wirelessly chargeable battery of the ultrasound probe and with the record of the ultrasound data and ultrasound images on the removable memory card. The improved methods provide the steps of the operation of the improved ultrasound apparatus, and the improved ultrasound apparatus includes the microprocessor unit and control organs unit, which provide control of an ultrasound unit, comprising piezoelectric devices, a transmission unit, a battery unit, including battery and battery wireless charging control circuitry, indication unit, and includes a card insertion registration device recognizing the presence of a removable memory card in the ultrasound probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Ann Rachel Yufa
  • Patent number: 11403057
    Abstract: An information processing device sets a region of interest in an imaging region and determines a region to be displayed from the region of interest according to a state of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shogo Takanashi
  • Patent number: 11399766
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for monitoring the fetal position and/or orientation of the fetus of an expectant mother. An acoustic sensor array is positioned over the belly. The pattern of acoustic sensor signals is processed to determine a fetal orientation and/or to determine movement over time of the fetus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bin Yin, Sheng Jin, Mingdong Li, Yuqiang Wu, Lin Li
  • Patent number: 11395640
    Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system comprising a multi-use electronic display device and an ultrasound imaging device. The multi-use electronic display device is capable of communicating with one or more ultrasound imaging devices and selecting which to connect with based on at least one of previously store information, user input, and information gathered from the ultrasound imaging devices. The multi-use electronic display device may communicate with the ultrasound imaging devices while they are in a low power standby state. This approach reduces the complexity of the pairing process and provides a means for quickly and easily selecting between multiple ultrasound imaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Clarius Mobile Health Corp.
    Inventors: Laurent Pelissier, Trevor Hansen, Kris Dickie
  • Patent number: 11397167
    Abstract: Measuring local speed of sound for ultrasound by inducing ultrasound waves in a subject by focusing an ultrasound beam, using an ultrasound Tx transducer to propagate waves from a focal point to the surface, measuring a time of arrival of the waves using at least three single Rx transducer surface elements, signal traces recorded on individual Rx transducers are evenly sampled in time, an average speed of sound equals an arithmetic mean of local sound-speed values sampled along a wave path, each Rx transducer outputs a separate arrival time of the waves, computing a local speed of sound (ci) of waves from an average speed of sound (cavg) using a computer that receives arrival times, where c avg = 1 N ? ? i = 1 N ? c i , where ci=di/Ts, di is the length a tissue traveled during one sampling period Ts, and using ci to differentiate human disease, or with ultrasound measurements to differentiate degrees of human disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Jeremy Joseph Dahl, Scott S. Hsieh, Marko Jakovljevic
  • Patent number: 11389137
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure described herein related to packaging an ultrasound-on-a-chip. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an ultrasound-on-a-chip that has through-silicon vias (TSVs) and an interposer coupled to the ultrasound-on-a-chip and including vias, where the ultrasound-on-a-chip is coupled to the interposer such that the TSVs in the ultrasound-on-a-chip are electrically connected to the vias in the interposer. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an ultrasound-on-a-chip having bond pads, an interposer that has bond pads and that is coupled to the ultrasound-on-a-chip, and wirebonds extending from the bond pads on the ultrasound-on-a-chip to the bond pads on the interposer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BFLY Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith G. Fife, Jianwei Liu, Andrew Betts
  • Patent number: 11393092
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods and instrumentalities associated with motion tracking and strain determination. A motion tracking apparatus as described herein may track the motion of an anatomical structure from a source image to a target image and determine corresponding points on one or more surfaces of the anatomical structure in both the source image and the target image. Using these surface points, the motion tracking apparatus may calculate one or more strain parameters associated with the anatomical structure and provide the strain parameters for medical diagnosis and/or treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING INTELLIGENCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shanhui Sun, Hanchao Yu, Qiaoying Huang, Zhang Chen, Terrence Chen
  • Patent number: 11389134
    Abstract: A system for finding improved views includes a shape sensing optical fiber system disposed on or in a prosthesis to track the prosthesis in a volume. A real-time imaging system employs a non-ionizing radiation source to image the volume having the prosthesis and reference positions in the volume. A search program is stored in memory to search images of the real-time imaging system to identify the reference positions in the volume. An image processing device overlays shape sensing data and images from the real-time imaging system and computes an improved view in accordance with improved view parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: John Allan Bracken, Bharat Ramachandran, Molly Lara Flexman
  • Patent number: 11389135
    Abstract: A breast imaging ultrasound system for ultrasound imaging of a body includes: scanning uniform sub-volumes of a mammalian breast with an ultrasound transducer having a fixed focal number (FN), acquiring ultrasonic images of portions of the target volume, the acquired images having the same voxel resolution, and processing the ultrasonic images, thereafter providing a 2D or 3D image of the target volume using constant size volume pixels (Voxels).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventor: Kenneth N. Bates
  • Patent number: 11382600
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound corresponding to a drive signal, which receives reflected ultrasound from the subject and which outputs a received signal according to the reflected ultrasound; a drive signal outputter which outputs the drive signal to the ultrasound probe; a hardware processor which controls the drive signal outputter to output a first drive signal having a first drive waveform and a second drive signal having a second drive waveform that is different from the first drive waveform; a received signal generator which generates a first received signal based on the reflected ultrasound corresponding to the transmission ultrasound that is output based on the first drive signal and a second received signal based on the reflected ultrasound corresponding to the transmission ultrasound that is output based on the second drive signal; and an extractor which extracts by arithmetic of the first received signal and the second received
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA INC.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11382602
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ultrasound imaging systems and methods, more particularly, to ultrasound imaging systems and methods for a multi-plane acquisition for single- or bi-plane real-time imaging modes suitable for ultrasound imaging applications, such as quantification of tumor blood flow and tumor fractional blood volume. An ultrasound imaging apparatus can determine a plurality of image planes to scan through a region of interest, acquire echo information corresponding to each of the image planes, generate image information for each of the image planes, store the image information corresponding to each of the image planes; and display an ultrasound image comprising the region of interest, wherein the ultrasound image is rendered from generated image information for a selected image plane of the plurality of image planes or a bi-plane that is at angle to the plurality of image planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Patrice Jean Arsene Gauthier, Lars Jonas Olsson
  • Patent number: 11382597
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an ultrasonic apparatus with which a decision can be made with better precision as to whether or not to apply gain reduction processing to a gain for echo signals. [Means for Solution] An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises a control circuit executing: a creating function of creating, based on echo signals from first ultrasound transmitted to a subject to be examined, data for a B-mode image having brightness depending upon intensity of the echo signals; a motion detecting function of detecting a velocity value, etc. as information on motion in the subject based on echo signals from second ultrasound transmitted to said subject; and a deciding function of, in a case that the intensity of the echo signals from said first ultrasound is smaller than a first threshold th1 and said velocity value is equal to or greater than a second threshold th2, deciding that a gain for the echo signals from said first ultrasound is a target of gain reduction processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Takuma Oguri, Yanyang Ju
  • Patent number: 11371964
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring the condition of ultrasonic transducers and ultrasonic probes used in non-destructive testing are provided. In one aspect, a degree of deterioration and end of life of an ultrasonic transducer can be estimated based upon measured environmental and/or operating parameters of the ultrasonic transducer. In another aspect, testing parameters acquired by a single ultrasonic probe or different ultrasonic probes can be measured and analyzed to identify deterioration of an ultrasonic probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: GE SENSING & INSPECTION TECHNOLOGIES, GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Fiseni, Stephan Schmitz, Christof Breidenbach, Stephan Falter, Daniel Koers, Marek Parusel, Lars Rohpeter, Sven Runte, Sebastian Standop
  • Patent number: 11369338
    Abstract: In an ultrasonic CT device for breast examination, unevenness of an ultrasonic image due to a distribution of inclination angles of a breast is reduced. The distribution of the inclination angles of a surface of a subject in a contour of the subject is obtained from a tomographic image, and a signal level of a reception signal or a pixel value of the tomographic image is corrected using the distribution of the inclination angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yushi Tsubota, Kenichi Kawabata, Takahide Terada, Atsurou Suzuki, Wenjing Wu, Kazuhiro Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11372094
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system acquires received beams of echo signals produced in response to a plurality of transmit events. The received beams are combined with refocusing to account for differences in receive beam to transmit event locations. The delays and weights used in the refocusing are supplemented with delays and weights which correct for reverberation artifacts. The received echo signals are processed to detect the presence of reverberation artifacts and a simulated transmission of reverberation signal components to virtual point sources in the image field is calculated. This simulation produces the delays and weights used for reverberation signal compensation, or estimated reverberation signals which can be subtracted from received echo signals to reduce reverberation artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Faik Can Meral, Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon, Jean-Luc Francois-Marie Robert
  • Patent number: 11350911
    Abstract: A time gain compensation (TGC) circuit for an ultrasound device includes a first amplifier having an integrating capacitor and a control circuit configured to generate a TGC control signal that controls an integration time of the integrating capacitor, thereby controlling a gain of the first amplifier. The integration time is an amount of time an input signal is coupled to the first amplifier before the input signal is isolated from the first amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Kailiang Chen, Keith G. Fife
  • Patent number: 11344283
    Abstract: Synthetic-aperture ultrasound tomography systems and methods using scanning arrays and algorithms configured to simultaneously acquire ultrasound transmission and reflection data, and process the data for improved ultrasound tomography imaging, wherein the tomography imaging comprises total-variation regularization, or a modified total variation regularization, particularly with edge-guided or spatially variant regularization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Lianjie Huang, Youzuo Lin
  • Patent number: 11348219
    Abstract: A process for the automatic evaluation of the quality of digital photographs includes software programmed to perform the following steps and to perform them through such software:—converting the photograph into greyscale and calculating the intensity diagram of the converted photograph;—identifying a predetermined initial intensity interval and final intensity interval of the diagram;—if in the initial interval and/or the final interval there is a total percentage of pixels of the photograph greater than or “greater than or equal to” a predetermined threshold, the contrast is evaluated;—if the contrast of the photograph converted to greyscale is < or <= a predetermined threshold, the photograph is rejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: PhotoSi S.p.A. Unipersonale
    Inventor: Mainetti Andrea
  • Patent number: 11341661
    Abstract: Described herein is a method of registering a medical image of a subject with a 3D model of a subject, including calibrating the 3D model globally by aligning markers on the subject with corresponding markers on the 3D model; and calibrating the 3D model locally by aligning a scanning image of an internal structure of the subject with a corresponding internal structure of the 3D model. Also described herein is an apparatus of performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONOSCAPE MEDICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Junzheng Man, Xuegong Shi, Guo Tang
  • Patent number: 11341634
    Abstract: A computer implemented method is provided for processing a 3D fetal ultrasound image. A 3D fetal ultrasound image is obtained (either acquired or received from memory), and the spine is detected within the image. This enables a first reference axis to be defined. A second reference axis is defined perpendicular to the first reference axis, and the 3D fetal ultrasound image is updated (e.g. rotated in 3D space) using the first and second reference axes and an up/down (elevation) orientation detection. This provides a normalization of the orientation of the image, so that a machine learning approach is better able to identify landmarks within new images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud, Laurence Rouet, Cybèle Ciofolo-Veit, Thierry Lefevre, David Nigel Roundhill
  • Patent number: 11336260
    Abstract: A filter module includes a filter provided on a path connecting an input/output terminal and an input/output terminal, a filter provided on a path connecting an input/output terminal and an input/output terminal, a switch that switches between electrical connection and electrical disconnection between a wire connected to the input/output terminal and a ground, and a switch that switches between electrical connection and electrical disconnection between a wire connected to the input/output terminal and the ground. When the wire and the ground are electrically connected by the switch, the wire and the ground are electrically disconnected by the switch, and when the wire and the ground are electrically connected by the switch, the wire and the ground are electrically disconnected by the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junpei Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11331079
    Abstract: The invention provides an ultrasound data processing method for pre-processing signal data in advance of generating ultrasound images. The method seeks to reduce noise through application of coherent persistence to a series of raw ultrasound signal representations representative of the same path or section through a body but at different successive times. A motion compensation procedure including amplitude peak registration and phase alignment is applied to raw echo signal data in advance of application of persistence in order to cohere the signals and thereby limit the introduction of motion induced artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Tong Nicolas Yu, Sheng-Wen Huang, Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon, Oudom Somphone, Shiying Wang
  • Patent number: 11331077
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for controlling an ultrasound machine using one or more touchless inputs. In one embodiment, the method for controlling operation of the ultrasound machine comprises obtaining one or more touchless inputs; determining one or more operations to control the ultrasound machine based on the one or more touchless inputs and machine state of the ultrasound machine; and controlling the ultrasound machine using the one or more operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM SONOSITE, INC.
    Inventor: Davinder S. Dhatt
  • Patent number: 11324488
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate generally to methods for providing viewing access to an ultrasound image feed generated at an ultrasound imaging machine. A multi-use display device may form a first link-layer connection with the ultrasound image machine for transmitting commands that control imaging parameters of the ultrasound image feed. The multi-use display device may then: determine link-layer connection parameters that allow the ultrasound imaging machine to form a second link-layer connection with a receiving device (the receiving device having no link-layer connection with the ultrasound imaging machine), and provide the connection parameters to the receiving device. The ultrasound imaging machine forms a second link-layer connection with the receiving device, based the connection parameters. The second link-layer connection is then used for receiving, at the receiving device, the ultrasound image feed controlled by the multi-use display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Clarius Mobile Health Corp.
    Inventors: Kris Dickie, Laurent Pelissier, Benjamin Eric Kerby, Trevor Stephen Hansen
  • Patent number: 11329705
    Abstract: Beamformers and beamforming methods involve diagonal loading (regularization). Significant features include the automatic determination of the regularization parameter using a linearly constrained minimum power (LCMP) bounded perturbation regularization (BPR) approach. More specifically, the method has the advantage of efficient beamforming when the desired signal is from a moving source. After determining an initial regularization parameter, each data window (i.e., snapshot) uses the regularization parameter of the prior window to recursively determine the next regularization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Muhammad Moinuddin, Ubaid M. Al-Saggaf, Maaz Mahadi, Tarig Ballal Ahmed, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri
  • Patent number: 11324487
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus has: an image acquiring unit that transmits/receives an ultrasound beam from an ultrasound probe to acquire an ultrasound image; a part probability calculating unit that calculates, for the ultrasound image acquired in accordance with a first measurement method, a probability that a part included in the ultrasound image is a specific part from at least one of an orientation angle of the ultrasound probe or an analysis result of the ultrasound image; and a measurement method changing unit that changes, when the probability is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the first measurement method to a second measurement method for identifying the part for which the probability has been calculated, in which an ultrasound image is further acquired by using the second measurement method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11324485
    Abstract: An ultrasound system according to some embodiments may include an ultrasound transducer configured to transmit ultrasound pulses toward tissue and generate echo signals responsive to the ultrasound pulses, a channel memory configured to store the echo signals, a beamformer configured to generated beamformed signals responsive to the echo signals, a neural network configured to receive one or more samples of the echo signals or the beamformed signals and produce a first type of ultrasound imaging data, and a processor configured to generate a second type of ultrasound imaging data, wherein the one or more processors may be further configured to generate an ultrasound image based on the first type of ultrasound imaging data and the second type of ultrasound imaging data and to cause a display communicatively coupled therewith to display the ultrasound image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: David Hope Simpson, Earl M. Canfield, Robert Gustav Trahms, Vijay Thakur Shamdasani
  • Patent number: 11317895
    Abstract: A method of operating an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound image including an ovarian region; detecting, based on at least one parameter used for extracting a particular oocyte, a plurality of candidate ovarian follicles from which mature oocytes are more likely to be extracted in the 3D ultrasound image; registering a two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound image corresponding to a first cross-section of the ovarian region to the 3D ultrasound image; and guiding, based on a result of the registering, a position of at least one candidate ovarian follicle from which an oocyte is to be extracted in the 2D ultrasound image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunjae Jeon, Dongkuk Shin
  • Patent number: 11323625
    Abstract: An apparatus in related art has a problem in a presentation method of data to a user or a usability. A subject information obtaining apparatus includes a plurality of transducer elements that receive acoustic waves generated in a subject irradiated with light from a light source and transduce the acoustic waves into a plurality of reception signals, a processing unit configured to obtain a characteristic distribution indicating a distribution of characteristic information respectively corresponding to a plurality of positions in the subject by using the plurality of reception signals, in which the processing unit outputs image information for displaying a distribution image created by using the characteristic distribution and data indicating a time fluctuation of the characteristic information in a predetermined region of the distribution image within a same screen of a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Abe, Ayumi Kabata, Masae Torii
  • Patent number: 11311274
    Abstract: A system comprising a multi-modal ultrasound probe configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes associated with a respective plurality of configuration profiles; and a computing device coupled to the handheld multi-modal ultrasound probe and configured to, in response to receiving input indicating an operating mode selected by a user, cause the multi-modal ultrasound probe to operate in the selected operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BFLY Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Susan A. Alie, Nevada J. Sanchez, Tyler S. Ralston, Christopher Thomas McNulty, Jaime Scott Zahorian, Paul Francis Cristman, Matthew de Jonge, Keith G. Fife, David Elgena
  • Patent number: 11308609
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for sequentially selecting scan parameter values for ultrasound imaging. In one example, a method includes selecting a first parameter value for the a first scan parameter based on an image quality of each ultrasound image of a first plurality of ultrasound images of an anatomical region, each ultrasound image of the first plurality of ultrasound images having a different parameter value for the first scan parameter, selecting a second parameter value for a second scan parameter based on an image quality of each ultrasound image of a second plurality of ultrasound images of the anatomical region, each ultrasound image of the second plurality of ultrasound images having a different parameter value for the second scan parameter, and applying the first parameter value for the first scan parameter and the second parameter value for the second scan parameter to one or more additional ultrasound images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Pavan Annangi, Hariharan Ravishankar, Tore Bjaastad, Erik Normann Steen, Svein Arne Aase, Rohan Patil
  • Patent number: 11301961
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, medical signal processing apparatus includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit adjust a level of activation of a unit included in a learned model in accordance with classification of an imaging condition for a process target medical signal. The processing circuit generates an output signal by applying the learned model in which the level of activation has been adjusted, to the medical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Hidenori Takeshima
  • Patent number: 11295462
    Abstract: A medical data processing method, performed by a computer (2), for determining error analysis data describing the registration accuracy of a first elastic registration between first and second image data (A, B) describing images of an anatomical structure of a patient, comprising the steps of: —acquiring the first image data (A) describing a first image of the anatomical structure, —acquiring the second image data (B) describing a second image of the anatomical structure, —determining first registration data describing a first elastic registration of the first image data (A) to the second image data (B) by mapping the first image data (A) to the second image data (B) using a registration algorithm, —determining second registration data describing a second elastic registration of the second image data (B) to the first image data (A) by mapping the second image data (B) to the first image data (A) using the registration algorithm, —determining error analysis data describing the registration accuracy of the firs
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: BRAINLAB AG
    Inventors: Pascal Bertram, Elisa Garcia Corsico, Ivana Ivanovska, Birte Domnik
  • Patent number: 11288848
    Abstract: Disclosed is a three-dimensional ultrasound image display method comprising the following steps: S1: obtaining a series of original two-dimensional images having spatial position and angle information by means of automatic or manual scanning; S2: performing image reconstruction on the basis of the original two-dimensional images to obtain three-dimensional volumetric images; S3: obtaining, from the three-dimensional volumetric images, one or more section images intersecting the original two-dimensional images, and obtaining one or more reconstructed two-dimensional images by means of image processing; S4: displaying together the one or more original two-dimensional images and the one or more section images in a three-dimensional space; and S5: selecting and displaying feature points, feature lines, and feature surfaces in the three-dimensional space on the basis of the original two-dimensional volumetric images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Telefield Medical Imaging Limited
    Inventors: Yongping Zheng, Qiang Meng
  • Patent number: 11284863
    Abstract: A surface property measurement technology by which a surface property of a substance can be evaluated with high accuracy, is provided. A surface property measurement method includes radiating an ultrasonic wave to a measurement target and acquiring a reflected signal from the measurement target; calculating, by a measurement apparatus, a maximum value of a cross-correlation function between the reflected signal from the measurement target and a reference reflected signal from a reference substance acquired in advance; calculating a reflection component at an interface, by using the maximum value of the cross-correlation function; and outputting, as a measurement value, one of an acoustic impedance of the measurement target or an acoustic impedance of the reference substance, according to a result of comparing the reflection component with the reference reflected signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, HONDA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Ogura, Naohiro Hozumi, Sachiko Yoshida, Kazuto Kobayashi, Yusuke Hara
  • Patent number: 11278262
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device includes: a probe including a plurality of elements; a transmission unit that transmits an ultrasonic beam by performing transmission focusing in a first direction from the plurality of elements; a reception unit that generates element data by processing reception signals output from the plurality of elements that has received an ultrasonic echo generated by the transmitted ultrasonic beam; an element data processing unit that generates reflection component removal data by removing a reflection component generated from the first direction from the element data; an image generation unit that generates an ultrasonic image by performing reception focusing for the element data; and a control unit that controls the image generation unit to generate an image signal along a second direction different from the first direction by performing reception focusing in the second direction for the reflection component removal data generated by the element data processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yamamoto, Shoji Hara
  • Patent number: 11276187
    Abstract: Method for verifying registration of a model of an internal-body-part with the internal-body-part in a reference coordinate system. The internal-body-part is at least partially unseen directly by a user. The method includes the procedures of continuously determining a position and orientation of a head-mounted-display in the reference coordinate system, determining a display location of at least one virtual marker, and displaying the virtual marker according to the display location. The display location of the virtual marker is determined according to the expected position of a respective at least one reference point relative to the head-mounted-display. The reference point is directly visible to the user. The relative position between the reference point and the internal-body-part is substantially constant. The position of the reference point in the reference coordinate system is predetermined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Rani Ben-Yishai
  • Patent number: 11272903
    Abstract: A system comprising a multi-modal ultrasound probe configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes associated with a respective plurality of configuration profiles; and a computing device coupled to the handheld multi-modal ultrasound probe and configured to, in response to receiving input indicating an operating mode selected by a user, cause the multi-modal ultrasound probe to operate in the selected operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: BFLY Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Susan A. Alie, Nevada J. Sanchez, Tyler S. Ralston, Christopher Thomas McNulty, Jaime Scott Zahorian, Paul Francis Cristman, Matthew de Jonge, Keith G. Fife, David Elgena
  • Patent number: 11275150
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for tracking a position of an interventional device (11) respective an image plane (12) of an ultrasound field. The position includes an out-of-plane distance (Dop). A geometry-providing unit (GPU) includes a plurality of transducer-to-distal-end lengths (Ltde1 . . . n), each length corresponding to a predetermined distance (Ltde) between a distal end (17, 47) of an interventional device (11, 41) and an ultrasound detector (16, 46) attached to the interventional device, for each of a plurality of interventional device types (T1 . . . N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik Roelof Stapert, Carina Snijder, Ameet Kumar Jain, Willem-Jan Arend De Wijs
  • Patent number: 11272905
    Abstract: A medical image diagnostic apparatus according to the embodiment includes a scanner, image generating circuitry, marker generating circuitry, and control circuitry. The scanner performs scanning to generate an image of the inside of a subject. The image generating circuitry generates an image based on the result of scanning performed by the scanner. The marker generating circuitry generates a marker provided with information at a position serving as a reference for comparison with a certain structure. The control circuitry displays the image and the marker on the same screen of a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Kurita, Masaki Watanabe, Eiji Goto, Shogo Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11266379
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device includes: a probe including a plurality of elements; a transmission unit that transmits an ultrasonic beam by performing transmission focusing in a first direction from the plurality of elements; a reception unit that generates element data by processing reception signals output from the plurality of elements that has received an ultrasonic echo generated by the transmitted ultrasonic beam; an element data processing unit that generates reflection component removal data by removing a reflection component generated from the first direction from the element data; an image generation unit that generates an ultrasonic image by performing reception focusing for the element data; and a control unit that controls the image generation unit to generate an image signal along a second direction different from the first direction by performing reception focusing in the second direction for the reflection component removal data generated by the element data processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yamamoto, Shoji Hara
  • Patent number: 11259779
    Abstract: A body tissue to be detected is automatically detected certainly with high precision. An ultrasonic body tissue detecting device may include a transmission/reception unit, a two-dimensional data acquisition unit, a spatial frequency distribution calculation unit and a determination unit. The transmission/reception unit may transmit an ultrasonic signal into a body of a sample and receive an echo signal of the ultrasonic signal. The two-dimensional data acquisition unit may form two-dimensional echo image in a transmitting direction of the ultrasonic signal and in a scanning direction. The spatial frequency distribution calculation unit may perform a spatial frequency conversion of the two-dimensional echo image and calculate a spatial frequency distribution for a determining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuo Arai
  • Patent number: 11260247
    Abstract: A passive compression wave imaging system comprises an array of sensor elements arranged in a sparse array and a processor arranged to: store a plurality of samples of the output from each of the sensor elements over a sample period; derive from the stored samples a value for each of a set of image pixels; wherein for each of the image pixels the processing means is arranged to: define a plurality of different sets of weights for the elements of the sparse array; calculate a component of a pixel value from each of the sets of weights and the stored samples; and sum the components of the pixel value to produce a final pixel value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OXSONICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Christian Coviello, Richard Kozick, Constantin Coussios
  • Patent number: 11259685
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for enlarging the optical scan angle of imaging probes are provided. The optical scan angle of endoscopic probes can be increased by employing the “Snell's Window” effect. An endoscopic probe can include an endoscope shell, a device for capturing electromagnetic radiation, and a liquid or gel provided between the device for capturing electromagnetic radiation and the endoscope shell. The endoscope probe can further include a first mirror placed such that electromagnetic radiation entering through the endoscope shell can bounce off the first mirror and enter the device for capturing electromagnetic radiation. The first mirror can be a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Huikai Xie, Sanjeev Jagannatha Koppal, Xiaoyang Zhang, Liang Zhou, Can Duan
  • Patent number: 11253225
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to intravascular imaging system and particularly to processing in multimodal systems. The invention provides an imaging system that splits incoming image data into two signals and performs the same processing step on each of the split signals. The system can then send the two signals down two processing pathways. Methods include receiving an analog image signal, transmitting the received signal to a processing system, splitting the signal to produce a first image signal and a second image signal, and performing a processing operation on the first image signal and the second image signal. The first and second signal include substantially the same information as one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Hancock, Jerome Mai, Joseph Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11253229
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless ultrasound probe configured to detect a state in which the wireless ultrasound probe is detached from a charging terminal of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, causing supply of the charging power to the wireless ultrasound probe to be discontinued, and the wireless ultrasound probe is paired with the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus by using a wireless communication scheme when supply of the charging power is discontinued. Also provided are an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an operating method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus configured to be automatically paired with a wireless ultrasound probe in a state in which the wireless ultrasound probe is detached from a charging terminal of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, causing supply of the charging power to the wireless ultrasound probe to be discontinued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngseuk Song, Gilju Jin
  • Patent number: 11246564
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus (10), in particular for analyzing a fetus (62). An ultrasound data interface (66) is configured to receive 3D (three dimensional) ultrasound data from an object (12). The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus further comprises a measurement unit (70) for measuring anatomical structures of the object based on the segmentation data and a calculation unit (72) configured to calculate at least one biometric parameter based on the 3D ultrasound data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Cristian Lorenz, Tobias Klinder, Irina Waechter-Stehle