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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Steven Russell Freeman, Eindhoven, NL;
Michael Thomas McMillan, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52095 (2013.01); G01S 7/5208 (2013.01); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01); G01S 15/8927 (2013.01); G01S 15/8993 (2013.01);
Abstract
Microbeamformers coupled to groups of array elements which partially beamform groups of elements for the formation of multiple receive lines are provided. In the microbeamformers, a delay line can be configured to output multiple signal streams that can be delayed by different amounts to support multiline receive in a microbeamformer. A read process during beamforming is not destructive, thereby allowing multiline receive beams to be generated from a single delay line.