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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 29, 2019
Applicant:

Samsung Medison Co., Ltd., Gangwon-do, KR;

Inventors:

Kang Sik Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;

Tai-Kyong Song, Seoul, KR;

Sung Ho Kim, Seoul, KR;

Sua Bae, Seoul, KR;

Hyunwoo Song, Seoul, KR;

Jintae Jang, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

SAMSUNG MEDISON CO. LTD., Gangwon-Do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/46 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/46 (2013.01); G01S 7/52046 (2013.01); G01S 7/52084 (2013.01); G01S 15/8906 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is an ultrasonic imaging apparatus including: an inputter configured to receive an input of a region of interest (ROI) from a user; a beamformer configured to perform transmission/reception focusing with respect to a virtual source to be used for a synthetic aperture focusing method; a display; and a main controller configured to determine a position of the virtual source on the basis of an image quality in the received ROI and control the display to display the determined position of the virtual source.


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