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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2020
Vave Health, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jung Woo Choe, Suwon, KR;
Amin Nikoozadeh, San Carlos, CA (US);
VAVE HEALTH, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A handheld ultrasound device comprises a plurality of components configured to provide decreased size, weight, complexity and power consumption. The handheld ultrasound device may comprise an ultrasound transducer and an analog to digital ('A/D') converter coupled to the ultrasound transducer. A processor comprising a beamformer can be coupled to the A/D converter and configured to selectively store a plurality of signals from the A/D converter in a memory of the processor. The beamformer can be configured to implement and compress a flag table in place of a delay table. These improvements can decrease the amount of memory used to generate ultrasound images, which can decrease the size weight and power consumption of the handheld ultrasound device.