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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:
Oct. 04, 1983

Filed:

Nov. 02, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:

John E Mahony, Sacramento, CA (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; G01N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358167 ; 358112 ; 358140 ; 128660 ; 73620 ;
Abstract

Noise is reduced in the television display of an A trace in an ultrasonic scanner system by integrating digital data representing the magnitude of video signals corresponding to the echos of ultrasonic pulses. The digital integration is accomplished on a point by point basis by summing digital data with stored digital data from previous video signals. Preferably, a capture memory is utilized with a digital summer for integrating the data while another memory periodically receives the integrated data and functions to refresh the television display. In another embodiment, two memories can alternate in capturing the integrated data and in refreshing the display.


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