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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2000
Thomas E. Linnenbrink, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Charles S. Desilets, Edmonds, WA (US);
Marshall K. Quick, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Thomas K. Bohley, Elbert, CO (US);
Timothy G. O'Shaughnessy, Elbert, CO (US);
Lyle E. Whelchel, Snohomish, WA (US);
R. Carver Anderson, Seattle, WA (US);
Q-Dot, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Abstract
An acoustic/video processing stack of a plurality of substantially identical acoustic/video processing stacks is provided for attachment to a processing stack backplane and which together generate a VGA signal for display of a three-dimensional acoustic image. The acoustic/video processing stack includes a two-dimensional array of transducer elements, a companion chip block coupled to and adapted to transceive acoustic signals under a time-division multiplexed format through the transducer elements and to provide a portion of the VGA signal together generated by the plurality of acoustic/video processing stacks and a backing block disposed between the two-dimensional array and companion chip block and adapted to acoustically isolate the two-dimensional transducer array from the companion chip block, said companion chip block and backing block being of a size and diameter substantially the same as the two-dimensional transducer array.