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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5253 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/468 (2013.01); A61B 8/469 (2013.01); A61B 8/5207 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, and ultrasonic machine for generating a fused ultrasonic image. The method comprises extracting an anatomical location from a stored ultrasonic image, and generating the fused ultrasonic image according to the anatomical location and a currently obtained ultrasonic image. The apparatus comprises an extraction module for extracting an anatomical location from a stored ultrasonic image, and a generation module for generating the fused ultrasonic image according to the anatomical location and a currently obtained ultrasonic image.