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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2012
Applicant:
Olympus Ndt, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Inventors:
Pierre Langlois, Quebec, CA;
Benoit Cournoyer, Quebec, CA;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS AMERICAS INC., Waltham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/22 (2006.01); G01N 29/34 (2006.01); G01N 29/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/343 (2013.01); G01N 29/449 (2013.01); G01N 29/4463 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is an ultrasonic device optimized with both averaging and dithery pulsing techniques. The averaging technique significantly removes white noise; on the other hand, the dithery pulsing significantly removes acoustic noise, which is otherwise accumulated during conventional averaging processes.