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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2015
Applicant:
Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc., Bothell, WA (US);
Inventors:
Blake Little, Bothell, WA (US);
Thomas Duffy, Snohomish, WA (US);
Justin Coughlin, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc., Bothell, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G10K 11/34 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52034 (2013.01); G01S 15/8929 (2013.01); G10K 11/34 (2013.01); G10K 11/341 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods which efficiently control storage of and/or access to data which includes repetitive data or data which is used by different modes, processes, etcetera. Embodiments provide control for storage of and/or access to large amounts of data used in ultrasound system beam forming for image generation using a hierarchy of sequencers for controlling storage of and/or access to data. A frame sequencer may provide control at a frame level while an address sequencer is implemented to provide control at a data access level.