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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. 24, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2014
Applicant:

Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshiki Katou, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01); G01S 7/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/145 (2013.01); A61B 8/4405 (2013.01); A61B 8/4472 (2013.01); A61B 8/4483 (2013.01); A61B 8/56 (2013.01); G01S 7/5208 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/467 (2013.01); G01S 7/003 (2013.01); G01S 7/52096 (2013.01);
Abstract

An ultrasound probe includes a receiving section to receive ultrasound waves from an object and to acquire a receiving signal of each of multiple channels; a beam forming section to adjust a phase of the receiving signal of each of multiple channels and to sum the receiving signals; an image producing section to produce image data to display an ultrasound diagnostic image based on the receiving signals summed by the beam forming section; a transmission target selecting section to select one from at least two of the receiving signal for each of multiple channels, the receiving signals summed by the beam forming section, and the image data as a transmission target; and a transmitting section to transmit the transmission target selected by the transmission target selecting section.


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