User interface for handheld imaging devices
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- an ultrasound system having a graphical user interface that presents to a user a choice of display modes, one of the display modes displays an anatomically correct image that represents flow as motion of a speckled pattern.
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Abstract
A Graphical User Interface (GUI) for an ultrasound system. The ultrasound system has operational modes, and the GUI has corresponding icons, tabs, and menu items Image and information fields. The User Interface (UI) provides several types of graphical elements with intelligent behavior, such as being context sensitive and adaptive, called active objects, for example, tabs, menus, icons, windows of user interaction and data display, and an alphanumeric keyboard. In addition the UI may also be voice activated. The UI further provides for a touchscreen for direct selection of displayed active objects. In an embodiment, the UI is for a medical ultrasound handheld imaging instrument. The UI provides a limited set of hard and soft keys with adaptive functionality that can be used with only one hand and potentially with only one thumb.
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20 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
an ultrasound system having a graphical user interface that presents to a user a choice of display modes, one of the display modes displays an anatomically correct image that represents flow as motion of a speckled pattern.
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2. A system comprising:
a handheld ultrasound system having a graphical user interface that displays windows that can be retiled by the user. - View Dependent Claims (3, 5, 6, 7)
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4. A system comprising:
an ultrasound imaging device having a plurality of operation modes, at least two of the operation modes are selected from a group of operation modes consisting of;
an image mode selection mode, an image acquisition mode, a system configuration mode, a measure and annotate mode, an archiving mode, and a system services mode.
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8. An ultrasound system comprising:
a display and control unit having a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface having active elements that respond to the state of the system and to historical choices made by a user, and a screen for displaying the graphical user interface; and
a transducer unit for receiving and transmitting ultrasonic signals, communicativelycoupled to the display and control unit. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An ultrasound system comprising:
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a display and control unit including a graphical user interface that presents to a user a choice of display modes having an image acquisition mode, a system configuration mode, a measure and annotate mode, an archiving mode, a system services mode, an image mode selection mode that allows a user to choose an image mode from a choice of image modes that has a mode for displaying an anatomically correct image that represents flow as motion of a speckled pattern, a B-mode, an M-mode, a power Doppler mode, a continuous wave Doppler mode, and a pulsed wave Doppler mode, the graphical user interface also having elements that respond to the state of the system and to historical choices made by the user, and a virtual keyboard, a handle having buttons thereon that include a direction button for navigating within the graphical user interface, and a screen for displaying the graphical user interface;
a transducer unit for receiving and transmitting ultrasonic signals, communicatively coupled to the display and control unit; and
a docking unit.
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20. A method comprising:
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holding a handheld ultrasound device in one hand; and
using a thumb of the hand to actuate buttons on a handle of the handheld ultrasound device to navigate a selection on a screen of the ultrasound device, change views of a graphical user interface, and enter text.
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