Ultrasound probe with integrated electronics
First Claim
1. A method for providing streaming video in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
- providing an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation and corresponding ultrasonic data;
sending, from an external application, a command indicative of at least one of the ultrasonic operations;
executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the commands; and
sending data from the ultrasonic application server to the external application.
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Abstract
A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c++.
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154 Claims
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1. A method for providing streaming video in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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providing an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation and corresponding ultrasonic data;
sending, from an external application, a command indicative of at least one of the ultrasonic operations;
executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the commands; and
sending data from the ultrasonic application server to the external application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A system for providing streaming data in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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a user computing device having an ultrasonic application server operable to receive and process ultrasonic data via a predetermined interface;
an integrated interface program in communication with the ultrasonic application server and operable to invoke an operation in the ultrasonic application server;
an external application operable to generate a command corresponding to the operation, and further operable to transmit the command to the integrated interface program, the integrated interface program invoking the ultrasonic application server to compute a result in response to the command. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65. A computer program product having computer program instructions for integration of a external application in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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computer program instructions for defining an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation;
computer program code for defining an integrated interface program having a plurality of entry points into the ultrasonic application server, the entry points operable to access each of the at least one ultrasonic operations;
computer program code for sending, from the external application, a command indicative of at least one of the ultrasonic operations; and
computer program code for executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the command.
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66. A method of external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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providing an ultrasonic application server having at least one ultrasonic operation;
sending, from the external application, a command indicative of at least one of the ultrasonic operations; and
executing, in the ultrasonic application server, a result corresponding to the command. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94)
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95. A system for external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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a user computing device having an ultrasonic application server operable to receive and process ultrasonic data via a predetermined interface;
an integrated interface program in communication with the ultrasonic application server and operable to invoke operations in the ultrasonic application server;
an external application operable to generate a command corresponding to the operations, and further operable to transmit the commands to the integrated interface program, wherein the integrated interface program invokes the ultrasonic application server to compute a result in response to the command, and transmits the result back to the external application. - View Dependent Claims (96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121)
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122. A system for accessing and displaying ultrasonic imaging data, comprising:
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a portable information device having a wireless interface port; and
a computing device having a wireless interface port being operable to communicate with the portable information device and able to respond to requests for transmitting ultrasonic imaging data to the portable information device. - View Dependent Claims (123, 124, 125)
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126. A method for accessing and displaying ultrasonic imaging data comprising the steps of:
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sending a connection request from a portable information device to a computing device in communication with a probe having a transducer array, control circuitry and communication control circuitry;
accepting and responding to the connection request by the computing device; and
sending ultrasonic imaging data from the computing device to the portable information device. - View Dependent Claims (127, 128, 129)
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130. A portable information device for accessing and displaying ultrasonic imaging data, comprising:
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an interface for receiving a user input;
a wireless transceiver for transmitting and receiving wireless messages; and
a processor coupled to the interface and the wireless transceiver, the processor being configured to execute an ultrasonic imaging application, the processor being further configured to format a wireless message in accordance with a predetermined protocol suitable for communication with a computing device having ultrasonic imaging data, the processor sending a wireless connection message to the wireless transceiver for transmission. - View Dependent Claims (131, 132)
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133. An ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
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a probe having a transducer array, and a control circuitry and a digital communication control circuit, the control circuitry including a transmit/receive module, beamforming module and a system controller; and
a computing device connected to the digital communication control circuit of the probe with a communication interface, the computer processing display data. - View Dependent Claims (134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144)
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145. An ultrasound imaging system, comprising:
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a probe housing having a transducer array and a display unit; and
a processing unit in communication with the probe housing. - View Dependent Claims (146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154)
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