Ultrasonographic display device

• US 20060173325A1
• Filed: 02/27/2004
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hagiwara, Hisashi, Nishigaki, Morio
• Application Number:
  US10/546,847
• Publication Number:
  US 20060173325A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/440
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/0866 involving foetal diagnosis; pre-natal or peri-natal diagnosis of the baby
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/461 Displaying means of special interest
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/52074 Composite displays, e.g. split-screen displays; Combination of multiple images or of images and alphanumeric tabular information

Abstract

There is provided an ultrasonic image displaying system capable of displaying an image of a fetus that is easy for a subject to understand without requiring a complicated operation by an operator. The ultrasonic image displaying system is provided with a display unit 104 for displaying an image of a fetus, a part data recording part 106 for recording part images, and a synthesis unit 103 for adding a part image read from the part data recording part 106 to a region designated by the operator on the image of the fetus displayed on the display unit 104.

Claims

1. An ultrasonic image displaying system, comprising:

a display unit for displaying an image of a fetus;

a part image recording unit for recording part images; and

an image synthesis unit for reading a part image corresponding to a region designated by an operator on the image displayed by the display unit from the part image recording unit, and superimposing the read part image on the image displayed by the display unit.

2. The ultrasonic image displaying system according to claim 1,

wherein the part image recording unit records as the part images a plurality of types of part images with respect to at least one facial region,

the system further comprising a selection operation unit for allowing the operator to select any of the plurality of types of part images recorded by the part image recording unit,

wherein the part image selected by the selection operation unit is superimposed on the image.

3. The ultrasonic image displaying system according to claim 1, further comprising a correction unit for correcting a turning angle of the part image in the display unit.

4. The ultrasonic image displaying system according to claim 1, comprising a part image display unit for separating the plurality of part images superimposed by the image synthesis unit from the image of the fetus while preserving a relative positional relationship of the part images, and displaying the separated part images in a region different from a display region for displaying the image of the fetus.

5. The ultrasonic image displaying system according to claim 1, comprising an output unit for outputting the image of the fetus and the part image added to the image in at least one form of printing, analog data output, and digital data output.

6. The ultrasonic image displaying system according to claim 4, comprising an output unit for outputting as separate images the image of the fetus and the part images displayed by the part image display unit,

wherein the output unit performs output in at least one form of printing, analog data output, and digital data output.