Methods and apparatuses for offloading ultrasound data
AssigneeBfly Operations, Inc.
InventorsNevada J. Sanchez, Graham Peyton, Hamid Soleimani
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Abstract
Aspects of the technology described herein relate to wirelessly offloading, from a wearable ultrasound device, ultrasound data sufficient for forming one or more ultrasound images therefrom. The wearable ultrasound device may include an ultrasound patch. Indications that may be monitored with such a device, and therapeutic uses that may be provided by such a device, are also described. Methods and apparatuses are also described for compounding multilines of ultrasound data on an ultrasound device configured to collect the ultrasound data. Additionally, certain aspects of the technology relate to non-uniform grouping of ultrasound transducers that share a transmit/receive circuit in an ultrasound device.
Claims23
An ultrasound probe having a data memory with a first set of addresses and a second set of addresses and configured to collect ultrasound data and compound multilines of the ultrasound data, wherein the ultrasound device is configured, when compounding the multilines of the ultrasound data, to:
- collect N first multilines of the ultrasound data following a first ultrasound transmit event and store the N first multines with the memory;
- offload, following the first ultrasound transmit event, p multilines of the first multilines from the first set of addresses in the memory,
- collect N second multilines of the ultrasound data following a second ultrasound transmit event that is subsequent to the first ultrasound transmit event;
- compound N-p of the first multilines that are stored at the second set of addresses in the memory with N-p of the second multilines, such that the compounded N-p of the first multilines and the N-p of the second multilines are stored at the second set of addresses in the memory, and wherein p is a number of multilines offset between the first and second multilines of ultrasound data and is less than N.
A wearable ultrasound patch having a data memory with a first set of addresses and a second set of addresses and configured to collect ultrasound data and compound multilines of the ultrasound data, wherein the ultrasound device is configured, when compounding the multilines of the ultrasound data, to:
- collect N first multilines of the ultrasound data following a first ultrasound transmit event and store the N first multines with the memory;
- offload, following the first ultrasound transmit event, p multilines of the first multilines from the first set of addresses in the memory,
- collect N second multilines of the ultrasound data following a second ultrasound transmit event that is subsequent to the first ultrasound transmit event;
- compound N-p of the first multilines that are stored at the second set of addresses in the memory with N-p of the second multilines, such that the compounded N-p of the first multilines and the N-p of the second multilines are stored at the second set of addresses in the memory, and wherein p is a number of multilines offset between the first and second multilines of ultrasound data and is less than N.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.