Touchless input ultrasound control
AssigneeFujifilm Sonosite, Inc.
InventorDavinder S. Dhatt
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Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for controlling an ultrasound machine using one or more touchless inputs. In one embodiment, the method for controlling operation of the ultrasound machine comprises obtaining one or more touchless inputs; determining one or more operations to control the ultrasound machine based on the one or more touchless inputs and machine state of the ultrasound machine; and controlling the ultrasound machine using the one or more operations.
Claims18
A method to control an ultrasound machine, the method comprising:
- obtaining one or more touchless inputs;
- receiving, by a neural network, one or more of feedback of ultrasound data from an ultrasound imaging subsystem, feedback of machine state from an ultrasound control subsystem, at least one of the one or more touchless inputs;
- determining, by the neural network, one or more operations to control the ultrasound machine based on the one or more touchless inputs and machine state of the ultrasound machine;
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- controlling the ultrasound machine using at least one of the one or more operations, wherein the one or more operations comprise commands to adjust one or more operating parameters of the ultrasound machine.
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions thereon which, when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method to control operation of an ultrasound machine, the method comprising:
- obtaining one or more touchless inputs;
- determining one or more operations to control the ultrasound machine based on the one or more touchless inputs and machine state of the ultrasound machine, wherein the determining the one or more operations is based on captured audio information of an individual and wherein the method further comprises dynamically adjusting, based on an environment in which the ultrasound machine resides, weights associated with results of lip reading recognition and audio recognition to determine the one or more operations to control the ultrasound machine;
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- controlling the ultrasound machine using at least one of the one or more operations, wherein the one or more operations comprise commands to adjust one or more operating parameters of the ultrasound machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.