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AssigneeTeraTech Corporation
InventorsAlice M. Chiang, Michael P. Litchfield, Michael Brodsky, Eric R. Kischell
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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++.
A method of external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
The method of claim 1 wherein the command conforms to a predetermined interprocess communication interface.
The method of claim 19 wherein the image settings include settings selected from the group consisting of size, depth, focus, time gain compensation (TGC) and TGC lock.
A system for external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
The system of claim 26 further comprising a public access network, wherein the remote computer is connected to the ultrasonic application via the public access network.
The system of claim 30 wherein the public access network is the Internet.
The system of claim 34 wherein the standardized interface is IEEE 1394.
The system of claim 45 wherein the standard communication interface comprises an IEEE 1394 interface.
A computer program product having computer program code for external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
A computer data signal having program code for external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
A system for external application integration in an ultrasonic imaging system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.