Ultrasound imaging equipment and device and method for automatically adjusting user interface layout
AssigneesGeneral Electric Company, GE Medical Systems SA
InventorsYincheng Lu, Jiajiu Yang, Menachem Halmann, Andrew Stonefield
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Abstract
An ultrasound imaging equipment comprising a host, a probe connected to the host, a touch screen fixed to the host for providing a user interface, the user interface including a presentation area displaying images and/or various information and a control area displaying virtual buttons, and a user interface adjusting device for automatically adjusting a layout of the user interface based on a relative position between the probe and the touch screen, so as to facilitate a user's usage of the equipment.
Claims30
An ultrasound imaging equipment, comprising:
- a host;
- a probe connected to the host;
- a touch screen fixed to the host and configured to provide a user interface, the user interface comprising a presentation area configured to display images and/or various information and a control area configured to display virtual buttons;
- and
- a user interface adjusting device configured to automatically adjust a layout of the user interface based on a relative position between the probe and the touch screen, so as to facilitate a usage of the ultrasound imaging equipment.
A method for automatically adjusting a layout of a user interface, the method comprising:
- powering on an ultrasound imaging equipment, the ultrasound imaging equipment comprising a host, a probe connected to the host, a touch screen fixed to the host and configured to provide a user interface, the user interface comprising a presentation area configured to display images and/or various information and a control area configured to display virtual buttons;
- determining a relative position between the probe and the touch screen;
- and
- automatically adjusting the layout of the user interface based on the determined relative position, so as to facilitate a user's usage of the ultrasound imaging equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.