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US 2016/0106381 A1Published application
Ultrasound probe with tactile indicator
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsSvein Arne Aase, Leif Peder Schmedling
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Abstract
A method and apparatus actuate a tactile indicator on a hand-contacted surface of the handheld ultrasound probe based upon a parameter of the handheld ultrasound probe.
Claims27
An apparatus comprising:
- an ultrasound probe comprising:
- a transducer sensing area;
- a surface to be manually contacted by a hand while the hand is manipulating the probe;
- and
- a tactile indicator along the surface, the tactile indicator actuatable to one of a plurality of tactile states;
- and
- a controller to actuate the tactile indicator to a selected one of the plurality of tactile states based on a parameter of the ultrasound probe.
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A method comprising:
- identifying a parameter associated with a handheld ultrasound probe;
- and
- actuating a tactile indicator on a hand-contacted surface of the handheld probe based upon the parameter.
An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing program logic to direct a processor to:
- receive signals indicating a parameter of a handheld probe;
- and
- output signals to actuate a tactile indicator on a hand-contacted surface of the handheld probe based upon the parameter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.