Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatuses for beamforming in ultrasound systems using unbuffered data samples
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Application No.: US17236721Application Date: 2021-04-21
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Publication No.: US12023201B2Publication Date: 2024-07-02
- Inventor: Hamid Soleimani , Karl Thiele , Sheng-Wen Huang , Nevada J. Sanchez
- Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CT Guilford
- Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
- Current Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Burlington
- Agency: Carter, DeLuca & Farrell LLP
- Main IPC: A61B8/08
- IPC: A61B8/08 ; A61B8/00 ; G01N29/06 ; G01S15/10

Abstract:
Beamforming circuitry for an ultrasound device is disclosed, that may directly calculate the position in receive line space for an incoming ultrasound data sample given the time of flight (ToF) of that ultrasound data sample. In some embodiments, this may be done without initially buffering the ultrasound data sample received from the particular receive datapath multiplexed to the beamforming circuitry. The beamforming circuitry may then associate the ultrasound data sample with that position in receive line space, and in particular, with a memory address corresponding to that location. Thus, when the beamforming circuitry multiplexes between different receive datapaths, it may not need to buffer ultrasound data samples from different receive datapaths prior to saving the data to memory.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210330295A1 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR BEAMFORMING IN ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS Public/Granted day:2021-10-28
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