Invention Grant
US09046598B2 Signal processing device, signal processing method, recording medium, and program
有权
信号处理装置,信号处理方法,记录介质和程序
- Patent Title: Signal processing device, signal processing method, recording medium, and program
- Patent Title (中): 信号处理装置,信号处理方法,记录介质和程序
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Application No.: US14343076Application Date: 2012-09-21
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Publication No.: US09046598B2Publication Date: 2015-06-02
- Inventor: Tatsumi Sakaguchi
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2011-217369 20110930
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/074146 WO 20120921
- International Announcement: WO2013/047337 WO 20130404
- Main IPC: G01S15/00
- IPC: G01S15/00 ; G01S7/52 ; G01S15/89 ; G01S15/02

Abstract:
This technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a recording medium, and a program capable of enabling appropriate beam forming with a simple configuration even when a positional relationship between a plurality of transducers included in a probe of an ultrasonic diagnostic device is not fixed.A reception BF unit calculates a phase difference indicating a relative positional shift between a plurality of transducers based on a difference between each phase difference of a signal of a reflective wave in each of a plurality of transducers of an ultrasonic wave transmitted from a transducer being a transmission target out of a plurality of transducers, relative positions of which are not fixed, and each known phase difference of the signal of the reflective wave in a plurality of transducers in a case in which an arrangement of a plurality of transducers is a reference arrangement. A delay calculating unit calculates a delay amount of each of a plurality of transducers used in the beam forming based on the phase difference calculated by a phase difference calculating unit. This technology may be applied to an ultrasonic diagnostic device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150049586A2 SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2015-02-19
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