Patent ID: 11937983
Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processing device in operative communication with an ultrasound device, the processing device configured to:
display on a touch-sensitive display screen of the processing device:
an ultrasound image;
a movable measurement tool comprising an ellipse having an axis that is either a major axis or a minor axis of the ellipse, wherein the axis extends between a first vertex and a second vertex of the ellipse; and
an icon that maintains a fixed distance from the first vertex of the ellipse along a direction defined by the axis; and

use the icon to control a rotation of the ellipse;
wherein: the processing device is configured, when using the icon to control the rotation of the ellipse, to:
detect a dragging movement covering a distance along and/or a distance orthogonal to the direction defined by the axis of the ellipse across the touch-sensitive display screen, wherein the dragging movement begins on or within a threshold distance of the icon;
cause a display of the first vertex and the second vertex at new locations on the touch-sensitive display screen that are rotated from their previous locations based on the distance that is along and/or the distance that is orthogonal to the direction defined by the axis of the ellipse; and
cause a display of the icon at a new location on the touch-sensitive display screen that is removed from the first vertex's new location by the fixed distance along the direction defined by the axis of the ellipse.