Patent ID: 11937982
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 16:
17. An ultrasound system, comprising: an ultrasound probe for digital microbeamforming, the probe comprising a two-dimensional a rray tra nsducer, a digital microbeamformer, the digital microbeamformer having a plurality of transmitters coupled to the array, a plurality of amplifiers coupled to the array and configured to receive analog echo signals from transducer elements of the array during a receive period, a plurality of low-power delta-sigma or successive approximation analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) coupled to the amplifiers and configured to receive amplified analog echo signals and convert them to digital pa rtially-bea mformed echo signals, a microbeamformer controller, a power supply, and a digital output circuit configured to provide the digital partially-beamformed echo signals to a system beamformer that is disposed in an ultrasound system, wherein the digital microbeamformer is configured to consume three watts or less during operation; an ultrasound system mainframe comprising the system beamformer; and a cable configured to transmit the partially-beamformed echo signals from the digital output circuit to the system beamformer.