Patent ID: 11969291
Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 9:
10. An ultrasonic diagnostic method, comprising:
displaying, as a live image on a screen, at least one image that represents data output from an ultrasonic probe;
storing the live image in a memory;
recognizing at least one mode type as at least one corresponding image type included in the displayed live image;
extracting, from a storage storing a plurality of pieces of data including one or more images collected before the live image, data including an image of the having a same mode type as one of the at least one image included in the live image;
determining that the live image is a superimposed image made of images having two or more mode types, and generating a superimposed image made of other images having the same two or more mode types as the live image from the data extracted from the storage; and
displaying, as a reference image, the generated superimposed image on the same screen as the live image, in line with a display of the live image stored in the memory.