Patent ID: 9307953
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: A61B,G01S

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for a vector interpolation of an ultrasound image, the apparatus comprising: a probe configured to convert an electric signal into an ultrasound signal, transmit the ultrasound signal to an object, and convert a reflected ultrasound signal received from the object into an electric signal; a beam former configured to form a receive-focused signal based on the electric signal converted from the reflected ultrasound signal by the probe; a demodulator configured to demodulate the receive-focused signal for forming an I data corresponding to in-phase components and a Q data corresponding to quadrature-phase components; and an interpolation processor configured to perform a vector interpolation with 1:M weighting (M is a natural number) between different complex-valued signals, based on the I data and the Q data.