Patent ID: 9687214
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: A01K,A61B,G01N,G16H

Claim:
1. An ultrasonic measuring device comprising: an ultrasonic transducer device that emits ultrasonic beams along a scanning plane, and receives ultrasonic echoes resulting from the ultrasonic beams; and a processing device that performs processing based on a reception signal from the ultrasonic transducer device, wherein the processing device includes: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire, based on the reception signal, 1st to K-th (K being an integer greater than or equal to 2) A-mode waveform data groups that correspond to 1st to K-th scanning planes in which a direction of the scanning plane of the ultrasonic transducer device relative to a measurement location surface is 1st to K-th directions, respectively; a selection unit configured to select a measurement result A-mode waveform data piece based on the 1st to K-th A-mode waveform data groups; and a notification control unit configured to generate notification data based on at least one of the measurement result A-mode waveform data piece that was selected and a measurement result A-mode waveform data group that corresponds to the measurement result A-mode waveform data piece, and output the generated notification data, the selection unit is further configured to obtain 1st to K-th A-mode waveform data pieces from the 1st to K-th A-mode waveform data groups, calculate an amplitude at a peak waveform of interest from each of the 1st to K-th A-mode waveform data pieces that were obtained, extract an A-mode waveform data piece in which the amplitude at a peak waveform of interest is highest by comparing the calculated amplitudes, and select the A-mode waveform data piece in which the amplitude at a peak waveform of interest is highest as the measurement result A-mode waveform data piece.