Patent ID: 9592032
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01S

Claim:
1. An ultrasound device, comprising: at least one ultrasonic transducer element integrated on a semiconductor die; an analog to digital converter (ADC) integrated on the semiconductor die, wherein the ADC is configured to process a signal output from the at least one ultrasonic transducer element to produce a digital signal; and a compression circuit integrated on the semiconductor die and configured to generate a compressed signal by compressing the digital signal, wherein the compressed signal is configured to be transmitted from the semiconductor die as a data stream, wherein the compression circuit further comprises a filter, a decimation circuit, a re-quantization circuit, and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), wherein an output of the filter is coupled to an input of the decimation circuit, an output of the decimation circuit is coupled to an input of the re-quantization circuit, and an output of the re-quantization circuit is coupled to an input of the ALU; and wherein the compression circuit is configured to generate the compressed signal prior to any image reconstruction process.