Patent ID: 7247139
Filing Date: 2007-07-24
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a device using voice commands comprising: providing a plurality of voice commands for controlling the device, said plurality of voice commands having at least two different words that activate a single feature of the device, said plurality of voice commands including at least one qualitative voice command and at least one quantitative voice command, said quantitative voice command comprising at least one of a direction and a numeric value and said qualitative voice command representative of a feature of said device that is altered by at least one of said direction and said numeric value; selecting at least one of said at least two different words; deriving a signal from said selected voice command; and applying said signal to the device by applying said numeric value in a default direction when said quantitative command includes said numeric value and lacks said direction, wherein said plurality of voice commands includes at least first and second subsets of voice commands, said first subset comprising voice commands used a greater number of times than said voice commands of said second subset by a sonagrapher during an ultrasound examination, wherein said voice commands of said first subset have a shorter word length than said voice commands of said second subset.