Patent ID: 9081084
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G01S,G10K

Abstract:
1. An ultrasound system for forming an ultrasound image, comprising: an ultrasound data acquisition unit including a plurality of transducer elements and configured to: form a receive signal based on an ultrasound signal reflected from a target object, perform analog-to-digital conversion on the receive signal to form sampling data, set a beam forming curve to select pixels, among a plurality of pixels, that correspond to a portion of the sampling data, based on locations of respective ones of the transducer elements and orientations of respective ones of regions of the target object, corresponding to pixels with respect to the transducer elements during beam forming, select pixels on which the beam forming curve passes, assign the corresponding portion of the sampling data to the selected pixels, apply weights to the assigned sampling data, and perform the beam forming upon the assigned sampling data for respective ones of the plurality of pixels to form receive-focused data.