Patent ID: 8088069

Claim:
An ultrasonic Doppler diagnosis device comprising: an ultrasonic transceiver unit configured to transmit an ultrasonic signal for scanning a kinetic reflector and to receive a reflected ultrasonic signal reflected from the kinetic reflector; a velocity data calculating unit configured to extract a Doppler shift signal using the reflected ultrasonic signal received by the ultrasonic transceiver section, and to calculate velocity data at intersections of sound lines and scanning lines of the kinetic reflector, wherein the velocity data is unsigned numeric data; a velocity data interpolating unit configured to generate interpolated velocity data for interpolating velocity data between two of the sound lines and two of the scanning lines, using the velocity data at the intersections; and a color image generating unit configured to generate a color flow mapping image of the kinetic reflector based on the velocity data and the interpolated velocity data, wherein the velocity data interpolating unit is comprised of: a receiving and identifying unit configured to receive a first numeric value and a second numeric value selected from a plurality of values of the velocity data, and to identify whether one of the first numeric value and the second numeric value is smaller than a first threshold value within a range of positive velocity values and the other of the first numeric value and the second numeric value is greater than a second threshold value within a range of negative velocity value, and a converting and interpolating unit configured, when it is identified that one of the first numeric value and the second numeric value is smaller than a first threshold value within a range of positive velocity values and the other of the first numeric value and the second numeric value is greater than a second threshold value within a range of negative velocity values, to convert the first and second numeric values to signed numeric data and to generate the interpolated velocity data based on the converted signed numeric data.