Patent ID: 8767510

Claim:
A method for controlling ultrasonic transducers of an ultrasonic probe for inspecting an object, comprising: controlling the transducers so they emit towards the object ultrasound waves having initial emission delays E 0 with respect to one another; receiving from the transducers measurement signals S 0 , measuring echoes due to reflections of the ultrasound waves on the object; determining complementary emission delays E 1 from the measurement signals S 0 ; and controlling the transducers so they emit towards the object ultrasound waves having emission delays L 1 with respect to one another, the emission delays L 1 having been determined from the initial emission delays E 0 and the complementary emission delays E 1 ; further comprising, iterated at least once, with the iteration number being denoted p: receiving from the transducers new measurement signals S p , measuring echoes due to reflections of the ultrasound waves on the object, the ultrasound waves having emission delays L p with respect to one another, the emission delays L p having been determined from the initial emission delays E 0 and all the complementary emission delays E 1 . . . E p determined previously; determining new complementary emission delays E p+1 from the new measurement signals S p ; and controlling the transducers so they emit ultrasound waves towards the object, the ultrasound waves having emission delays L p+1 with respect to one another, the emission delays L p+1 having been determined from the initial emission delays E 0 and all the complementary emission delays E 1 . . . E p+1 determined previously.