Patent Document ID: 5383457
Application ID: 07815509
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of producing an image of an object having a reduced noise component comprising the steps of: positioning imaging transducer device for receipt of a sufficient number of image signals from said object to permit an image of said object to be produced; transforming said image signals into an original data set; processing said original data set, while storing the values of said original data set in a storage device, by a noise deconvolving process producing a processed data set in which said noise component is reduced as compared to said original data set in said storage device and a processing noise component has been introduced into said processed data set; thereafter reducing said processing noise component in said processed data set by multiplying the value of individual data in said processed data set by the value of corresponding individual data in said original data set as stored in said storage device; and thereafter displaying data resulting from said reducing step as an echographic image.