Patent Document ID: 20110118604
Application ID: 12882902
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An ultrasound system, comprising: an ultrasound data acquisition unit configured to transmit and receive ultrasound signals to and from a target object based on a plurality of steering angles to thereby output a plurality of ultrasound data for obtaining a plurality of ultrasound images corresponding to the steering angles; and a processing unit in communication with the ultrasound data acquisition unit, the processing unit being configured to form the ultrasound images based on the ultrasound data, decompose each of the ultrasound images into a low pass image having a low frequency component and a high pass image having a high frequency component, perform a blending process to remove a seam artifact upon the low pass image and the high pass image for each of the ultrasound images, form a plurality of restoration images by composing the blended low pass image and the high pass image, and form an ultrasound spatial compound image based on the restoration images.