| US 7,460,698 B2 | ||
| Ultrasonic picture processing method and ultrasonic picture processing apparatus | ||
| Hideki Yoshioka, Nishinomiya (Japan); Mutsumi Watanabe, Kobe (Japan); Mayumi Yuasa, Kobe (Japan); and Masahide Nishiura, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki-shi (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 03, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/26,015. | ||
| Application 09/778097 is a division of application No. 08/937007, filed on Sep. 24, 1997, abandoned. | ||
| Application 11/026015 is a continuation of application No. 09/778097, filed on Feb. 07, 2001, granted, now 6,859,548. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 8-253188 (JP), filed on Sep. 25, 1996; application No. 8-254498 (JP), filed on Sep. 26, 1996; application No. 8-254603 (JP), filed on Sep. 26, 1996; and application No. 8-254604 (JP), filed on Sep. 26, 1996. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0111717 A1, May 26, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—128 [382/131; 382/132] | 10 Claims |
| 1. An ultrasonic image processing method for extracting, from an ultrasonic moving image including an object moving periodically,
an amount of movement of the moving image other than movement of the object in the ultrasonic moving image, comprising:
dividing the input ultrasonic moving image in a time period equal to a movement cycle of the object, and extracting an outline
of the object from each of a plurality of frames of the ultrasonic moving image in each time period of a plurality of consecutive
time periods to acquire time-series data representing movement of the outline in the time period; and
acquiring time-series comparison data representing a difference in movement of the outline in every time period based on a
difference between the time-series data in two adjacent time periods.
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