US 11,744,556 B2
Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus including ultrasonic probe, camera and ultrasonic image generator, control method of ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and control program of ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for providing camera image with different display style depending on usage
Toshio Oka, Yokohama (JP); and Takashi Sakai, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/331,729.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-103858 (JP), filed on Jun. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0386405 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/5207 (2013.01) [A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/468 (2013.01); A61B 8/54 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising:
an ultrasonic probe configured to transmit/receive ultrasonic waves;
a camera that captures a subject;
an ultrasonic image generator configured to generate an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe;
a first hardware processor configured to generate a display image including both a camera image acquired from the camera and the ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator, and saves the display image in a storage; and
a second hardware processor configured to decide a display style related to normal image display or mirror image display of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with an operation mode of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, the operation mode including a live mode, a freeze mode, a moving image reproduction mode or a still image reproduction mode.