US 12,070,360 B2
Method of sharing information in ultrasound imaging
Jongwoo Jung, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Eun-ho Yang, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 10, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/031,669.
Application 16/031,669 is a continuation of application No. 14/320,971, filed on Jul. 1, 2014, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2013-0076594 (KR), filed on Jul. 1, 2013; and application No. 10-2014-0078390 (KR), filed on Jun. 25, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2018/0317890 A1, Nov. 8, 2018
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/13 (2006.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01)
CPC A61B 8/565 (2013.01) [A61B 8/13 (2013.01); A61B 8/465 (2013.01); A61B 8/468 (2013.01); A61B 8/469 (2013.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); A61B 8/52 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound apparatus comprising:
a probe configured to acquire an echo signal from an object;
a communicator configured to communicate with an external device comprising a touch screen;
a display; and
at least one processor configured to:
generate a first ultrasound image using ultrasound data corresponding to the echo signal obtained by the probe;
display the first ultrasound image on the display;
control the communicator to transmit the first ultrasound image to the external device so that the first ultrasound image, which is the same first ultrasound image as displayed on the display of the ultrasound apparatus, is displayed on the touch screen of the external device;
receive, from the external device, a control command generated in response to a touch input which is provided by a user of the external device on the touch screen of the external device and is related to the first ultrasound image displayed on the touch screen of the external device, the control command received from the external device comprising adding a body marker including a first figure representing the object and a second figure representing a location of the probe contacting the object;
in response to the control command received from the external device, obtain a second ultrasound image by adding the body marker to the first ultrasound image;
display the second ultrasound image including the body marker instead of the first ultrasound image on the display; and
control the communicator to transmit the second ultrasound image to the external device so that the second ultrasound image, which is the same second ultrasound image as displayed on the display of the ultrasound apparatus, is displayed on the touch screen of the external device,
wherein the second ultrasound image obtained according to the control command received from the external device is displayed simultaneously on the display of the ultrasound apparatus and the touch screen of the external device.