US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Aug. 12 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,239, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Tsuyoshi Matsumoto (Tokyo) and Tomoki Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a panoramic image generation unit generates a panoramic image from ultrasound image data or ultrasound images of a plurality of frames included in the same tomographic plane formed by moving an ultrasound probe. A hidden region detection unit detects whether or not a...