CN114287965A

CN114287965A - Ultrasonic medical detection equipment, transmission control method, imaging system and terminal

Info

Publication number: CN114287965A
Application number: CN202210043639.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘智光; 周述文; 何绪金
Original assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio Medical Electronics Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio Medical Electronics Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-02-13
Filing date: 2017-02-13
Publication date: 2022-04-08
Also published as: CN109069108B; CN109069108A; WO2018145320A1

Abstract

An ultrasonic medical detection device, a transmission control method, an imaging system and a terminal are provided, wherein the device is used for detecting contact of an input object on a touch display screen, identifying a first operation position corresponding to the contact on the touch display screen, recording at least one part of an ultrasonic image corresponding to the first operation position in an associated mode and/or editing information corresponding to at least one part of the ultrasonic image in an associated mode, obtaining transmission data and transmitting the transmission data. Therefore, the convenience of user operation is improved, and the user experience is greatly improved.

Description

Ultrasonic medical detection equipment, transmission control method, imaging system and terminal

Technical Field

The present application relates to the technical field of ultrasound medical detection devices, and in particular, to an ultrasound medical detection device, a transmission control method, an imaging system, and a terminal.

Background

An ultrasonic imaging system is a device which scans a human body by using an ultrasonic sound beam, and obtains an image of an internal organ by receiving and processing a reflection signal. There are a number of commonly used ultrasound instruments: the type a (amplitude modulation type) indicates the strength of the reflected signal with the amplitude, and a "echo diagram" is shown. The M-mode (spot scanning mode) represents the spatial position from shallow to deep in the vertical direction and time in the horizontal direction, and is shown as a graph of the movement of the spot at different times. The two types are displayed in one dimension, and the application range is limited. Type B (brightness modulation type), namely ultrasonic section imager, is called B-ultrasonic for short. The light spots with different brightness are used for representing the strength of the received signal, when the probe moves along the horizontal position, the light spots on the display screen also move synchronously along the horizontal direction, and the light spot tracks are connected into a sectional view scanned by the ultrasonic sound beams, so that two-dimensional imaging is realized. The D-mode is made according to the ultrasonic Doppler principle, and the C-mode is a scanning mode similar to a television and displays a transverse section acoustic image perpendicular to an acoustic beam. In recent years, ultrasonic imaging techniques such as gray scale display and color display, real-time imaging, ultrasonic holography, transmission ultrasonic imaging, ultrasound parallel tomography, three-dimensional imaging, ultrasonic imaging in body cavities, and the like have been developed.

When the touch display screen which is widely applied in people's life is also gradually applied to the ultrasonic imaging system, the use experience of users in the field of medical ultrasonic imaging is also gradually changed, so that the acquisition mode of user input instructions in the traditional ultrasonic imaging system is improved.

Disclosure of Invention

Based on this, it is necessary to provide an effective way for acquiring user input instructions and data interaction between devices related to ultrasonic imaging for an ultrasonic imaging system with a touch display screen.

In one embodiment, an ultrasonic medical examination apparatus is provided, the apparatus comprising:

a probe;

the transmitting circuit and the receiving circuit are used for exciting the probe to transmit ultrasonic beams to a detection object and receiving echoes of the ultrasonic beams to obtain ultrasonic echo signals;

the image processing module is used for obtaining an ultrasonic image according to the ultrasonic echo signal;

a data transmission communication module;

a touch display screen;

a memory storing a computer program running on a processor; and the combination of (a) and (b),

a data processor that implements the following steps when executing the program:

displaying the ultrasound image on the touch display screen,

detecting a contact of an input object on the touch display screen,

recognizing that the contact corresponds to a first operational position on the touch display screen,

recording at least one part of the ultrasonic image corresponding to the first operation position association and/or editing information corresponding to at least one part of the ultrasonic image association to obtain transmission data;

the movement of the contact is monitored and,

recognizing that the motion of the contact corresponds to a second operational position on the touch display screen,

determining a change in the second operating position,

and outputting the transmission data through the data transmission communication module according to the change of the second operation position.

In one embodiment, a method for controlling transmission of an ultrasound image is provided, which includes:

exciting a probe to emit an ultrasonic beam to a detection object;

receiving the echo of the ultrasonic beam to obtain an ultrasonic echo signal;

obtaining an ultrasonic image according to the ultrasonic echo signal;

displaying the ultrasound image on the touch display screen,

detecting a contact of an input object on the touch display screen,

the movement of the contact is monitored and,

determining a change in the second operating position,

and outputting the transmission information through the data transmission communication module according to the change of the second operation position.

In one embodiment, there is provided an ultrasound imaging system, the system comprising: the ultrasonic medical detection device comprises an ultrasonic medical detection device and an ultrasonic image display terminal; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the ultrasonic medical detection apparatus includes:

the probe head is provided with a probe head,

a transmitting circuit and a receiving circuit for exciting the probe to transmit an ultrasonic beam to the inspection object, receiving an echo of the ultrasonic beam, obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal,

an image processing module for obtaining an ultrasonic image according to the ultrasonic echo signal,

a data transmission communication module for realizing data transmission with the ultrasonic image display terminal,

a first touch-sensitive display screen is provided,

a first memory storing a computer program running on a data processor, and,

a data processor;

the ultrasound image display terminal includes:

a second touch-sensitive display screen is provided,

a communication module for realizing data transmission with the data transmission communication module,

a second memory storing a computer program running on the processor, and,

a processor;

when the data processor on the ultrasonic medical detection equipment or the processor on the ultrasonic image display terminal executes the program in the corresponding memory, the following steps are realized:

displaying the ultrasonic image on a touch display screen, wherein the touch display screen is one of the first touch display screen and the second touch display screen,

detecting a contact of an input object on the touch display screen,

the movement of the contact is monitored and,

determining a change in the second operating position,

and transmitting the transmission data between the data transmission communication module and the communication module according to the change of the second operation position.

In one embodiment, there is provided an ultrasound image display terminal, including:

a second touch-sensitive display screen is provided,

a communication module through which an ultrasound image is received;

a second memory storing a computer program running on a processor; and the combination of (a) and (b),

a processor, said second processor implementing the following steps when executing said program:

displaying the ultrasound image on a second touch screen display,

detecting a contact of an input object on the second touch display screen,

recognizing that the contact corresponds to a first operating position on the second touch display screen,

the movement of the contact is monitored and,

recognizing that the motion of the contact corresponds to a second operational position on the second touch display screen,

determining a change in the second operating position,

and outputting the transmission data through a communication module according to the change of the second operation position.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a system architecture diagram providing an ultrasound medical detection device in accordance with some embodiments;

FIG. 2 is a system architecture diagram providing an ultrasound medical imaging system in accordance with some embodiments;

FIG. 3 provides a system architecture diagram of an ultrasound detection system in accordance with some embodiments;

FIG. 4 provides a flow chart of the ultrasound imaging control method in the present embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 provides an embodiment of a synchronous display of data transmitted on a graphical user interface in some embodiments;

FIG. 6 provides an embodiment of a synchronous display of data transmitted on a graphical user interface in some embodiments;

FIG. 7 provides an embodiment of transmitting data on a graphical user interface synchronized to a display interface of a plurality of output devices in some embodiments;

FIG. 8 provides a schematic diagram of a network of connections of an ultrasound medical examination device to a plurality of output devices and peripheral devices.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the following detailed description and accompanying drawings. Wherein like elements in different embodiments are numbered with like associated elements. In the following description, numerous details are set forth in order to provide a better understanding of the present application. However, those skilled in the art will readily recognize that some of the features may be omitted or replaced with other elements, materials, methods in different instances. In some instances, certain operations related to the present application have not been shown or described in detail in order to avoid obscuring the core of the present application from excessive description, and it is not necessary for those skilled in the art to describe these operations in detail, so that they may be fully understood from the description in the specification and the general knowledge in the art.

Furthermore, the features, operations, or characteristics described in the specification may be combined in any suitable manner to form various embodiments. Also, the various steps or actions in the method descriptions may be transposed or transposed in order, as will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art. Thus, the various sequences in the specification and drawings are for the purpose of describing certain embodiments only and are not intended to imply a required sequence unless otherwise indicated where such sequence must be followed.

The numbering of the components as such, e.g., "first", "second", etc., is used herein only to distinguish the objects as described, and does not have any sequential or technical meaning. The term "connected" and "coupled" when used in this application, unless otherwise indicated, includes both direct and indirect connections (couplings).

Fig. 1 shows a schematic structural diagram of an ultrasonic medical detection apparatus 100 in an embodiment, and a specific structure is as follows. The ultrasonic medical inspection apparatus 100 shown in fig. 1 mainly includes: a probe 101, a transmission circuit 103, a transmission/reception selection switch 102, a reception circuit 104, a beam forming module 105, a signal processing module 116, and an image processing module 126. In the ultrasound imaging process, the transmission circuit 103 transmits a delay-focused transmission pulse having a certain amplitude and polarity to the probe 101 through the transmission/reception selection switch 102. The probe 101 is excited by the transmission pulse, transmits an ultrasonic wave (which may be any one of a plane wave, a focused wave, or a divergent wave) to a detection object (for example, an organ, a tissue, a blood vessel, etc. in a human body or an animal body, not shown in the figure), receives an ultrasonic echo reflected from a target region with information of the detection object after a certain delay, and converts the ultrasonic echo back into an electric signal again. The receiving circuit 104 receives the electric signals generated by the conversion of the probe 101, obtains ultrasonic echo signals, and sends the ultrasonic echo signals to the beam forming module 105. The beam forming module 105 performs focusing delay, weighting, channel summation and other processing on the ultrasonic echo signal, and then sends the ultrasonic echo signal to the signal processing module 116 for related signal processing. The ultrasonic echo signals processed by the signal processing module 116 are sent to the image processing module 126. The image processing module 126 performs different processing on the signals according to different imaging modes required by a user to obtain ultrasound image data of different modes, and then performs processing such as logarithmic compression, dynamic range adjustment, digital scan conversion, and the like to form ultrasound images of different modes, such as a B image, a C image, a D image, and the like, or other types of two-dimensional ultrasound images or three-dimensional ultrasound images. Of course, the ultrasound image referred to herein includes one frame image or a plurality of frame images. The transmitting circuit and the receiving circuit excite the probe to transmit ultrasonic beams to the detection object according to the setting of the ultrasonic imaging parameters, receive the echoes of the ultrasonic beams and obtain ultrasonic echo signals, so that a desired ultrasonic image is obtained for displaying and showing the internal tissue structure of the detection object. The ultrasound imaging parameters referred to herein relate to all parameters that are available for the user to autonomously select during the imaging of the ultrasound tissue image, such as TGC (Time Gain compensation), sonic frequency, Pulse Repetition Frequency (PRF), ultrasound type, and dynamic range, among others.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the signal processing module 116 and the image processing module 126 in fig. 1 may be integrated on one main board 106, or one or more (including the same numbers) of the modules may be integrated on one processor/controller chip.

The obtained ultrasound image may be output to an external output device through the data transmission communication module 156, the output device at least includes a touch display 170 for displaying the ultrasound image, and the touch display 170 includes a touch display screen 171 and peripheral circuits. In addition, the ultrasound medical examination apparatus further comprises a data processor 140, and a memory 160. The data processor 140 invokes computer program instructions recorded on the memory 160 to display the ultrasound images on the touch screen display 171 and/or to form a graphical user interface on the touch screen display. In one embodiment, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is displayed on the touch display 171 and graphical controls such as the previously mentioned controls related to ultrasound imaging parameter adjustments, various function buttons, etc., involved in the ultrasound image imaging process are presented, as well as one or more frames of images of the ultrasound image. Control instructions of corresponding operations of the graphical control generated by the operation of an input object on the touch display screen can be obtained based on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and the control instructions of information about ultrasonic imaging parameters and the like can be transmitted to the ultrasonic medical detection equipment in a wired or wireless mode and used for controlling the operation of a probe, a transmitting circuit, a receiving circuit and the like so as to obtain a desired ultrasonic image; or control instructions for transmitting data on the ultrasound image, which are generated by the operation of the input object on the touch display screen, can be obtained based on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and the instructions can also be transmitted to various output devices except the ultrasound medical detection device in a wired or wireless manner. The ultrasonic image may be displayed on the touch display screen, and a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for inputting a user operation instruction may be displayed. Of course, a display area for displaying an ultrasound image may also be set based on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and then the ultrasound image is edited by a gesture input of a user to obtain editing information, which includes ultrasound imaging parameters related to the ultrasound image and/or remark information displayed on the ultrasound image, the so-called remark information including: at least one of a scale size of the image, a sharpness of the image, an identification of a location of the probe in the image, annotation information of ultrasound imaging parameters in the image, a sampling gate, and an icon relating to an anatomical location, a probe location indication icon, and the like.

Based on the graphical user interface displayed on the touch display screen, the data processor 140 may invoke the gesture detection module 113 stored in the memory 160 to detect a control instruction obtained by the user performing a contact operation on the graphical user interface through the input object. In various embodiments, the touch screen display device includes a touch screen display having a Graphical User Interface (GUI), one or more processors, memory, and one or more modules, programs, or sets of instructions stored in the memory for performing various functions, which collectively enable detection of and derivation of associated control instructions based on Graphical User Interface (GUI) manipulation input. In various embodiments, these functions may include parameter adjustment, information entry, etc. of the subject (e.g., patient tissue) to obtain medical test data, image review, pathology database construction, retrieval and maintenance, patient profile information construction, display and management, patient catalog information construction, display and management, etc. The means, programs or instructions for executing may be included in a computer program product configured for execution by one or more processors. In some of the embodiments of the present invention, a user interacts with a graphical user interface primarily through gesture inputs on a touch display screen. Gesture input herein may include any type of user gesture input that may be detected by a device by direct contact or proximity to a touch display screen. For example, the gesture input may be an action of a user selecting one location, multiple locations, and/or multiple consecutive locations on the touch display screen using a finger of a right or left hand (e.g., index finger, thumb, etc.), or an input object detectable by touching the display screen (e.g., a stylus, a pen dedicated to touching the display screen), and may include an operation action like contact, release of touch, tap of touch, long contact, rotational spread, and the like. Here, the long contact corresponds to one gesture input of moving a finger, thumb, stylus pen, or the like in a predetermined direction or a variable direction while maintaining a continuous contact state with the touch display screen, for example, a gesture operation action such as a touch drag, flick, wipe, slide, sweep, or the like. As can be seen, the gesture input is realized by the contact of the input object with the touch display screen, the contact with the touch display screen may include the direct contact with the touch display screen by a finger, a thumb, a stylus pen or the like, or the indirect contact with the touch display screen, and the gesture input close to the touch display screen without direct contact refers to a gesture operation action on a spatial position close to the touch display screen. The graphical user interface refers to the overall design of human-computer interaction, operation logic and interface beauty of software, and can comprise one or more soft keyboards and a plurality of graphical control objects. The soft keyboard may include a number of icons (or soft keys). This may allow the user to select one or more icons in the soft keyboard and thus select one or more corresponding symbols for input. The gesture detection module 113 may detect gesture input interacting between an input object and the touch display screen. The gesture detection module 113 includes various program modules for performing various operations related to gesture input detection, such as determining whether contact has occurred, determining whether the gesture input is continuously input, determining whether a predetermined gesture corresponds to, determining an operation position corresponding to the gesture input, determining whether the operation position corresponding to the gesture input moves to an edge position of a corresponding display area, determining whether the gesture input has been interrupted (e.g., whether contact has stopped), determining movement of the gesture input and tracking a movement trajectory of the gesture input, and so on. Determining the motion of the gesture input may include determining a rate of motion (magnitude), a speed of motion (magnitude and direction), and/or an acceleration of motion (change in magnitude and/or direction), a trajectory of motion, etc., of the operation location to which the gesture input corresponds. These operations may be applied to a single operation location (e.g., gesture input by one finger), or to multiple simultaneous operation locations (e.g., "multi-touch," i.e., gesture input by multiple fingers). In some embodiments, the gesture detection module 113 is used to detect motion of one or more input objects on the surface of the touch display screen or at spatial locations proximate to the touch display screen. The gesture detection module 113 is stored on the memory 160, and implements the monitoring of the gesture input through the invocation of one or more processors, so as to obtain the operation input instruction of the user.

Of course, in the embodiment shown in fig. 1, the data processor 140 and the memory 160 may be disposed on the main board 106, or may be disposed separately from the main board 106, or the data processor 140 and the memory 160 may be integrally mounted with the touch display screen 171 to form a separate touch display 170, that is, to implement displaying of the ultrasound image, or to implement obtaining of the control instruction input by the user based on the ultrasound image. In one embodiment, the signal processing module 116 and/or the image processing module 126 of fig. 1, together with the data processor 140, are collectively configured to perform data processing of ultrasound images on one or more processors, as well as monitoring of the gesture inputs and generation of a graphical user interface as described above. Also shown in fig. 3 is a conventional ultrasonic medical testing apparatus, which includes a display 1, a control key operation area 3, a display support arm 2, a main body 4, and a foot control 5. The display 1 may be the same as the touch display 170 described above, with the host 4 including the motherboard 106 described above, or further including the data processor 140 and the memory 160. In addition, the ultrasonic medical detection device may further be equipped with a touch display control terminal 6, similar to a portable intelligent terminal device such as an IPAD or a smart phone, and the ultrasonic image is switched and displayed between the display 1 and the touch display control terminal 6 by a control instruction input by a user on a touch display screen, or data transmission control is performed between the touch display control terminal 6 and the host 4 by a control instruction input on the touch display control terminal 6.

In addition, the ultrasound medical testing apparatus of fig. 1, the data transmission communication module 156 may be used to connect a plurality of output devices (output devices 1(180), …, and output device n (190)), where the output devices mentioned herein include at least one of a printer, a display, an upper computer (e.g., a workstation), a web server, and an ultrasound image display terminal. The ultrasound image display terminal is an intelligent terminal device with a touch display screen and capable of displaying ultrasound images and performing data interaction with the ultrasound medical detection device, and may include the touch display control terminal 6 in fig. 3, but may also include various intelligent terminal devices, such as computer devices with touch display screens, for example, an IPAD, a mobile phone, a workstation, a service station, and the like. When the ultrasound medical examination device is connected with a plurality of peripheral devices (including the output device and the touch display 170) through the data transmission communication module 156, the ultrasound medical examination device includes at least two transmission ports, one of the transmission ports is connected with the touch display 171 shown in fig. 1, and the other transmission ports are used for connecting with at least one of the output devices. The data transfer communication module 156 may be a communication module that complies with various data transfer protocols, and thus, the data transfer communication module 156 may be wired or wireless with the peripheral device. The wired connection mode comprises the following steps: and one of the data transmission lines such as USB, VGA, HDMI and the like is used for connection. The wireless connection mode comprises connection by adopting one of wifi protocol, Bluetooth transmission protocol, mobile communication network protocol and other protocols. Whether wired or wireless, a transmission port is created whenever a peripheral device is connected. Transport ports herein include hardware ports as well as logical virtual ports.

As shown in fig. 4, a method for completing transmission of ultrasonic image data by one touch operation on a touch display screen is provided. This is explained in detail with reference to fig. 4. The one-touch operation includes one touch of an input object on the touch display screen and release of the one touch.

In step 410 of fig. 4, the transmitting circuit and the receiving circuit (103 and 104) excite the probe (101), transmit an ultrasonic beam to the inspection object according to the set ultrasonic imaging parameters, and in step 412, the excitation probe (101) receives an echo of the ultrasonic beam to obtain an ultrasonic echo signal.

In step 414 of fig. 4, the image processing module 126 obtains an ultrasound image according to the ultrasound echo signal according to the ultrasound imaging parameters. Also provided within the ultrasound medical detection apparatus of fig. 1 is a memory 160 for storing a computer program running on a processor, such as the gesture detection module 113 described above. The ultrasound image may be an ultrasound image of the different modes described above, such as a B image, a C image, a D image, etc., or other types of two-dimensional ultrasound images or three-dimensional ultrasound images. Similarly, the ultrasound images referred to herein may be still frame images or dynamic video images.

In step 416 of fig. 4, the data processor 140 transmits the ultrasound image to the touch display 170 through the data transmission communication module 156, and displays the ultrasound image on the touch display screen 171. For example, an image display area for ultrasonic image display is set on a graphical user interface layer formed on a touch display screen. In one embodiment, the graphical user interface comprises at least two interface layers, wherein an ultrasonic image is displayed on a first interface layer of the touch display screen, a second interface layer which is arranged in a transparent mode is superposed above the first interface layer, and the editing information is superposed on the second interface layer. The setting mode can lead the rest data except the image data to be suspended on the ultrasonic image for displaying, does not block the display of the ultrasonic image, and can lead the user to observe the change of the ultrasonic image caused by the adjustment based on the ultrasonic imaging parameters, or save and transmit the information such as the edited annotation and the like together with the ultrasonic image.

In one embodiment, the data processor when executing the program in the memory may further include the following steps before detecting 418 a contact of an input object on the touch screen display:

the data processor receives edit information about at least a portion of an ultrasound image input by a user and associates and records the edit information corresponding to at least a portion of the ultrasound image. The at least one portion of the ultrasound image may include at least one portion of a multi-frame ultrasound image, or may further include at least one portion of a single frame ultrasound image. The user can edit the ultrasonic image based on hardware peripherals (such as a keyboard, a trackball, a touch display screen and the like), and obtain the editing information. The editing information is displayed superimposed on the ultrasound image or stored and output together with the ultrasound image.

In step 418 of FIG. 4, the data processor 140 invokes the gesture detection module to detect contact of the input object on the touch screen display. For example, the contact of the input object at any operation position on the graphical display interface on the touch display screen may be detected, or the contact of the input object at any operation position within a predetermined range on the touch display screen may be detected. For example, in one embodiment, as shown in fig. 5 and fig. 6, the data processor 140 sets a boundary or a boundary box (513, 613) on the graphical display interface (501, 601) on the touch display screen, and detects the contact of the input object at any operation position within the boundary or the boundary box (513, 613) in step 418. The border or bounding box may be disposed adjacent to a bezel of the touch display screen.

In step 420 of fig. 4, the data processor 140 invokes a gesture detection module to recognize that the contact corresponds to a first operation position on the touch screen. In step 422 of fig. 4, the data processor 140 records at least a portion of the ultrasound image corresponding to the first operation position and/or edit information corresponding to at least a portion of the ultrasound image, and obtains transmission data. The operation position on the interface mentioned herein refers to a position on the display interface corresponding to the user performing the touch operation input on the touch display screen by using the input object. Reference herein to "location" includes orientation information, coordinate information, and/or angle information, among others.

For example, as shown in fig. 5, the data processor 140 detects that the input object 512 is initially in contact with the touch screen at a position 5121 on the graphical display interface (501) on the touch screen, takes the initial contact position 5121 as a first operation position, and records the ultrasound image 511 displayed at the position as transmission data. As shown in fig. 6, the data processor 140 detects that the input object 612 is in the position 6121 in initial contact with the touch screen on the graphical display interface (601) on the touch screen, takes the initial contact position 6121 as the first operation position, and records the ultrasound image 611 displayed at the position as transmission data. Of course, in addition to the ultrasound image displayed at the first operation position as the transmission data, the ultrasound image displayed on the display interface at the first operation position may also be used as the transmission data. That is, in step 422, the at least one portion of the ultrasound image associated with the first operation position and/or the edit information associated with the at least one portion of the ultrasound image includes one of the following conditions: 1. displaying at least one part of the ultrasonic image at a first operation position and/or editing information corresponding to at least one part of the ultrasonic image in an associated mode; 2. and the ultrasonic image displayed on the display interface of the first operation position and/or the editing information corresponding to the ultrasonic image.

In step 424 of fig. 4, the data processor 140 invokes a gesture detection module to monitor the motion of the input object contacting on the touch screen. In step 426 of fig. 4, the data processor 140 invokes the gesture detection module to recognize that the motion of the contact corresponds to a second operation position on the touch screen. As shown in fig. 5, when the input object 512 starts to move along the direction indicated by 514 when the contact occurs at the first operation position 5121 on the touch display screen, the data processor 140 invoking the gesture detection module may recognize that a series of second operation positions 5122 correspondingly occur on the touch display screen. For another example, as shown in fig. 6, when the input object 612 starts to move along the direction indicated by 614 when the contact occurred at the first operation position 6121 on the touch display screen, the data processor 140 invoking the gesture detection module may recognize that a second operation position 6122 including at least one operation position is correspondingly generated on the touch display screen, corresponding to the movement of the contact. It can be seen that the movement of the contact may include a contact moving in a certain direction (a contact moving from the first operation position 5121 to the second operation position 5122 in fig. 5), a contact moving for a short time on the touch display screen (a contact moving from the first operation position 6121 to the second operation position 6122 in fig. 6), and the like, such as the aforementioned long contact, or a sliding contact.

In step 428 of fig. 4, the data processor 140 determines a change in the second operating position. In step 430 of fig. 4, the data processor 140 outputs the transmission data through a data transmission communication module according to the change of the second operation position. In addition, before outputting the aforementioned transmission data, the transmission data determined in step 422 may be compressed to form a data packet, and then the data packet is output through the data transmission communication module. In this embodiment, a packet transmission instruction is given according to the change of the second operation position, and the content contained in the packet is determined according to the first operation position.

For example, in one embodiment, the data processor executes a program stored in the memory to implement the determining the change in the second operating position in step 428 in one of the following ways;

1. determining that the second operation position is located outside the preset boundary; and the combination of (a) and (b),

2. determining that the change in the second operating position satisfies a preset rule.

The preset boundary may be the boundary or the boundary box set on the graphical display interface on the touch display screen by the data processor 140, as mentioned above, such as 513 and 613 in fig. 5 and fig. 5. As shown in fig. 5 and 6, when the second operation position (5122, 6122) is located outside the boundary or bounding box (513, 613), the user is characterized to input an instruction that the transmission data determined as described above needs to be transmitted, and thus, the transmission data is output through the data transmission communication module. For example, when it is determined on the graphical user interface 501 that the second operation position 5122 is located outside the boundary or the boundary box 513, the transmission data is output to a display through the data transmission communication module, and the editing information corresponding to the ultrasound image 511 and/or the ultrasound image 511 contained in the transmission data is displayed on a display interface (similar to the graphical user interface) 502 of the display, as shown in fig. 5. As shown in fig. 6, when it is determined on the graphical user interface 601 that the second operation position 6122 is outside the boundary or the bounding box 613, the transmission data is output to a display through the data transmission communication module, and the editing information corresponding to the ultrasound image 611 and/or the ultrasound image 611 included in the transmission data is displayed on a display interface (similar to the graphical user interface) 602 of the display. When the transmission data contains the editing information corresponding to at least one part of the ultrasound image, the transmission data is output to a display through the data transmission communication module, and the editing information contained in the transmission data is synchronously displayed on a display interface of the display.

Furthermore, in addition to triggering the instruction to generate a data transmission based on the boundary, the instruction to generate a data transmission may also be triggered based on a change in the second operating position (i.e., a change in the motion of the aforementioned contact). For example, the above determining that the change of the second operation position satisfies the preset rule includes:

determining that one of the change speed of the second operation position, the change acceleration of the second operation position, the change track of the second operation position, the contact pressure felt at the second operation position, the movement direction of the second operation position on the touch display screen, and the like satisfies a preset rule, and determining whether to trigger the step 430 according to the satisfied preset rule. For example, in one embodiment, when the change speed of the second operation position, the change acceleration of the second operation position, the change track of the second operation position, the contact pressure sensed at the second operation position, and the moving direction of the second operation position on the touch display screen reach a preset threshold or are within a preset range, the foregoing step 430 is triggered to be executed.

In the transmission control of the transmission data between the two devices, the instruction to generate the data transmission may be triggered based on the boundary in the above-described manner, and may also be triggered based on the change in the second operation position (i.e., the change in the movement of the aforementioned contact), so that the transmission data is synchronized between the two devices. When it is necessary to synchronize the transmission data among a plurality of output devices, it can be further implemented in the following manner.

In the foregoing step 430, the data processor 140, when executing the program in the memory, further implements outputting the transmission information through the data transmission communication module according to the change of the second operation position by:

firstly, identifying a motion result obtained corresponding to the change of the second operation position, wherein the motion result at least comprises: the second operation position is located in a partition of the predetermined boundary, and one of a change speed of the second operation position, a change acceleration of the second operation position, a change track of the second operation position, a contact pressure sensed at the second operation position, a movement direction of the second operation position on the touch display screen, and the like.

Then, a transmission port is selected according to the motion result, and the description of the transmission port can be found in the related explanation. The data transmission communication module comprises at least two transmission ports, and at least one part of the at least two transmission ports corresponds to the motion result association. The correspondence relationship between the transmission ports and the motion results can be realized in the following manner. For example, in one embodiment, the aforementioned data processor 140, when executing the program in the memory, before performing the aforementioned step 418 to detect the contact of the input object on the touch display screen, further includes: displaying an editing window on the touch display screen; receiving an input instruction of a user, and establishing an association corresponding relation between a transmission port and a motion result; and storing the association corresponding relation between the transmission port and the motion result.

And secondly, outputting transmission data through a transmission port corresponding to the motion result. The description is based on the embodiment shown in fig. 7.

In the embodiment shown in fig. 7, 5 output devices are included, each output device includes a

display interface

710, 720, 730, 740, and 750, and the 5 output devices are respectively connected to the host portion of the ultrasound medical detection apparatus through

transmission ports

751, 752, 753, 754, and 755 in the data transmission communication module 156, and the data processor 140 in the ultrasound medical detection apparatus provides an edit window on the display interface 700, receives an instruction input by a user based on a hardware peripheral (e.g., a keyboard, a trackball, a mouse, a touch display screen, and the like), and associates the

motion directions

731, 732, 733, 734, and 735 in the motion result with the

transmission ports

751, 752, 753, 754, and 755, respectively. When the input object 703 contacts the touch display screen on the display interface 700 to generate a touch operation, selecting to which the transmission data is output according to a movement direction of a second operation position generated by the input object 703 contacting the touch display screen. In fig. 7, based on the movement of the second operation position in the 731 movement direction caused by the contact of the input object 703 with the touch display screen, the transmission data is output through the transmission port 751, provided to the output device connected to the transmission port 751, and the ultrasound image 702 is displayed on the display interface 710 of the output device, so that the ultrasound image 702 obtained by the ultrasound medical detection device is synchronously displayed on the display interface of another output device. Based on the movement of the second operation position along the movement direction 732 generated by the input object 703 contacting the touch display screen, the transmission data is output through the transmission port 752 and provided to the output device connected with the transmission port 752, and the ultrasonic image 702 is displayed on the display interface 720 of the output device, so that the ultrasonic image 702 obtained by the ultrasonic medical detection device is synchronously displayed on the display interface of another output device. By analogy, based on the movement of the second operation position along the

movement directions

733, 734 and 735 respectively generated by the contact of the input object 703 with the touch display screen, transmission data are output through the

transmission ports

753, 754 and 755 respectively, the transmission data are provided for the output devices connected with the

transmission ports

753, 754 and 755, and the ultrasonic images 702 are displayed on the display interfaces 730, 740 and 750 of the corresponding output devices, so that the ultrasonic images 702 obtained by the ultrasonic medical detection device are synchronously displayed on the display interfaces of other output devices.

In the embodiment provided in fig. 7, the description is given by taking the moving direction of the second operation position as the moving result as an example, but the embodiments herein are not limited to only adopting the moving direction, and may be at least one of the aforementioned partition where the second operation position is located at the predetermined boundary, the changing speed of the second operation position, the changing acceleration of the second operation position, the changing trajectory of the second operation position, the contact pressure felt on the second operation position, and the like. For example, the display interface may be divided into a plurality of partitions, such as upper, lower, left, right, upper left, upper right, lower left, and lower right, and the plurality of partitions are associated with the transmission ports, respectively, and when the second operation position is located in one of the plurality of partitions, the corresponding associated transmission port is searched according to the partition, and the transmission data is transmitted through the transmission port, so as to transmit the transmission data to the output device designated by the user.

In addition, in fig. 7, an output device is taken as an example for description, but in various embodiments of this document, the output device is not limited to only being a display, and information in transmission data may be printed and output by a printer, or output to an upper computer and a network server for remote synchronous storage or viewing, or output to the ultrasound image display terminal in fig. 2 for mobile synchronous viewing analysis.

In addition, fig. 2 provides a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment. As shown in fig. 2, the ultrasonic medical inspection apparatus 200 includes: a probe 201, a transmission circuit 203, a transmission/reception selection switch 202, a reception circuit 204, a beam synthesis module 205, a signal processing module 216, and an image processing module 226. In the present embodiment, the functions and implementations of the probe 201, the transmitting circuit 203, the transmitting/receiving selection switch 202, the receiving circuit 204, the beam forming module 205, the signal processing module 216 and the image processing module 226 are the same as those of the probe 101, the transmitting circuit 103, the transmitting/receiving selection switch 102, the receiving circuit 104, the beam forming module 105, the signal processing module 116 and the image processing module 126 in the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and reference to the foregoing descriptions will not be repeated here. In some embodiments of the present invention, the signal processing module 216 and the image processing module 226 in fig. 2 may be integrated on one main board 206, or one or more (including the same number) modules may be integrated on one processor/controller chip. In addition, the ultrasound medical examination apparatus 200 further includes a first touch screen 230 (like the touch screen 171 in fig. 1), a data transmission communication module 231 (like the data transmission communication module 156 in fig. 1), a data processor 240 (like the data processor 140 in fig. 1), and a memory 260 (like the memory 160 in fig. 1). The memory 260 stores computer programs running on the first processor, such as the gesture detection module 213, and like the aforementioned gesture detection module 113, the data processor 240 may call the programs in the memory 260 to implement the processes from step 410 to step 430 in fig. 4. The difference from the embodiment shown in fig. 1 and 4 is that the ultrasonic medical testing apparatus 200 can be connected with the aforementioned ultrasonic image display terminal 270 through a data transmission manner of a wire 281 or a wireless 282. The data transmission communication module 231 is used for realizing data transmission with the ultrasound image display terminal 270. The ultrasound image display terminal 270 includes a second touch screen display 271, a communication module 275, a second memory 272, and a processor 273. The second memory 272 stores computer programs running on the processor 273, such as the gesture detection module 274, having the same functions as the gesture detection module 113 in fig. 1, and will not be described again here. The communication module 275 in the ultrasound image display terminal 270 is used for implementing data transmission with the data transmission communication module 231, thereby implementing data transmission between the ultrasound medical detection apparatus 200 and the ultrasound image display terminal 270. The second touch display 230 is implemented with the same function as the first touch display 271, but the specific product parameters may not be the same, and the terms "first" and "second" are only used to distinguish entities in different application scenarios in the embodiments, and the following description about the method steps or the description of a single application scenario may be equally understood as a touch display in the conventional sense, so that the description elsewhere herein may be simply referred to as a touch display. The ultrasound image display terminal 270 includes the touch display 170 mentioned in fig. 1, but may also include various intelligent terminal devices such as IPAD, cell phone, workstation, server, etc. computer devices with touch screens. For example, the ultrasound image display terminal 270 in this embodiment may also be the touch display control terminal 6 in fig. 3. The communication mode between the data transmission communication module 231 and the communication module 275 can adopt a wireless data transmission protocol such as wifi protocol, bluetooth transmission protocol, mobile communication network protocol, etc. The ultrasonic medical examination apparatus 200 and the ultrasonic image display terminal 270 constitute an ultrasonic imaging system. In the ultrasound imaging system, when the data processor on the ultrasound medical detection device or the processor on the ultrasound image display terminal executes the program in the corresponding memory, the following steps are implemented:

step 910, displaying the ultrasound image on a touch display screen, where the touch display screen is one of the first touch display screen and the second touch display screen,

step 912, detecting the contact of the input object on the touch display screen,

step 914, recognizing the first operation position corresponding to the contact on the touch display screen,

step 916, recording at least a part of the ultrasound image corresponding to the first operation position and/or editing information corresponding to at least a part of the ultrasound image, and obtaining transmission data;

at step 918, the motion of the contact is monitored,

step 920, recognizing that the motion of the contact corresponds to a second operation position on the touch display screen,

and step 922, determining the change of the second operation position,

step 924, transmitting the transmission data between the data transmission communication module and the communication module according to the change of the second operation position.

In the process of executing the steps 910 to 922 on the touch display screen of the respective device by the data processor on the ultrasound medical testing device or the processor on the ultrasound image display terminal, the same steps as those in the steps 416 to 428 in fig. 4 can be referred to, and specific description thereof will not be repeated here. And for the step 924, activating execution of the transmission data between the data transmission communication module and the communication module according to the change of the second operation position. For example, in one embodiment, the data processor on the ultrasound medical detection device or the processor on the ultrasound image display terminal executes the program in the memory to determine the change of the second operation position in the step 922;

The preset boundary here may be the boundary or the boundary box set by the data processor on the ultrasound medical detection device or the processor on the ultrasound image display terminal on the graphical display interface on the touch display screen connected to the data processor or the ultrasound image display terminal, as mentioned above, as 513 and 613 in fig. 5 and the drawings. As shown in fig. 5 and fig. 6, when the second operation position (5122, 6122) is located outside the boundary or the bounding box (513, 613), it is characterized that the user inputs an instruction for transmitting the determined transmission data, and therefore, in step 924, the transmission data is transmitted between the data transmission communication module and the communication module, so as to achieve synchronization of the transmission data, for example, the ultrasound medical detection apparatus 200 transmits the transmission data to the ultrasound image display terminal 270 through the data transmission communication module 231 for displaying, or the ultrasound image display terminal 270 transmits the transmission data to the ultrasound medical detection apparatus 200 through the communication module 275 for displaying, or the ultrasound medical detection apparatus 200 parses edit information in the transmission data, thereby resetting the ultrasound imaging parameters.

determining that one of a change speed of the second operation position, a change acceleration of the second operation position, a change track of the second operation position, a contact pressure felt at the second operation position, a movement direction of the second operation position on the touch display screen, and the like meets a preset rule, determining whether to trigger the step 924 according to the met preset rule, and transmitting the transmission data between the data transmission communication module and the communication module. For example, in one embodiment, when the change speed of the second operation position, the change acceleration of the second operation position, the change track of the second operation position, the contact pressure sensed at the second operation position and the moving direction of the second operation position on the touch display screen reach a preset threshold or are within a preset range, the foregoing step 924 is triggered to be executed, thereby realizing the synchronization of the transmission data between the data transmission communication module and the communication module, for example, the ultrasonic medical detection device 200 transmits the transmission data to the ultrasonic image display terminal 270 through the data transmission communication module 231 for displaying, or the ultrasound image display terminal 270 transmits the transmission data to the ultrasound medical examination apparatus 200 through the communication module 275 for display, or the ultrasound medical examination apparatus 200 parses the edit information in the transmission data, thereby resetting the aforementioned ultrasound imaging parameters.

For the data transmission between the ultrasound medical detection device and the ultrasound image display terminal, a connection may be established through a wireless communication technology, of course, as shown in fig. 8, the printer 86, the scanner 85, the network server or the upper computer 84, the fax 83, the multifunctional machine 82 and the mobile phone 81 in fig. 8 may also be connected together through a wireless communication technology, the ultrasound image display terminal 270 implemented through the mobile phone 81, the network server or the upper computer 84, the workstation, etc. may also be connected with other output devices (such as the printer 86, the scanner 85, the network server or the upper computer 84, the fax 83, the multifunctional machine 82) through a wireless communication technology, after the above steps 910 to 922 are executed, in step 924, the transmission data is sent to other output devices through the communication module according to the change of the second operation position, so as to implement the change of the second operation position determined according to the step 922, in step 924, the transmission data is transmitted to other output devices except the ultrasonic medical detection device (87 in fig. 8) through the communication module 275, where the output devices at least include one of a printer, a display, an upper computer, a network server, a fax machine, a multifunctional output machine, an ultrasonic image display terminal, and the like. The ultrasound image display terminal may include the ultrasound medical examination device mentioned above, or any other intelligent computer device that may be used to display the ultrasound image.

Fig. 4 provides only a flow execution sequence among steps, and various modifications can be obtained by adjusting the sequence of the steps in fig. 4 based on the foregoing, and the steps are not limited to be executed only in the sequence of fig. 4, and steps may be interchanged with each other and the execution sequence may be changed if the basic logic is satisfied, and after one or more steps are repeatedly executed, the last step or steps may be executed, and these modifications all belong to the modifications performed according to the embodiments provided herein.

In ultrasound imaging, multiple displays may be included. For example, one display may normally display the acquired ultrasound image, and the other display may display a control interface and may also display the image. In order to facilitate the observation of the doctor, the contents displayed on the different displays can be switched among the different displays. In the prior art, the mutual switching of the display contents in the display needs to be performed through key operations on the control panel, for example, through a key control menu, and the like, and the operations are complicated. When the embodiment in the text is adopted, the switching of the image display between different displays can be realized by implementing simple sliding operation on the touch display screen, or the configured information about ultrasonic imaging parameters and the like is transmitted to the ultrasonic medical detection equipment for updating and acquiring the ultrasonic image. The aforementioned transmission data may be all or part of the content of the display interface where the first operation position is currently located, in addition to the editing information of the ultrasound image and the ultrasound image, so that by adopting the aforementioned method, one of the display interfaces can be displayed and transmitted to the other display for synchronous display. On the contrary, the contents on the two displays can be freely switched by a simple upward sliding operation of the user's hand on one of the displays.

In the embodiment disclosed by the invention, the displayed images are switched among different displays by simple sliding operation on one screen, so that the operation is simplified, and the user experience is improved. The content on the display interface in the embodiments disclosed herein may be arbitrarily transmitted between the touch display screen and the at least one output device, the same or different content on one display may be "thrown" onto a plurality of different displays for being displayed respectively through a "sliding" operation, each "sliding" action may correspond to one display, and the correspondence between the "sliding" action and the display may be implemented by the specific area predefined at the lower edge or the upper edge (or other edges) of the display as described above, or may be implemented according to the action direction, the position where the action occurs, the sliding speed, the sliding acceleration, and the like, or a combination thereof. The multiple displays are not limited to the top-bottom mode of fig. 7, and may be side-by-side, surround, or other modes, or may be remote displays.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is carried in a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium (such as ROM, magnetic disk, optical disk, hard disk, server cloud space), and includes several instructions for enabling a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, or a network device) to execute the system structure and method according to the embodiments of the present invention. For example, a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, can be used at least to implement the aforementioned embodiments based on the flow shown in steps S410 to S430 in fig. 4.

The above examples only show some embodiments, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. An ultrasonic medical examination apparatus, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

a probe;

the data transmission communication module comprises at least two transmission ports, the at least two transmission ports are used for being connected with output equipment, and the output equipment comprises at least two of a printer, a display, an upper computer, a network server, a fax machine, a multifunctional output machine and an ultrasonic image display terminal;

a touch display screen;

displaying the ultrasound image on the touch display screen,

detecting a contact of an input object on the touch display screen,

the movement of the contact is monitored and,

determining a change in the second operating position,

and determining a transmission port for transmitting the transmission data from the at least two transmission ports according to the change of the second operation position, and transmitting the transmission data to the output equipment correspondingly connected.

2. The ultrasonic medical detection device of claim 1, wherein the data processor, when executing the program, effects the determining the change in the second operative position in one of the following ways;

determining that the second operation position is located outside a preset boundary; and the combination of (a) and (b),

determining that the change in the second operating position satisfies a preset rule.

3. The ultrasonic medical detection device of claim 1, wherein the data processor when executing the program further comprises, prior to the detecting contact of an input object on the touch display screen:

receiving user-entered editing information regarding at least a portion of the ultrasound image, and,

the editing information corresponding to at least a portion of the ultrasound image is recorded in association.

4. The ultrasonic medical detection device of claim 1, wherein the data processor when executing the program further effects determining a transmission port from the at least two transmission ports to transmit the transmission data based on the change in the second operating position by:

identifying a motion result obtained corresponding to the change of the second operation position;

and selecting a transmission port according to the motion result, wherein at least one part of the at least two transmission ports is associated and corresponds to the motion result.

5. The ultrasonic medical detection device of claim 1, wherein one of the at least two transmission ports is connected to the touch display screen, and the remaining transmission ports are used to connect to at least one other output device.

6. The ultrasonic medical detection device of claim 1, wherein the data processor when executing the program further comprises, prior to the detecting contact of an input object on the touch display screen:

displaying an editing window;

receiving an input instruction of a user, and establishing an association corresponding relation between the transmission port and the motion result; and the combination of (a) and (b),

and storing the association corresponding relation between the transmission port and the motion result.

7. The ultrasonic medical detection device of claim 4, wherein the motion results include at least: the second operation position is located in a partition where a predetermined boundary is located, and one of a change speed of the second operation position, a change acceleration of the second operation position, a change track of the second operation position, a contact pressure felt on the second operation position, and a movement direction of the second operation position on the touch display screen.

8. A method for controlling transmission of an ultrasound image, the method comprising:

exciting a probe to emit an ultrasonic beam to a detection object;

receiving the echo of the ultrasonic beam to obtain an ultrasonic echo signal;

obtaining an ultrasonic image according to the ultrasonic echo signal;

displaying the ultrasound image on the touch display screen,

detecting a contact of an input object on the touch display screen,

the movement of the contact is monitored and,

determining a change in the second operating position,

and according to the change of the second operation position, determining a transmission port for transmitting the transmission data from at least two transmission ports, and transmitting the transmission data to output equipment which is correspondingly connected, wherein the at least two transmission ports are used for connecting the output equipment, and the output equipment comprises at least two of a printer, a display, an upper computer, a network server, a fax machine, a multifunctional output machine and an ultrasonic image display terminal.

9. The method for controlling transmission of an ultrasound image according to claim 8, wherein said determining the change of the second operation position includes;

10. The method for controlling transmission of an ultrasound image according to claim 8, wherein the determining a transmission port for transmitting the transmission data from at least two transmission ports according to the change of the second operation position includes:

11. The method for controlling transmission of an ultrasound image according to claim 8, further comprising, before the detecting contact of the input object on the touch display screen:

displaying an editing window;

12. The method for controlling transmission of an ultrasound image according to claim 10, wherein the motion result includes at least: the second operation position is located in a partition where a predetermined boundary is located, and one of a change speed of the second operation position, a change acceleration of the second operation position, a change track of the second operation position, a contact pressure felt on the second operation position, and a movement direction of the second operation position on the touch display screen.

13. An ultrasound imaging system, characterized in that the system comprises: the ultrasonic medical detection device comprises an ultrasonic medical detection device and an ultrasonic image display terminal; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the ultrasonic medical detection apparatus includes:

the probe head is provided with a probe head,

the data transmission communication module is used for realizing data transmission with the ultrasonic image display terminal and comprises at least two transmission ports, wherein the at least two transmission ports are used for connecting output equipment, and the output equipment comprises at least two of a printer, a display, an upper computer, a network server, a fax machine, a multifunctional output machine and the ultrasonic image display terminal;

a first touch-sensitive display screen is provided,

a first memory storing a computer program running on a data processor, and,

a data processor;

the ultrasound image display terminal includes:

a second touch-sensitive display screen is provided,

a second memory storing a computer program running on the processor, and,

a processor;

detecting a contact of an input object on the touch display screen,

the movement of the contact is monitored and,

determining a change in the second operating position,

14. An ultrasound image display terminal, characterized in that the terminal comprises:

a second touch-sensitive display screen is provided,

the communication module is used for receiving the ultrasonic image and comprises at least two transmission ports, the at least two transmission ports are used for being connected with output equipment, and the output equipment comprises at least two of a printer, a display, an upper computer, a network server, a fax machine and a multifunctional output machine;

a second processor that implements the following steps when executing the program:

displaying the ultrasound image on a second touch screen display,

detecting a contact of an input object on the second touch display screen,

the movement of the contact is monitored and,

determining a change in the second operating position,