Method and system for sub-aperture processing

US7775982B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Christopher Robert Hazard · Niskayuna, US
• Bruno Hans Haider · Ballston Lake, US
• Douglas Glenn Wildes · Ballston Lake, US
• Reinhold Bruestle · Zipf, AT
• Armin Schoisswohl · Wels, AT
• Kjell Kristoffersen · Oslo, NO

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 15, 2006
• Grant date: Aug 17, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 16, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G10K11/341
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A transducer assembly is provided including a transducer array comprising a plurality ‘M’ of transducer elements and a sub-aperture processor comprising a plurality ‘P’ of input channels and an output channel. The plurality ‘P’ of input channels is coupled to the ‘M’ transducer elements and a plurality ‘R’ of switching elements in operative association with the output channel of the sub-aperture processor to switchably couple the output channel to at least one of a plurality of ‘N’ system channels.