Wireless Ultrasound Probe Configuration Backup and Restore
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless ultrasound probes face challenges in maintaining operational state changes, such as power supply disruptions, leading to loss of configuration settings, which complicates the capture of diagnostic images.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a controller that backs up and restores configuration information, including gain, zoom, and other settings, in a memory unit when the probe transitions between normal and abnormal states, ensuring seamless image capture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the wireless probe operates without a backup mechanism for configuration information, then the device complexity is reduced, but the reliability deteriorates when power supply disruptions occur
Solution Approach 1:
The controller performs preliminary backup of configuration information to the memory unit before power supply disruptions occur. When the operational state changes from normal to abnormal, the controller automatically saves the current configuration information, ensuring that settings are preserved even when power is lost or the device restarts.
Solution Approach 2:
The memory unit creates a copy of the configuration information stored in the controller. This copying mechanism allows the system to maintain a backup of operational settings without significantly increasing the overall device complexity, as the memory unit simply stores duplicate data that can be restored when needed.
2Ease of operation
If the controller automatically backs up and restores configuration information, then the ease of operation is improved, but the loss of time increases due to backup and restoration processes
Solution Approach 1:
The backup of configuration information is performed preliminarily and automatically when the operational state changes, so that restoration does not require significant time when the device is reused. The system proactively saves settings before power disruptions occur, making the restoration process rapid and seamless.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller automatically performs backup and restoration operations without user intervention. When power is restored or the device restarts, the controller detects the operational state change and autonomously restores configuration information from the memory unit, eliminating manual reconfiguration time for users.
3Productivity
If the wireless probe maintains configuration information during operational state changes, then the productivity is improved by avoiding manual reconfiguration, but the loss of information increases if backup fails
Solution Approach 1:
The memory unit maintains a copy of the configuration information, ensuring that even if the primary storage in the controller is lost or corrupted, the configuration data can be restored from the backup copy. This copying mechanism protects against information loss and ensures continuous productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller implements feedback mechanisms to monitor the backup status of configuration information. When operational state changes occur, the controller verifies that backup was successful before allowing the device to transition, providing feedback confirmation that information preservation is complete and preventing productivity loss from failed backups.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are a wireless probe, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and a method of controlling the wireless probe and the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus. The wireless probe may include a power supply unit that supplies power to the wireless probe, and a controller that controls configuration information of the wireless probe to be backed up or restored based on a change in an operational state of the wireless probe.