1. A method for determining an accurate amount of consumable in a print cartridge, wherein the print cartridge has a cartridge identification associated therewith and the print cartridge has an expected print yield that is different than an expected print yield of a standard yield cartridge manufactured for use in the printing device, the method comprising:
determining that a print cartridge installed in a printing device has an identifier associated therewith;
determining an amount of consumable that is loaded in the print cartridge based on the identifier, wherein the amount of consumable loaded in the print cartridge is a predetermined percentage higher than a standard amount of consumable loaded in a standard yield cartridge; and
determining an amount of consumable remaining in the print cartridge by increasing an amount of consumable that would be remaining in the print cartridge for a standard yield cartridge by the predetermined percentage.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is stored in a memory located on the print cartridge.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the identifier is stored in a specific location in the memory.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein a management information base (MIB) database is utilized to identify the specific location in the memory.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein a low consumable condition is triggered based on the determined amount of consumable remaining in the print cartridge.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein a standard low consumable condition that is triggered by the printing device is ignored.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumable is toner.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumable is ink.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier identifies or indicates one or more parameter of the print cartridge.
10. A system for determining an accurate amount of consumable in a print cartridge, the system comprising:
a printing device having a print cartridge loaded therein, wherein the print cartridge has an identifier associated therewith, wherein the print cartridge has an actual expected print yield that is a percentage higher than a standard expected print yield of a standard yield cartridge manufactured for use in the printing device; and
a processor configured to:
determine the actual expected print yield based on the identifier; and
determine an amount of consumable remaining in the print cartridge by increasing an amount of consumable that would be remaining in the cartridge for a standard yield cartridge by the predetermined percentage.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the identifier is stored in a memory located on the print cartridge.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein the identifier is stored in a specific location in the memory.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein a management information base (MIB) database is utilized to identify the specific location in the memory.
14. The system of claim 10, wherein a low consumable condition is triggered based on the determined amount of consumable.
15. The system of claim 14, wherein a standard low consumable condition that is triggered by a printing device is ignored.
16. The system of claim 10, wherein the consumable is toner.
17. The system of claim 10, wherein the consumable is ink.
18. The system of claim 10, wherein the identifier identifies or indicates one or more parameter of the print cartridge.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. In a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for characterizing contrast agents with ultrasound, the storage medium comprising instructions for:
obtaining data comprising information associated with flowing contrast agents and information associated with bound contrast agents both in a same region at a same time;
rejecting the information associated with the flowing contrast agents in a presence of both the flowing contrast agents and bound contrast agents from the data;
identifying, using the data resulting from the rejecting, the information associated with the bound contrast agents and not the rejected information associated with the flowing contrast agents; and
generating an image as a function of the information associated with bound contrast agents without the information associated with the flowing contrast agents, the image representing the region and locations of the rejected information associated with the flowing contrast agents and not representing the rejected information.
2. The instructions of claim 1 wherein rejecting and identifying comprises locating the flowing and bound contrast agents as a function of nonlinear fundamental response, estimating velocities of the located flowing and bound contrast agents, and at least reducing information associated with flow velocities.
3. A method for characterizing contrast agents with ultrasound, the method comprising:
determining, automatically, a relative strength of two or more nonlinear frequency components of ultrasound signals responsive to contrast agents in a region of a patient; and
generating an image as a function of the relative strength.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein determining the relative strength comprises determining a ratio of second harmonic to nonlinear fundamental components.
5. The method of claim 3 wherein determining the relative strength comprises determining a ratio of second harmonic to third harmonic components.
6. The method of claim 3 wherein determining the relative strength comprises determining a ratio of two or more of the nonlinear frequency components to one or more nonlinear frequency components.
7. The method of claim 3 wherein determining comprises comparing a nonlinear bandwidth to a transmitted bandwidth.
8. The method of claim 3 wherein determining comprises measuring a received signal center frequency.
9. The method of claim 3 wherein generating comprises differentiating between attached and phagocytosed contrast agents.
10. The method of claim 3 further comprising increasing persistence as a function of the relative strength.
11. The method of claim 3 wherein generating the image comprises highlighting as a function of the signal strength.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein highlighting comprises highlighting information as a function of the signal strength and tissue structure.
13. The method of claim 3 further comprising:
transmitting contrast agent destruction ultrasound pulses to locations associated with slowly moving or stationary contrast agents while minimizing the transmission of the contrast agent destruction ultrasound pulses to locations associated with rapidly moving contrast agents.
14. A method for characterizing contrast agents with ultrasound, the method comprising:
monitoring signal strength of contrast agents in a two-dimensional region as a function of time with ultrasound from the two-dimensional region of a patient;
generating an image, representing the two-dimensional region with spatial axes, where image values for spatial locations are each a function of a signal strength at different times; and
highlighting bound versus flowing contrast agent in the image.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein monitoring comprises monitoring as a function of nonlinear components of ultrasound signals.
16. The method of claim 14 further comprising:
spatially tracking a region as a function of time;
wherein the monitoring is performed for the region.
17. The method of claim 14 wherein monitoring comprises identifying contrast agents with a weaker signal strength from contrast agents with a greater signal strength, and wherein generating the image comprises highlighting the contrast agents with the weaker signal strength relative to the contrast agents with the greater signal strength.