Console device of portable type, control method and radiographic imaging system

• US 10,039,509 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2015
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Okusu, Kiyohisa, Ohashi, Yosuke, Okabe, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Allen C.
• Application Number:
  US14/860,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20160081642A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,050 Days
• Field of Search: 378189, 378196, 378197, 378 62, 378114-116, 378 98
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/0407 Supports, e.g. tables or beds, for the body or parts of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4208 characterised by using a particular type of detector
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4283 characterised by a detector unit being housed in a cassette
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4452 the source unit and the detector unit being able to move relative to each other
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/46 Arrangements for interfacing with the operator or the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/461 Displaying means of special interest
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/465 adapted to display user selection data, e.g. graphical user interface, icons or menus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/508 for non-human patients
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/56 Details of data transmission or power supply, e.g. use of slip rings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/563 involving image data transmission via a network
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/566 involving communication between diagnostic systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/41 Medical

Abstract

A console device of a portable type is combined with a radiographic imaging device, and retrieves a radiation image from the radiographic imaging device. A registration unit selectively registers plural user menu options for retrieving the radiation image. A radiation image retrieving unit retrieves the radiation image according to a registered one of the user menu options. A display controller, after displaying the radiation image retrieved according to a current user menu option on a display unit among the user menu options, performs display processing of a succeeding user menu option for retrieving a succeeding radiation image in an overlapped manner with the displayed radiation image. Preferably, a pass-through area is formed in the radiation image by directly receiving the radiation without passing through an object. The display controller performs display processing of the current or succeeding user menu option inside the pass-through area.

Claims

1. A console device of a portable type for retrieving a radiation image created by a radiographic imaging device, comprising:

a display unit;

a processor, configured for;

registering plural user menu options for configuring the radiographic imaging device to capture said radiation image and retrieving said radiation image, and

retrieving said radiation image respectively according to said registered plural user menu options; and

a display controller for, after displaying said radiation image retrieved according to a current user menu option on said display unit among said plural user menu options, performing display processing to display a succeeding user menu option for retrieving at least a succeeding radiation image later in an overlapped manner with said displayed radiation image.

2. A console device as defined in claim 1, wherein said display controller performs display processing of said succeeding user menu option upon lapse of waiting time for display after said radiation image becomes displayed.

3. A console device as defined in claim 1, wherein said display controller causes said display unit to display a main image of said radiation image and a preview image of said radiation image with a smaller data size than said main image in a sequence of changing over from said preview image to said main image;

upon changing over said display unit from said preview image to said main image, said succeeding user menu option is displayed in an overlapped manner with said main image.

4. A console device as defined in claim 3, wherein said display controller causes said display unit to display said current user menu option in an overlapped manner with said preview image;

upon changeover from said preview image to said main image, said succeeding user menu option is displayed in an overlapped manner with said main image.

5. A console device as defined in claim 4, wherein a pass-through area is formed in radiation image by directly receiving said radiation without passing through an object;

said display controller performs display processing of said current user menu option or said succeeding user menu option inside said pass-through area.

6. A console device as defined in claim 5, wherein said display controller determines a display form of said current user menu option or said succeeding user menu option within said pass-through area by considering a form of said pass-through area.

7. A console device as defined in claim 1, wherein said succeeding user menu option includes a group of plural sub menu items, and said display controller performs display processing of said plural sub menu items by said group in a form of said succeeding user menu option.

8. A console device as defined in claim 7, wherein said display controller reads out attribute information associated with said radiation image before displaying said current user menu option, and causes display processing to display a first item in an overlapped manner with said current user menu option, said first item being relevant to said current user menu option among plural items included in said attribute information.

9. A console device as defined in claim 1, wherein said display controller performs display processing to display said current user menu option in an overlapped manner with said radiation image.

10. A console device as defined in claim 1, wherein when said display unit is changed over from displaying said succeeding user menu option to another user menu option, said processor is further configured for changing a sequence of retrieving said radiation image.

11. A console device as defined in claim 1, wherein when said succeeding user menu option is changed to a current user menu option, said processor is further configured for enabling said radiographic imaging device to perform re-imaging according to said current user menu option.

12. A console device as defined in claim 1, wherein said processor is further configured for changing for notifying information of said succeeding user menu option acoustically.

13. A console device as defined in claim 1, wherein said display controller causes said display unit to display guidance information for steps of creating said radiation image in said radiographic imaging device until said radiation image is initially retrieved according to said plural user menu options.

14. A control method for a portable information terminal device for retrieving a radiation image created by a radiographic imaging device, comprising steps of:

registering plural user menu options for configuring the radiographic imaging device to capture said radiation image and retrieving said radiation image;

retrieving said radiation image respectively according to said registered plural user menu options;

displaying the radiation image retrieved for a current user menu option on a display unit; and

after displaying said radiation image retrieved for said current user menu option on said display unit among said plural user menu options, displaying a succeeding user menu option for retrieving at least a succeeding radiation image later in an overlapped manner with said displayed radiation image.

15. A radiographic imaging system comprising:

a radiographic imaging device for creating a radiation image from radiation passed through a body;

a console device of a portable type for retrieving said radiation image from said radiographic imaging device; and

a console holder for holding said console device;

said console device including;

a display unit;

a processor configured for;

registering plural user menu options for configuring the radiographic imaging device to capture said radiation image and retrieving said radiation image, and

retrieving said radiation image respectively according to said registered plural user menu options; and

a display controller for, after displaying said radiation image retrieved according to a current user menu option on said display unit among said plural user menu options, performing display processing to display a succeeding user menu option for retrieving at least a succeeding radiation image later in an overlapped manner with said displayed radiation image.