Time series data display control device, method for operating the same, program, and system

• US 10,326,973 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2017
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Okabe, Yuuki, Nenoki, Yasuyo
• Primary Examiner(s): Mushambo, Martin
• Application Number:
  US15/498,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20170230632A1
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/04 Changes in size, position or resolution of an image
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/08 Biomedical applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/106 Processing image signals for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597

Abstract

A main display region 41 in which medical care data on a plurality of items is displayed is provided on the display screen 15. The main display region 41 may be displayed in two display modes of a two-dimensional display mode and a three-dimensional display mode in which a two-dimensional plane on which time series data is displayed is three-dimensionally displayed using the laws of perspective. In the three-dimensional display mode, a summary window for displaying a summary of data content of the plurality of pieces of time series data at an arbitrary point in time designated on a time axis.

Claims

1. A time series data display control device comprising a processor configured to:

generate a time series data display screen on which a plurality of pieces of time series data are displayed; and

perform switching between display modes of the time series data display screen, in which the display modes include two display modes of a two-dimensional display mode in which the time series data is displayed on a two-dimensional plane formed by two axes of a time axis of the plurality of pieces of time series data and a data array axis orthogonal to the time axis, on which the plurality of pieces of time series data are arrayed, and a three-dimensional display mode in which the two-dimensional plane is three-dimensionally displayed using the laws of perspective by which a plurality of straight lines parallel to the time axis in the two-dimensional display mode are drawn to be converged toward the past on the time axis,

wherein in the three-dimensional display mode, the processor is able to display a summary window for displaying a summary of data content of the plurality of pieces of time series data at a designated point in time on the time axis,

wherein the summary window is provided in the form of a two-dimensional plane developed in a direction orthogonal to the time axis at an arbitrary point in time designated on the time axis.

2. The time series data display control device according to claim 1,

wherein in the three-dimensional display mode, a virtual rectangular box having a longitudinal direction that coincides with the time axis and displayed by the laws of perspective is set in the time series data display screen, and the plurality of pieces of time series data are displayed on at least a part of an inner circumferential surface of the rectangular box.

3. The time series data display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the inner circumferential surface is formed by three surfaces of a bottom surface, and both side surfaces rising from both ends of the bottom surface.

4. The time series data display control device according to claim 3,

wherein in the three-dimensional display mode, an item name display region indicating respective item names of the plurality of pieces of time series data is two-dimensionally displayed.

5. The time series data display control device according to claim 4,

wherein on the time series data display screen, the item name display region is disposed at the end of the current direction on the time axis.

6. The time series data display control device according to claim 3,

wherein on the time series data display screen, a period during which the time series data does not exist is compressed in the time axis direction to be displayed.

7. The time series data display control device according to claim 2,

wherein in the three-dimensional display mode, an item name display region indicating respective item names of the plurality of pieces of time series data is two-dimensionally displayed.

8. The time series data display control device according to claim 7,

wherein on the time series data display screen, the item name display region is disposed at the end of the current direction on the time axis.

9. The time series data display control device according to claim 8,

wherein on the time series data display screen, a period during which the time series data does not exist is compressed in the time axis direction to be displayed.

10. The time series data display control device according to claim 7,

wherein on the time series data display screen, a period during which the time series data does not exist is compressed in the time axis direction to be displayed.

11. The time series data display control device according to claim 2,

wherein on the time series data display screen, a period during which the time series data does not exist is compressed in the time axis direction to be displayed.

12. The time series data display control device according to claim 2,

wherein the time series data is medical care data relating to a medical care of a patient.

13. The time series data display control device according to claim 1,

wherein on the time series data display screen, a period during which the time series data does not exist is compressed in the time axis direction to be displayed.

14. The time series data display control device according to claim 1,

wherein on the time series data display screen, a period during which the time series data does not exist is compressed in the time axis direction to be displayed.

15. The time series data display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the time series data is medical care data relating to a medical care of a patient.

16. The time series data display control device according to claim 1,

wherein the time series data is medical care data relating to a medical care of a patient.

17. A method for operating a time series data display control device, comprising:

a screen data generating step of generating a time series data display screen on which a plurality of pieces of time series data are displayed; and

a screen display control step of performing switching between display modes of the time series data display screen, in which the display modes include two display modes of a two-dimensional display mode in which the time series data is displayed on a two-dimensional plane formed by two axes of a time axis of the plurality of pieces of time series data and a data array axis orthogonal to the time axis, on which the plurality of pieces of time series data are arrayed, and a three-dimensional display mode in which the two-dimensional plane on which the time series data is displayed is three-dimensionally displayed using the laws of perspective by which a plurality of straight lines parallel to the time axis in the two-dimensional display mode are drawn to be converged toward the past on the time axis,

wherein in the screen display control step, a summary window for displaying a summary of data content of the plurality of pieces of time series data at a designated point in time on the time axis is able to be displayed in the three-dimensional display mode,

wherein the summary window is provided in the form of a two-dimensional plane developed in a direction orthogonal to the time axis at an arbitrary point in time designated on the time axis.

18. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a time series data display control program that causes a computer to function as a time series data display control device, comprising:

a screen data generating step of generating a time series data display screen on which a plurality of pieces of time series data are displayed; and

a screen display control step of performing switching between display modes of the time series data display screen, in which the display modes include two display modes of a two-dimensional display mode in which the time series data is displayed on a two-dimensional plane formed by two axes of a time axis of the plurality of pieces of time series data and a data array axis orthogonal to the time axis, on which the plurality of pieces of time series data are arrayed, and a three-dimensional display mode in which the two-dimensional plane on which the time series data is displayed is three-dimensionally displayed using the laws of perspective by which a plurality of straight lines parallel to the time axis in the two-dimensional display mode are drawn to be converged toward the past on the time axis,

wherein in the screen display control step, a summary window for displaying a summary of data content of the plurality of pieces of time series data at a designated point in time on the time axis is able to be displayed in the three-dimensional display mod,

wherein the summary window is provided in the form of a two-dimensional plane developed in a direction orthogonal to the time axis at an arbitrary point in time designated on the time axis.

19. A time series data display control system comprising a processor configured to:

generate a time series data display screen on which a plurality of pieces of time series data are displayed; and

perform switching between display modes of the time series data display screen, in which the display modes include two display modes of a two-dimensional display mode in which the time series data is displayed on a two-dimensional plane formed by two axes of a time axis of the plurality of pieces of time series data and a data array axis orthogonal to the time axis, on which the plurality of pieces of time series data are arrayed, and a three-dimensional display mode in which the two-dimensional plane on which the time series data is displayed is three-dimensionally displayed using the laws of perspective by which a plurality of straight lines parallel to the time axis in the two-dimensional display mode are drawn to be converged toward the past on the time axis,

wherein in the three-dimensional display mode, the processor is able to display a summary window for displaying a summary of data content of the plurality of pieces of time series data at a designated point in time on the time axis,

wherein the summary window is provided in the form of a two-dimensional plane developed in a direction orthogonal to the time axis at an arbitrary point in time designated on the time axis.