Image processing apparatus, method and storage medium therefor

• US 20050154767A1
• Filed: 02/22/2005
• Published: 07/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Sako, Tsukasa
• Granted Patent: US 7,538,812 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/00 Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment instruments measuring radiation intensity for application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting, G01T1/161; apparatus for taking X-ray photographs G03B42/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4233 using matrix detectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/463 characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/465 adapted to display user selection data, e.g. graphical user interface, icons or menus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/467 characterised by special input means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/469 for selecting a region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/542 involving control of exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10116 X-ray image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30008 Bone
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30061 Lung
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/97 Determining parameters from multiple pictures depth or shape recovery from multiple images G06T7/55; stereo camera calibration G06T7/85
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/30 for transforming X-rays into image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/32 Transforming X-rays cameras or camera modules for generating image signals from X-rays H04N23/30; circuitry of SSIS for transforming X-rays into image signals H04N25/30

Abstract

From among a group of taken images, an image suitable for inspection is identifiably displayed and can be arbitrarily selected. Also an image may be re-taken as a result of an instruction for re-taking the image and also displayed on a display. Images already taken prior to the re-taking of the image are displayed with a character or symbol, such as a cross mark, for easy identification by the operator. Also, the operator may arbitrarily select an image from the re-taken image and the already taken images.

Claims

1-28. -28. (canceled)

29. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image taking unit adapted to take an image;

a storage unit adapted to store the image taken by said image taking unit;

a first display control unit adapted to display a first display area and plural second display areas on a display screen, wherein the image taken by said image taking unit is displayed in the first display area and the images stored in said storage unit are displayed respectively in the plural second display areas;

an indication unit adapted to indicate re-taking of one of the images respectively displayed in the plural second display areas; and

a second display control unit adapted to, in response to an indication by said indication unit, display the image taken by said image taking unit in the first display area, wherein the image is displayed in a display form different from display forms of other images.

30. An image processing apparatus according to claim 29, wherein said second display control unit adds an “

X”

mark to the image.

31. An image processing apparatus according to claim 29, wherein, when the re-taking is indicated by said indication unit, an image taking condition of the image to which the re-taking is indicated is set as an image taking condition of said image taking unit.

32. An image processing apparatus according to claim 29, further comprising an output unit adapted to output the re-taken image.

33. An image processing apparatus according to claim 29, wherein the image taken by said image taking unit is stored in said storage unit as being associated with an ID.

34. An image processing apparatus according to claim 33, further comprising an output unit adapted to output the ID and its corresponding image.

35. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

taking an image;

storing the image taken in said image taking step in a storage unit;

displaying a first display area and plural second display areas on a display screen, wherein the image taken in said image taking step is displayed in the first display area and the images stored in the storage unit are displayed respectively in the plural second display areas;

indicating re-taking of one of the images respectively displayed in the plural second display areas; and

displaying, in response to an indication in said indication step, the image taken in said image taking step in the first display area, wherein the image is displayed in a display form different from display forms of other images.

36. A storage medium storing a computer program executing an image processing method, said computer program comprising:

code for taking an image;

code storing the image taken by said code for an image taking step in a storage unit;

code for displaying a first display area and plural second display areas on a display screen, wherein the image taken by said code for an image taking step is displayed in the first display area and the images stored in the storage unit are displayed respectively in the plural second display areas;

code for indicating re-taking of one of the images respectively displayed in the plural second display areas; and

code for displaying, in response to an indication by said code for an indication step, the image taken by said code for an image taking step in the first display area, wherein the image is displayed in a display form different from display forms of other images.