Communication terminal

• US 20060123266A1
• Filed: 08/04/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ziosoft, Inc. (NantWorks, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Ziosoft, Inc. (NantWorks, LLC)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Kazuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 7,860,949 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/001 Sharing resources, e.g. processing power or memory, with a connected apparatus or enhancing the capability of the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0027 Adapting to communicate with plural different types of apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0046 Software interface details, e.g. interaction of operating systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0065 Converting image data to a format usable by the connected apparatus or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0072 Detecting the status of a connected apparatus

Abstract

A client terminal which uses image data processed based on an image processing request sent to an image processing server is connected via a network. The communication terminal includes a communication state detecting section which detects the communication state with the image processing server, and an image processing section which detects an abnormality of the communication state and executes processing for the image processing request.

Claims

1. A communication terminal which communicates an image data via a communication line, said image data processed in an image processing server based on an image processing request sent to the image processing server, said communication terminal comprising:

a communication state detecting section which detects a communication state between said communication terminal and said image processing server; and

an image processing section which detects an abnormality of said communication state, and executes an image processing for said image processing request when the abnormality is detected.

2. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a data storage section which stores said image data.

3. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 2, wherein said stored image data includes an intermediate data which is an intermediate format of an image calculated from a volume data.

4. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 3, wherein said intermediate data is a two-dimensional data.

5. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 3, wherein said image processing section executes the image processing using said intermediate data stored in the data storage section.

6. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 5, wherein said image processing section selects a similar image based on the intermediate data by which an image similar to said image data is obtained.

7. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 5, wherein said image processing section performs a LUT (Look Up Table) transformation or a WL/WW (Window Level/Window Width) transformation.

8. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 5, wherein said image processing section performs an image measurement processing.

9. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 5, wherein said image processing section performs an affine transformation.

10. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 3, wherein said image processing section executes a volume data processing.

11. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 10, wherein said image processing section executes a volume rendering.

12. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

a volume data generating section which generates a volume data from said intermediate data for executing said volume data processing.

13. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 2, wherein said data storage section includes a volume data storage section which stores a volume data being compressed among the image data, and said image processing section executes a volume data processing using the stored volume data.

14. A computer readable medium having a set of instructions for controlling a communication terminal which communicates an image data via a communication line, said image data processed in an image processing server based on an image processing request sent to the image processing server, said set of instructions comprising:

(a) detecting a communication state between said communication terminal and said image processing server;

(b) detecting an abnormality of said communication state; and

(c) executing an image processing for said image processing request when the abnormality is detected.

15. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 14, said set of instructions further comprising:

storing said image data.

16. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 15, wherein said stored image data includes an intermediate data which is an intermediate format of an image calculated from a volume data.

17. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 16, wherein said stored intermediate data is used in (c).

18. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 17, wherein a similar image is selected in (c) based on the intermediate data by which an image similar to said image data is obtained.

19. A communication terminal comprising:

a communication processing section that transmits an image processing request to an image processing server connected via a network, and receives an image data from the image processing server;

a communication state detecting section that detects the connection state between the communication terminal and the image processing server;

an intermediate data storage section that stores intermediate data included in the image data sent from the image processing server and intermediate data generated by performing image processing in the communication terminal;

an image processing program storage section that stores a post-processing program which uses the intermediate data for the image processing in the communication terminal;

an image processing section that performs said post-processing program in response to the connection state;

a processing result image storage section that stores an image generated in the image processing section; and

a CPU (Central Processing Unit) that controls the whole of the communication terminal.

20. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 19, further comprising:

a volume data storage section that stores volume data included in the image data which is sent from the image processing server,

wherein the image processing program storage section further stores a volume data processing program which uses the volume data, and volume data processing is performed in the image processing section in response to the connection state.