Medical Image Diagnosis Apparatus, Security Managing System, and Security Managing Method

• US 20080004506A1
• Filed: 11/18/2005
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Satoshi, Teshima, Fumiaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,621,346 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/032 Transmission computed tomography [CT]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/465 adapted to display user selection data, e.g. graphical user interface, icons or menus

Abstract

A medical image diagnostic apparatus includes: a screen saver shape storing unit that stores shapes of a screen saver for respective execution states of an application; a screen saver activation event detecting unit that detects an event serving as an activation condition for the screen saver; an application execution state detecting unit that detects an execution state of the application; a screen saver screen creating unit that reads a shape of the screen saver corresponding to the execution state of the application from the screen saver shape storing unit and creates screen saver image information; and a screen saver managing unit that receives notification indicating that the event serving as the activation condition for the screen saver is detected and requests detection of the execution state of the application and, on the other hand, give the application execution state information to the screen saver screen creating unit to request creation of the screen saver image information.

Claims

1. A medical image diagnostic apparatus that includes an operation terminal having an input device and a display device, the medical image diagnostic apparatus characterized by comprising:

a display shielding area information storing unit that stores information on an area in which display shielding is activated;

a display shielding activation event detecting unit that detects an event serving as a condition for activating the display shielding; and

a display shielding screen creating unit that reads, when the event is detected by the display shielding activation event detecting unit, the area information from the display shielding area information storing unit and creates display shielding screen information for causing the display device to display the display shielding on the basis of the area information read.

2. A medical image diagnostic apparatus that includes an operation terminal having an input device and a display device, the medical image diagnostic apparatus characterized by comprising:

a screen saver shape storing unit that stores shapes of a screen saver for respective execution states of an application;

a screen saver activation event detecting unit that detects an event serving as an activation condition for the screen saver;

an application execution state detecting unit that detects an execution state of the application as application execution state information;

a screen saver screen creating unit that reads a shape of the screen saver corresponding to the execution state of the application from the screen saver shape storing unit and creates screen saver image information for causing the display device to display the screen saver on the basis of the shape of the screen saver read; and

a screen saver managing unit that receives notification indicating that the event serving as the activation condition for the screen saver is detected from the screen saver activation event detecting unit and requests the application execution state detecting unit to detect the execution state of the application and, on the other hand, receives the application execution state information detected in the application execution state detecting unit and gives the application execution state information received to the screen saver screen creating unit to request the screen saver screen creating unit to create the screen saver image information.

3. A medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2, characterized by comprising a screen saver shape setting unit that gives image information to a display device to cause the display device to display an operation screen and, on the other hand, sets a shape of the screen saver for respective execution states of the application on the basis of information received from an input device and writes the shape of the screen saver set in the screen saver storing unit to cause the screen saver storing unit to store the shape of the screen saver.

4. A medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2, characterized by comprising a screen saver activation conditions setting unit that gives image information to a display device to cause the display device to display an operation screen and, on the other hand, sets activation conditions for the screen saver on the basis of information received from an input device to give the activation conditions to a screen saver activation event detecting unit, and in that the screen saver activation conditions setting unit detects an event serving as an activation condition for the screen saver on the basis of the activation conditions for the screen saver received from the screen saver activation conditions setting unit.

5. A medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that the application execution state detecting unit detects a type of an application activated and an execution status of the application by including the type of the application and the execution state of the application in the application execution state information.

6. A medical image diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that the application execution state detecting unit detects an attribute of a user of the application and an execution status of the application by including the attribute of the user of the application and the execution status of the application in the application execution state information.

7. A security managing system that includes an operation terminal having an input device and a display device, the security managing system characterized by comprising:

a display shielding area information storing unit that stores information on an area in which display shielding is activated;

a display shielding activation event detecting unit that detects an event serving as a condition for activating the display shielding; and

a display shielding screen creating unit that reads, when the event is detected by the display shielding activation event detecting unit, the area information from the display shielding area information storing unit and creates display shielding screen information for causing the display device to display the display shielding on the basis of the area information read.

8. A security managing system that includes an operation terminal having an input device and a display device, the security managing system characterized by comprising:

a screen saver shape storing unit that stores shapes of a screen saver for respective execution states of an application;

a screen saver activation event detecting unit that detects an event serving as an activation condition for the screen saver;

an application execution state detecting unit that detects an execution state of the application as application execution state information;

a screen saver screen creating unit that reads a shape of the screen saver corresponding to the execution state of the application from the screen saver shape storing unit and creates screen saver image information for causing the display device to display the screen saver on the basis of the shape of the screen saver read; and

a screen saver managing unit that receives notification indicating that the event serving as the activation condition for the screen saver is detected from the screen saver activation event detecting unit and requests the application execution state detecting unit to detect the execution state of the application and, on the other hand, receives the application execution state information detected in the application execution state detecting unit and gives the application execution state information received to the screen saver screen creating unit to request the screen saver screen creating unit to create the screen saver image information.

9. A security managing system that includes an operation terminal having an input device and a display device, the security managing method characterized by comprising:

a step of storing information on an area in which display shielding is activated;

a step of detecting an event serving as a condition for activating the display shielding; and

a step of reading, when the event is detected, the area information and creating display shielding screen information for causing the display device to display the display shielding on the basis of the area information read.

10. A security managing method that includes an operation terminal having an input device and the display device, the security managing method characterized by comprising:

a step of storing shapes of a screen saver for respective execution states of an application;

a step of detecting an event serving as an activation condition for the screen saver;

a step of detecting an execution state of the application when the event serving as an activation condition for the screen saver is detected; and

a step of creating screen saver image information for causing the display device to display the screen saver using a shape of the screen saver corresponding to the execution state of the application detected among the shapes of the screen saver stored.

11. A security managing method for a medical image diagnostic apparatus that includes an operation terminal having an inputting device and a display device, the security managing method characterized by comprising:

a step of storing information on an area in which display shielding is activated;

a step of detecting an event serving as a condition for activating the display shielding; and

a step of reading, when the event is detected, the area information and creating display shielding screen information for causing the display device to display the display shielding on the basis of the area information read.

12. A security managing method for a medical image diagnostic apparatus that includes an operation terminal having an inputting device and a display device, the security managing method characterized by comprising:

a step of storing shapes of a screen saver for respective execution states of an application;

a step of detecting an event serving as an activation condition for the screen saver;

a step of detecting an execution state of the application when the event serving as an activation condition for the screen saver is detected; and

a step of creating screen saver image information for causing the display device to display the screen saver using a shape of the screen saver corresponding to the execution state of the application detected among the shapes of the screen saver stored.