RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM

• US 20130301802A1
• Filed: 05/13/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: EGUCHI, Yoshihiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,661,728 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 378/98
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4283 characterised by a detector unit being housed in a cassette
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4494 Means for identifying the diagnostic device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/563 involving image data transmission via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H05G 1/08 Electrical details

Abstract

The radiographic image photographing system includes an information acquisition member which acquires information on the radiographic image photographing device from an information presentation member of the radiographic image photographing device in a non-contact manner. When the information acquisition member makes the notification of the acquired information on the radiographic image photographing device, the management apparatus notifies the wireless communication member of the radiographic image photographing device of an identifier dedicated to an access point correlated with the information acquisition member. The wireless communication member of the radiographic image photographing device conducts wireless communication with the access point using a general-purpose identifier in a default state, and using the identifier dedicated to the access point after receiving the notification of the identifier dedicated to the access point from the management apparatus.

Claims

1. A radiographic image photographing system comprising:

a portable radiographic image photographing device which includes;

a plurality of radiation detection elements arrayed in a two-dimensional pattern;

a wireless communication member to conduct wireless communication; and

an information presentation member to present information on the radiographic image photographing device;

a console which is communicable with the radiographic image photographing device;

an access point which relays wireless communication conducted between the wireless communication member in the radiographic image photographing device and the console;

an information acquisition member which acquires the information on the radiographic image photographing device from the information presentation member in the radiographic image photographing device in a non-contact manner; and

a management apparatus to which at least the access point and the information acquisition member are connected,

wherein the management apparatus notifies the wireless communication member in the radiographic image photographing device of an identifier dedicated to the access point correlated with the information acquisition member when the information acquisition member notifies the management apparatus of the information on the radiographic image photographing device, which information is acquired from the information presentation member in the radiographic image photographing device,

the wireless communication member in the radiographic image photographing device includes a general-purpose identifier which enables communication with the access point,

the wireless communication member in a default state conducts communication with the access point using the general-purpose identifier, and

the wireless communication member conducts communication with the access point using the identifier dedicated to the access point after the management apparatus notifies the wireless communication member in the radiographic image photographing device of the identifier dedicated to the access point.

2. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of photographing rooms,

wherein the access point, the information acquisition member, and a repeater to which the access point and the information acquisition member are connected, are provided in each of the photographing rooms,

the management apparatus is connected to the repeater in each of the photographing rooms through a network,

the general-purpose identifier is an identifier common to the access point in each of the photographing rooms, and

the identifier dedicated to the access point is an identifier which is assigned to the access point in each of the photographing rooms and different from the identifier assigned to the access point in other of the photographing rooms.

3. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 2, wherein at least one of the information acquisition member and the repeater notifies the management apparatus of the information on the radiographic image photographing device while attaching identification information of the information acquisition member and/or the repeater to the information on the radiographic image photographing device,

at least one of the pieces of the identification information of the information acquisition member and the repeater is previously correlated with the photographing room, and

when the information acquisition member notifies the management apparatus of the information on the radiographic image photographing device, which information is acquired from the information presentation member in the radiographic image photographing device, the management apparatus performs management by recognizing which of the photographing rooms the radiographic image photographing device exists in based on the identification information attached to the information on the radiographic image photographing device.

4. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 2, wherein the console is provided in each of the photographing rooms.

5. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 2, wherein the console is connected to each of the photographing rooms through the network, and when one of the photographing rooms is assigned by the console, the management apparatus manages the console and the photographing room assigned by the console while correlating the console and the assigned photographing room with each other.

6. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, wherein the management apparatus notifies the wireless communication member in the radiographic image photographing device of both the identifier dedicated to the access point correlated with the information acquisition member and an address of the console on a network.

7. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, wherein the information on the radiographic image photographing device includes the identification information of the radiographic image photographing device.

8. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, wherein the information presentation member in the radiographic image photographing device is a barcode which displays the information on the radiographic image photographing device, and

the information acquisition member is a barcode reader which reads the information on the radiographic image photographing device from the barcode.

9. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, wherein the information presentation member in the radiographic image photographing device is an RFID tag, and

the information acquisition member is a tag reader which acquires the information on the radiographic image photographing device, which information includes the identification information of the radiographic image photographing device, from an electromagnetic field or a radio wave emitted from the RFID tag in a non-contact manner.

10. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, wherein the information presentation member in the radiographic image photographing device is a light emission member which makes a notification of the information on the radiographic image photographing device, which information includes the identification information of the radiographic image photographing device, by blinking of light, and

the information acquisition member is a light receiving member which receives the light emitted from the light emission member and acquires the information on the radiographic image photographing device, which information includes the identification information of the radiographic image photographing device, from a blinking pattern of the light in the non-contact manner.

11. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, further comprising a bucky device including a cassette retention section into which the radiographic image photographing device can be loaded,

wherein the information acquisition member is provided in the cassette retention section of the bucky device.

12. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 11, wherein the information acquisition member is disposed in each of positions where the light emitted from the information presentation member in the radiographic image photographing device can be received when the radiographic image photographing device is vertically loaded into the cassette retention section of the bucky device and where the light emitted from the information presentation member can be received when the radiographic image photographing device is horizontally loaded into the cassette retention section.

13. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, wherein the information on the radiographic image photographing device includes an operating state of the radiographic image photographing device and a network setting.

14. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, further comprising a photographing room,

wherein the photographing room includes a display member which displays the information on the radiographic image photographing device, which information is transmitted from the console.

15. The radiographic image photographing system of claim 1, wherein the console transmits the information on the radiographic image photographing device to a mobile terminal brought with an operator, and makes the mobile terminal display the information on the radiographic image photographing device on a display screen in the mobile terminal.

16. A radiographic image photographing system comprising:

a portable radiographic image photographing device which includes;

a plurality of radiation detection elements arrayed in a two-dimensional pattern; and

an information presentation member to make a notification of information including identification information of the radiographic image photographing device by blinking of light;

an information acquisition member which receives the light emitted from the information presentation member in the radiographic image photographing device, acquires information on the radiographic image photographing device, which information includes identification information of the radiographic image photographing device, from a blinking pattern of the light in a non-contact manner, and transmits the information on the radiographic image photographing device to a console; and

the console which includes a display section and displays the information on the radiographic image photographing device, which information is transmitted from the information acquisition member, on the display section as needed basis.