INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20160374640A1
• Filed: 06/17/2016
• Published: 12/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tamura, Toshikazu, Nakayama, Akiya
• Granted Patent: US 9,943,284 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4494 Means for identifying the diagnostic device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/547 involving tracking of position of the device or parts of the device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/563 involving image data transmission via a network
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/566 involving communication between diagnostic systems

Abstract

An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that receives captured radiographic images captured by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses each having a wireless communication function and a wired apparatus that connects to the information processing apparatus in a wired manner, the information processing system includes a setting unit that sets, in a case where one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses is connected to the wired apparatus, the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication, and a communication unit that receives, via the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit, a captured image of a different image capturing apparatus that is received through wireless communication by the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit from the different image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of wireless communication.

Claims

1. An information processing system including an information processing apparatus configured to receive captured radiographic images captured by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses each having a wireless communication function and a wired apparatus configured to be connected to the information processing apparatus in a wired manner, the information processing system comprising:

a setting unit configured to set, in a case where one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses is connected to the wired apparatus, the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication; and

a communication unit configured to receive, via the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit by the setting unit, a captured image of a different image capturing apparatus that is received through wireless communication by the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit from the different image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of wireless communication.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives, through wired communication via the wired apparatus, the captured image from the image capturing apparatus that is set as the master unit by the setting unit.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication as a slave unit, the wireless communication unit receiving, in a case where no image capturing apparatus is connected to the wired apparatus, a captured image through the wireless communication from the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit transmits, in a case where the image capturing apparatus is connected to the wired apparatus, a change instruction for changing setting of the image capturing apparatus connected to the wired apparatus to the master unit, through wireless communication, to an image capturing apparatus that is set as a slave unit at a time when the image capturing apparatus is connected to the wired apparatus.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein after a completion notification regarding a setting change of a master unit corresponding to the change instruction is received through wireless communication from the image capturing apparatus that is set as the slave unit, the change instruction is transmitted through wireless communication to the image capturing apparatus that is set as the master unit.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein in a case where one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses is connected to the wired apparatus and no other image capturing apparatuses are connected to the wired apparatus, the setting unit sets the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit sets the master unit at a timing different from a period during which the image capturing apparatus reads electric charges based on radiation.

8. An information processing method performed by an information processing system including an information processing apparatus configured to receive captured radiographic images captured by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses each having a wireless communication function, and a wired apparatus configured to be connected to the information processing apparatus in a wired manner, the information processing method comprising:

a setting step of setting, in a case where one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses is connected to the wired apparatus, the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication; and

a wired communication step of receiving, through wired communication via the wired apparatus from the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit, a captured image of a different image capturing apparatus that is received through wireless communication by the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit from the different image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of wireless communication.

9. A radiographing system including an image capturing apparatus configured to include a wireless communication function, an information processing apparatus configured to receive, through wireless communication, a captured radiographic image captured by the image capturing apparatus, and a power supply apparatus configured to supply power to the image capturing apparatus, the radiographing system comprising:

a determining unit configured to determine whether the image capturing apparatus is connected to the power supply apparatus or supplied with power;

a setting unit configured to set, based on a determination result by the determining unit, the image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication; and

a communication unit configured to receive a radiographic image captured by the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit.

10. The radiographing system according to claim 9,

wherein the image capturing apparatus includes a secondary battery, and

wherein the power supply apparatus charges the secondary battery.

11. The radiographing system according to claim 9,

wherein the image capturing apparatus includes a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, and

wherein the communication unit receives, via an image capturing apparatus set as a master unit from among the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, a captured image captured by an image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of wireless communication from among the plurality of image capturing apparatuses.

12. The radiographing system according to claim 11, wherein in a case where one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses is connected to the power supply apparatus or supplied with power and no other image capturing apparatuses are connected to the power supply apparatus or supplied with power, the setting unit sets the image capturing apparatus as a master unit.