METHOD OF CONTROLLING PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING APPARATUS

• US 20170065361A1
• Filed: 09/09/2016
• Published: 03/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: KURITA, Koichiro
• Granted Patent: US 11,241,216 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/026 Measuring blood flow A61B3/1233, A61B3/1241 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/055 involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/4411 Device being modular
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/4427 Device being portable or laptop-like
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/462 characterised by constructional features of the display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/54 Control of the diagnostic device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/02 Handling of images in compressed format, e.g. JPEG, MPEG
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0435 Change or adaptation of the frame rate of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2350/00 Solving problems of bandwidth in display systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information

Abstract

A method of controlling a portable information terminal comprises causing the portable information terminal to display first operation screen data which is obtained by wireless communication with a medical diagnostic imaging apparatus and includes graphic data for reception of an operation from an operator and second operation screen data which is read to the portable information terminal and includes graphic data for reception of an operation from the operator, and causing the portable information terminal to generate, in accordance with the operations for the displayed first operation screen data and the displayed second operation screen data, a command signal for causing the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus to execute functions corresponding to the operations.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a portable information terminal, the method comprising:

causing the portable information terminal to display first operation screen data which is obtained by wireless communication with a medical diagnostic imaging apparatus and includes graphic data for reception of an operation from an operator and second operation screen data which is read to the portable information terminal in advance and includes graphic data for reception of an operation from the operator; and

causing the portable information terminal to generate, in accordance with the operations for the displayed first operation screen data and the displayed second operation screen data, a command signal for causing the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus to execute functions corresponding to the operations.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising editing the second operation screen data in accordance with an edit instruction from the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising causing the portable information terminal to display the first operation screen data which is generated based on third operation screen data useable on a touch panel of the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus and including graphic data for reception of an operation from the operator.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising causing the portable information terminal to display the first operation screen data which is generated by extracting part of the third operation screen data.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising causing the portable information terminal to simultaneously display the first operation screen data and the second operation screen data.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising causing the portable information terminal to separately display the first operation screen data and the second operation screen data.

7. A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus comprising:

a monitor; and

control circuitry configured to generate identification information for permitting access from a portable information terminal or obtain the identification information from an external apparatus and present the generated or obtained identification information at a predetermined position on the monitor.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the identification information is updated at a predetermined timing.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus, an X-ray CT apparatus, an MRI apparatus, or a nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus.

10. A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus comprising:

medical image data generation circuitry configured to generate medical image data based on data acquired by periodically scanning an object;

communication data generation circuitry configured to generate communication data based on the medical image data; and

communication circuitry configured to wirelessly transmit the communication data to a portable information terminal,

wherein the communication data generation circuitry or the communication circuitry changes a compression ratio for generation of the communication data from the medical image data or a transfer rate for transmission of the communication data in accordance with a period of the scanning.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus, an X-ray CT apparatus, an MRI apparatus, or a nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus.