Object testing system

• US 5,379,334 A
• Filed: 09/07/1993
• Issued: 01/03/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Heimann Systems GmbH
• Original Assignee: Heimann Systems GmbH
• Inventors: Zimmer, Manfred, Henkel, Rainer, Bermbach, Rainer
• Primary Examiner(s): Porta, David P.
• Application Number:
  US08/116,607
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 378/98.2, 378/98.7, 378/98.9, 378/57, 378/51, 378/62, 378/53
• US Class Current: 378/98.2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/464 involving a plurality of displays
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 23/043 using fluoroscopic examination, with visual observation or video transmission of fluoroscopic images
• CPC Class Codes: H05G 1/30 Controlling
• CPC Class Codes: H05G 1/70 Circuit arrangements for X-ray tubes with more than one anode; Circuit arrangements for apparatus comprising more than one X ray tube or more than one cathode H05G1/58 takes precedence

Abstract

A simplified and improved object testing system which, according to the present invention, includes a first and a second imaging system for generating a radiograph of the object as a visible image on a monitor, and a common operating unit controlling the first and second imaging system.

Claims

1. An object testing system, comprising:

a first imaging system for generating a first image on a first monitor from a first radiograph of an object;

a second imaging system for generating a second image on a second monitor from a second radiograph of the object; and

common operating means coupled to the first and the second imaging systems for controlling the generation of the first and the second images, and for controlling whether the first or the second imaging system operates as a master imaging system or a slave imaging system.

2. An object testing system according to claim 1, wherein the first and second imaging systems are individually or jointly controlled by the common operating means.

3. An object testing system according to claim 1, further comprising a distributor, coupled between the common operating means and the first imaging system and between the common operating means and the second imaging system, for coupling signals output by the common operating means to the first and second imaging systems.

4. An object testing system according to claim 1, wherein the first imaging system is controlled to display a first and a second view of the object on the first monitor.

5. An object testing system according to claim 4, wherein the common operating means controls at least one window displayable on one of the monitors for evaluating at least one image displayed on the screen of at least one monitor.

6. An object testing system according to claim 1, wherein a first image of a first view of the object is displayed on the first monitor and a second image of a second view of the object is displayed on the second monitor, and wherein the first image and the second image are simultaneously manipulated by the common operating means.

7. An object testing system according to claim 1, wherein the common operating means provides simultaneous shifting of the displays on the first and second monitors.

8. An object testing system according to claim 6, wherein signal coupling between the first and second imaging systems are controlled by common operating means.

9. An object testing system according to claim 1, wherein the common operating means controls at least one window displayable on one of the monitors for evaluating an image displayed on the screen of at least one monitor.

10. An object testing system for producing images of an object, comprising:

a first imaging system including a first processor, a first radiation transmitter coupled to the first processor for transmitting radiation at the object, a first radiation receiver for receiving a first radiograph of the object from radiation transmitted from the first radiation transmitter and producing a first signal representing the first radiograph, the first processor responsive to the first signal for producing an image on a first monitor from the first signal;

a second imaging system including a second processor, a second radiation transmitter coupled to the second processor for transmitting radiation at the object, a second radiation receiver for receiving a second radiograph of the object from radiation transmitted from the second radiation transmitter and producing a second signal representing the second radiograph, the second processor responsive to the second signal for producing an image on a second monitor from the second signal; and

a common controller coupled to the first and second imaging systems for controlling operation of the respective imaging systems, for manipulating images produced on the respective monitors and for configuring the first imaging system as a master imaging system and the second imaging system as a slave imaging system under control of the master imaging system.

11. An object testing system according to claim 10, further comprising a signal distributor, coupled between the first imaging system and the common controller and coupled between the second imaging system and the common controller, and controlled by the common controller for directing signals output from the common controller to at least one of the imaging systems.

12. An object testing system according to claim 11, wherein the common controller controls the signal distributor for configuring signal coupling between the first and second imaging systems.

13. An object testing system according to claim 10, wherein images produced on the respective monitors are simultaneously manipulated by the common controller.

14. An object testing system according to claim 10, wherein the common controller controls the first and second imaging systems to display two images on at least one monitor.

15. An object testing system according to claim 11, wherein the common controller controls the first and second imaging systems and the signal distributor to display two images on at least one monitor.

16. An object testing system according to claim 10, wherein the common controller controls at least one of the imaging systems to generate at least one window displayable on one of the monitors for evaluating at least one image displayed on the screen of at least one monitor.

17. An object testing system according to claim 11, wherein the common controller controls at least one of the imaging systems to generate at least one window displayable on one of the monitors for evaluating at least one image displayed on the screen of at least one monitor.

18. An object testing system according to claim 10, wherein the common controller manipulates an image produced by an imaging system by changing colors displayed.

19. An object testing system according to claim 10, wherein the common controller manipulates images produced by the first and second imaging systems by simultaneously shifting the respective images.