Medical support system
First Claim
1. A medical support system comprising:
- a patient-side system including patient image shooting means comprising a plurality of shooting devices for photographing a patient'"'"'s body and forming a plurality of images, respective images displaying respective parts of the patient'"'"'s body;
a medical-side system located at a position spaced away from said patient-side system and including image synthesizing means for splicing together, at boundary portions, respective adjacent images of parts of the patient'"'"'s body to produce a composite image displaying an area of the patient'"'"'s body extending across the respective adjacent images, and display means for displaying the composite image produced by said image synthesizing means; and
communication means for transmitting information between said medical-side system and said patient-side system and for transferring the plurality of images produced by said patient image shooting means to said medical-side system.
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Abstract
A medical support system includes a patient-side system including patient shooting devices for photographing a patient'"'"'s body and forming respective images displaying respective parts of the patient'"'"'s body; a medical-side system located at a position spaced away from the patient-side system and including an image synthesizer for splicing together, at boundary portions, respective adjacent images of the patient'"'"'s body to produce a composite image displaying an area of the patient'"'"'s body extending across the respective images, and a display for displaying the composite image produced by the image synthesizer; and a communication link for transmitting information between the medical-side system and the patient-side system and for transferring the images produced by the patient shooting devices to the medical-side system.
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1. A medical support system comprising:
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a patient-side system including patient image shooting means comprising a plurality of shooting devices for photographing a patient'"'"'s body and forming a plurality of images, respective images displaying respective parts of the patient'"'"'s body; a medical-side system located at a position spaced away from said patient-side system and including image synthesizing means for splicing together, at boundary portions, respective adjacent images of parts of the patient'"'"'s body to produce a composite image displaying an area of the patient'"'"'s body extending across the respective adjacent images, and display means for displaying the composite image produced by said image synthesizing means; and communication means for transmitting information between said medical-side system and said patient-side system and for transferring the plurality of images produced by said patient image shooting means to said medical-side system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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