Image confirming method

• US 7,280,670 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2004
• Issued: 10/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Funahashi, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahmed; Samir
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tabatabai; Abolfazl
• Application Number:
  US10/899,064
• Publication Number:
  US 20040264738A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,169 Days
• Field of Search: 382/154, 382/160, 382/173, 382/203, 382/216, 382/218, 382/229, 382/292, 382/271.1, 382/275.1, 382/275.3, 382100-134, 715/823, 369/13, 369/35, 369/30.04, 369/30.6, 369/30.4, 369/30.32, 369/30.38, 378/4, 378/27, 396/32.38
• US Class Current: 382/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10072 Tomographic images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10116 X-ray image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30004 Biomedical image processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00957 Compiling jobs, e.g. for batch processing H04N1/3208 takes precedence; program code compilation G06F8/41
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/324 intermediate the transmitter and receiver terminals, e.g. at an exchange

Abstract

Quality of a plurality of images having a common characteristic is confirmed collectively and the images after the confirmation are transferred collectively. Images acquired by a reading apparatus are input to a workstation and stored in a recording apparatus. At the time of image confirmation, the workstation groups image data representing the images stored in the recording apparatus into image groups classified by examination. For an image group including a plurality of images, the images included therein are displayed and their quality is judged by comparison therebetween. When the images are judged to be appropriate, the images are transferred collectively as the image group to a transfer destination apparatus.

Claims

1. A method of image analysis comprising:

grouping a plurality of separate images into at least one group, said one group of images sharing a common characteristic;

comparing each image of said one group with at least one other image in said one group and providing a confirmation result; and

processing the images of said one group based on the confirmation result.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing of said one group is carried out collectively.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of images originate from different types of imaging machines.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the grouping the plurality of separate images further comprises identifying a given image of the plurality of separate images which shares no common characteristic with another image of the plurality of separate images, and the given image is not compared.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the given image is not compared but is processed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of images are grouped based on information accompanying each of the plurality of separate images.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the accompanying information comprises a header.