Image recording method and system, image transmitting method, and image recording apparatus

• US 7,664,296 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2002
• Issued: 02/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Hiroshi, Watanabe, Mikio, Tsubaki, Hisayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): PERUNGAVOOR, SATHYANARAYA V
• Application Number:
  US10/058,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20020101619A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,939 Days
• Field of Search: 382/115, 382/118, 396/2, 396/57, 348/231.3, 348/231.5, 348/231.6, 348/207.1, 348/522
• US Class Current: 382/118
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00323 with a measuring, monitoring or signaling apparatus, e.g. for transmitting measured information to a central location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00334 with an apparatus processing barcodes or the like arrangements for sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00339 with an electronic or magnetic storage medium I/O device RFID or the like H04N1/00342
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3212 of data relating to a job, e.g. communication, capture or filing of an image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

An input apparatus reads a patient ID from an ID card and transmits it to a computer. On the basis of the patient ID, the computer obtains corresponding patient information containing a photograph of the patient'"'"'s face and the patient'"'"'s name, from a medical database, and then transmits the patient information to the digital camera together with the patient ID. The digital camera displays the patient information to enable confirmation of the patient to be photographed. After the patient has been confirmed, the patient ID is filled in a header part of an image file for the image photographed using the digital camera, and the image file is transmitted to the medical database or the like. Thus, the input of the identification information input before photographing and the subject to be photographed can be easily confirmed.

Claims

1. An image recording method, comprising:

loading identification information of a value or a binary information preliminary added to a subject and subject information used by a photographer to confirm an identity of the subject, in a digital camera before photographing the subject;

displaying, on a basis of the subject information, subject information used by the photographer to confirm the identity of the subject on a display device of the digital camera before photographing the subject;

photographing the subject using the digital camera after confirming the identity of the subject on the basis of the subject information displayed on the display device; and

recording a photographed medical image of the subject in connection with the loaded identification information,

wherein the photographed medical image recorded in connection with the loaded identification information is saved to a database,

wherein the identification information loading comprises;

reading a subject identification information from a recording medium having the subject identification information recorded thereon;

reading the subject information corresponding to the read subject identification information from the recording medium, from a database having the subject information already stored in connection with the subject identification information; and

transmitting the subject information read from the database, to the digital camera together with the identification information read from the recording medium,

wherein the subject information comprises an image of a face from the subject'"'"'s image and name, and

wherein the recording records the identification information loaded in the information loading, in a header part of an image file in which the photographed medical image of the subject is recorded

wherein, while the subject identification information and the subject information are being transmitted to the digital camera, the digital camera inhibited from photographing the subject.

2. The image recording method according to claim 1, wherein:

reading the identification information reads plural pieces of identification information so that these pieces can be accumulated; and

the transmitting transmits the identification information and the subject information in response to an information obtainment request from the digital camera.

3. The image recording method according to claim 1, wherein:

the information loading loads recorded image information containing at least one of image format, the number of pixels, compression rate, file size, and image aspect ratio; and

the digital camera records the photographed medical image on a basis of the loaded recorded image information.

4. The image recording method according to claim 1, wherein said information loading comprises loading said identification information in the digital camera using radio communication.

5. The image recording method according to claim 1, wherein said information loading automatically loads the identification information on the subject and the subject information used by the photographer to confirm the subject, in the digital camera before photographing the subject.

6. The image recording method according to claim 1, wherein the recording further comprises transmitting the recorded photographed medical image, together with the identification information in the header part of the image file, to a data base and an image display device by a radio from the digital camera, after said confirming the identity of the subject, and after said photographing the subject.

7. An image recording apparatus, comprising:

p1 an input device which reads identification information of a value or a binary information preliminary added to a subject from a recording medium having the information recorded thereon;

an information transmitting device which reads subject information corresponding to the read identification information, from a database having the subject information already stored in connection with a subject identification information and transmits the subject information read from the database, together with the identification information read from the recording medium, wherein said subject information comprises information of an image of a face from the subject'"'"'s image and a name of the subject;

a receiving device which receives the identification information and the subject information;

a display device which displays the subject information on the basis of the received subject information before photographing the subject;

a photographing device which photographs the subject; and

a recording device which records a photographed medical image of the subject in connection with the received identification information,

wherein the recording device records the identification information in a header part of an image file in which the photographed medical image of the subject is recorded, and

wherein, when the information transmitting device transmits subject identification information and the subject information, the device is inhibited from photographing the subject.

8. The image recording apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the recording medium comprises one of a card, a magnetic card, and an IC card including a bar code recorded thereon, and the input device comprises a card reader.

9. The image recording apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a communication device which transmits the image recorded in connection with the identification information, to the database.

10. An image recording apparatus, comprising:

an input device which reads an identification information of a value or a binary information preliminary added to a subject and subject information from a recording medium having the identification information and the subject information recorded thereon, wherein said subject information comprises information of an image of a face from the subject'"'"'s image and a name of the subject;

a display device which displays the subject information on the basis of the read subject information before photographing the subject;

a photographing device which photographs the subject; and

a recording device which records a photographed medical image of the subject in connection with the read identification information,

wherein the recording device records the identification information in a header part of an image file in which the photographed medical image of the subject is recorded, and

wherein, while the identification information and the subject information are being read by the input device, the photographing device is inhibited from photographing the subject.

11. The image recording apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the recording medium comprises one of a card, a magnetic card, and an IC card including a bar code recorded thereon, and the input device comprises a card reader.

12. The image recording apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising a communication device which transmits the medical image recorded in connection with the identification information, to the database.