Communication terminal

• US 7,860,949 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2005
• Issued: 12/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ziosoft, Inc. (NantWorks, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Ziosoft, Inc. (NantWorks, LLC)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Kazuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Ashok B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Desrosiers; Evans
• Application Number:
  US11/197,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20060123266A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,972 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 709201-203, 705 39- 40, 715/500, 715/513
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/001 Sharing resources, e.g. processing power or memory, with a connected apparatus or enhancing the capability of the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0027 Adapting to communicate with plural different types of apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0046 Software interface details, e.g. interaction of operating systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0065 Converting image data to a format usable by the connected apparatus or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0072 Detecting the status of a connected apparatus

Abstract

A client terminal which uses image data processed based on an image processing request sent to an image processing server is connected via a network. The communication terminal includes a communication state detecting section which detects the communication state with the image processing server, and an image processing section which detects an abnormality of the communication state and executes processing for the image processing request.

Claims

1. A communication terminal which communicates an image data via a communication line, said image data processed in an image processing server based on an image processing request sent to the image processing server, said communication terminal comprising:

a communication state detecting section which detects a communication state between said communication terminal and said image processing server;

an image processing section which detects an abnormality of said communication state, and executes an image processing for said image processing request when the abnormality is detected; and

a usability determining section which determines whether intermediate data is usable for said image processing request or unusable for said image processing request, said intermediate data being in an intermediate format of an image calculated from a volume data, the volume data comprising voxel values,

wherein when said usability determining section determines that the intermediate data is usable for said image processing request, said image processing section executes the image processing using said intermediate data.

2. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a data storage section which stores said image data.

3. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 2, wherein said stored image data includes said intermediate data.

4. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said intermediate data is a two-dimensional data.

5. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said image processing section selects a similar image based on the intermediate data by which an image similar to said image data is obtained.

6. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said image processing section performs a LUT (Look Up Table) transformation or a WL/WW (Window Level/Window Width) transformation.

7. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said image processing section performs an image measurement processing.

8. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said image processing section performs an affine transformation.

9. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein said image processing section executes a volume data processing.

10. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 9, wherein said image processing section executes a volume rendering.

11. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:

a volume data generating section which generates a volume data from said intermediate data for executing said volume data processing.

12. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 2, wherein said data storage section includes a volume data storage section which stores a volume data being compressed among the image data, and said image processing section executes a volume data processing using the stored volume data.

13. A computer readable medium having a set of instructions for controlling a communication terminal which communicates an image data via a communication line, said image data processed in an image processing server based on an image processing request sent to the image processing server, said set of instructions comprising:

(a) detecting a communication state between said communication terminal and said image processing server;

(b) detecting an abnormality of said communication state;

(c) executing an image processing for said image processing request when the abnormality is detected; and

(d) determining whether intermediate data is usable for said image processing request or unusable for said image processing request, said intermediate data being in an intermediate format of an image calculated from a volume data, the volume data comprising voxel values,

wherein when (d) determines that the intermediate data is usable for said image processing request, said intermediate data is used in (c).

14. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 13, said set of instructions further comprising:

storing said image data.

15. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 13, wherein said stored image data includes said intermediate data.

16. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 13,

wherein a similar image is selected in (c) based on the intermediate data by which an image similar to said image data is obtained.

17. A communication terminal comprising:

a communication processing section that transmits an image processing request to an image processing server connected via a network, and receives an image data from the image processing server;

a communication state detecting section that detects the connection state between the communication terminal and the image processing server;

an intermediate data storage section that stores intermediate data included in the image data sent from the image processing server and intermediate data generated by performing image processing in the communication terminal, said intermediate data being in an intermediate format of an image calculated from a volume data included in the image data, the volume data comprising voxel values;

an image processing program storage section that stores a post-processing program which uses the intermediate data for the image processing in the communication terminal;

a usability determining section which determines whether said intermediate data is usable for said post-processing program or unusable for said post-processing program;

an image processing section that, if the usability determining section determines that said intermediate data is usable, performs said post-processing program in response to the connection state;

a processing result image storage section that stores an image generated in the image processing section; and

a CPU (Central Processing Unit) that controls the whole of the communication terminal.

18. The communication terminal as claimed in claim 17, further comprising:

a volume data storage section that stores said volume data included in the image data which is sent from the image processing server,

wherein the image processing program storage section further stores a volume data processing program which uses the volume data, and volume data processing is performed in the image processing section in response to the connection state.