Control configuration for digital image system

• US 8,638,295 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2011
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omnyx, LLC
• Inventors: Bruss, Andrew, Bidinost, Maura Ann, Melanson, Tony
• Primary Examiner(s): OLSON, JASON C
• Application Number:
  US13/233,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20120068928A1
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0382 Plural input, i.e. interface arrangements in which a plurality of input device of the same type are in communication with a PC
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis

Abstract

Systems, methods, and products are described that provide control configuration for a digital image system. One aspect provides for a system configured to identify one or more input control devices in communication with a digital image application operating on said system, the one or more input devices comprising one or more control elements; activating an input control device mode based on a number of identified input control devices; and mapping the one or more control elements of each input control device to one or more digital image application functions based on a type of the input control device and the input control mode. Other aspects and embodiments are also described herein.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory in operative connection with the one or more processors;

wherein, responsive to execution of program instructions accessible to the one or more processors, the one or more processors are configured to;

identify one or more input control devices in communication with a digital image application operating on said system, the one or more input devices comprising one or more control elements;

activate an input control device mode based on a number of identified input control devices; and

map the one or more control elements of each input control device to one or more digital image application functions based on a type of the input control device and the input control mode.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein activation of the input control device mode comprises:

activating a single device mode responsive to identification of a single input control device operatively connected to said system; and

activating a multiple device mode responsive to identification of a plurality of input control devices operatively connected to said system.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

receive an input event initiated by an input control device at the digital image application; and

initiate an application function responsive to determining whether the input event targeted a mapped digital image application user interface element having a matching behavior.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein a first input control device comprises a trackball input device.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein a second input control device comprises a mouse input device.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the digital image application comprises a digital pathology application, the digital pathology application comprising a workflow module and a viewer module.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the trackball input device operates viewer module functions and the mouse input device operates workflow module functions of the digital pathology application.

8. The system according to claim 4, wherein the trackball input device comprises a trackball, bezel, and selector switch input control elements.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein mapping comprises:

mapping the trackball control element to a continuous pan application function responsive to activation of the multiple device mode; and

mapping the trackball control element to a pan application function and a mouse movement function responsive to activation of the single device mode, the pan application function being active responsive to a cursor controlled by the trackball input device being over a digital image application user interface element.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the bezel control element is mapped to a rotation application function.

11. A method comprising:

identifying one or more input control devices in communication with a digital image application operating on a computing device comprising one or more processors operatively connected to a memory, the one or more input devices comprising one or more control elements;

activating an input control device mode based on a number of identified input control devices; and

mapping the one or more control elements of each input control device to one or more digital image application functions based on a type of the input control device and the input control mode.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein activation of the input control device mode comprises:

activating a single device mode responsive to identification of a single input control device operatively connected to said computing device; and

activating a multiple device mode responsive to identification of a plurality of input control devices operatively connected to said computing device.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

receiving an input event initiated by an input control device at the digital image application; and

initiating an application function responsive to determining whether the input event targeted a mapped digital image application user interface element having a matching behavior.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein a first input control device comprises a trackball input device.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein a second input control device comprises a mouse input device.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the digital image application comprises a digital pathology application, the digital pathology application comprising a workflow module and a viewer module.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the trackball input device operates viewer module functions and the mouse input device operates workflow module functions of the digital pathology application.

18. The method according to claim 14, wherein the trackball input device comprises a trackball, bezel, and selector switch input control elements.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein mapping comprises:

mapping the trackball control element to a continuous pan application function responsive to activation of the multiple device mode; and

mapping the trackball control element to a pan application function and a mouse movement function responsive to activation of the single device mode, the pan application function being active responsive to a cursor controlled by the trackball input device being over a digital image application user interface element.

20. A computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to identifying one or more input control devices in communication with a digital image application, the one or more input devices comprising one or more control elements;

computer readable program code configured to activate an input control device mode based on a number identified input control devices; and

computer readable program code configured to map the one or more control elements of each input control device to one or more digital image application functions based on a type of the input control device and the input control mode.