Information processing system, information processing method, and program

• US 9,943,284 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2016
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tamura, Toshikazu, Nakayama, Akiya
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): POINT, RUFUS C
• Application Number:
  US15/186,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20160374640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/4494 Means for identifying the diagnostic device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/547 involving tracking of position of the device or parts of the device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/563 involving image data transmission via a network
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/566 involving communication between diagnostic systems

Abstract

An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that receives captured radiographic images captured by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses each having a wireless communication function and a wired apparatus that connects to the information processing apparatus in a wired manner, the information processing system includes a setting unit that sets, in a case where one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses is connected to the wired apparatus, the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication, and a communication unit that receives, via the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit, a captured image of a different image capturing apparatus that is received through wireless communication by the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit from the different image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of wireless communication.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

an information processing apparatus configured to receive captured radiographic images captured by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses each having a wireless communication function;

a wired apparatus configured to be connected to the information processing apparatus in a wired manner;

a confirmation unit configured to confirm that, according to one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses having been connected to the wired apparatus, the connected image capturing apparatus has been set as a slave unit;

a setting unit configured to set, according to a result of confirmation performed by the confirmation unit, the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication; and

a communication unit configured to receive, via the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit by the setting unit, a captured image of a different image capturing apparatus that is received through wireless communication by the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit from the different image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of wireless communication.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives, through wired communication via the wired apparatus, the captured image from the image capturing apparatus that is set as the master unit by the setting unit.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication as a slave unit, the wireless communication unit receiving, in a case where no image capturing apparatus is connected to the wired apparatus, a captured image through the wireless communication from the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein after a completion notification regarding a setting change of a master unit corresponding to a change instruction is received through wireless communication from the image capturing apparatus that is set as the slave unit, the change instruction is transmitted through wireless communication to the image capturing apparatus that is set as the master unit.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the confirmation unit further confirms that no other image capturing apparatuses are connected to the wired apparatus.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit sets the master unit at a timing different from a period during which the image capturing apparatus reads electric charges based on radiation.

7. An information processing method performed by an information processing system including an information processing apparatus configured to receive captured radiographic images captured by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses each having a wireless communication function, and a wired apparatus configured to be connected to the information processing apparatus in a wired manner, the information processing method comprising:

a confirmation step of confirming that, according to one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses having been connected to the wired apparatus, the connected image capturing apparatus has been set as a slave unit;

a setting step of setting, according to a result of confirmation performed in the confirmation step, the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication; and

a wired communication step of receiving, through wired communication via the wired apparatus from the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit, a captured image of a different image capturing apparatus that is received through wireless communication by the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit from the different image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of wireless communication.

8. A radiographing system comprising:

a plurality of an image capturing apparatuses each configured to include a wireless communication function;

an information processing apparatus configured to receive, through wireless communication, a captured radiographic image captured by the plurality of image capturing apparatuses;

a wired apparatus configured to be connected to the information processing apparatus in a wired manner;

a confirmation unit configured to confirm that, according to one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses having been connected to the wired apparatus, the connected image capturing apparatus has been set as a slave unit;

a setting unit configured to set, according to a result of confirmation performed by the confirmation unit, the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication; and

a communication unit configured to receive, via the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit by the setting unit, a captured image of a different image capturing apparatus that is received through wireless communication by the image capturing apparatus set as the master unit from the different image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of wireless communication.

9. The radiographing system according to claim 8,

wherein the image capturing apparatus includes a secondary battery, and

wherein the wired apparatus charges the secondary battery as a power supply apparatus.

10. The radiographing system according to claim 9, wherein the confirmation unit further confirms that no other image capturing apparatuses are connected to the power supply apparatus.

11. An image capturing apparatus having a wireless communication function and to be used in a radiographing system including a plurality of image capturing apparatuses each having a wireless communication function, an information processing apparatus configured to receive, through wireless communication, radiographic images captured by the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, and a wired apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus in a wired manner, the image capturing apparatus comprising:

a confirmation unit configured to confirm that, according to the image capturing apparatus having been connected to the wired apparatus, the connected image capturing apparatus has been set as a slave unit;

a setting unit configured to set, according to a result of confirmation performed by the confirmation unit, the connected image capturing apparatus as a master unit of wireless communication;

a wireless communication unit configured to receive, through wireless communication, a captured image captured by another image capturing apparatus set as a slave unit of the wireless communication from the another image capturing apparatus; and

a wired communication unit configured to transmit, via the wired apparatus in a wired manner, the captured image captured by the another image capturing apparatus received by the wireless communication unit.

12. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the setting unit is configured to rewrite setting information about a master unit and a slave unit obtained by the wired communication unit via the wired apparatus from the information processing apparatus, and

wherein the wired communication unit is configured to transmit the rewritten setting information about the master unit and the slave unit to the information processing apparatus via the wired apparatus.

13. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a secondary battery,

wherein the secondary battery is charged by the wired apparatus.

14. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the confirmation unit is further configured to confirm that no other image capturing apparatuses are connected to the wired apparatus.