JPH06168089A - Multi-display interpretation system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] The present invention continuously changes the image displayed on each display device, thereby directly checking the image and selecting the image by a simple operation to display the image. And greatly improve operability. An image of an area larger than an image of an area to be displayed is read from a first storage device 4 in which a plurality of images are stored by an image memory 5, and is stored, and image change information input to an interactive interface 1 is also read. Based on the above, the designated image is read out from the respective images stored in the image memory 5 by the display interface 6 and displayed on the respective display screens 7.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a plurality of images and a plurality of CRs.
The present invention relates to a multi-display system for displaying by a display device such as T.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 17, in the field of medical equipment, for example, an image list 10 of a patient to be displayed is displayed.
1 is displayed on the interactive display device 102, this is selected interactively, and each image designated by this selection operation is displayed on a plurality of display device screens 103. Each of these plurality of images has many conveniences such as images under different conditions and uses such as comparison with past data in time series.

[0003]

However, the list 101 and its interactive display device 102 are installed separately from the image plane 103, and what kind of image information it has from the list 101 alone. do not know. Further, in the above-mentioned conventional multi-display device,
Since the list 101 of images is displayed on the interactive CRT 102 for selection, and the images to be displayed on the image display device 104 are selected, it is necessary to select necessary images one by one. There was a problem that it took time and lost work time.

In view of the above circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-display image interpretation system capable of selecting an image and displaying the image by a simple operation while directly checking the image.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a multi-display system according to the present invention includes a first storage device for storing a plurality of images and an actual display by connecting to the first storage device. A second storage device having a storage area larger than the number of images, an input unit connected to the first storage device, for inputting an instruction to change a plurality of images substantially at the same time, and an input unit input to the input unit. A display interface unit that selects a plurality of storage areas of the second storage device and reads a plurality of images based on an instruction; and a plurality of display units that respectively display the images read by the interface unit. Is to be characterized.

[0006]

In the above structure, an image of an area wider than the image of the area to be displayed is read and stored from the primary storage device in which a plurality of images are stored by the image memory, and the input unit is also stored. Based on the screen change information input to, the designated image is read out from the respective images stored in the image memory by the display interface and displayed on the screen of each display device.

[0007]

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a multi-display device according to the present invention.

The multi-display device shown in this figure includes an interactive interface 1, a display control unit 2, an image management unit 3, a first storage device 4, an image memory 5, a display interface 6, and a plurality of display devices. 7 and each display device 7
The image displayed on each display device 7 is moved by operating an input device such as a mouse constituting the interactive interface 1 while watching the contents of the image displayed on the image display device configured by Let

The interactive interface 1 is provided with an input device such as a mouse, and when this input device is operated, a signal indicating the operation content is generated and supplied to the display control section 2.

The display control unit 2 generates various control signals required for display processing based on the signal output from the interactive interface 1, and supplies the control signals to the image management unit 3 and the display interface 6.

The image management unit 3 generates a selection signal indicating the number of the image to be displayed based on various control signals output from the display control unit 2, and uses this as the first storage device 4. , And the image memory 5.

As shown in FIG. 2, the first storage device 4 is provided with a hard disk device, an optical disk device, a magneto-optical disk device, etc. in which a plurality of images 10 are stored, and a selection signal output from the image management unit 3. The image 10 having the number designated by is read out and supplied to the image memory 5.

In this case, an image included in an area wider than the area displayed on each of the display devices is read out by the selection signal output from the image management section 3 and supplied to the image memory 5.

The image memory 5 takes in each image 10 output from the first storage device on the basis of the selection signal output from the image management unit 3, stores the image 10 and stores it as shown in FIG. Of the stored images 10, the images 10 not included in the area wider than the area designated by the selection signal are discarded. Then, the image 10 designated by the read signal from the display interface 6 is read and supplied to the display interface 6.

The display interface 6 is the display controller 2
The image 10 of the number to be displayed is read from the image memory 5 based on various control signals output from the image memory 5 and supplied to each display device 7.

Each display device 7 has the display interface 6 described above.
Each of the images 10 output from is captured and displayed.

In this case, since the image 10 of a wider area than the image 10 of the area displayed on each display device 7 is stored in the image memory 5, the mouse or the like of the interactive interface 1 is operated. Even when the portion to be displayed is moved diagonally upward, the image 10 displayed on each display device 7 as shown in FIG. 4 can be displayed by simply changing the number of the image 10 read from the image memory 5 by the display interface 6. It can be changed instantaneously, and thus smooth screen movement characteristics can be obtained.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show an example of the multi-display device in the above embodiment, and FIG. 5 shows an overall view having an image memory device and three display devices, each from the left. FIG. 3 is a rear view and a side view of the device, and a front view and a side view of the multi-display device. Similarly, FIG. 6 shows a case in which there are six display devices arranged in two stages.

In the above embodiments shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the image area to be stored in the display memory is selected to be larger than the one-round display image. However, as shown in FIG. At this time, the screen can be moved faster in some cases than in the case of FIG. 2, but in addition to the image memory, a third memory for assisting the image memory in terms of storage capacity is provided to cope with a large amount of information. . 8A and 8
B shows only the display image in FIG. 7, respectively.

The images displayed on the display device of the present application are generally displayed in order according to the purpose in units of patients or examinations. In such cases, it is more convenient for the images to move sequentially. As shown in FIG. 9, it represents an array of images on the hard disk which is the first storage device. Each image is logically managed in one dimension, and at this time, image numbers 01-10
Are read in advance on the image memory. First,
The images 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08 in FIG. 9A are displayed in the form shown in FIG. 9B. When next is selected, for example, as shown in FIG. 9B, the image is shifted rightward by one image.
At this time, since the image 09 is preliminarily read in the image memory as shown in FIG. 9A, the image can be shifted at high speed. Similarly, when the image is sequentially shifted and reaches the end of the image sequence managed on the hard disk which is the first storage device, it is possible to return to the first image as shown in FIG. 9C. If the images on the hard disk are in a unit or group of inspections,
As described above, displaying images cyclically is extremely effective.

10A, 10B, and 10C are shown in FIG. 9A,
The displayed image numbers are shown corresponding to 9B and 9C.

13A, 13B, 13C and FIG. 14A,
As shown in FIGS. 14B and 14C, it is shown that the data is arranged in two stages in a cyclic state, but as described above, the same effect (the image can be shifted at high speed) is produced. be able to.

11A, 11B, 11C and 12A,
As shown in FIGS. 12B and 12C, even when the data are arranged in a cyclic manner in the vertical direction, FIG.
A, 14B, 14C) and FIGS. 9A, 9B, 9C (FIG. 10).
(A, 10B, 10C), the same effect as described above can be obtained.

The present invention further includes FIGS. 16A, 16B, 16
As shown in C, the screen is smoothly moved.

As shown in FIGS. 15 and 16A, 16B, and 16C, such smooth image movement is achieved by displaying a display interface of the display device and a display interface having a one-to-one correspondence with the display screen of the display device. This is realized by providing a display control unit that can read out line by line.

On the other hand, in the conventional example, the image is read from the image memory in image units. According to the present invention, since the data is read line by line, continuous screen movement is possible as shown in FIGS. 16A, 16B and 16C. Therefore, according to the present application, the movement of the image can be confirmed more accurately and more visually than in the conventional scrolling in image units.

As described above, in this embodiment, the input device such as the mouse constituting the interactive interface 1 is operated while observing the contents of the image displayed on the image display device constituted by each display device 7. As a result, the image displayed on each display device is continuously moved, so that the image can be selected and displayed by a simple operation while directly checking the image.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, the image displayed on each display device can be continuously moved. Therefore, the image can be directly operated by a simple operation while checking the image. Can be selected and displayed, which can greatly improve operability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a multi-display system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an operation example of the multi-display system shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an area that is one size wider than an image of an area to be displayed and an image area that is no longer stored in an image memory in the operation example in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing that the screen is changed according to FIG.

5 is a diagram showing a storage portion and a display portion of the multi-display system in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram of a multi-display system corresponding to FIG. 5, in which the display device has two screens and a total of six display screens.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing another operation example of the multi-display system shown in FIG.

8 is a diagram showing before (A) and after (B) screen change in FIG. 7. FIG.

9A to 9C are diagrams showing image information horizontally and sequentially arranged.

FIG. 10 is a diagram corresponding to the screens displayed in FIGS. 9A to 9C.

11A to 11C are views showing image information sequentially arranged in three columns.

FIG. 12 is a diagram corresponding to the screens displayed in FIGS. 11A to 11C.

13A to 13C are views showing image information sequentially arranged in two horizontal rows.

FIG. 14 is a diagram corresponding to the screens displayed in FIGS. 13A to 13C.

FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing a configuration for performing a smooth and continuous screen change.

16A to 17B are diagrams showing, in this order, smooth and continuous screen movement, which is a feature of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram showing a display example of a conventionally known multi-CRT image interpretation system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Interactive Interface 2 Display Control Unit 3 Image Management Unit 4 First Storage Device 5 Image Memory 6 Display Interface 7 Display Device

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A first storage device that stores a plurality of images, a second storage device that is faster than the first storage device and has a storage area that is larger than the number of images that are actually displayed, and a plurality of display images. An input unit for inputting an instruction to change at substantially the same time; a display interface unit for selecting a plurality of storage areas of the second storage device and reading a plurality of images according to an instruction input to the input unit; A multi-display system comprising: a plurality of display units that respectively display images read by the interface unit. 2. The multi-display system according to claim 1, further comprising: a third storage device connected to the second storage device and serving as an auxiliary storage device when storing a larger number of images in the second storage device.
Storage device. 3. The multi-display system according to claim 1, wherein image information is sequentially arranged and is cyclically read.