JPH0827830B2 - Image file device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an image filing device.

[Conventional technology]

For example, by displaying a reduced image of the original image stored in the image memory with respect to the original image by the endoscope imaging device as a list on a screen of the display device, and pointing the arbitrary reduced image with a cursor or the like, The original image of the instructed reduced image is read from the image memory and displayed on another screen of the display device, or the attribute information such as the patient name and site of the original image is read from the image information memory and displayed on the other screen. 2. Description of the Related Art As an image file device adapted to be displayed in FIG.

In this image file device, the input instruction device 1 moves the cursor on the screen of the display device 2 displaying the list of reduced images to indicate the reduced image for which the original image and its attribute information are to be displayed. At the same time, the cursor coordinate detection circuit 3 detects the coordinates of the cursor from the moving distance data of the cursor at that time, and from the reduced image of the displayed list and the cursor position data detected by the cursor coordinate detection circuit 3, the address is detected. The setting circuit 4 sets the address of the storage destination of the original image of the reduced image designated by the cursor and its attribute information, and the address corresponds to each reduced image displayed as a list through the image data transfer circuit 5. The original image of the instructed reduced image is read from the image memory 6 storing the original image, or the image information transfer circuit 7 is operated. To the operator displays the corresponding other screen attribute information display reads the device 2 from the image information memory 8 which stores attribute information corresponding to each original image.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, in the conventional image filing apparatus shown in FIG. 4, in order to simplify the management of the reduced images displayed as a list and the original images accompanying each of them, and the accompanying information of the attribute information, Only reduced images of the same size are displayed on a screen with the display device 2. Therefore, when the desired accompanying information is displayed on the other screen of the display device 2, the corresponding reduced image on the list may be very difficult to see, which causes a problem of erroneous instruction. Further, the reduced image on the list displayed on one screen of the display device 2 and the accompanying information displayed on another screen are associated only with the position of the cursor on the list. Therefore, when the cursor is moved by mistake, there is a problem that the correspondence is mistakenly recognized.

The present invention has been made by paying attention to such a conventional problem, and it is possible to easily manage reduced images of various sizes and the salary increase associated with each of them, and therefore, various images can be displayed on the list. An object of the present invention is to provide an image filing device that is capable of displaying reduced images of different sizes in a mixed manner and that is capable of clearly recognizing the correspondence between any of the reduced images and the accompanying information displayed. .

[Means and Actions for Solving Problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention displays a plurality of reduced images as a list on the same display screen, manages accompanying information corresponding to each of the plurality of reduced images, and sets any of the items in the list. In the image file device configured to display the associated information corresponding to the reduced image by selecting the reduced image, the plurality of reduced images displayed as the list have a plurality of areas in a matrix. A unit that divides the display screen into a plurality of elements and commonly manages the accompanying information corresponding to each reduced image displayed on the display screen for each element; and a position of a cursor on the display screen. The cursor position coordinate detection means for detecting coordinates, and the cursor from a plurality of elements having accompanying information corresponding to each reduced image currently displayed on the display screen. Select the element having the same accompanying information and accompanying information corresponding to the region including the position coordinates detected by the location coordinates detecting means, so as to surround the entire element including the same accompanying information,
And a display frame setting means for setting a display frame on the display screen.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. This image filing device displays a list display screen that displays reduced images of various sizes as a list from a reduced image memory (not shown) and an original image and image information memory 12 stored in an image memory 11 that accompanies the arbitrary reduced image. A display device 13 having an incidental information display screen for displaying the attribute information stored in the display device, and an input for moving the cursor on the list display screen of the display device 13 and designating a reduced image for which the original image or the attribute information is to be displayed. The pointing device 14, a cursor coordinate detection circuit 15 for detecting the coordinates of the cursor from the moving distance data of the cursor by the input pointing device 14, and the equal division according to the size of each reduced image that can be displayed on the list display screen. Each area of a matrix-shaped display area that can be formed by overlapping display screens is used as an element, and the original image of the reduced image displayed on the list display screen is displayed for each element. Information matrix circuit 16 that stores the address of the storage location of the sex information and outputs the corresponding address data in accordance with the cursor position data from the cursor coordinate detection circuit 15, and the cursor by scanning each element in this information matrix circuit 16. From the information matrix circuit 16 and a display frame setting circuit 17 that selects an element having the same information as the element indicated by, and sets a display frame on the list display screen so as to surround the entire element having the same information. An image data transfer circuit 18 for reading the original image and the attribute information of the reduced image instructed based on the address data from the image memory 11 and the image information memory 12 and transferring them to the display device 13 so as to display them on the accompanying information display screen and And an image information transfer circuit 19.

FIG. 2 shows four sizes of 1/4 image 21, 1/16 image 22, 1/36 image 23 and 1/64 image 24 as reduced images that can be displayed on the list display screen 20 of the display device 13. 3 shows a display example in the case of setting and each element in the information matrix circuit 16 corresponding thereto. In this case, the number of elements corresponding to the entire list display screen 20 is 144, and in the display example of FIG. 2, the 1/4 image 21 has 36 elements (0,0) to (5,5). Element is 1/1
6 Image 22 contains 9 elements (9,9) to (11,11), 1/36
Image 23 has 4 elements (2,8) to (3,9), and is a 1/64 image
24 corresponds to four elements (7,3) to (8,4).

Hereinafter, the operation for displaying the original image or the attribute information corresponding to the 1/16 image 22 in the list shown in FIG. 2 will be described.

First, move the cursor 25 by the input instruction device 14
16 Designate any position in the image 22. The cursor coordinate detection circuit 15 receives the moving distance data of the cursor 25 from the input instruction device 14, detects the coordinates of the cursor 25, and outputs the cursor position data to the information matrix circuit 16. The information matrix circuit 16 receives the cursor position data from the cursor coordinate detection circuit 15 and selects the element indicated by the cursor 25, for example (11,11), and the 1/16 image 22 stored in that element is selected. Output the accompanying information.

Here, in each of the nine elements (9,9) to (11,11) corresponding to the 1/16 image 22, information associated with the 1/16 image 22, that is, the 1/16 image 22 Address data and the like in the image memory 11 and the image information memory 12, which are storage destinations of original images and attribute information, are stored. Therefore, the same information is output regardless of which position of the 1/16 image 22 is designated by the cursor 25.

The display frame setting circuit 17 has a total of 12 × 13 vertical lines and 12 × 13 horizontal lines dividing each element in the information matrix circuit 16.
It manages 312 line segments, scans each element arranged in a matrix, selects an element having the same information as the element (11, 11) indicated by the cursor 25, and selects these. The display frame 26 is set so as to surround the entire element. That is, in the display frame setting circuit 17, each element is moved from left to right and from top to bottom (0,0) → (11,0) → (0,1) → (11,1) →
If the element (9,9) having the same information as the element (11,11) is found by scanning in the order of (0,2) → ... → (0,11) → (11,11), the element (9,9) Set to display the left and upper line segments of 9), then go to element (10,9). here,
Since the element (10,9) has the same information as the element (11,11) and the element (9,9), set to display the upper line segment,
For the line segment on the left side, the element (9,
9) has the same information as element (10,9) and should not be displayed. In this way, if the adjacent elements vertically and horizontally have different information, the border line segment is set to be displayed, and if the same information is not displayed, it is not displayed. When an element including the outermost line segment of the list display screen 20 is selected, the line segment is set to be displayed, and the display frame 26 is displayed around the 1/16 image 22.

From the above, the display frame 26 displayed on the list display screen 20
Is displayed until the display frame setting circuit 17 scans each element by a signal from the input instruction device 14, and the position of the display frame 26 does not change even if the cursor 25 moves.

On the other hand, under the control of the input instruction device 14, when the original image of the 1/16 image 22 or the address data of the storage destination of the attribute information is output from the information matrix circuit 16, the image data transfer circuit 18 or the image information transfer circuit 19 In response to this, the image data or attribute information of the corresponding original image is read out from the image memory 11 or the image information memory 12 and is displayed on the display device.
Transfer to display on the 13 accompanying information display screen.

FIG. 3 shows a display example in which reduced images of various sizes are overlapped and displayed on the list display screen 20 of the display device 13 and respective elements in the information matrix circuit 16 corresponding thereto. In the display example shown here, the 1/4 image 31 overlaps with 1/16
Image 32 and 1/64 images 33 and 34 are displayed, and 1/4 image
31, 1/16 image 32 and 1/64 image 33 overlapping 1/36 image 35
Is displayed. 1/4 Image 31 from this mixed image below
The operation of selecting an item and displaying the corresponding original image or attribute information will be described.

First, move the cursor 25 by the input instruction device 14
4 Designate any position in a part of the image 31. The cursor coordinate detection circuit 15 receives the moving distance data of the cursor 25 from the input instruction device 14, detects the coordinate of the cursor 25, and outputs it to the information matrix circuit 16. The information matrix circuit 16 receives the cursor position data from the cursor coordinate detection circuit 15 and receives an element designated by the cursor 25, such as (11,
8) is selected and the information associated with the 1/4 image 31 stored in this element (11, 8) is output. The display frame setting circuit 17
The same operation as that described in the display example of FIG. 2 is executed so that the display frame 36 deformed so as to surround a part of the 1/4 image 31 displayed, that is, a part that does not overlap is displayed. Set. Further, when the original image of the 1/4 image 31 or the address data of the storage destination of the attribute information is output from the information matrix circuit 16 under the control of the input instructing device 14, the image data transfer circuit 18 or the image information transfer circuit 19 outputs this. In response, the image data or attribute information of the corresponding original image is read from the image memory 11 or the image information memory 12 and transferred so as to be displayed on the accompanying information display screen of the display device 13.

Although the original image or the attribute information is displayed on the accompanying information display screen of the display device 13 in the above-described embodiment, both may be displayed on the same screen, or the original image may be displayed as the accompanying information display screen. And attribute information may be prepared and displayed respectively.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the display screen is divided into a plurality of elements so that each of the plurality of reduced images displayed as a list has a plurality of matrix-shaped elements, and the display screen is divided into a plurality of elements. Since the incidental information corresponding to each reduced image displayed is commonly managed for each element, the incidental information corresponding to each reduced image of various sizes can be easily managed. In addition, by pointing a certain reduced image displayed on the display screen with the cursor,
An element having the same incidental information as the incidental information corresponding to the area including the cursor position coordinates is selected, and the entire element including the same incidental information is surrounded by the display frame. Even if the instruction is given with, the selected image can be recognized at a glance. Therefore, even when the reduced images in the list are displayed in an overlapping manner and only a part of the selected reduced images is displayed, each reduced image is divided into multiple elements and the accompanying information is managed for each element. Since only the selected reduced image is correctly surrounded by the display frame, the correspondence between the selected reduced image and its associated information can be clearly recognized.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrams for explaining the operation thereof, and FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a conventional technique. Is. 11 …… Image memory, 12 …… Image information memory 13 …… Display device, 14 …… Input instruction device 15 …… Cursor coordinate detection circuit 16 …… Information matrix circuit 17 …… Display frame setting circuit, 18 …… Image data Transfer circuit 19 …… Image information transfer circuit, 20 …… List display screen 21,31 …… 1/4 image, 22,32 …… 1/16 image 23,35 …… 1/36 image 24,33,34 …… 1/64 image 25 …… Cursor, 26,36 …… Display frame

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of reduced images are displayed as a list on the same display screen, incidental information corresponding to each of the plurality of reduced images is managed, and an instruction to select an arbitrary reduced image in the list is given. By doing so, in the image file device configured to display the associated information, a plurality of the display screens are displayed so that the plurality of reduced images displayed as the list each have a plurality of areas in a matrix. Means for managing the associated information corresponding to each reduced image displayed on the display screen in common for each element, and a cursor position for detecting the position coordinates of the cursor on the display screen. The coordinate detecting means and a plurality of elements having accompanying information corresponding to each reduced image currently displayed on the display screen are detected by the cursor position coordinate detecting means. Select the element having the same accompanying information and accompanying information corresponding to the region including the position coordinates that,
An image file device comprising: a display frame setting unit that sets a display frame on the display screen so as to surround the entire element including the same accompanying information. 2. The image file device according to claim 1, wherein the accompanying information includes at least address information indicating a storage position of an original image corresponding to a reduced image.