Patent ID: 9437037
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: A61B,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image display device, comprising: a display unit that displays an output image that has been drawn; a storage unit that has stored an array of 3D signal values that is a drawing object, mask information for designating an object area for drawing in the array of the 3D signal values, information for designating a drawing method for a 2D image based on the array of the 3D signal values, accompanying information that has been related to the drawing object, information on arrangement and display plans that has been set for the accompanying information, and information relevant to characteristics of the display unit, wherein the information on the arrangement plans includes fixing or unfixing of a depth position on an axis that is vertical to a screen of the display unit, fixing or unfixing of an intra-screen position of the display unit, and presence/absence of relevance to a specific coordinate position included in the drawing object to which the accompanying information has been related, and the information on the display plans includes a display priority of the accompanying information; a drawing control unit that computes the position of the accompanying information in a coordinate system of the 3D signal value that is to be the drawing object on the basis of the mask information, the information for designating the drawing method for the 2D image, the information on the arrangement and display plans and the information relevant to the characteristics of the display unit and stores it into the storage unit; and a drawing processing unit that generates an output image to be displayed on the display unit by integrating together a 3D data area to be drawn on the basis of the information for designating the drawing method for the 2D image for the area that has been designated by the mask information in the array of 3D signal values that is the drawing object, and an accompanying information area to be drawn on the basis of information on the position of the accompanying information that has been determined by the drawing control unit for the accompanying information.