Patent ID: 9733319
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01R

Claim:
1. A control assembly for an imaging system, said imaging system comprising a plurality of imaging system components, said control assembly comprising: a computer comprising a plurality n of computer communication interfaces, said computer being configured for centralized control of said imaging system components; each of said imaging system components comprising a component communication interface, with the respective component communication interfaces for all of said imaging system components being a total of n component communication interfaces; a plurality n of communication connections each proceeding only between one computer communication interface and one component communication interface; at least one of said imaging system components being configured as a transmitting component and at least one other of said imaging system components being configured as a receiving component, with the respective component communication interfaces of said transmitting component and said receiving component being configured to transmit information in an information transfer from said transmitting component to said receiving component exclusively via a communication path formed by the communication connection between the component communication interface of the transmitting component and the one computer connection interface connected thereto, said computer, and the communication connection between the component communication interface of the receiving component and said one computer communication interface connected thereto; a group controller connected to one of said computer communication interfaces and connected to multiple, but not all, imaging system components, with the respective component communication interfaces of said multiple imaging system components being connected, via respective ones of said communication connections and via said group controller, to said one computer communication interface to which said group controller is connected; and said group controller being configured to provide control information from said computer to said multiple imaging system components to control said multiple imaging system components as a group.