Patent ID: 9626476
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G16H

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising a processor and a memory storing executable instructions that in response to execution by the processor cause the apparatus to at least: determine whether a display is to be driven by an image viewing application or a second application, wherein the second application is different than the image viewing application and is configured to display an image other than a medical image, wherein the display is configured to be alternately driven by the image viewing application and the second application; in an instance in which the image viewing application is configured to drive the display: identify an imaging calibration function; transform, during execution of the image viewing application, a digital image that includes a plurality of pixels, each of which has a pixel value from among a plurality of pixel values, wherein the digital image is transformed by transforming the pixel value of at least some of the pixels to corresponding transformed pixel values processed according to the imaging calibration function, wherein the apparatus being caused to transform the digital image during execution of the image viewing application includes being caused to transform the pixel value of at least some of the pixels according to a lookup table associated with the imaging calibration function; and cause output of the digital image in accordance with the image viewing application, wherein the digital image that is output comprises a medical image and includes the plurality of pixels of which at least some have a transformed pixel value; and in an instance in which the second application, different than the image viewing application, is configured to drive the display: identify a second calibration function, different than the imaging calibration function; transform, during execution of the second application, a digital image by transforming the pixel value of at least some of the pixels to corresponding transformed pixel values processed according to the second calibration function; and cause output of the digital image in accordance with the second application, wherein the digital image that is output is an image other than a medical image and includes a plurality of pixels of which at least some have been transformed in accordance with the second calibration function, wherein the output of the digital image that is presented by the display includes pixels that have been transformed in accordance with a different calibration function depending upon whether the image viewing application or the second application is configured to drive the display.