Patent ID: 8682046
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: G02B,G06F

Abstract:
1. An image management server comprising: a microscopic image acquisition portion configured to acquire a microscopic image of a sample made of a plurality of tile images picked up by a microscope before placing the acquired microscopic image into a predetermined storage area; a meta information creation portion configured to create meta information determining the microscopic image in accordance with a result of data analysis performed on said microscopic image acquired by said microscopic image acquisition portion; an image provision processing portion configured to provide said meta information and said microscopic image to an image display apparatus in response to a request from said image display apparatus capable of viewing microscopic images; and a provided image prediction portion configured to predict the tile image highly likely to be requested by said image display apparatus based on hint information which is transmitted from said image display apparatus and which represents content of a microscopic image display process performed by said image display apparatus.