Patent ID: 8537211
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. An image managing apparatus configured to be connected to an image processing apparatus that receives an image signal from an imaging apparatus which captures a medical examination image, and to be connected to an image recording apparatus that records a captured image, comprising an apparatus information storage operative to store an image processing apparatus identifier and an image processing apparatus type, which indicates whether or not the image processing apparatus can transmit an image file directly to the image recording apparatus, while associating the identifier and the type with each other for more than one image processing apparatuses; an apparatus ID acquiring unit operative to acquire an image processing apparatus identifier from the connected image processing apparatus; an apparatus type acquiring unit operative to refer to the apparatus information storage on the basis of the image processing apparatus identifier acquired by the apparatus ID acquiring unit and operative to read out the type of the connected image processing apparatus; an image file acquiring unit operative, if the image processing apparatus type read by the apparatus type acquiring unit indicates that the image processing apparatus can transmit an image file directly to the image recording apparatus, to read out from the image recording apparatus an image file that the image processing apparatus stores directly in the image recording apparatus; an image file generating unit operative, if the image processing apparatus type read by the apparatus type acquiring unit indicates that the image processing apparatus can not transmit an image file directly to the image recording apparatus, to process a video signal transmitted from the image processing apparatus and to generate an image file; an image file transfer unit operative to transfer the image file generated by the image file generating unit to the image recording apparatus in order to allow the image recording apparatus to store the image file; and a screen image generating unit operative to generate a screen image for displaying the image file generated by the image file generating unit or the image file acquired by the image file acquiring unit on a display.