Patent ID: 6789087
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus adapted for photographing, after inputting first information that contains at least group identification information and inputting second information that contains at least examinee identification information, a radiographic image of an examinee using the examinee information searched from a database based on the inputted information, said apparatus comprising:an input unit for inputting first information that contains at least group identification information or second information that contains at least examinee identification information; a medium reading and interpreting unit for analyzing a character train of the information inputted by the input unit and extracting the group identification information or the examinee identification information; a nonvolatile storing unit for storing databases of the examinee information corresponding to each of a plurality of sets of group identification information and data structure of the second information corresponding to each of a plurality of sets of group identification information; a database selecting unit for selecting, from the nonvolatile storing unit, a database of the group corresponding to the extracted group identification information; a database search extracting unit for searching and extracting examinee information corresponding to the extracted examinee identification information from the selected database; and a photographing unit for photographing a radiographic image of the examinee based on the searched and extracted examinee information, wherein the medium reading and interpreting unit, when the first information is inputted, reads in, from the nonvolatile storing unit, the data structure of the second information corresponding to the group identification information contained in the first information, and analyzes the character train of the second information based on the data structure.