Patent ID: 7059721
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An image managing system for managing image data captured by an ophthalmologic camera apparatus, the image managing system comprising: a first memory which stores the image data with imaging condition data into a patient's folder, wherein the patient's folder is a new folder that is prepared in the first memory by registering a new patient, wherein the image data with imaging condition data in the patient's folder is inhibited from being moved to another patient's folder; a second memory which temporarily stores the image data with the imaging condition data when neither the patient's folder nor the another patient's folder has been designated; means for directly storing the image data with the imaging condition data into the patient's folder in the first memory when a user designates the patient's folder when capturing the image data, and for directly storing the image data with the imaging condition data into the second memory, temporarily, when the user does not designate either the patient's folder or the another patient's folder when capturing the image data; means for moving the image data with the imaging condition data stored temporarily in the second memory to the patient's folder in the first memory, when instructed by the user, the moving means comprising display means for displaying the image data with imaging condition data which is temporarily stored in the second memory in thumbnail form, and displaying a list of folders in the first memory; and means for automatically deleting the temporarily stored image data with the imaging condition data when a predetermined storageable amount for the second memory is exceeded or automatically deleting the temporarily stored image data with the imaging condition data when a predetermined storageable period for the second memory expires.