Patent ID: 8625742

Claim:
An imaging system comprising: a plurality of imaging apparatuses, each of the imaging apparatuses including a detector for performing an imaging operation for outputting image data corresponding to applied radiation or light and a controller that controls the operation of the detector, and each of the imaging apparatuses independently performing an imaging operation and being movable in accordance with a relative positional relationship thereof; sensing means that obtains information concerning the relative positional relationship of the imaging apparatuses; and a control computer that determines operations of the imaging apparatuses by using the information obtained from the sensing means and that sends a control signal for performing the determined operations to the controller, wherein, in a case where the relative positional relationship is a parallel arrangement in which the imaging apparatuses are disposed in parallel with respect to a scanning direction of each of the imaging apparatuses, the control computer determines the operations of the imaging apparatuses so that the scanning direction of each of the imaging apparatuses becomes the same, and, wherein, in a case where the relative positional relationship is a serial arrangement in which the imaging apparatuses are disposed in series with respect to the scanning direction of each of the imaging apparatuses, the control computer determines the operations of the imaging apparatuses so that the scanning direction of each of the imaging apparatuses becomes opposite to each other and so that a time at which scanning is started or ended becomes the same for each of the imaging apparatuses.