Patent ID: 7076090

Claim:
A medical image information processing apparatus for filing a plurality of items of sheet-shaped image information generated by an image information generating section, wherein each said item of sheet-shaped image information includes a medical image of a patient and an ID image to indicate ID data of the patient, said apparatus comprising: a receiving section to receive the plurality of items of sheet-shaped image information sequentially from the image information generating section; an ID information reading section to read the plurality of items of sheet-shaped image information sequentially, to recognize a shape of the ID image of each said read item of sheet-shaped image information, and to generate ID information based on the recognized shape of the ID image, so as to generate an item of ID information for each said read item of sheet-shaped image information; an ID distinction section to receive sequentially a plurality of the generated items of ID information, to judge whether ID data of each said received item of ID information coincides with ID data of an immediately previous item of ID information, and to output an ID distinction-signal when it is judged that the ID data of the item of ID information does not coincide with the ID data of the immediately previous item of ID information; and a memory section which, when the ID distinction-signal is received, stores a plurality of items of sheet-shaped image information received before the output of the ID distinction-signal such that said plurality of stored items of sheet-shaped image information are stored as a set of data in correspondence with a single said item of the ID information corresponding thereto.