Patent ID: 8402300

Claim:
A method for executing commands in components of an imaging system, each of said components comprising a local clock, said method comprising the steps of: temporally synchronizing the respective local clocks of said components in said imaging system; transmitting commands to the respective components and including in the respective commands a command execution time specification that specifies a point in time at which the command should be executed that includes the respective command execution time specification; receiving the respective commands at the respective components and storing the respective received commands at the respective components, as stored commands; at each component, automatically retrieving and executing a stored command when a point in time at the local clock at that component coincides with the command execution time specification of the stored command; and transmitting said commands, including said command execution time specification, from a synchronization master to the respective local clocks, the respective transmissions from the synchronization master to the respective local clocks each having a signal delay associated therewith, and automatically taking said signal delay into account when temporally synchronizing the respective local clocks.