Patent Document ID: 8977030
Application ID: 12540814
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A blood cell image display apparatus comprising: a display computer, an image processing computer, and a microscope unit, wherein the image processing computer includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a host computer which is installed outside of the blood cell image display apparatus, wherein the communication interface receives, from the host computer, an order request including a blood specimen analysis result when the analysis result includes detected abnormality information generated by a blood cell analyzing apparatus, and wherein the analysis result is based on raw data representing light intensity, and includes a count of the number of blood cells of each type to create a scattergram; the image processing computer is configured to instruct the microscope unit to image a blood smear prepared from the blood specimen which has been analyzed by the blood cell analyzing apparatus, in accordance with types of blood cells in the blood cell images; the microscope unit is configured to image the blood smear as instructed, and to transmit the blood cell images to the image processing computer; the image processing computer is configured to store the received blood cell images to a storage section, identify the types of blood cells in the stored images, and classify said images according to the identified types of blood cells in the blood cell images; the image processing computer is configured to determine a blood cell image, among the classified blood cell images stored on the storage section, which includes the type of blood cell that corresponds to the received abnormality information in the received analysis result; and the image display computer is configured to display, on a display unit of the image display computer, a blood cell image review screen including the determined blood cell image of the type of blood cell that corresponds to the received abnormality information.