Patent Document ID: 20060002633
Application ID: 11171343
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image understanding aiding system, comprising an image position matching apparatus and an image output device, the image position matching apparatus operating such that: the image position matching apparatus receives a plurality of original images of objects, which original images are successively sent from a modality for forming the original images, the image position matching apparatus performs position matching processing on two original images among the received original images, which two original images are the original images of a pair of objects to be compared with each other and have been recorded at an identical period, in cases where the two original images are to be outputted such that the two original images are located in a line, the position matching processing comprising translation of at least either one of the two original images in a direction normal to the direction along which the two original images are located in a line, such that positions of reference areas in the two original images, which positions are taken with respect to the normal direction, align with each other, and the image position matching apparatus supplies information, which represents a translation quantity for aligning the positions of the reference areas in the two original images with each other, and the two original images into the image output device, the image output device operating such that: the image output device aligns the positions of the reference areas in the two original images with each other in accordance with the information, which represents the translation quantity, and the two original images, the information and the two original images having been received from the image position matching apparatus, and the image output device outputs the two aligned images, whose reference areas have been aligned with each other, such that the two aligned images are located in a line.