# US 11,896,418 B2 · Recording medium, moving image management apparatus, and moving image display system

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- Number: US 11,896,418 B2
- Document ID: US11896418B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/314,399
- Filed: 2021-05-07
- Published: 2021-11-11
- Granted: 2024-02-13
- Earliest claimed: 2020-05-11
- Assignees: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicants: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Inventors: Akinori Tsunomori; Taketoh Muraoka
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11896418B2

## CPC

- A61B 6/50: specially adapted for specific body parts; specially adapted for specific clinical applications
- A61B 6/5288: {involving retrospective matching to a physiological signal}
- A61B 6/463: {characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display}
- A61B 6/486: {involving generating temporal series of image data}
- A61B 6/5211: {involving processing of medical diagnostic data}
- A61B 6/5217: {extracting a diagnostic or physiological parameter from medical diagnostic data}
- A61B 6/5294: {involving using additional data, e.g. patient information, image labeling, acquisition parameters}
- A61B 6/54: {Control of apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis}
- A61B 6/566: {involving communication between diagnostic systems}
- G06T 7/0016: {involving temporal comparison}
- G06T 7/20: Analysis of motion (motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51)
- A61B 6/467: {characterised by special input means}
- G06T 2207/10016: Video; Image sequence
- G06T 2207/10124: Digitally reconstructed radiograph [DRR]
- G06T 2207/30061: Lung
- A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D)
- G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL

## Abstract

A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program that causes a computer of a moving image management apparatus, which manages a radiographic moving image, to perform: obtaining that is obtaining a first radiographic moving image and a second radiographic moving image, the first radiographic moving image showing a movement of a subject while breathing is repeated a first number of times per unit time, and the second radiographic moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated a second number of times that is different from the first number of times per the unit time; and associating that is associating respective numbers of breaths during imagings with the first radiographic moving image and the second radiographic moving image that are obtained in the obtaining.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program that causes a computer of a moving image management apparatus, which manages a radiographic moving image, to perform:
obtaining that is obtaining a first radiographic moving image and a second radiographic moving image, the first radiographic moving image showing a movement of a subject while breathing is repeated a first number of times per unit time, and the second radiographic moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated a second number of times that is different from the first number of times per the unit time; and
associating that is associating respective numbers of breaths during imagings with the first radiographic moving image and the second radiographic moving image that are obtained in the obtaining,
wherein the program further causes the computer to perform receiving that is receiving each of input of a first numerical value and input of a second numerical value, and
the associating includes associating, with the first radiographic moving image, the first numerical value as a number of breaths among the numbers of breaths and associating, with the second radiographic moving image, the second numerical value as a number of breaths among the numbers of breaths.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the associating includes writing the respective numbers of breaths as image supplementary information into data of the first radiographic moving image and data of the second radiographic moving image.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the program further causes the computer to perform imaging controlling that is causing a moving image generator, which generates a radiographic moving image, to generate the radiographic moving image to be associated with the first numerical value as the number of breaths and generate the radiographic moving image to be associated with the second numerical value as the number of breaths.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The recording medium according to claim 3, wherein the imaging controlling includes setting a number of frames, which are generated per the unit time for the radiographic moving image in generating of the radiographic moving image to be associated with a smaller numerical value among the first numerical value and the second numerical value as the number of breaths, to be smaller than a number of frames that are generated per the unit time in generating of the radiographic moving image to be associated with a larger numerical value among the first numerical value and the second numerical value as the number of breaths.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein
the obtaining includes obtaining a first comparative moving image and a second comparative moving image, the first comparative moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated the first number of times per the unit time on a day different from a day on which the first radiographic moving image is generated, and the second comparative moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated the second number of times per the unit time on a day different from a day on which the second radiographic moving image is generated, and
the associating includes associating respective numbers of breaths during imagings with the first comparative moving image and the second comparative moving image that are obtained in the obtaining.

### Claim 6 (depends on 3)

The recording medium according to claim 3, wherein the program further causes the computer to perform notifying that is causing a notifier to repeatedly notify at least one of an expiration instruction and an inspiration instruction the first number of times per the unit time and causing the notifier to repeatedly notify at least one of the expiration instruction and the inspiration instruction the second number of times per the unit time in parallel with execution of the imaging controlling, the expiration instruction instructing to perform an expiratory movement and the inspiration instruction instructing to perform an inspiratory movement.

### Claim 7

A moving image management apparatus comprising a hardware processor that
obtains a first radiographic moving image and a second radiographic moving image, the first radiographic moving image showing a movement of a subject while breathing is repeated a first number of times per unit time, and the second radiographic moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated a second number of times that is different from the first number of times per the unit time, and
associates respective numbers of breaths during imagings with the first radiographic moving image and the second radiographic moving image that are obtained, wherein the hardware processor further receives each of input of a first numerical value and input of a second numerical value, the first radiographic moving image is associated with the first numerical value as a number of breaths among the numbers of breaths, and the second radiographic moving image is associated with the second numerical value as a number of breaths among the numbers of breaths.

### Claim 8

A moving image display system comprising:
a moving image generator that generates a first radiographic moving image and a second radiographic moving image, the first radiographic moving image showing a movement of a subject while breathing is repeated a first number of times per unit time, and the second radiographic moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated a second number of times that is different from the first number of times per the unit time; and
a hardware processor that associates respective numbers of breaths during imagings with the first radiographic moving image and the second radiographic moving image that are generated by the moving image generator, wherein the hardware processor further receives each of input of a first numerical value and input of a second numerical value, the first radiographic moving image is associated with the first numerical value as a number of breaths among the numbers of breaths, and the second radiographic moving image is associated with the second numerical value as a number of breaths among the numbers of breaths.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The moving image display system according to claim 8, wherein
the moving image generator generates a first comparative moving image and a second comparative moving image, the first comparative moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated the first number of times per the unit time on a day different from a day on which the first radiographic moving image is generated, and the second comparative moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated the second number of times per the unit time on a day different from a day on which the second radiographic moving image is generated, and
the hardware processor associates respective numbers of breaths during imagings with the first comparative moving image and the second comparative moving image that are generated by the moving image generator.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The moving image display system according to claim 9, wherein the hardware processor analyzes each of the first radiographic moving image and the second radiographic moving image generated by the moving image generator, and calculates an index regarding a site that moves in accordance with breathing.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The moving image display system according to claim 10, further comprising a display that displays the first radiographic moving image, the second radiographic moving image, the first comparative moving image and the second comparative moving image.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The moving image display system according to claim 11, wherein the display further displays the index that is calculated by the hardware processor.