Method for allowing plug-in architecture for digital echocardiography lab image processing applications
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsRobert S. Arling, Brian Collamore
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Abstract
A method of adding a new operation stored in a new operation module to software driving an echocardiographic review station, which performs (a) detecting, by the software driving the echocardiographic review station, a presence of a new operation module not previously present in the software; and (b) executing the new operation module from the software driving the echocardiographic review station.
Claims42
A method of adding a new operation stored in a new operation module to software driving an echocardiographic review station, comprising:
- detecting, by the software driving the echocardiographic review station, a presence of a new operation module not previously present in the software;
- and
- executing the new operation module from the software driving the echocardiographic review station.
An apparatus for adding a new operation stored in a new operation module to an echocardiographic review station, the apparatus comprising:
- a detector detecting, by the echocardiographic review station, a presence of a new operation module not previously present on the echocardiographic review station;
- and
- an execution unit executing the new operation module from software driving the echocardiographic review station.
A computer readable storage medium storing a method for adding a new operation stored in a new operation module to software driving an echocardiographic review station, the method comprising:
- detecting, by the echocardiographic review station, a presence of a new operation module not previously present in the software;
- and
- executing the new operation module from the software driving the echocardiographic review station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.