US 2014/0237431 A1Published application

Endoscope image management apparatus and endoscope image display method

AssigneeOlympus Corporation

InventorSaichi SATO

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Abstract

An endoscope apparatus displays a folder tree on a screen of an LCD, the folder tree including multiple folders according to zones in which endoscope image files are registered and multiple folders according to dates set as a hierarchical layer higher than the multiple folders according to zones. The endoscope apparatus extracts folder names of lower folders which include at least one endoscope image file, the lower folders being included in each of the multiple higher folders, as virtual folder names, based on folder names of the multiple folders, collects and integrates the same folder names, associates endoscope image files included in folders having the same folder name with the extracted virtual folder, and displays endoscope images associated with the selected virtual folder.

Claims16

Dependent claims

An endoscope image management apparatus comprising:

a folder tree display processing section which displays a folder tree on a screen of a display device, the folder tree including multiple folders in which endoscope image files are registered and multiple higher folders set as a hierarchical layer higher than the multiple folders;
a virtual folder generating section which extracts folder names of lower folders which include at least one endoscope image file, the lower folders being included in each of the multiple higher folders, as virtual folder names, based on folder names of the multiple folders, collects and integrates same folder names, and associates endoscope image files included in folders having a same folder name with the extracted virtual folder;
a virtual folder display processing section which displays the extracted virtual folders on the screen;
and
an image display processing section which, when the virtual folder displayed on the screen is selected, displays endoscope images of one or more endoscope image files associated with the selected virtual folder, on the screen.

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An endoscope image display method for displaying endoscope images of endoscope image files registered with multiple folders, the method comprising:

displaying a folder tree on a screen of a display device by a folder tree display processing section, the folder tree including the multiple folders in which the endoscope image files are registered and multiple higher folders set as a hierarchical layer higher than the multiple folders;
extracting folder names of lower folders which include at least one endoscope image file, the lower folders being included in each of the multiple higher folders, as virtual folder names, based on folder names of the multiple folders, collecting and integrating same folder names, and associating endoscope image files included in folders having a same folder name with the extracted virtual folder, by a virtual folder generating section;
displaying the extracted virtual folders on the screen by a virtual folder display processing section;
and
when the virtual folder displayed on the screen is selected, displaying endoscope images of one or more endoscope image files associated with the selected virtual folder, on the screen, by an image display processing section.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.