Image processing device for expanded representation of three-dimensional image data sets
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorBernhard Kidalka
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Abstract
An image processing device has an image presentation module that is fashioned for 3D representation of a 3D subject on an image display device, and has an interaction module with which an operator can interactively displace, rotate or zoom the 3D subject in the 3D representation. The image processing device furthermore has a mirror surface generation module that generates mirror surfaces that are freely definable by the operator via the interaction module in the 3D space of the 3D representation, and shows mirror images caused by the defined mirror surfaces on separate display areas of the image display device. The analysis of a presented 3D subject thus can ensue with lower time expenditure.
Claims5
An image processing device comprising:
- an image display device having a display screen;
- an image processor connected to said image display device that processes a data set representing a 3D subject to produce a 3D representation of said 3D subject at said display device in a first display region of two separate display regions in said display screen;
- an interaction module connected to said image processor, allowing an operator to interactively displace, rotate or zoom said 3D representation of said 3D subject on said image display device;
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- a mirror surface generation module connected to said image processor and communicating with said interaction module, that automatically generates, in response to at least one mirror surface freely defined by said operator via said interaction module, at least one mirror image, defined by said mirror surface, of said 3D representation of said 3D subject to be displayed with said mirror surface in said first display region, and that also causes said at least one mirror image to be displayed duplicatively, but without said mirror surface at said image display device in a second of said display regions in said display screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.