Image processing apparatus and image processing method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKoji Kashima
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a display controller. The display controller is configured to arrange a foreground image in a three-dimensional space and display, on a display device, the foreground image as an inspection status image representing an inspection status by an ultrasonic wave. The foreground image includes a linear image being as an image including a plurality of linear images that change in accordance with a status of a probe and connect the center of a circle and a circumference of the circle with each other, a probe image that is located at the center of the circle and has a shape of the probe, and a spherical image being as a spherical image that represents a range to which the ultrasonic wave output from the probe is applied and has a cross section as the circle.
Claims14
An image processing apparatus, comprising at least one processor configured to:
- arrange a foreground image in a three-dimensional space;
- and
- display, on a display device, the foreground image as an inspection status image representing an inspection status by an ultrasonic wave, the foreground image including
- a linear image being an image including a plurality of lines that connect the center of a circle and a circumference of the circle with each other, wherein the center of the circle corresponds to a position of a probe being put on a subject for an ultrasonic inspection, and wherein one or more lines of the linear image change in accordance with a status of the probe,
- a probe image that is located at the center of the circle and has a shape of the probe, and
- a spherical image being as a spherical image that represents a range to which the ultrasonic wave output from the probe is applied and has a cross section as the circle.
An image processing method, comprising
- arranging a foreground image in a three-dimensional space and displaying, on a display device, the foreground image as an inspection status image representing an inspection status by an ultrasonic wave, the foreground image including
- a linear image being an image including a plurality of lines that connect the center of a circle and a circumference of the circle with each other, wherein the center of the circle corresponds to a position of a probe being put on a subject for an ultrasonic inspection, and wherein one or more lines of the linear image change in accordance with a status of the probe,
- a probe image that is located at the center of the circle and has a shape of the probe, and
- a spherical image being as a spherical image that represents a range to which the ultrasonic wave output from the probe is applied and has a cross section as the circle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.