Control module for a signal transmitter for a remote-client display of a sequence of medical images

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9531791-B2
Application number	US-201313867206-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2013
Priority date	Jul 24, 2012
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

A system, a method and a computer program product for monitoring a screen configuration process for a sequence of medical images on a remote client are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a central server includes a rendering module and a marker generator in order to mark the sequence of images to be displayed as a DESIRED sequence of images and transfer it to the remote client. In addition to a remote-client application, an observer module and a warning signal transmitter are provided on the remote client. The observer module is used to compare the DESIRED sequence of images with the ACTUAL sequence of images. In the event of a lack of conformity, the warning signal transmitter issues a warning signal on the remote-client monitor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for monitoring a display of a sequence of images, the system comprising:
a central server configured to, integrate a marker in every image in the sequence of images so that a totality of markers define a desired sequence of images; and
at least one remote client, including a processor configured to,
central server,
display the output on a monitor,
monitor the output to determine, independent of physical parameters of the at least one remote client, whether an actual sequence of images displayed on the monitor is in conformity with the desired sequence of images based on the markers, and
issue a warning signal on the at least one remote client upon determining that the actual sequence of images is not in conformity with the desired sequence of images.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sequence of images is associated with at least one medical image data set and includes at least one of two or multi-dimensional image data sets, image data sets from different imaging modalities and a plurality of image data sets to be displayed in different segments of the monitor.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the marker is an optical marker that uniquely identifies a corresponding one of the sequence of images.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the warning signal comprises at least one optical signal which is output on the monitor of the at least one remote client.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to detect every deviation from the desired sequence of images automatically.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to,
detect at least one of a status and layout information of the monitor of the at least one remote client, and
utilize the at least one of the status and layout information in monitoring the output.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the central server is configured to position the marker in a marker region of a corresponding image in the sequence of the images.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the central server is configured to position the marker at a bottom right in a corresponding image in the sequence of images.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the screen configuration process is an image sequence rate of the screen configuration process.

10. A method for monitoring a display of a sequence of images, said method comprising:
generating a marker signal for every image in the sequence of images so that a totality of markers define a desired sequence of images;
generating output signals, the output signals including the markers;
sending the output signals to a remote client to be displayed on a remote-client monitor of the remote client;
monitoring the output signals at the remote client to determine, independent of physical parameters of the remote client, whether an actual sequence of images displayed on the remote-client monitor is in conformity with the desired sequence of images based on the markers; and
issuing a warning signal on the remote-client monitor upon determining that the actual sequence of images is not in conformity with the desired sequence of images.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer-readable instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to execute the method of claim 10 .

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method monitors a rate of the display of the sequence of images.

Assignees

• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Friese Thomas
• Fritzsche Christian
• Von Stockhausen Hans-Martin

Classifications

• H04L67/12 Primary

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G09G2370/022

  Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally · CPC title

• G06F3/1431

  using a single graphics controller · CPC title

• G09G2350/00

  Solving problems of bandwidth in display systems · CPC title