Appeal No. 2003-1706
Application No. 09/672,826
display terminal a) a location of the image in the database, when
image processing has been found to be unnecessary or b) that the
image is located in the storing means while obtaining the image
from the database for image processing, when image processing has
been found to be necessary. In addition, each image display
terminal has a setting defining whether only the storing means or
the storing means as well as the database are to be searched.
The searching method includes converting search information
received from the search requesting apparatus to a character type
which is used by the database and is different from a character
type used by the search requesting apparatus. Claims 1, 68, 69,
and 73 are illustrative of the claimed invention, and they read
as follows:
1. A medical image server comprising image acquisition
means for fetching an image from an image archiving apparatus
storing medical images, storing means for storing the image
having been fetched, and delivering means for outputting the
image stored in the storing means to a terminal, the medical
image server further comprising:
pre-fetching judging means for carrying out judgment as to
whether acquisition of a past image of a patient which is stored
in the image archiving apparatus is necessary or unnecessary
before the terminal actually sends an order for output of the
image, based on information regarding a medical examination order
and/or photographing of the patient; and
pre-fetching image selecting means for selecting an image of
the patient from past images stored in the image archiving
apparatus based on the information regarding the medical
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