Appeal No. 2003-1706
Application No. 09/672,826
examination order and/or photographing in the case where the pre-
fetching judging means has judged the acquisition to be
necessary, and for causing the image acquisition means to fetch
the selected image.
68. A medical image searching method used in a medical
image search apparatus connected to a search requesting apparatus
and to a database storing medical images with text information,
for searching the database for a desired image according to
search information from the search requesting apparatus and for
sending a search result including text information to the search
requesting apparatus, the medical image searching method
comprising the steps of:
searching for the desired image after converting search
information received from the search requesting apparatus to
search information in a character type used by the database and
different from a character type used by the search requesting
apparatus; and
sending the search result to the search requesting apparatus
after the search result has been converted into the character
type used by the search requesting apparatus.
69. An image search server connected to an image display
terminal and to a database storing images, for carrying out a
search of the database in response to a request of the image
display terminal and for outputting a search result to the
terminal, the image search server comprising:
image processing means for carrying out predetermined image
processing on the image obtained by the search;
storing means for storing the image having been subjected to
the image processing by the image processing means;
judging means for judging whether or not image processing is
necessary for the image having been searched for; and
control means for transmitting to the image display terminal
a search result including information indicating a location of
the image in the database in the case where the judging means has
judged image processing to be unnecessary or for transmitting a
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