Patented Technology
DR Systems has a distinguished and unparalleled history of innovative achievements. One of the cornerstones of DR Systems’ innovation is U.S. Patent No. 5,452,416; the automated system and method for organizing, presenting, and manipulating medical images. Below is the abstract of that patent located at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Web site
DR Systems’ innovation does not stop there. Patent pending technologies for image display methods to increase accuracy and efficiency are the most recent innovative achievements that continue the pattern of DR Systems’ RIS/PACS industry leadership started in 1992.
Automated Medical Imaging Management Patent Abstract
An automated system for organizing, presenting, and manipulating medical images includes a database in which the medical images are structured into groups, each group including one or more image series, each image series including an ordered sequence of images which illustrate incrementally registered aspects of an anatomical target. Image series are presented in their sequential order either in a monitor presentation format which displays each sequence in its entirety in a single monitor display container or which presents two or more image series, image-by-image, in adjacent presentation areas of a series display container. The system includes a plurality of monitors in which all monitors, save one, produce display containers for image series presentation. One monitor is reserved for displaying a working palette to which images of the image series displayed on the other monitors may be moved. The system activates a monitor in a plurality of monitors in response to movement of a cursor between monitors. An active monitor is indicated by presentation of a control panel. The system also provides heads-up presentation of control panel icons at a cursor location outside of the control panel by sequentially changing the shape of the cursor to the icon shapes for user selection.
