Client-Side Image Rendering for Low-Latency Medical Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image viewing applications using server-side rendering technologies face challenges with network latency, image rendering latency, and performance issues in high-resolution diagnostic monitors, affecting accurate image visualization and navigation, particularly in medical imaging.
Innovation Solution
A hybrid image viewing application that utilizes device-side rendering, combining native and web technologies, with features like in-memory caching and local image processing to enhance performance and accuracy, and supports seamless integration with server-based applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If server-side rendering technologies are used in browser-based web applications, then image rendering can be performed on the server, but network latency and image rendering latency increase, affecting accurate high-speed image visualization and navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the image rendering function from the server environment and relocates it to the client-side browser using web technologies. This eliminates the need for network communication during the rendering process, thereby removing network latency as a bottleneck and enabling fast, real-time image visualization and navigation directly in the browser.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions the rendering architecture from a traditional server-centric model to a client-centric model by leveraging the browser's native capabilities. This dimensional shift in where rendering occurs (from server to client) fundamentally changes the system's performance characteristics, eliminating network dependencies for rendering operations.
2Productivity
If server-side rendering is used, then image processing can be centralized, but image rendering latency increases, affecting accurate use of imaging tools
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the rendering operation from the server and executes it locally in the browser. This extraction eliminates the time delay associated with server processing and network transmission, enabling immediate image rendering and interaction without latency, thereby improving the responsiveness of imaging tools.
3Ease of operation
If browser-based web technologies are used for image viewing, then accessibility and ease of deployment are improved, but performance, smoothness and predictability of interactive image navigation deteriorate, particularly in high resolution diagnostic monitors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the performance parameters of browser-based rendering by optimizing how images are loaded, processed, and displayed. Through techniques such as progressive loading, intelligent caching, and optimized rendering pipelines, the patent achieves high-performance interactive navigation in browsers, matching or exceeding native application performance while maintaining web-based accessibility.
4Ease of manufacture
If browser-based web technologies are used, then deployment simplicity is improved, but high speed and accurate playback of images in high resolution diagnostic monitors deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent optimizes playback performance by adjusting rendering parameters, utilizing browser hardware acceleration capabilities, and implementing efficient image streaming protocols. These parameter optimizations enable high-speed, accurate playback of medical images in high-resolution diagnostic monitors while maintaining the deployment simplicity of web-based technologies.
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AI summary
Method for rendering images on a device, the method includes initiating an image viewing application operating on the device, downloading, in the image viewing application, a plurality of unrendered image files, wherein the plurality of unrendered image files are assigned a priority value based on when the plurality of image files are to be displayed, storing, in the image viewing application, the plurality of unrendered image files downloaded in at least one of a first device memory and a second device memory, where the plurality of unrendered image files are stored in the at least one of the first device memory and the second device memory according to the assigned priority value, rendering, in the image viewing application, the plurality of unrendered image files based on the assigned priority value using at least one device processor.