Radiation Imaging Notifying Unit for Intuitive Mode Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
In medical facilities that perform both still and moving image radiation imaging, photographers often struggle to correctly identify the type of imaging needed, leading to potential wrong imaging and unnecessary radiation exposure, as they must read text information on screens while focusing on patients.
Innovation Solution
A radiation imaging system that includes a notifying unit to inform the photographer whether the imaging is for still or moving images through visual, auditory, or tactile means, such as color coding, sounds, and vibrations, allowing for intuitive recognition without reading text.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If photographers read text information on screens to confirm imaging type, then accurate identification of imaging type is achieved, but imaging efficiency decreases and wrong imaging may still occur due to distraction from patient monitoring
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color coding to visually indicate imaging types. The notifying unit displays different colors to represent different imaging types (e.g., still image vs. moving image), allowing photographers to instantly recognize the required imaging type without reading text. This color-based visual cue system resolves the contradiction by providing both accurate identification and rapid recognition, maintaining efficiency while ensuring reliability.
2Ease of operation
If photographers focus on patients immediately before imaging, then patient monitoring is improved, but confirmation of imaging type becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The notifying unit provides advance notification of the imaging type through visual cues (such as color-coded indicators) before the photographer needs to confirm the type. This preliminary indication allows photographers to register the imaging type information in advance, then focus on patient monitoring without worrying about missing or misreading the imaging type confirmation, thus resolving the contradiction between patient monitoring quality and imaging type confirmation accuracy.
3Loss of information
If text-based information is displayed for imaging type, then detailed information is provided, but instant recognition is hindered due to reading time requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces text-based information with color-coded visual indicators that convey imaging type information instantly. The color changes provide complete information about the imaging type without requiring reading time, as the human visual system can process color information immediately. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining information completeness while eliminating the time loss associated with reading and processing text.
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AI summary
A radiation imaging system includes a radiation source and a notifying unit. The radiation source is for still image shooting and moving image shooting performed by the radiation imaging system to obtain image data of a subject. The notifying unit notifies whether a type of imaging to be performed is the still image shooting or the moving image shooting in a mode in which the type is instinctively recognizable by at least one of sense of sight, sense of hearing, and sense of touch.