Medical Image Capture Apparatus Setting Information Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Medical image capture apparatuses in hospitals face challenges in sharing common setting information while maintaining intrinsic information unique to each device, requiring a simpler method to synchronize settings across multiple devices without compromising intrinsic details.

Innovation Solution

A system where medical image capture apparatuses are connected via a network, allowing for the sharing of setting information while maintaining intrinsic details by rewriting and updating data, ensuring that intrinsic information remains unique to each device.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If setting information is shared among multiple medical image capture apparatuses, then common settings can be synchronized and examination accuracy can be maintained, but intrinsic information unique to each apparatus may be lost or overwritten

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveexamination accuracyVSAvoidintrinsic information

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The setting information is segmented into two distinct categories: shared settings (for maintaining examination accuracy across apparatuses) and intrinsic settings (for preserving apparatus-specific information). This segmentation allows selective sharing of only the necessary shared settings while excluding intrinsic information from the synchronization process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different parts of the setting information have different properties: shared settings are meant to be synchronized across all apparatuses, while intrinsic settings are meant to remain local to each apparatus. The system applies different handling rules to different parts of the data based on their specific properties.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If all setting information is synchronized across apparatuses, then common preferences are maintained, but the complexity of managing intrinsic information uniquely increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesetting sharing capabilityVSAvoidinformation management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

By dividing setting information into shared and intrinsic categories, the system simplifies management complexity. Only shared settings need to be synchronized across apparatuses, while intrinsic settings are automatically excluded from synchronization, reducing the burden on the system to manage all types of information uniformly.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts intrinsic information from the overall setting information and separates it from the synchronization process. This extraction allows the synchronization mechanism to focus only on shared settings, reducing computational and operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Loss of information

If intrinsic information is included in shared settings, then complete data synchronization is achieved, but data integrity and apparatus identification are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata completenessVSAvoiddata integrity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments setting information into shared and intrinsic components, allowing complete synchronization of shared settings while excluding intrinsic information from the synchronization process. This ensures both data completeness for shared settings and data integrity for intrinsic settings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Intrinsic settings maintain their local quality and are not overwritten by synchronization operations. Each apparatus retains its unique identification information and settings specific to its configuration, ensuring data integrity while still achieving completeness for shared settings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11759181B2Medical image capture apparatus for sharing setting information, program for controlling the same, and system

Publication Date: 2023.09.19 GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC

AI summary

To provide a simpler implementation in which setting information is shared among a plurality of medical image capture apparatuses while maintaining intrinsic information each of the apparatuses has, in first memory in a first ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus UL1 are stored first data including first setting information set in the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus UL1, and backup data for first intrinsic information included in the first data; in second memory in a second ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus UL2 is stored second data including second setting information set in the second ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus UL2; and once the second data is input via a network, a first processor rewrites the first data stored in the first memory into the second data, reads the first intrinsic information in the backup data, and rewrites the second intrinsic information into which the first intrinsic information has been rewritten, into the first intrinsic information in the backup data.