Medical Image Display with Gradual Color-Grayscale Conversion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Comparing images with different characteristics across multiple display apparatuses is cumbersome, leading to distraction and reduced concentration due to the need to continuously switch between devices.
Innovation Solution
A display apparatus and method that allows for the display of multiple images with different characteristics on a single screen, enabling gradual conversion between them using a display unit, memory, and input devices, facilitating the comparison of images by displaying color images or grayscale images with varying characteristics through weighted averages and user input commands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display apparatuses are used to display images with different characteristics, then the ability to compare different image characteristics is improved, but the complexity of operation and user concentration deteriorates due to continuous eye movement between devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple images with different characteristics (e.g., color and grayscale medical images) onto a single display apparatus. The display unit simultaneously presents these different image types in a unified interface, allowing users to compare various image characteristics without physically moving between multiple display devices, thereby resolving the contradiction between versatility and ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a temporal dimension to the comparison process by implementing gradual conversion between different image characteristics. Instead of static side-by-side comparison, the system allows dynamic transition between image types (e.g., converting color images to grayscale gradually), adding a time-based dimension that enhances comparability while maintaining single-screen presentation
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display apparatuses are used to display images with different characteristics, then the variety of image characteristics displayed is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes a single display apparatus universal by enabling it to display multiple types of images with different characteristics (color images, grayscale images, and intermediate conversion states). The display unit functions as a multi-functional device that can present various image formats and characteristics simultaneously, eliminating the need for multiple specialized display apparatuses
3Ease of operation
If gradual conversion between images is implemented on a single screen, then the ease of comparison is improved, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic gradual conversion between different image characteristics through controlled processing. The system dynamically adjusts image parameters (such as converting color to grayscale progressively) over time, allowing users to observe intermediate states during the transition. This dynamic approach simplifies comparison by showing the evolution between different image types while managing processing complexity through controlled, incremental changes
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AI summary
A display apparatus is provided to display a plurality of different images with different characteristics of an object on a single screen while gradually and mutually converting the color images and an image display method using the same. The display apparatus includes a memory to store a plurality of color images with different characteristics of an object and a display unit to display a second color image while gradually converting a first color image displayed on the display unit into the second color image, the second color image having a different characteristic from that of the first color image.