Microscope Image Browsing System with Priority Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing microscope-image browsing systems face inefficiencies in handling multidimensional microscope images, particularly in efficiently delivering and playing back images in specified playback directions, leading to high storage demands and potential playback disruptions.
Innovation Solution
A microscope-image browsing system comprising a server and client terminals that prioritize the delivery and storage of images arrayed in the specified playback direction, allowing for seamless playback even with low storage capacity, and incorporating a communication-speed measuring portion to adjust playback speed accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If all microscope images are stored and delivered without prioritization, then complete image data is available for browsing, but storage requirements and delivery time increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The server performs preliminary actions by pre-calculating and storing delivery priorities of microscope images based on playback direction information before actual playback occurs. This allows the system to quickly identify and deliver high-priority images without requiring all images to be pre-loaded into storage, thus maintaining playback continuity while reducing storage requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by differentiating the delivery priority of individual images based on their position and relevance to the playback direction. Images with higher delivery priority (closer to playback position) are delivered first, while less critical images are deferred, optimizing both storage usage and playback smoothness
2Productivity
If microscope images are delivered in arbitrary order, then all images can be transmitted, but playback smoothness in specified direction deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The server calculates delivery priorities in advance based on playback direction information received from the client terminal. This preliminary prioritization enables efficient image delivery in the correct sequence without requiring complex real-time sorting, thus improving both delivery efficiency and playback smoothness
Solution Approach 2:
The delivery priority is dynamically adjusted based on playback direction information. When the playback direction changes, the system recalculates priorities to match the new direction, ensuring images are always delivered in the optimal sequence for smooth playback regardless of direction changes
3Device complexity
If playback speed is fixed regardless of communication speed, then playback control is simple, but playback disruptions occur when communication speed is low
Solution Approach 1:
The playback speed is made dynamic by adjusting it according to communication speed measurements. The system measures communication speed and automatically adjusts playback speed to match available bandwidth, preventing playback disruptions while maintaining relatively simple control through automated adjustment
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by measuring communication speed and using this information to adjust playback speed. This closed-loop control ensures playback continuity by adapting to actual network conditions, reliability improving while maintaining simple user-side control
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AI summary
Provided is a microscope-image browsing system including: a server that stores multidimensional microscope images; and one or more client terminals that are connected to the server via a network, wherein each of the client terminals is provided with: an input portion with which microscope images and a playback direction are input; an information-transmitting portion that transmits the input information about the microscope images and the playback direction; an image-receiving portion that receives the microscope images; a storage portion that stores the received microscope images; and an image-playing-back portion that plays back the stored microscope images, and wherein the server is provided with: an information-receiving portion that receives the information transmitted thereto from the information-transmitting portion; and an image-delivering portion that, on the basis of the received information about the microscope images and the playback direction, preferentially delivers the microscope images arrayed in the playback direction.