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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1990
Kazuhiro Hishinuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A medical image displaying apparatus is provided with a display device, which reproduces a visible image from an image signal made up of a series of image signal components representing a medical image, and which displays the visible image. A conversion device receives a plurality of primary image signal components representing a medical image, each of the primary image signal components being composed of n bits, and converts them into a plurality of secondary image signal components representing an image with a desired gradation and having been compensated for gradation characteristics of the display device. Each of the secondary image signal components is composed of n+k bits, where k>0. The display device reproduces a visible image from the plurality of the secondary image signal components and displays it.