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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
May. 04, 1998
Qinglian Guo, Tokyo, JP;
Mieko Ohsuga, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuyuki Kamei, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunobu Muroi, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuo Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical support system includes a patient-side system including patient shooting devices for photographing a patient's body and forming respective images displaying respective parts of the patient's body; a medical-side system located at a position spaced away from the patient-side system and including an image synthesizer for splicing together, at boundary portions, respective adjacent images of the patient's body to produce a composite image displaying an area of the patient's body extending across the respective images, and a display for displaying the composite image produced by the image synthesizer; and a communication link for transmitting information between the medical-side system and the patient-side system and for transferring the images produced by the patient shooting devices to the medical-side system.