Graphic application development system for a medical imaging system

US7020868B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Josef P. Debbins · Waukesha, US
• Kristine Gould · Delafield, US
• Paul E. Licato · Wauwatosa, US
• Jason A. Polzin · Superior, US
• Deepa Thomas · San Francisco, US
• Mark Radick · Muskego, US
• Giora Sat · Waukesha, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 28, 2006
• Expiry date: Jul 13, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H50/50
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A workstation is programmed to operate as an application development system for a medical imaging system. Objects programmed in an object-oriented language are selected from a component library using a visual component assembler which enables them to be dragged from a framework area on a display to a workspace area. Properties of selected components may be edited, and the resulting collection of components may be graphically linked together and saved as an application program.