Image management server, image display apparatus, image provision method, image acquisition method, program, and image management system
US8682046B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 20, 2011 |
| Grant date | Mar 25, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 19, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B21/365
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An image management server is provided including a microscopic image acquisition portion acquiring a microscopic image of a sample made of a plurality of tile images picked up by a microscope before placing the acquired microscopic image into a predetermined storage area. The image management server also includes a meta information creation portion creating meta information determining the microscopic image according to a result of data analysis acquired by the microscopic image acquisition portion; an image provision processing portion providing the meta information and the microscopic image to an image display apparatus in response to a request from the image display apparatus capable of viewing microscopic images. The image management server also includes a provided image prediction portion predicting the tile image highly likely to be requested by the image display apparatus based on hint information which is transmitted from the image display apparatus and which represents content of a microscopic image display process performed by the image display apparatus.
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