US 7,494,045 B2
Patient identification method for X-ray film user-interfaces
Wido Menhardt, Los Gatos, Calif. (US); and Yue Shen, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, N.Y. (US)
Appl. No. 10/526,328
PCT Filed Sep. 04, 2003, PCT No. PCT/CA03/01285
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Feb. 28, 2005,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/023790, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 18, 2004.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/408079, filed on Sep. 04, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2006/0000884 A1, Jan. 05, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06K 19/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 235—375  [235/487] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for retrieving, from a plurality of digitized x-ray films, a digitized x-ray film said film comprising at least one label, the method comprising the steps of:
(i) obtaining a digital image of said label;
(ii) digitally associating said digitized image of the label with said digitized x-ray film;
(iii) displaying a plurality of labels each associated with a digitized x-ray film; and
(iv) selecting a label from said plurality of labels to retrieve said digitized x-ray film.