1. A method of an imaging device of anatomically assigning an image content of an image generated by the imaging device, the method comprising: generating, using the imaging device, a first image of an anatomy of an examination area of an object; generating, using the imaging device, an overview image, the overview image covering an area that is larger than the examination area of the object and includes a plurality of object components; anatomically identifying the object components in the generated overview image in an autonomous fashion without any human intervention with the aid of methods of digital image processing, the digital image processing including an evaluation of an object geometry of the object components; automatically assigning by anatomy and without any human intervention an image content of the first image of the examination area to at least one object component identified in the overview image based on a known positional relationship between the first image and the overview image; and displaying a resulting image.