1. A method for an imaging device for anatomically assigning an image content of an image generated by the imaging device, and in which an examination area of an object having an anatomy is imaged, to object components of the object, the method comprising: generating an overview image, the overview image covering an area that is larger than the examination area of the object and includes a number of object components; anatomically identifying the object components in the generated overview image in substantially autonomous fashion with the aid of methods of digital image processing, the digital image processing including an evaluation of an object geometry of the object components; and automatically assigning the image content of the image of the examination area to at least one object component identified in the overview image in the event of a known positional relationship between the image and the overview image.