MEDICINAL SUBSTANCE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD
First Claim
1. An apparatus for identifying a medicinal substance, the apparatus comprising:
- a tray that receives and concurrently supports a plurality of individual pills formed at least in part from the medicinal substance that have been removed from a container;
a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing a drug database comprising a plurality of drug entries, wherein each drug entry comprises at least one physical property related to an identity of a pill formed at least in part from a different medicinal substance;
a recognition system comprising one or more recognition devices that captures an image of a plurality of different surfaces of each of the plurality of individual pills arranged on the tray and, from the image, recognizes at least one identifying feature comprising a visible physical property of the individual pills on the tray; and
a controller that receives a signal indicative of the at least one identifying feature detected by the one or more recognition devices and determines at least one possible identity of the medicinal substance from among the different medicinal substances in the drug database based on the at least one identifying feature detected by the one or more recognition devices.
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Abstract
Provided is an apparatus for identifying a medicinal substance. A tray receives and concurrently supports a plurality of pills formed at least in part from the medicinal substance. A computer-readable memory stores a drug database including one or more identifying features for identifying different pills formed at least in part from different medicinal substances. A recognition device is arranged to interrogate the pills on the tray and detect at least one of the identifying features from the pills. A controller receives the identifying feature(s) detected by the recognition device and determines the identity of the medicinal substance from among the different medicinal substances in the drug database based on the identifying feature(s).
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19 Claims
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1. An apparatus for identifying a medicinal substance, the apparatus comprising:
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a tray that receives and concurrently supports a plurality of individual pills formed at least in part from the medicinal substance that have been removed from a container; a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing a drug database comprising a plurality of drug entries, wherein each drug entry comprises at least one physical property related to an identity of a pill formed at least in part from a different medicinal substance; a recognition system comprising one or more recognition devices that captures an image of a plurality of different surfaces of each of the plurality of individual pills arranged on the tray and, from the image, recognizes at least one identifying feature comprising a visible physical property of the individual pills on the tray; and a controller that receives a signal indicative of the at least one identifying feature detected by the one or more recognition devices and determines at least one possible identity of the medicinal substance from among the different medicinal substances in the drug database based on the at least one identifying feature detected by the one or more recognition devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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