IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PRESCRIPTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20170308646A1
• Filed: 04/12/2017
• Published: 10/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: YAMAWAKI, Taku
• Application Number:
  US15/485,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20170308646A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1203 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1243 Variable data printing, e.g. document forms, templates, labels, coupons, advertisements, logos, watermarks, transactional printing, fixed content versioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1284 Local printer device
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00015 Reproducing apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00405 Output means output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to read, from a prescription, a prescription image including a first image including first prescription information that is visible and a second image including second prescription information that is invisible; analyze the second image to acquire the second prescription information; and display, on a display device, the first prescription information and the second prescription information in a comparable format.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry configured to

read, from a prescription, a prescription image including a first image including first prescription information that is visible and a second image including second prescription information that is invisible;

analyze the second image to acquire the second prescription information; and

display, on a display device, the first prescription information and the second prescription information in a comparable format.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first image includes a character string indicating the first prescription information, and

the displaying of the first prescription information and the second prescription information includes displaying the prescription image on the display device.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first image includes a two-dimensional code including the first prescription information, and

the displaying of the first prescription information and the second prescription information includes displaying the first prescription information included in the two-dimensional code, on the display device.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the processing circuitry further analyzes the two-dimensional code to acquire the first prescription information.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the processing circuitry further performs optical character recognition to acquire the first prescription information from the character string.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry further compares the first prescription information with the second prescription information to detect a falsification in the first prescription information.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the displaying of the first prescription information and the second prescription information includes displaying the first prescription information and the second prescription information side by side on a same screen of the display device.

8. An image processing method executed by a computer, the image processing method comprising:

reading, from a prescription, a prescription image including a first image including first prescription information that is visible and a second image including second prescription information that is invisible;

analyzing the second image to acquire the second prescription information; and

displaying, on a display device, the first prescription information and the second prescription information in a comparable format.

9. A prescription management system comprising:

an image forming apparatus including processing circuitry configured to create a prescription on which a prescription image is printed, the prescription image including a first image including first prescription information that is visible and a second image including second prescription information that is invisible; and

an image processing apparatus including processing circuitry configured to

read the prescription image from the prescription,

analyze the second image to acquire the second prescription information, and

display, on a display device, the first prescription information and the second prescription information in a comparable format.