Method and apparatus to identify and separate medicinal preparations and dosages thereof

a technology of medicinal preparations and methods, applied in the field of medicinal preparations and dosages, can solve the problems of becoming drowsy, affecting the safety of patients, and being more prone to falling, etc., and achieve the effect of preventing patients with several medications from forgetting the instructions for all of their tablets

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-11-09
REIJONEN MIKA
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For example, without limitation, one problem with medication dosage is that tranquilizing and sleeping medicine is routinely given to people, and although they are ordered by the prescription to take only as needed, these users continually take these medicines.
When these users are older people, they can become drowsy and, because of their degraded mobility, are for example more liable to falling.
When the patient removes his medicine from the device to take, he is not informed of medication information, and this type of device does not prevent the patient from forgetting to take the medicine.
In these solutions medicine information is also not included with the medication, and it can be difficult for patients with several medications to remember the instructions for all of their tablets.
Also, other problems exist in current systems.

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[0018] The present invention is best understood by reference to the detailed figures and description set forth herein.

[0019] Embodiments of the invention are discussed below with reference to the Figures. However, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the detailed description given herein with respect to these figures is for explanatory purposes as the invention extends beyond these limited embodiments. For example, without limitation, it should be appreciated that those skilled in the art will, in light of the teachings of the present invention, recognize a multiplicity of alternate and suitable approaches, depending on the needs of the particular application, to implement the functionality of any given detail described herein, beyond the particular implementation choices in the following embodiments described and shown. That is, there are numerous modifications and variations of the invention that are too numerous to be listed but that all fit within the scope of ...

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Machine vision is used for the separation or identification of medicinal preparation or the dosage of medication in various situations for example, without limitation, morning, day, evening and night doses, in which the dose is delivered from medicine boxes or other containers. In one implementation the medicine table or medicine box that is typically set to a planar scanner and a picture is taken with a camera or a camera phone and the picture is analyzed with machine vision software for separation and indentification of the medical preparation or the dose. Medicines are then recognized in cooperation with a database, and information related to the recognized medicines are transmitted or displayed. The identification of the medicinal preparation is often useful in many official tasks that require near real time identification of the medicine.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present continuation-in-part patent claims priority benefit of the PCT international patent application designating the United States with PCT application number PCT / F12004 / 000726 and filed on 26 Nov., 2004 under 35 U.S.C. 120 and 365(c).FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002] Not applicable. REFERENCE TO SEQUENCE LISTING, A TABLE, OR A COMPUTER LISTING APPENDIX [0003] Not applicable. COPYRIGHT NOTICE [0004] A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office, patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0005] The present invention relates generally to medicine and dosages thereof. More particularly, the invention relates to the using of m...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D83/04B65D85/42
CPCG06K9/00G06F18/00
Inventor REIJONEN, MIKA
Owner REIJONEN MIKA
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