Auto-Cropping Video Stream Processor for Medical Dose Documentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional pharmacy management techniques face inefficiencies and errors in preparing medical doses due to reliance on physical labels, manual record-keeping, and lack of reliable consultation of FDA-approved protocols, leading to unprepared, lost, or duplicate doses, and increased administrative overhead.
Innovation Solution
A medical dose preparation management system that automates the tracking and documentation of medical doses using digital image processing to identify regions of interest in images of medication receptacles, reducing image data size without compromising resolution, and allowing for high-speed, accurate documentation and delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If physical labels are used to track medical doses, then dose tracking is simple and reliable, but administrative overhead increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical labels with digital images captured by imaging devices. These digital copies of dose information are stored and processed electronically, eliminating the need for physical label handling while maintaining reliable dose tracking through digital record-keeping and image analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent substitutes manual mechanical processes (physical label printing, handling, and verification) with automated image capture and digital processing systems. The imaging devices and computer systems automatically track doses without requiring manual manipulation of physical labels, thereby reducing administrative overhead and improving efficiency.
2Measurement precision
If full-resolution images are captured for documentation, then documentation quality is high, but image data size increases and processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential information from full-resolution images by identifying and processing key features and regions of interest. The system captures full-resolution images for documentation quality but then extracts only the necessary dose information, eliminating redundant data while maintaining high documentation standards.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the image processing task into multiple stages: capturing full-resolution images for quality documentation, then dividing the processing into feature identification, information extraction, and storage phases. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high image quality while reducing overall processing time through optimized, staged operations.
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AI summary
Use of improved image acquisition for a medical dose preparation system. The medical dose preparation system may include a work station for capturing medical dose preparation images (e.g., to document preparation of a mediation dose). The medical dose preparation image may be captured by a video data stream processor capable of performing an auto cropping technique on a video data stream received from an image device.