Substance dispense evaluation system
AssigneeBeckman Coulter, Inc.
InventorsTadashi Haga, Tomohiko Takeuchi
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Abstract
An automated analysis instrument operates to detect inadequate dispensation of a fluidic substance on a tray. The instrument includes an image capturing device to capture an image of at least a portion of the tray including a receptacle portion and a surrounding portion around the receptacle portion. The instrument then identifies the surrounding portion of the at least the portion of the tray in the image, evaluates color components of the image corresponding to the surrounding portion of the at least the portion of the tray, and determines whether the fluidic substance is present on the surrounding portion of the at least the portion of the tray based on at least one of the color components.
Claims20
A method of evaluating dispensation of a fluidic substance on a tray in an automated analysis instrument, the method comprising:
- capturing, using an image capturing device, an image of at least a portion of the tray, the portion of the tray comprising a surrounding portion disposed proximate to a receptacle comprised by the tray;
- obtaining color components of one or more fragments of the image of at least the portion of the tray;
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- determining whether the fluidic substance is present on the surrounding portion comprised by the portion of the tray based on at least one of the color components of the one or more fragments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.