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US 12,183,442 B2Granted
Medicine sorting device
AssigneeYuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsHirokazu Amano, Tomohiro Sugimoto, Tasuku Kono, Shinki Kojima, Hiromichi Tsuda
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Abstract
Drugs can be sorted irrespective of whether or not drug data is registered. A drug sorting device includes a conveying/sorting unit configured to: accommodate drugs determined to have drug data corresponding to image data into a confirmed area of a second accommodating portion for each type; and accommodate drugs determined to have no drug data corresponding to the image data into a temporarily determined area.
Claims4
A drug sorting device, comprising:
- a first accommodating portion configured to accommodate a plurality of types of drugs;
- a second accommodating portion configured to accommodate drugs of the plurality of types of drugs in a state of being sorted by type;
- a sensor configured to capture an image of a drug of the plurality of types of drugs conveyed from the first accommodating portion;
- a processor configured to determine whether drug data corresponding to the captured image is present in previously stored drug data relating to each of the plurality of types of drugs;
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- a sorting unit configured to:
- direct the drug into a first area of the second accommodating portion in response to a determination that the captured image includes drug data present in the previously stored drug data;
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- direct the drug into a second area of the second accommodating portion, different from the first area, in response to a determination that the captured image is free of drug data in the previously stored drug data;
- wherein the sorting unit is configured to sort each drug determined to be free of drug data in the previously stored drug data to a corresponding position in the second area based on at least one of a color or a shape of the drug and information attached to the drug in the captured image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.