US 12,478,735 B2 · Method and electronic device for acquiring delivery information

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an information acquisition system, an electronic device and to a method of acquiring delivery information of a drug delivery device configured for delivery of a dose of a medicament. The drug delivery device includes a housing and a mechanically implemented post-dispensing indicator. A configuration of the post-dispensing indicator visible from outside the drug delivery device is indicative of a size of a dose previously delivered by the drug delivery device. An image of the post-dispensing indicator is captured after delivery of the dose. —The image is processed and the configuration of the post-dispensing indicator is recognized in the image. A dose size is derived from the recognized configuration of the post-dispensing indicator. The dose size is assigned with a timestamp, storing the dose size with the timestamp in a storage.

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Dependent claims

A method of acquiring delivery information of a drug delivery device configured for delivery of a dose of a medicament, the drug delivery device comprising a housing configured to accommodate a medicament container, a drive mechanism configured to operably engage with the medicament container to deliver the dose of the medicament and a post-dispensing indicator that is mechanically implemented and which comprises an indicator member movable along a track, wherein a position of the indicator member along the track and being visible from outside the drug delivery device is indicative of the size of the dose previously delivered by the drug delivery device, the method comprising

capturing of an image of the post-dispensing indicator after delivery of the dose;
processing of the image and recognizing the configuration of the post-dispensing indicator in the image, wherein recognizing the configuration of the post-dispensing indicator comprises recognizing of the position of the indicator member along the track in the image;
deriving of a dose size from the recognized configuration of the post-dispensing indicator;
assigning the dose size with a timestamp;
and
storing the dose size with the timestamp in a storage.

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An electronic device for acquiring delivery information of a drug delivery device, the drug delivery device comprising a housing configured to accommodate a medicament container, a drive mechanism configured to operably engage with the medicament container to deliver a dose of a medicament, and a post-dispensing indicator that is mechanically implemented and which comprises an indicator member movable along a track, wherein a position of the indicator member along the track and being visible from outside the drug delivery device is indicative of the size of the dose previously delivered by the drug delivery device, the electronic device comprising:

a camera for capturing of an image of the post-dispensing indicator of the drug delivery device;
and
a processor operable to process the image and operable to recognize the configuration of the post-dispensing indicator in the image, wherein recognizing the configuration of the post-dispensing indicator comprises recognizing of the position of the indicator member along the track in the image, and wherein the processor is further operable to derive a dose size from the recognized configuration of the post-dispensing indicator, to assign the dose size with a timestamp and to store the dose size with the timestamp in a storage.

A drug delivery device configured for delivery of a dose of a medicament, the drug delivery device comprising:

a housing configured to accommodate a medicament container,
a drive mechanism configured to operably engage with the medicament container to deliver the dose of the medicament,
a post-dispensing indicator that is mechanically implemented, the post-dispensing indicator comprising an indicator member movable along a track, wherein a position of the indicator member along the track is indicative of the dose size of the dose previously delivered,
wherein one of the track and the indicator member comprises a first scale and wherein the other one of the track and the indicator member comprises a pointer or a second scale cooperating with the first scale and wherein a configuration of the post-dispensing indicator is recognizable by recognizing of the position of the pointer or second scale along the first scale in an image of the post-dispensing indicator of the drug delivery device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and electronic device for acquiring delivery information

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