Drug imaging device and drug packaging device

A drug packaging device comprising:

• a drug supply unit configured to supply various types of drugs;
• a drug packaging portion configured to package the drugs supplied from the drug supply unit in a packaging sheet;
• a pooling portion configured to temporarily pool, upstream of the drug packaging portion, the drugs supplied from the drug supply unit;
• an imaging unit configured to capture an image of the inside of the pooling portion;
• and
• a controller configured to, in a case in which feature data of the drugs supplied from the supply unit specified by prescription information is not stored in a storage unit,
• create the feature data for drugs supplied in a first packet on the basis of the image captured by the imaging unit, and
• count a number of drugs in a second and subsequent packets with reference to this feature data.

A drug imaging device comprising:

• an imaging unit configured for drug image capture;
• a controller configured to
• determine that a dosage period includes a first drug and a second drug,
• determine whether the first drug and the second drug comply with at least one separate pooling condition,
• transfer the first drug into a first pooling portion in response to determining that the first drug and the second drug do not comply with the at least one separate pooling condition,
• photograph the first drug in the first pooling portion without the second drug,
• transfer the second drug to one of the first pooling portion or a second pooling portion, and
• photograph the second drug in the one of the first pooling portion or the second pooling portion without the first drug.