Apparatus and method for monitoring medication adherence
AssigneeAi Cure Technologies LLC
InventorsAdam Hanina, Gordon Kessler, Lei Guan
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Abstract
A system and method for positioning a pill to be ingested by a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera. The method includes the steps of determining a desired location of the mouth of a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera, determining a current position of a pill to be ingested by the user in the field of view of the image acquisition apparatus, and indicating on a display a movement to be made by the user to move the pill towards mouth of the user.
Claims20
A method for positioning a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera, comprising the steps of:
- determining a desired location of a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera;
- determining a current position of the user in the field of view of the image acquisition apparatus;
- indicating on a display a movement to be made by the user to move the current position of the user towards the desired location of the user.
A method for positioning a pill to be ingested by a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera, comprising the steps of:
- determining a desired location of the mouth of a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera;
- determining a current position of a pill to be ingested by the user in the field of view of the image acquisition apparatus;
- indicating on a display a movement to be made by the user to move the pill towards mouth of the user.
A system for tracking positioning of a medication to be administered by a user, comprising:
- an image acquisition apparatus for acquiring an image of a user, and for acquiring an image of a medication to be administered by the user;
- a processor for determining a desired location of a body part to which a medication is to be administered of a user in a field of view of the image acquisition apparatus, and determining a current position of the medication to be administered by the user in the field of view of the image acquisition apparatus;
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- a display for displaying the acquired image of the user, the acquired image of the medication, and for indicating a movement to be made by the user to move the medication towards the body part of the user to which the medication is to be administered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.