Visual Inspection System for a Medical Device
AssigneeBecton Dickinson France
InventorsBaptiste Godard, Quentin Roch
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Abstract
A visual inspection system (600) for a syringe (502) that includes an image capture device (104), a structure configured to hold a tube of the syringe (502) for inspection, and at least one processor (102) that may cause an image of the tube to be captured via the image capture device when the tube is positioned in the structure, wherein the image includes an image of a flange (510) of the tube superimposed on a background (404), wherein the background includes white and black. The processor may determine a diameter of the flange of the tube and provide data associated with the diameter of the flange of the tube.
Claims11
A method for inspecting aspects of a medical device comprising:
- causing, with at least one processor, an image of a tube of a syringe to be captured via an image capture device, wherein the image comprises an image of a flange of the tube of the syringe superimposed on a background, wherein the background comprises a first color and a second color, wherein the first color of the background is white, and wherein the second color of the background is black;
- performing an edge detection procedure on the image of the flange of the tube;
- determining, with at least one processor, a measurement of a diameter of the flange of the tube based on the edge detection procedure performed on the image of the flange of the tube;
- and
- providing, with at least one processor, data associated with the measurement of the diameter of the flange of the tube.
A system for inspecting aspects of a medical device, comprising:
- a structure configured to a hold a tube for inspection;
- and
- at least one processor programmed or configured to:
- cause an image of a tube of a syringe to be captured via an image capture device when the tube is positioned in the structure, wherein the image comprises an image of a flange of the tube of the syringe superimposed on a background, wherein the background comprises a first color and a second color, wherein the first color of the background is white and wherein the second color of the background is black;
- performing an edge detection procedure on the image of the flange of the tube;
- determine a measurement of a diameter of the flange of the tube based on the edge detection procedure performed on the image of the flange of the tube;
- and
- provide data associated with the measurement of the diameter of the flange of the tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.