Automatic analyzer
AssigneeHitachi High-Tech Corporation
InventorsHideto Tamezane, Hiroyuki Takayama
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Abstract
Provided is an automatic analyzer that dispenses a specimen only if it is determined to be in an appropriate state for use in inspection at an early stage. It includes an image obtaining unit that obtains an image of a specimen container, a specifying unit that specifies distance information from an opening of the specimen container to a liquid surface of the specimen and information of a type or a diameter of the specimen container from the image, a storing unit that stores a threshold for the distance corresponding to the type of the specimen container, and a determining unit that determines whether or not to dispense the specimen whose image has been obtained, according to the distance specified by the specifying unit and the threshold stored in the storing unit.
Claims7
An automatic analyzer for analyzing a specimen, comprising:
- an image obtaining unit that obtains an image of a specimen container containing a specimen;
- a specifying unit that specifies a distance from an opening of the specimen container to a liquid surface of the specimen and specifies information of a type or a diameter of the specimen container from the image;
- a storing unit that stores a threshold for the distance, according to the type of the specimen container;
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- a determining unit that determines whether or not to dispense the specimen whose image has been obtained, according to the distance specified by the specifying unit and the threshold stored in the storing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.