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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2015
Sanofi-aventis Deutschland Gmbh, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Alexander Allerdings, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Christian Hoffmann, St. Polten, AT;
Rainer Fischer, Jena, DE;
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Abstract
A supplemental device () for attachment to a pen-type drug injection device, the supplemental device comprising an optical sensor array or camera () configured to capture an image of one or more numbers representing dose values on a dose dial sleeve of the injection device, and a processor () and memory () arrangement configured to run an algorithm to receive image data from the sensor/camera and extract the dialed dose value from said image via optical character recognition (OCR). The algorithm is able to determine the set dose value which is at the centre of the image (), also if the dose scale only comprises integer values in steps of two (see FIG.).