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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2016
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhide Hasegawa, Ashigarakami-gun, JP;
FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An illumination unit that can illuminate a drug having a stamped character thereon in a plurality of illumination directions surrounding the drug sequentially switches the direction in which the drug is illuminated. An imaging unit repeatedly captures the image of the drug whenever the illumination direction of the illumination unit is switched. A feature image extraction unit analyzes the captured image in each illumination direction and extracts a feature image corresponding to the shadow of the stamped character from each captured image. A feature image integration unit integrates the feature images in each illumination direction which are extracted by the feature image extraction unit to generate an integrated image. The recognition unit recognizes the stamped character included in the integrated image which is generated by the feature image integration unit and recognizes the type of drug on the basis of the result of recognizing the stamped character.