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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2020
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Rayal Raj Prasad Nalam Venkat, Princeton, NJ (US);
Benjamin S. Pollack, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Yao-Jen Chang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Venkatesh Narasimhamurthy, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Vivek Singh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ankur Kapoor, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., Tarrytown, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of identifying a tube type. The method includes capturing one or more pixelated images of a cap affixed to a tube; identifying a color of one or more pixels of the pixilated image of the cap; identifying one or more gradients of a dimension of the cap; and identifying the tube type based at least on: the color of the one or more pixels, and the one or more gradients of a dimension of the cap. Apparatus adapted to carry out the method are disclosed as are other aspects.