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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2002
John Merrill Davis, III, Midlothian, VA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A vision based pill counting aid and method that rely on an electronic camera and a source of detectable radiation to detect pill/capsule image or silhouette and thereby, through the use of appropriate software, provide an accurate pill/capsule count. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention low cost, inexpensive, low power, and cool LED radiation sources are utilized as the imaging radiation source. A preferred CMOS camera that incorporates a vision chip detects the number of pixels of radiation interrupting the radiation from the LEDs reaching the CMOS camera. Through the use of appropriate software, the number of pills/capsules present in the field of view of the CMOS camera is determined and communicated to an operator through a display device.
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