Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Recording dose data from drug injection devices using optical character recognition (OCR)
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Application No.: US16165838Application Date: 2018-10-19
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Publication No.: US10796791B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Stephan Riedel , Till Gerken
- Applicant: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
- Applicant Address: DE Frankfurt am Main
- Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
- Current Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Frankfurt am Main
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@52c3361d
- Main IPC: G06K7/10
- IPC: G06K7/10 ; G16H20/13 ; G06K9/32 ; A61M5/24 ; A61M5/315 ; G06F19/00 ; G16H40/63 ; G06T7/73 ; G06T7/12 ; G06T7/136 ; A61M5/31 ; G06T5/50 ; H04N5/235 ; G16H20/17 ; G16H30/20 ; G16H15/00 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
A method of recording a medicament dose using a data collection device comprises capturing, by a video camera of said data collection device, a video showing a medicament dose indicator of a medicament delivery device, adjusting a scale of an image of said medicament dose indicator in said video, adjusting said image for skew of one or more characters displayed on a component of the medicament delivery device in said video, determining the position of at least one of said one or more characters in the image, identifying the at least one character using optical character recognition and determining a medicament dose shown by the medicament dose indicator based on a result of said optical character recognition. The method may include determining whether more than one delivery of medicament is recorded in the video and, if so, whether said more than one delivery includes one or more prime shots, so that an overall dosage delivered to a user may be determined based on multiple determined medicament doses. A wearable electronic device comprising a video camera may be used to obtain and analyze the video, for example, using software provided in an “app”. The wearable electronic device may be configured to be worn on the head of a user, to capture the video from the user's point of view.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190057764A1 RECORDING DOSE DATA FROM DRUG INJECTION DEVICES USING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) Public/Granted day:2019-02-21
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