Medication monitoring and identification
US10896244B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 19, 2019 |
| Grant date | Jan 19, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 19, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG16H70/40
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A medical monitoring system extracts characteristic information for one or more medications from an image of the one or more medications on an uncontrolled background, the image being taken by a client device associated with a user of the medical monitoring system. The medical monitoring system determines prescription information associated with a medication, of the one or more medications, using the extracted characteristic information and a medication database, the medication database containing mappings between prescription information and characteristic information for a plurality of medications. The medical monitoring system provides a portion of the prescription information to the client device.
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