Verification system for a pharmacy packaging system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12154405-B2
Application number	US-202318173599-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2023
Priority date	Sep 27, 2016
Publication date	Nov 26, 2024
Grant date	Nov 26, 2024

Abstract

A method and verification system for verifying pharmaceuticals packaged within a pouch using a pharmacy packaging system. The method includes activating a first light source to illuminate the pharmaceutical pouch, capturing a first image of the pharmaceutical pouch while illuminated by the first light source, activating a second light source to illuminate the pharmaceutical pouch, and capturing a second image of the pharmaceutical pouch while illuminated by the second light source. The method further includes generating a third image based on the first image and the second image, generating a dashboard to simultaneously display first images, second images, and third images from a plurality of pharmaceutical pouches, providing a number of pills indication of a number of pills detected in the pouch against a number of pills expected in the pouch, and displaying the dashboard.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A verification system for verifying pharmaceutical pouches packaged for a prescription, the prescription listing a plurality of types of pharmaceuticals, the verification system comprising:
an electronic processor configured to
generate a verification dashboard displaying an image of a pharmaceutical in a packaged pharmaceutical pouch for the prescription;
determine that the pharmaceutical does not match any of the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals based on a comparison of the image of the pharmaceutical to comparison images stored in a database corresponding to the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals;
receive, via the verification dashboard, a user input to add the image of the pharmaceutical to the comparison images store in the database corresponding to a type of pharmaceutical from the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals; and
in response to receiving the user input,
update the database by adding the image of the pharmaceutical to the comparison images stored in the database corresponding to the type of pharmaceutical;
determine whether the image of the pharmaceutical is within a tolerance level of the type of pharmaceutical, wherein the database is updated further in response to determining that the image of the pharmaceutical is within the tolerance level; and
generate, on a user interface, an alert indicating that the image of the pharmaceutical is not within the tolerance level of the type of pharmaceutical.

2. The verification system of claim 1 , wherein the electronic processor is further configured to
display, on the verification dashboard, images of a plurality of pharmaceuticals in a plurality of packaged pharmaceutical pouches, the image of the pharmaceutical being one of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals;
determine whether the plurality of pharmaceuticals match any of the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals based on a comparison of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals to the comparison images stored in the database corresponding to the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals; and
provide, on the verification dashboard, an indication around each of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals based on determining whether the plurality of pharmaceuticals match any of the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals based on a comparison of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals to the comparison images stored in the database corresponding to the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals.

3. The verification system of claim 2 , wherein the indication includes a first type of indication when a corresponding one of the plurality of pharmaceuticals matches any of the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals, and wherein the indication includes a second type of indication that is different than the first type of indication when the corresponding one of the plurality of pharmaceuticals does not match any of the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals.

4. The verification system of claim 2 , wherein the indication is a first indication and wherein the electronic processor is further configured to
determine whether the plurality of pharmaceuticals match any of the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals based on a comparison of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals to the comparison images stored in the updated database corresponding to the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals; and
provide, on the verification dashboard, a second indication around each of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals based on determining whether the plurality of pharmaceuticals match any of the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals based on a comparison of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals to the comparison images stored in the updated database corresponding to the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals.

5. The verification system of claim 2 , wherein the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals are arrayed in a grid on the verification dashboard,
wherein a first subset of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals corresponding to a first packaged pharmaceutical pouch of the plurality of packaged pharmaceutical pouches is displayed in a first row or column, and
wherein a second subset of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals corresponding to a second packaged pharmaceutical pouch of the plurality of packaged pharmaceutical pouches is displayed in a second row or column.

6. The verification system of claim 5 , wherein the verification dashboard includes images of expected pharmaceuticals, and wherein the first subset of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals and the second subset of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals are aligned with the images of expected pharmaceuticals.

7. The verification system of claim 6 , wherein the first packaged pharmaceutical pouch is the packaged pharmaceutical pouch, wherein the image of the pharmaceutical is one of the first subset of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals, and wherein the image of the pharmaceutical is not aligned with any of the images of expected pharmaceuticals.

8. The verification system of claim 7 , wherein the electronic processor is further configured to
receive, via the verification dashboard, a second user input to add the image of the pharmaceutical to a correct location within the first row or column; and
display the image of the pharmaceutical in the correct location on the verification dashboard in response to receiving the second user input.

9. The verification system of claim 1 , wherein the alert is generated on a graphical user interface separate from the verification dashboard, and wherein the image of the pharmaceutical is displayed adjacent an image of an expected pharmaceutical in the graphical user interface.

10. A method for verifying pharmaceutical pouches packaged for a prescription, the prescription listing a plurality of types of pharmaceuticals, the method comprising:
generating, using an electronic processor, a verification dashboard displaying an image of a pharmaceutical in a packaged pharmaceutical pouch for the prescription;
determining, using the electronic processor, that the pharmaceutical does not match any of the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals based on a comparison of the image of the pharmaceutical to comparison images stored in a database corresponding to the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals;
receiving, via the verification dashboard, a user input to add the image of the pharmaceutical to the comparison images stored in the database corresponding to a type of pharmaceutical from the plurality of types of pharmaceuticals; and
in response to receiving the user input,
updating, using the electronic processor, the database by adding the image of the pharmaceutical to the comparison images stored in the database corresponding to the type of pharmaceutical;
determining, using the electronic processor, whether the image of the pharmaceutical is within a tolerance level of the type of pharmaceutical, wherein the database is updated further in response to determining that the image of the pharmaceutical is within the tolerance level; and
generating, on a user interface, an alert indicating that the image of the pharmaceutical is not within the tolerance level of the type of pharmaceutical.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
displaying, on the verification dashboard, images of a plurality of pharmaceuticals in a plurality of packaged pharmaceutical pouches, the image of the pharmaceutical being one of the images of the plurality of pharmaceuticals;
determining, using the electronic processor, whether the plurality of pharmaceuticals match any of the plurality of types of

Assignees

• Rxsafe Llc

Inventors

• Holmes William K
• Arsenault Aaron

Classifications

• G06V10/141

  Control of illumination · CPC title

• H04N23/56

  provided with illuminating means · CPC title

• H04N23/11

  for generating image signals from visible and infrared light wavelengths · CPC title

• G06V20/00

  Scenes; Scene-specific elements (control of digital cameras H04N23/60) · CPC title

• G06V10/143

  Sensing or illuminating at different wavelengths · CPC title