Information recording system, information recording device, and information recording method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019364241-A1
Application number	US-201916535362-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 8, 2019
Priority date	Feb 14, 2017
Publication date	Nov 28, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

In an information recording system, an information generation unit is configured to generate processing information for identifying processing to be performed on an object for inspection. An ID acquisition unit is configured to acquire ID information attached to at least one of the object and a physical object for storing or supporting the object. A recording unit is configured to associate first ID information and second ID information with the processing information and record the processing information, the first ID information, and the second ID information on a recording medium. The first ID information is the ID information acquired by the ID acquisition unit before the processing is performed. The second ID information is the ID information acquired by the ID acquisition unit after the processing is performed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An information recording system comprising:
an information generation unit including at least one of a sensor and a camera and configured to generate processing information for identifying processing to be performed on an object for inspection; an ID acquisition unit including at least one of a communicator and a scanner and configured to acquire ID information attached to at least one of the object and a physical object for storing or supporting the object; and a recording unit including a processor and configured to associate first ID information and second ID information with the processing information and record the processing information, the first ID information, and the second ID information on a recording medium, the first ID information being the ID information acquired by the ID acquisition unit before the processing is performed, the second ID information being the ID information acquired by the ID acquisition unit after the processing is performed.

2 . The information recording system according to claim 1 , wherein the information generation unit is mounted on an instrument for use in the processing and outputs the processing information when the use of the instrument has been detected.

3 . The information recording system according to claim 2 , wherein the instrument is used to make pathological specimens.

4 . The information recording system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the information generation unit includes a camera configured to generate image information by photographing a state of the processing, and the recording unit records the image information generated by the camera as the processing information on the recording medium.

5 . The information recording system according to claim 1 , further comprising a first instruction acceptance unit including at least one of an operation device and a communicator and configured to accept a start instruction related to a start of the processing and an end instruction related to an end of the processing,
wherein the first ID information is the ID information acquired by the ID acquisition unit at a timing associated with a timing at which the start instruction is accepted, and the second ID information is the ID information acquired by the ID acquisition unit at a timing associated with a timing at which the end instruction is accepted.

6 . The information recording system according to claim 1 , wherein the ID acquisition unit includes
a first ID acquisition unit including at least one of a communicator and a scanner and configured to acquire the first ID information; and a second ID acquisition unit, different from the first ID acquisition unit, including at least one of a communicator and a scanner and configured to acquire the second ID information.

7 . The information recording system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the ID acquisition unit includes a camera configured to generate image information by photographing at least one of the object and the physical object, and the recording unit records the image information generated by the camera as the ID information on the recording medium.

8 . The information recording system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the ID acquisition unit includes
a camera configured to generate image information by photographing at least one of the object and the physical object, and
an image processing unit including a processor and configured to acquire the ID information by performing image processing on the image information generated by the camera.

9 . The information recording system according to claim 8 ,
wherein the image processing unit acquires the first ID information from a first region in the image information, and the image processing unit acquires the second ID information from a second region different from the first region in the image information.

10 . The information recording system according to claim 8 ,
wherein, when a first motion of the ID information in the image information has been recognized, the image processing unit acquires the ID information as the first ID information, when a second motion of the ID information in the image information has been recognized, the image processing unit acquires the ID information as the second ID information, and the second motion is different from the first motion.

11 . The information recording system according to claim 1 ,
wherein a radio tag on which the ID information is recorded is attached to at least one of the object and the physical object, and the ID acquisition unit is a wireless communicator configured to receive the ID information from the radio tag.

12 . The information recording system according to claim 1 , wherein the ID acquisition unit includes
a sound acquisition unit including a microphone and configured to acquire sound information based on sound uttered by a user who performs the process; and a sound processing unit including a processor and configured to recognize the ID information on the basis of the sound information acquired by the sound acquisition unit.

13 . The information recording system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the information generation unit generates the processing information corresponding to each of a plurality of types of the processing, the ID acquisition unit acquires the first ID information and the second ID information corresponding to each of the plurality of types of the processing, the recording unit associates the first ID information and the second ID information corresponding to each of the plurality of types of the processing with the processing information corresponding to each of the plurality of types of the processing, and the recording unit records the processing information, the first ID information, and the second ID information corresponding to each of the plurality of types of the processing on the recording medium.

14 . The information recording system according to claim 1 , wherein the recording unit further associates time point information indicating a time point at which the processing was performed with the processing information and records the time point information on the recording medium.

15 . The information recording system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second instruction acceptance unit including at least one of an operation device and a communicator and configured to accept an instruction for specifying at least one piece of the first ID information and the second ID information; and a reading unit including a processor and configured to read the processing information associated with at least one piece of the first ID information and the second ID information corresponding to the instruction from the recording medium and read the first ID information and the second ID information associated with the processing information from the recording medium.

16 . The information recording system according to claim 15 ,
wherein, when the second instruction acceptance unit has accepted an instruction for specifying the second ID information, the reading unit reads first processing information associated with the second ID information corresponding to the instruction from the recording medium and reads the first ID information and the second ID information associated with the first processing information from the recording medium, and the reading unit further reads second processing information associated with the second ID information identical to the first ID information associated with the first processing information from the recording medium and reads the first ID

Assignees

• Olympus Corp

Inventors

• Kawano Yoshihiro
• Tatsuta Seiji

Classifications

• G06Q10/087

  Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders · CPC title

• H04N7/18

  Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast · CPC title

• H04N5/77 Primary

  between a recording apparatus and a television camera · CPC title

• G06K19/06037

  multi-dimensional coding · CPC title

• G06K7/14

  using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light {(G06K7/10831 - G06K7/1097 take precedence)} · CPC title