US 11,721,432 B1
Medication inventory system including boundary outline based medication tray stocking list and related methods
Brian S. Rogers, Greensboro, NC (US); James W. McCracken, Jr., Lewisville, NC (US); Seth Maxwell, Lewisville, NC (US); Patrick S. Connelly, Carnegie, PA (US); Justin A. Krull, Hurst, TX (US); Jared O. Santibanez, Forney, TX (US); and Greg J. Brendel, West Mifflin, PA (US)
Assigned to INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC., Ft. Worth, TX (US)
Filed by INMAR Rx SOLUTIONS, INC., Ft. Worth, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/162,781.
Application 17/162,781 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/793,098, filed on Feb. 18, 2020.
Application 16/793,098 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/704,573, filed on Dec. 5, 2019, granted, now 11,462,312.
Int. Cl. A61J 1/03 (2023.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 70/40 (2018.01); G06V 10/50 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01)
CPC G16H 40/20 (2018.01) [A61J 1/03 (2013.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); G06V 10/50 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 70/40 (2018.01); A61J 2205/10 (2013.01); A61J 2205/50 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medication inventory system comprising:
a medication tray comprising a plurality of partitions defining a plurality of compartments for storing respective medications, the medication tray having a tray identifier associated therewith; and
a mobile wireless communications device configured to
obtain at least one image of the medication tray,
detect edges of the medication tray and generate a plurality of edge images based upon the detected edges,
apply a Hough line detection algorithm to the plurality of edge images to determine a boundary outline of the medication tray,
identify corners of the boundary outline of the medication tray based upon the Hough line detection algorithm, and
generate a current medication stocking list of the medication tray based upon the boundary outline, the identified corners, respective locations of the medications within the medication tray, and the tray identifier from the at least one image.