US 12,093,776 B2
Method for capturing computer-readable codes, reading device and reading system
Jan Koch, Tuttlingen (DE); and Mirco Vitr, Aachen (DE)
Assigned to Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen (DE)
Appl. No. 18/039,142
Filed by Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 30, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/083602
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 26, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/112606, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 2, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20210781 (EP), filed on Nov. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0419059 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/10722 (2013.01) [G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for capturing multiple computer-readable codes, of a medical product or a packaging of a medical product for assisting a user, the method comprising the steps of:
capturing an image of the medical product or its the packaging of the medical product by a capturing device;
extracting at least a first computer-readable code and a second computer-readable code in the captured image;
interpreting the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code by an interpretation device and retrieving information of at least a product-ID and further product information associated with each of the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code;
determining, based on the retrieved information, whether a predefined set of relevant information for the medical product is included in the information associated with each of the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code and/or a linked database,
selecting the second computer-readable code as a relevant code, when the retrieved information associated with the first computer-readable code is fully included in the retrieved information associated with the second computer-readable code, or selecting the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code as the relevant code, if the information associated with the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code each includes at least one part of the information of the predefined set of relevant information;
transmitting, based on a result of the determining and on a result of the selecting, a respective code marker for each of the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code to a displaying device; and
displaying an overlay image with the captured image and, according to the respective code marker, a marking of each of the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code for adding assisting visual information to each of the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code in order to provide an improved overview of the first computer-readable code and the second computer-readable code to the user.