US 12,106,588 B2
Substance preparation evaluation system
Takayuki Mizutani, Edina, MN (US); Katsuhiro Seo, Kanagawa (JP); Shigeru Fujii, Shizuoka (JP); Kazuki Umebara, Shizuoka (JP); MArie Willette, Brea, CA (US); and Leila Nazemi, Brea, CA (US)
Assigned to Beckman Coulter, Inc., Brea, CA (US)
Filed by Beckman Coulter, Inc., Brea, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 4, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/594,423.
Application 17/682,809 is a division of application No. 16/345,658, granted, now 11,263,433, previously published as PCT/US2017/058838, filed on Oct. 27, 2017.
Application 18/594,423 is a continuation of application No. 17/682,809, filed on Feb. 28, 2022, granted, now 11,954,925.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/525,948, filed on Jun. 28, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/414,655, filed on Oct. 28, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2024/0203140 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. G06V 20/69 (2022.01); C12M 1/34 (2006.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06V 10/50 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/69 (2022.01) [C12M 41/46 (2013.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06V 10/50 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30072 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of evaluating a liquid substance in a container of a dispense device for improving dispensing accuracy of the dispense device, the method comprising:
capturing, using an image capture device, an image of at least a portion of the container;
identifying, using the at least one computing device, a reference point in the image, which reference point is associated with the container;
identifying, using the at least one computing device, a surface level of the liquid substance within the container in the image;
measuring a distance between the reference point and the surface level;
converting the distance to a volume of the liquid substance based on correlation data, the correlation data including information about a correlation between volumes of a liquid within the container and distances from the reference point to a plurality of surface levels within the container;
comparing the volume of the liquid substance with a target volume;
generating calibration information for the dispense device based on the comparison; and
adjusting operational parameters of the dispense device based on the calibration information.