公开(公告)号：US20240069046A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US18502331

申请日：2023-11-06

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Kumar Roshan Mehta

IPC: G01N35/00 ,  G01N35/02 ,  G06T7/55 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06V20/64

CPC classification number: G01N35/00623 ,  G01N35/02 ,  G06T7/55 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06V20/64 ,  G01N2035/00643

Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring a sample handling system comprising:



a sliding unit comprising a sliding surface, wherein the sliding unit is configured for sliding over a sample transport device of the sample handling system; and
an imaging streaming unit comprising s camera, wherein the camera is configured for capturing a plurality of images, wherein the imaging streaming unit comprises an imaging communication interface for providing the plurality of captured images to a transport control system of the sample handling system.




Further disclosed is a transport control system for controlling transport of a plurality of sample container holders of a sample handling system, a sample handling system for handling a plurality of samples, a method for identifying an obstacle, a method for determining a distance between the obstacle and a monitoring device and a method for controlling a monitoring device and computer programs and computer-readable storage media for performing the methods.

公开(公告)号：US20220107331A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17447844

申请日：2021-09-16

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Kumar Roshan Mehta

IPC: G01N35/00 ,  G01N35/04 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06N3/08

Abstract: A method for determining at least one state of at least one cavity of a transport interface configured for transporting sample tubes is provided and comprises: capturing at least one image of at least a part of the transport interface by using at least one camera; categorizing the state of the cavity into at least one category by applying at least one trained model on the image by using at least one processing unit, wherein the trained model is being trained on image data of the transport interface, wherein the image data comprises a plurality of images of the transport interface with cavities in different states; and providing the determined category of at least one cavity via at least one communication interface.