Method and device for automatically tracking urine

    公开(公告)号:US11913937B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US17402184

    申请日:2021-08-13

    Inventor: Qintao Sun

    CPC classification number: G01N33/493 A61B5/207 A61B10/007 E03D11/13 G16H80/00

    Abstract: A method of automatically tracking urine in a toilet includes creating a background image of an interior of a toilet bowl using an image sensor, wherein the background image shows the interior of the toilet bowl. The method also includes acquiring an image of the interior of the toilet bowl using the image sensor, wherein the acquired image shows urine and a collecting and tracing member in the interior of the toilet bowl. The method further includes producing a difference image that shows a difference between the acquired image and the background image, and processing the difference image to identify a location of the urine and the collecting and tracking member, and moving the collecting and tracking member to the identified location of the urine.

    Specimen collection container having a fluid separation chamber

    公开(公告)号:US11889996B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-06

    申请号:US15884906

    申请日:2018-01-31

    CPC classification number: A61B10/007 A61B10/0096

    Abstract: A specimen collection container having a separation chamber includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a valve located between the first chamber and the second chamber. In an open position, the valve permits fluid communication between the first chamber and the second chamber. In a closed position, the valve maintains fluid isolation between the first chamber and the second chamber. A fluid stream passes from the first chamber to the second chamber through the valve permitting a predetermined volume of fluid to pass from the first chamber to the second chamber. When the predetermined volume of fluid passes to the second chamber, the valve transitions from the open position to the closed position so that additional fluid of the fluid stream received by the first chamber is maintained in the first chamber in fluid isolation from the predetermined volume of fluid contained in the second chamber.

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