Design and Development of a Medicine Box Recognition System Based on Machine Vision

With the aging Chinese population and the increasing awareness of caring for vulnerable groups such as the blind, how to ensure the safety of medication in the state of living alone has attracted increasing attention. This paper proposes an intelligent recognition method for home medicine boxes. The drug name position is accurately determined after we preprocess the image photographed by the camera. Then the algorithm recognizes the character and puts it into a database for retrieval. According to the information from the retrieved speech, the algorithm tells the user the name of the drug and how to use it. The experimental results show that the method adopted in this paper has a high recognition rate for the information of common drug boxes in the market and a good promotional value.