Patent Application
20090065523
The present invention relates to a transmission broadcasting system and the method of the same, particularly to a system extracting characters from images to broadcast at a remote end.
In the conventional prescription collecting process of the hospital a display screen broadcasts the prescription collecting information which contains the prescription collecting window and the prescription collecting numbers after the pharmacist dispenses the prescription to inform patients to go to prescription collecting window orderly to collect their prescription. However, since there are a lot of patients in medium or large scale hospital they have to wait at the display screen and watch screen closely for a long time until their prescription collecting number are broadcasted to go to the prescription collecting window to collect their prescription. Consequently it does not only cause inconvenience for patients to wait at the place where the display screen is broadcasted but also a crowd gathers around. Therefore the hospital installs a broadcasting system to broadcast the prescription collecting information on the display screen in hospital and each merchandising store in the hospital or its neighborhood to disperse the crowd waiting for collecting their prescription.
However, the said broadcasting system is generally installed by a contractor in the form of outsourcing contract. In order to protect his advantage the broadcasting system vendors generally adds a decoding/encoding device to encode the prescription collecting information before they are transmitted to each merchandising store. Each merchandising store decodes the transmitted information and broadcasts accordingly. If the encoding/decoding device is damaged or the broadcasting system is out of order, since the encoding/decoding technology is a proprietary technology of the broadcasting system vendor the service for solution will be provided in high price. It causes an increase in cost for hospital. Alternatively, the same service may be provided by means of deciphering by other vendors. However, it takes time and waste cost to overcome the limits imposed by the encoding/decoding technology of the original broadcasting system vendor. It is still not the best solution.
The main objective of the present invention is to transmit and broadcast the prescription collecting information directly to each merchandising store in hospital or its neighborhood without deciphering the encoding/decoding technology of the original broadcasting system vendor.
To achieve the above mentioned objective, the present invention provides a broadcasting system extracting characters from images in hospital. It is adapted to transmit the characters contained in the images of a display unit to a remote end to broadcast. It comprises of an image extracting unit acquiring the frames of the display unit and converting them into a digital image information; a reading unit acquiring the digital image information of the image extracting unit and reading a character information; a transmission unit acquiring and transmitting the character information of the reading unit; and an output unit receiving and broadcasting the transmitted character information of the transmission unit.
The other advantage, objective, technical feature and effectiveness of the present invention will be better understood by the detail description of preferred embodiment in conjunction with the following figures.
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To sum up, since the present invention of a broadcasting system extracting characters from images in hospital and the method of the same merely apply the image extraction unit 2 and reading step 3 to acquire the prescription collecting information broadcasted by the display unit 1 and transmit to each merchandising store in hospital or its neighborhood to broadcast, it can overcome the limits imposed by the encoding/decoding technology of the original broadcasting system vendor without deciphering. It saves time and cost required in deciphering the codes in conventional technology.
While the invention has been described by way of example and in terms of a preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited thereto. On the contrary, it is intended to cover various modifications and similar arrangements and procedures, and the scope of the appended claims therefore should be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and similar arrangements and procedures.
