Augmented Reality: Real-Time Information Concerning Medication Consumed by a Patient

DIODATI, GLORIA; GÓMEZ, ADRIÁN; MARTÍNEZ, MARCELA; LUNA, DANIEL; GONZÁLEZ BERNALDO DE QUIROS, FERNÁN

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

IOS Press

Año: 2015 vol. 216

0926-9630

This paper describes a mobile prototype capable of recognizing characters from a photograph of a medication package. The prototype was built to work on the iOS platform and was developed using Objective-C and C programming languages. The prototype, capable of recognizing text out of an image, included image processing algorithms, text processing algorithms, and techniques to search and handle information from a database. This prototype is presented as an option for capturing reliable and validated information by using new technologies available to the general population.