Patent ID: 9417253
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G01N

Claim Text:
1. A specimen processing system comprising: a specimen setting section; a specimen re-putting section connected to the specimen setting section by a feed port, both configured for setting a specimen container thereon; a transporting system that transports a specimen container set in the specimen setting section; an imaging unit that obtains shape information on a specimen container transported by the transporting system by imaging the transported specimen container; a specimen measuring section that measures a specimen accommodated in a specimen container imaged by the imaging unit and transported to the specimen measuring section by the transporting system; an accommodating section configured for accommodating a specimen container accommodating a specimen measured by the specimen measuring section; a collect section configured for collecting the specimen container that is imaged by the imaging unit and is not measured by the specimen measuring section, wherein the collect section is arranged nearer the specimen setting section than the specimen measuring section; and a control system configured to determine whether or not the specimen container imaged by the imaging unit is to be supplied to the specimen measuring section for analysis based on the obtained shape information, to transport an accepted specimen container that is determined to be supplied to the specimen measuring section to the specimen measuring section, and to transport rejected specimen containers that are determined not to be supplied to the specimen measuring section to the collect section or the re-putting section; a display; a storing section configured for storing the information relating to the rejected specimen container, wherein the control system is configured to control the display to display information relating to the rejected specimen container and an icon that receives a delete instruction for deleting information relating to the rejected specimen container, where the delete instruction is received by an operator to delete the information from the display and the storing section when the delete instruction is received by selecting the icon, and to transport operator-designated rejected specimen containers from the specimen re-putting section to the specimen measuring section after the information is deleted, wherein control system causes the specimen measuring section to measure the specimen in the operator-designated rejected specimen container transported to the specimen measuring section after the information relating to the rejected specimen container is deleted.