Patent Document ID: 8457361
Application ID: 12090643
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A process for monitoring the filling of a capsule with a medicament comprising the steps of: filling at least part of the capsule with a given fill mass of a given closed contour from the medicament; recording an image of at least the fill mass of the medicament contained in the capsule and transmitting the image to a computer in computer-readable format; and evaluating, by computer, the filling using the image by determining the contour of the fill mass contained in the capsule, wherein determining the contour of the fill mass contained in the capsule involves accessing the recorded image, using a suitable algorithm to approximate a contour line of the fill mass in the recorded image by convex matching to give an approximated contour line and comparing the length of the approximated contour line with the length of a predetermined contour line; and analyzing whether a correct fill quantity is in the capsule.