To provide a pharmaceutical inspecting apparatus and a pharmaceutical inspecting method capable of discriminating the suitability of a pharmaceutical product even if the tablet is imprinted with a pattern with at least one kind of medicine among a plurality of kinds of medicines accommodated in a medicine package.An image pickup camera capable of picking up a plurality of kinds of medicines of a light transmissive medicine envelope a plane illumination source for diffusing and irradiating a light ray in a direction of the medicine packaging body , And a computer device (60) for analyzing the characteristics of the medicine based on the image information of the medicine of the imaged medical package and judging the suitability of the medicine by using the analysis result, wherein the medicine package , The imaging camera 30 and the plane illumination source 40 are opposed to each other in the vertical direction and the illumination source 50 is disposed on the side of the imaging camera 30, and at least one kind of medicine, In the case where the medicine is a tablet, the computer device 60 analyzes at least the pattern of the tablet based on the image information of the tablet in the captured medicine package, and determines suitability of the tablet using the analysis result.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION【課題】薬包体に収容された複数種の医薬品中、少なくとも一種の医薬品が模様の刻印された錠剤でも、医薬品の適否を判別できる医薬品鑑査装置及び医薬品鑑査方法を提供する。【解決手段】光透過性の薬包体の複数種の薬を撮像可能な撮像カメラ30と、薬包体方向に光線を拡散照射する面照明源40と、薬包体方向に光線を横方向から照射する照明源50と、撮像された薬包体の薬の画像情報に基づいて薬の特徴を解析し、解析結果を用いて薬の適否を判別するコンピュータ機器60とを備え、薬包体の複数種の薬のうち、少なくとも一種の薬を識別コードの刻印された錠剤とし、撮像カメラ30と面照明源40を上下方向に対設し、照明源50を撮像カメラ30側に配置し、コンピュータ機器60は、医薬品が錠剤の場合、撮像された薬包体中の錠剤の画像情報に基づいて錠剤の少なくとも模様を解析し、解析結果を用いて錠剤の適否を判別する。【選択図】図1
