MEDICINE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, MEDICINE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, MEDICINE IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Provided is a medicine identification system, a medicine identification method, and a program that enable favorable identification of a medicine by means of a simple device employing a camera-equipped mobile terminal. A smartphone (100) including a camera on the same face as a display changes a light-emitting region on the display, changes an illuminating direction with respect to a medicine (20) placed on a tray (10) having an indicator used for standardizing size and shape of the medicine, and images the medicine (20) with different illuminating directions by means of the camera. The medicine identification device standardizes the size and shape of the plurality of first images acquired by imaging based on the indicators (14A - 14D) captured in the first images, and extracts a medicine region image from each of the plurality of first images thus standardized. The medicine identification device then generates, based on the plurality of medicine region images thus extracted, a second image having undergone an emphasis process for emphasizing an embossed mark or a printed mark provided on the medicine (20), and identifies the medicine based on the second image thus generated.