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7623699 |
Apparatus and method for the automated marking of defects on webs of material
A system for the characterization of webs that permits the identification of anomalous regions on the web to be performed at a first time and place, and permits the localization and marking of...
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7613330 |
Methods and systems for tracking and managing livestock through the production process
Systems and methods are described that provide a relatively quick and easy way of tracing meat products to their origins. Specifically, methods of tracing a fully processed meat product back...
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7606394 |
Methods and systems for administering a drug program related to livestock
Systems and methods are described that provide a fast and simple way of administering a drug program related to livestock. Specifically, accurate, automated livestock-to-carcass, meat product, or...
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7593856 |
Brand recognition system
Computer software for and method of determining livestock ownership comprising inputting an image of a livestock brand whose ownership is to be determined, automatically determining one or more...
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7580798 |
Method for predicting treatment classes using animal behavior informatics
A system and method used to assess animal behavior includes a module having sensors that collects a variety of physical and biological data from a test subject. Interpretation of the data is...
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7570787 |
X-ray inspection apparatus and method for creating an image processing procedure for the X-ray inspection apparatus
An X-ray inspection apparatus is provided with a shied box, a conveyor, an X-ray irradiator, an X-ray line sensor, a monitor, and a control computer to enable the apparatus to inspect an article by...
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7555144 |
Optical scanning device for liquid biological samples, process of operation and computer program for a computer connected to said device
Optical scanning device for the production of a 2D computer image of a liquid or humid biological sample observed by transparency, wherein an even thickness of the liquid biological sample is...
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7499573 |
Plant growing analyzing system and method
There are provided an image acquisition system capable of storing high-accuracy measurement of changes in the shape of a plant growing process in image information with high accuracy and an...
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7444961 |
Animal sorting and grading system using an internal evaluation to predict maximum value
A system that compares, ranks, sorts and grades animals into groups of like kinds according to previously determined predicted maximum values. The system uses a single method such as...
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7433059 |
Device for treating bulbous or tuberous plants
Device for treating bulbous or tuberous plants, particularly onions, provided with a green end and a root end and a bulb axis extending therethrough, comprising means for holding the bulbs, means...
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7424974 |
Techniques that facilitate tracking of physical locations of paper documents
Techniques that facilitate tracking of physical locations of paper documents. Embodiments of the present invention can track physical locations of paper documents that have identification tags...
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7415136 |
Optical method and system for rapid identification of multiple refractive index materials using multiscale texture and color invariants
An innovative optical system and method is disclosed for analyzing and uniquely identifying high-order refractive indices samples in a diverse population of nearly identical samples. The system and...
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7379590 |
Method for generating natural colour satellite images
A simple and effective method is disclosed in the present invention to adjust the near natural colour of a satellite color composite to a visually more pleasing natural colour. This method includes...
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7372978 |
System and method for determining a seed vigor index from germinated seedlings by automatic separation of overlapped seedlings
A system and method for automatically determining a seed vigor index for a lot of seeds by analysis of a scanned image of a plurality of seedlings grown from lot of seeds, including automatically...
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7366333 |
Method and apparatus for selecting regions of interest in optical imaging
There is provided a method and system for positioning a mammal for optical imaging in which a digital image of the mammal is obtained using a camera and a region of interest is selected using the...
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7354401 |
Ultrasound sex determination for sorting of avian hatchlings
A method for making a sex determination in avian hatchlings involves the following activities. A process line is equipped to process an endless plurality of hatchlings. The process line has an...
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7343867 |
Method for prescribing site-specific fertilizer application in agricultural fields
A map of site-specific amounts of a soil nutrient, to be applied in fertilizer to an agricultural field is created using a map of site-specific amounts of the soil nutrient needed to produce the...
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7340084 |
Quality assessment of product in bulk flow
A method is disclosed for generating data relating to the quality of product in a bulk stream product during its passage through a monitoring station. An inspection of at least a portion of product...
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7339660 |
Illumination device for product examination
An illumination device for use with a product inspection machine inspecting products according to at least one characteristic. The invention also pertains to an illumination device for use in...
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7289646 |
Method and system for simultaneously imaging multiple views of a plant embryo
The invention provides a method and system for simultaneously imaging multiple views of a plant embryo. First, the method provides a camera for receiving a first view of a plant embryo (e.g., the...
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7269516 |
Systems and methods for monitoring behavior informatics
A system and method used to assess animal behavior includes a module having sensors that collects a variety of physical and biological data from a test subject. Interpretation of the data is...
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7263210 |
Method and system for volume-specific treatment of ground and plants
The invention relates to a method and system for volume-specific treatment of ground and plants as required. The aim of the invention is to improve a method and system as above, such that the...
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7212654 |
Measurement of fruit particles
Apparatus and methods to characterize and measure fruit pieces in food products are provided. A sample is spread on a viewing cell and illuminated. The image is captured by a camera and fed to a...
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7190813 |
Systems and methods for inspecting natural or manufactured products
Systems and methods for inspecting food products are presented in which contrast images are generated by subtracting reference data from an acquired sample image. Processing of the data is...
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7184859 |
Method and system for spatially variable rate application of agricultural chemicals based on remotely sensed vegetation data
Remotely sensed spectral image data are used to develop a Vegetation Index file which represents spatial variations of actual crop vigor throughout a field that is under cultivation. The latter...
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7184575 |
Seed tray for digital image analysis of grain and the like
A tray is provided for positioning objects for digital analysis wherein the objects have two ends defining a length, two edges defining a width and two side surfaces defining a thickness, wherein...
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7167579 |
Method and apparatus for determining the sex of a fertilized egg
An accuracy of the sex determination which is visually inspected by human based on a reference drawing of an egg shape prepared for every parent chicken is insufficient and it takes much time to...
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7142707 |
Automated inspection of packaging materials for package integrity
An apparatus in one example comprises a computer component that receives one or more images of one or more packaging materials from one or more imaging components. The computer component employs an...
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7128024 |
System and method for measuring animals
A system and method for measuring an animal includes a light source and an optical source. The light source, which is preferably an array of monochromatic light emitting diodes, at least partially...
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7123750 |
Automated plant analysis method, apparatus, and system using imaging technologies
The present invention relates to an apparatus, method, software algorithm and system for evaluating plants for conditions or characteristics. In one aspect, the method can include imaging at least...
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7110572 |
Animal carcase analysis
The process for analyzing an ovine animal carcase comprises capturing an image of a dorsal view to generate color image data for the carcase ( 10 ). Predetermined anatomical points ( 21–24 ) of...
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7103451 |
Method and system for spatially variable rate application of agricultural chemicals based on remotely sensed vegetation data
Remotely sensed spectral image data are used to develop a Vegetation Index file which represents spatial variations of actual crop vigor throughout an area that is under cultivation. The latter...
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7088847 |
Method and system for analyzing animal digit conformation
A method for analyzing biomechanical conformation of the lower leg and hoof of animals, for example a horse, from images (photographs, radiographs, etc) is described. In particular, there is...
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7068817 |
Method for on-line machine vision measurement, monitoring and control of product features during on-line manufacturing processes
A method for extracting feature information from product images using multivariate image analysis based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which is used to develop predictive models for feature...
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7068816 |
Method for using remotely sensed data to provide agricultural information
The present invention is directed to a method for producing agricultural information on an area of interest, with the information based on raw, remote imaging data that is typically produced by a...
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7039220 |
Methods and apparatus for the dimensional measurement of livestock using a single camera
A method and apparatus for measuring target animals, including livestock animals and full carcasses, and more specifically livestock animals such as cattle and hogs using a single camera system....
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6891961 |
Image analysis systems for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal carcass
The invention is an image analysis system and method for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal. One embodiment of the invention is particularly...
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6888954 |
Device and method for recording images
A method for recording images of small particles to detect cracking includes feeding particle samples to a place for image recording, illumination a particle sample from at least two directions...
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6813544 |
Method and apparatus for spatially variable rate application of agricultural chemicals based on remotely sensed vegetation data
Remotely sensed spectral image data are used to develop a Vegetation Index file which represents spatial variations of actual crop vigor throughout a field that is under cultivation. The latter...
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6795568 |
Method and an apparatus for severing or damaging unwanted plants
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus capable of severing or damaging unwanted plants without using herbicides. The present invention relates in particular to an apparatus and...
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6792132 |
Inspection method for microorganisms and the like, and unit therefor
A method and an apparatus for inspecting microbes, etc. including, as an apparatus for detecting microbes, etc., a cultivating device, an image taking-in device, and an arithmetic processing unit,...
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6751364 |
Image analysis systems for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal carcass
The invention is an image analysis system and method for grading of meat, predicting quality of meat and/or predicting meat yield of an animal. One embodiment of the invention is particularly...
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6750898 |
Topdressing method and apparatus therefor
A method of and apparatus for performing a topdressing operation on an agriculture field have been provided. The method comprises the steps of: individually and continuously taking pictures of...
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6738529 |
Analysis of chemical data from images
Computer programs and computer-implemented methods are disclosed for extracting and analyzing combinatorial chemical data from images. The invention receives a stream of data, identifies a...
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6735326 |
Method for evaluating the halves of slaughtered animals by optical image processing
The invention relates to a method for evaluating the halves of slaughtered animals by optical image processing. A simple computerized method for sufficiently reliable evaluation is obtained even...
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6727452 |
System and method for removing defects from citrus pulp
A system and method of the present invention removes defects from citrus pulp. An advancing mechanism advances citrus pulp along a predetermined path of travel into an inspection zone. A citrus...
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6683970 |
Method of diagnosing nutritious condition of crop in plant field
A method of diagnosing nutritious condition of crop in a plant field is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: locating a camera equipped with a plurality of image elements in a...
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6678396 |
Method for the non-invasive measurement of properties of meat
The properties of meat are assessed using a non-invasive dual-energy X-ray absorption scanner. Two images or arrays of the values representative of the intensities of the X-rays at two energy...
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6668078 |
System and method for segmentation of images of objects that are occluded by a semi-transparent material
An image processing system segments an object from the background of a scene where the scene is illuminated by unknown ambient light sources. An image of the scene with the object and an image of...
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6658138 |
Produce texture data collecting apparatus and method
A produce texture data collecting apparatus and method which illuminates a produce item from different directions. The apparatus includes a first light for illuminating a produce item from a first...
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