Forintek Canada Corporation

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Chunping Dai

Heng Xu

Guoxing Du

Tony Thomas

Conrad Kevin Groves

Kevin Groves

A system for determining at least one characteristic of wood furnish from an upstream source. The system includes: an inclined panel comprising a transparent window having a top surface for the wood furnish to slide down; a lighting means adjacent the transparent window for lighting the wood furnish visible through a bottom surface of the window; an image capturing means adjacent the transparent window for capturing an image of the wood furnish visible through the bottom surface of the window; and a processing means in communication with the image capturing means for deriving from the captured images the at least one characteristic of the wood furnish.

Characterizing wood furnish by edge pixelated imaging

Disclosed is a method and system for sorting a plurality of green wood veneer sheets into a plurality of subsets of sheets, the subsets including a 'driest' subset, a 'wettest' subset, and one or more &#x201c;intermediate&#x201d; subsets. The system has a light source for transmitting light through a sheet of veneer as it passes along a conveyor system, and a light sensor for sensing the light passing through the sheet. The pattern of light is recorded by an image acquisition and processing subsystem as an image, which is fed to an image analysis subsystem programmed to analyse the light pattern and to produce a mathematical representation of the image. An integrated moisture content value (IMCV) is set for the particular veneer sheet. Based on this value, a controller sends signals to the conveyor system to convey the particular sheet to a location storing sheets having similar IMCV values for drying.

Method and system for producing a moisture content map for use in moisture sorting green veneer using light transmission

Method for determining the relative humidity of a volume of air having a temperature of 100&deg; C or greater

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