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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2018
Horst Eger, Ahrensfelde, DE;
Horst Eger, Ahrensfelde, DE;
Other;
Abstract
Image acquisition for meat grading. In one embodiment, a method includes aligning a suspended slaughtered animal half according to a predetermined orientation and retaining this orientation by a positioning device designed as part of a processing line until image acquisition of a cut surface; executing a 3D measurement and setting a trigger point in a control device, wherein the position of the cut surface is determined by an image processing device from a three-dimensional image recorded by a first image acquisition device; aligning the optical components of a second image acquisition device in accordance with the position in space determined for the cut surface; and trigger-initiated execution of at least one two-dimensional image acquisition of the cut surface by the second image acquisition device, the optical components of which are aligned beforehand, when a trigger condition coupled to the trigger point is met, as identified by the above control device.