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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2021
Imaging Tech Lab Llc, Chiba, JP;
IMAGING TECH LAB LLC, Chiba, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to acquire biometric information on small animals without being affected by the movements of the small animals and also without giving stress to the small animals. The present invention includes the steps of: acquiring pieces of image information on a hand and/or a foot of a quadrupedal small animal; extracting a predetermined piece of signal information from among the pieces of image information that have been acquired; and processing the predetermined piece of the signal information which has been extracted so as to acquire biometric information on the small animal. The present invention further includes the step of capturing an image of an abdominal side of the small animal, and the step of capturing an image of the small animal from below a location of the small animal.