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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2024
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited, Hong Kong, HK;
Abstract
An automated diamond color-grading machine color grades a continuous line of diamonds without human color evaluation. A sample diamond is carried by an input conveyor and placed on a mount on a rotating plate by a robotic arm. The rotating plate has Nm mounts with Nr master stones of known color grades and Ns sample diamonds. A camera takes a photo of the rotating plate with all diamonds and then a step motor rotates the plate by 360/Nm degrees and another photo captured. This is repeated Nm times so that the sample diamond and all master stones are each imaged in all Nm possible rotational positions. Pixels are averaged over all positions for each diamond to get an average x,y value for each diamond. The color grade of the sample diamond is the master stone with the closest less-color x,y average.