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Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1980

Filed:

Feb. 08, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:

Marvin M Lane, Arlington, VA (US);

Assignee:

Sortex North America, Inc., Sacramento, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J / ; B07C / ; G01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356407 ; 250226 ; 209558 ; 209577 ;
Abstract

A produce grading system that detects the light reflectances from an object in four color bands. Two bands are in the visible range and two are in the invisible range. By means of comparing various color combinations the system looks for the presence of a desired color, an undesired color, and determines if the object is vegetable or nonvegetable matter.


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Lane, Marvin. (1980). Four color tomato grader (U.S. Patent No. 4225242). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4225242

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