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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2003
Chunping Dai, Vancouver, CA;
Tony Thomas, Richmond, CA;
Kevin Groves, Delta, CA;
Heng Xu, Vancouver, CA;
Chunping Dai, Vancouver, CA;
Tony Thomas, Richmond, CA;
Kevin Groves, Delta, CA;
Heng Xu, Vancouver, CA;
Forintek Canada Corp., Vancouver, CA;
Abstract
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 “intermediate” 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.
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