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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2002
Takeshi Fukumori, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeharu Kanemoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Takamasa Mesaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Maehara, Tokyo, JP;
Yuka Kuribayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Michiko Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Amano, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Fukumori, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeharu Kanemoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Takamasa Mesaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Maehara, Tokyo, JP;
Yuka Kuribayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Michiko Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Amano, Tokyo, JP;
Satake Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Rice Millers Association, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A quality evaluation method and apparatus for non-bran rice evaluate quality or taste of non-bran rice by identifying proportions of a hull layer, an aleurone layer, an endosperm layer, which adhere to a surface of the non-bran rice according to luminance levels of self-emitted fluorescence obtained by irradiating the non-bran rice with excitation light.