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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2010
Jeroen Martin Van Dijk, Enschede, NL;
Bernard Jan Gerrit Schreurs, Bredevoort, NL;
Vincent Hakvoort, Winterswijk, NL;
Jeroen Martin Van Dijk, Enschede, NL;
Bernard Jan Gerrit Schreurs, Bredevoort, NL;
Vincent Hakvoort, Winterswijk, NL;
N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek Nedap, Groenlo, NL;
Abstract
A method for detecting, in particular counting, animals that pass a predefined place in a walk-through direction with the aid of at least a camera, wherein the camera successively records pictures of the defined place and wherein the camera generates signals that represent these pictures and supplies these signals to signal processing means for further processing, wherein a multiplicity of the recorded pictures are processed with the aid of the signal processing means.