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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2011
Marc Lévesque, St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;
Marc Lévesque, St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;
INDUSTRIES MACHINEX INC., Plessisville, CA;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for inspecting matter and the use thereof for sorting recyclable material including transparent material are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a lighting unit for projecting a concentrated diffused lighting onto the matter to generate a specular reflected light beam representative of the inspected matter. The apparatus comprises an imaging unit mounted according to a given imaging angle with respect to the projected concentrated diffused lighting for imaging the specular reflected light beam to provide image data representative of the inspected matter. The apparatus comprises an analyzing unit for analyzing the image data and providing matter characterization data based on the specular reflected light beam representative of the inspected matter.