Device for measuring a slaughter animal body object

A device for measuring a slaughter animal body object, the device comprising:

• an image camera having an image-camera recording range for optically recording a section of a surface of a slaughter animal body object and for recording light intensity values (g) of image points and area coordinates (x, y) of the image points, the light intensity values (g) and the area coordinates (x, y) being provided as light intensity value data on the surface of the slaughter body for transfer purposes;
• an evaluator connected to said image camera, said evaluator registering the light intensity value data provided by the image camera and identifying measurement points on the surface of the slaughter body from the light intensity value data;
• a depth camera having a depth-camera recording range for optically recording the section of the surface of the slaughter animal body object and for recording space coordinates (x, y, z) of image points within the depth-camera recording range, the space coordinates (x, y, z) including area coordinates (x, y) and a depth value (z), and the space coordinates (x, y, z) being provided as space coordinate data for transfer purposes;
• a positioner for positioning said depth camera relative to said image camera, said positioner positioning said image camera and said depth camera in relation to one another to have the depth-camera recording range and the image-camera recording range overlap, at least in certain sections, in a common camera recording range;
• said depth camera being connected with said evaluator, said evaluator registering the space coordinates (x, y, z), said evaluator assigning the light intensity value data (x, y, g) and the space coordinate data (x, y, z) on the basis of matching area coordinates (x, y), the assigned light intensity value data and space coordinate data being provided as four item data tuples, the four item data tuples including area coordinates (x, y), depth value (z) and light intensity value (g), said evaluator identifying, based on computational detection and selection of different tissue sections using the differences in light intensity value, a first measurement point and a second measurement point of the surface of the slaughter animal body object from the light intensity value data of image points provided by the image camera, and said evaluator determining, on the basis of the space coordinate data (x, y, z) of a first four item data tuple of a first image point of the first measurement point and on the basis of the space coordinate data (x, y, z) of a second four item data tuple of a second image point of the second measurement point, a spatial distance between the first measurement point and the second measurement point.