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US 10,575,534 B2Granted
Tracing with vision
AssigneeSkaginn Hf
InventorIngolfur Arnason
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a fishing vessel for tracing items such as fish. The object is specifically to trace smaller items like pelagic fish, such as mackerel and herring or salmon. The tracing apparatus and method uses at least one image means to provide tracing of each item in a batch, where image data is linked to an ID number of the batch.
Claims17
An apparatus for tracing items, the apparatus comprising:
- a conveyor, where the conveyor has a continuous cleated conveyor belt for transporting single items between each two cleats, said conveyor further comprising an axis raising the cleated conveyor belt between an in-feed end and an out-feed end forming a highest point of the continuous cleated conveyor belt and wherein the in-feed portion of the belt inclines to the highest point of the continuous cleated conveyor belt and an out feed-portion declines from the highest point of the continuous conveyor belt,
- at least one image means, which determines at least one characteristic property of the items being transported on the cleated conveyor belt, said at least one image means being positioned above the top position of the cleated conveyor belt,
- at least one diverting means,
- at least one collection bin, said at least one collection bin being a part of a packing station, and
- computing means;
- wherein transporting the items over the top position of the cleated conveyor belt rolls the items from side to side providing more than one image view of the items and based on data from the at least one image means and the computing means, selected items are diverted to a collection bin by the diverting means and the computing means and packed in a unit which is given an ID, and in that the at least one characteristic property of each item and the ID of the unit, which the item is packed in, is stored in a database.
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A method for tracing items, the method comprising:
- transporting the items on a conveyor, where the conveyor has a continuous cleated conveyor belt for transporting single items between each two cleats, wherein an in-feed portion of the continuous cleated conveyor belt inclines to a highest point of the continuous cleated conveyor belt and an out feed-portion declines from the highest point of the continuous conveyor belt,
- determining at least one characteristic property of the items being transported on the continuous cleated conveyor belt by at least one image means,
- diverting selected items to a collection bin by a diverting means, said collection bin being a part of a packing station;
- wherein two or more views of the items are obtained by the at least one image means and based on data from the at least one image means and a computing means, selected items are diverted to the collection bin by the diverting means and a computing means and packed in a unit which is given a ID, and in that the at least one characteristic property of each item and the ID of the unit the item is packed in is stored in a database.
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A fishing vessel for catching and slaughtering fish, said fishing vessel comprising an apparatus for tracing items, the apparatus comprising:
- a conveyor, where the conveyor has a continuous cleated conveyor belt for transporting single items between each two cleats, wherein an in-feed portion of the continuous cleated conveyor belt inclines to a highest point of the continuous cleated conveyor belt and an out feed-portion declines from the highest point of the continuous conveyor belt,
- at least one image means, which determines at least one characteristic property of the items being transported on the cleated conveyor belt,
- at least one diverting means,
- at least one collection bin, said at least one collection bin being a part of a packing station, and
- computing means;
- wherein two or more views of the items are obtained by the at least one image means and based on data from the at least one image means and the computing means, selected items are diverted to a collection bin by the diverting means and the computing means and packed in a unit which is given an ID, and in that the at least one characteristic property of each item and the ID of the unit, which the item is packed in, is stored in a database.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.