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US 12,317,866 B2Granted
Ruminant animal monitoring system
AssigneeLely Patent N.V.
InventorXiangyu Song
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Abstract
A system and method which functions to automatically monitor a ruminant animal. The system includes a 3D camera system that obtains images from a region of interest. An image processor determines the surface curvature in the region of interest, as a function of time. Based on the frequency with which this function attains local maxima, a health indication for the animal is generated.
Claims20
A system for automatically monitoring a ruminant animal, comprising:
- a 3D camera system for obtaining a plurality of 3D images of at least a region of interest of the animal at consecutive points in time during at least a predetermined period of time,
- a control device connected to the 3D camera system, the control device comprising
- an image processing device for processing the obtained plurality of 3D images, and
- an output device,
- the control device being arranged to determine a health parameter frequency value of a health parameter based on the processed 3D images, and to output the health frequency parameter value to the output device,
- wherein the image processing device is arranged to
- determine the region of interest in the plurality of 3D images and
- calculate for each 3D image a curvature value of the region of interest, and determine the calculated curvature as a function of time,
- wherein the control device is arranged to determine:
- points in time when local extreme values of the function of time occur, and
- the health parameter frequency value by analyzing the points in time with respect to a predetermined criterion.
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