Meat assessment device
AssigneeEmpire Technology Development LLC
InventorCameron Cooke
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Abstract
A method for assessing the quality of a piece of meat may be described. The method may include creating a plurality of cross-sectional images through a piece of meat. The method may additionally include performing image analysis on at least one of the images to determine the arrangement of fat and lean meat within the piece of meat. The arrangement may be indicative of the quality of the piece of meat.
Claims21
A method for assessing a quality of a piece of meat, the method comprising:
- creating cross-sectional images through the piece of meat;
- and
- performing image analysis on at least one of the images to determine an arrangement of fat meat and lean meat within the piece of meat, wherein the arrangement is indicative of the quality of the piece of meat.
A method for valuing a piece of meat, the method comprising:
- creating cross-sectional images through the piece of meat;
- and
- performing image analysis on at least one of the images to determine an arrangement of fat meat and lean meat within the piece of meat, wherein the arrangement is indicative of a quality of the piece of meat.
A meat quality assessment apparatus, the apparatus comprising:
- a scanner adapted to:
- produce cross-sectional images through a piece of meat;
- and
- a processor adapted to:
- perform image analysis on at least one of the images to determine an arrangement of fat meat and lean meat within the piece of meat, wherein the arrangement is indicative of the quality of the piece of meat.
The apparatus of 11, wherein the scanner is an x-ray computer tomography scanner and the cross-sectional images are tomographic images created by the scanner.
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The apparatus of 11, wherein the piece of meat is at least a section of an animal body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.