Arthropod detection
AssigneeCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
InventorsDarren Craig MOORE, Nancy SCHELLHORN, Stephen John BROSNAN
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Abstract
A method for detecting an arthropod, the method being performed using an apparatus including a detection surface, an electrode grid including electrodes arranged relative to the detection surface, and an electronic processing device, wherein the method includes, in the electronic processing device: measuring changes in electrical properties of the electrode grid in response to at least one of movement and positioning of one or more body parts of an arthropod in proximity to the detection surface; and, determining whether the arthropod is of a particular arthropod type by analysing the changes to determine whether the changes are indicative of a characteristic behaviour of the particular arthropod type.
Claims43
1) A method for detecting an arthropod, the method being performed using an apparatus including a detection surface, an electrode grid including electrodes arranged relative to the detection surface, and an electronic processing device, wherein the method includes, in the electronic processing device:
- a) measuring changes in electrical properties of the electrode grid in response to at least one of movement and positioning of one or more body parts of an arthropod in proximity to the detection surface;
- and,
- b) determining whether the arthropod is of a particular arthropod type by analysing the changes to determine whether the changes are indicative of a characteristic behaviour of the particular arthropod type.
17) An apparatus for detecting an arthropod, the apparatus including:
- a) a detection surface;
- b) an electrode grid including electrodes arranged relative to the detection surface;
- and,
- c) an electronic processing device configured to:
- i) measure changes in electrical properties of the electrode grid in response to at least one of movement and positioning of one or more body parts of an arthropod in proximity to the detection surface;
- and,
- ii) determine whether the arthropod is of a particular arthropod type by analysing the changes to determine whether the changes are indicative of a characteristic behaviour of the particular arthropod type.
42) A method for detecting an arthropod, the method being performed using an apparatus including a number of electrodes and an electronic processing device, wherein the method includes, in the electronic processing device:
- a) measuring changes in electrical properties of the electrodes in response to at least one of movement and positioning of one or more body parts of an arthropod in proximity to the electrodes;
- and,
- b) determining whether the arthropod is of a particular arthropod type by analysing the changes to determine whether the changes are indicative of a characteristic behaviour of the particular arthropod type.
43) An apparatus for detecting an arthropod, the apparatus including:
- a) a number of electrodes;
- and,
- b) an electronic processing device configured to:
- i) measure changes in electrical properties of the electrodes in response to at least one of movement and positioning of one or more body parts of an arthropod in proximity to the electrodes;
- and,
- ii) determine whether the arthropod is of a particular arthropod type by analysing the changes to determine whether the changes are indicative of a characteristic behaviour of the particular arthropod type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.