Fish processing apparatus
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsToyoshige Shoji, Tatsuo Miyakawa
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Abstract
A fish processing apparatus including an image pick-up device for producing image information of a fish and a memory for storing the image information. A cutting position of head portion of the fish is determined in accordance with the image information. The relative position between the fish and a head cutter for cutting the head portion of the fish is adjusted in accordance with the determined cutting position.
Claims16
A fish processing apparatus having head cutter means for cutting off a head portion of a fish, comprising:
- means for optically scanning of the whole body of the fish;
- means, operatively connected to said optical scanning means, for producing image information of the fish in accordance with said optical scanning;
- means, operatively connected to said image producing means, for determining a cutting position of the head portion of the fish in accordance with a shape of the fish represented by said image information, and
- means, operatively connected to said determining means, for adjusting the relative position of the fish with respect to said head cutter means in accordance with said determined cutting position.
A fish processing apparatus having head cutter means for cutting off a head portion of a fish, comprising:
- means for producing image information of the fish;
- means, operatively connected to said image producing means, for determining a cutting position of the head portion of the fish in accordance with said image information;
- means, operatively connected to said image producing means, for determining the relative position of the fish in accordance with said image information;
- means, operatively connected to said relative position finding means, for arranging the fish in a predetermined position depending upon said position found by said position finding means;
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- means, operatively connected to said cutting position determining means, for adjusting the relative position of the arranged fish with respect to said head cutter means in accordance with said determined cutting position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.