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OwnerVal R. Landwehr, Fernando Agudelo-Silvainventors
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A color-based imaging system and method for the detection and classification of insects and other arthropods are described, including devices for counting arthropods and providing taxonomic capabilities useful for pest-management. Some embodiments include an image sensor (for example, a digital color camera, scanner or a video camera) with optional illumination that communicates with a computer system. Some embodiments include a color scanner connected to a computer. Sampled arthropods are put on a scanner to be counted and identified. The computer captures images from the scanner, adjusts scanner settings, and processes the acquired images to detect and identify the arthropods. Other embodiments include a trapping device and a digital camera connected by cable or wireless communications to the computer. Some devices include a processor to do the detection and identification in the field, or the field system can send the images to a centralized host computer for detection and identification.
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An apparatus comprising a sticky substrate configured to trap arthropods to be automatically classified, wherein the sticky substrate has a first sticky area that has a first uniform background color and that provides enhanced image quality for imaging arthropods that stick on the first sticky area, and a second sticky area that has a second uniform contrasting background color that is different than, and that contrasts with, the first uniform background color and that also provides enhanced image quality for imaging arthropods that stick on the second sticky area, and wherein a portion of the substrate includes a chemical repellant to selectively avoid capturing one or more types of arthropods.
An apparatus comprising a sticky substrate configured to trap arthropods to be automatically classified, wherein the sticky substrate has a first sticky area that has a first uniform background color and that provides enhanced image quality for imaging arthropods that stick on the first sticky area, and a second sticky area that has a second contrasting uniform background color that is different than, and that contrasts with, the first uniform background color and that also provides enhanced image quality for imaging arthropods that stick on the second sticky area, and wherein a portion of the substrate includes a chemical attractant to selectively attract one or more types of arthropods.
An apparatus comprising a sticky substrate configured to trap arthropods to be automatically classified, wherein the sticky substrate has a first sticky area that has a first uniform background color and that provides enhanced image quality for imaging arthropods that stick on the first sticky area, and a second sticky area that has a second uniform contrasting background color that is different than, and that contrasts with, the first uniform background color and that also provides enhanced image quality for imaging arthropods that stick on the second sticky area, and wherein a portion of the substrate includes a color-calibration patch.
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