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US 8,261,597 B2Granted
Method and device for determining the quality of milk produced by machine milking
AssigneeGEA Farm Technologies GmbH
InventorsMagnus Wiethoff, Olaf Suhr
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Abstract
A method for determining the quality of milk wherein a sample is examined and the type of at least one detected object is determined on the basis of at least one object recognition rule.
Claims27
A method for determining the quality of milk, the method comprising the steps of:
- examining a milk sample with a detector;
- and
- applying an object recognition rule to the examined milk sample using a determination device, the object recognition rule including the steps of:
- detecting an object in the milk sample;
- distinguishing the object type as either a particle object or a non-particle object;
- and
- distinguishing a particle object type as either a mineral particle object or a biological particle object.
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