- Patent Title: Imaging system for sorting poultry meat with wooden breast myopathy
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Application No.: US15980407Application Date: 2018-05-15
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Publication No.: US10596601B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Seung C. Yoon , Brian C. Bowker , Hong Zhuang , Kurt C. Lawrence , Gerald W. Heitschmidt , Tae Sung Shin
- Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
- Applicant Address: US DC Washington
- Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
- Current Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
- Current Assignee Address: US DC Washington
- Agent John D. Fado; Robert Jones
- Main IPC: A22C17/00
- IPC: A22C17/00 ; B07C5/36 ; B07C5/10 ; A22C21/00

Abstract:
The image sorting system sorts normal chicken breast meat fillets from chicken fillets that exhibit wooden breast myopathy (i.e. WB fillets). In the preferred embodiment, a camera and associated controller gather data and construct a digital image of a chicken breast fillet as it travels on a conveyer belt. The digital image is used to calculate a centroid (i.e. center of mass) of the fillet. As the fillet moves over a nose of the conveyor belt and free-falls to a lower conveyor belt, the controller determines the distance between the fillet centroid and a reference point (preferably the conveyer belt axis of rotation). If the distance exceeds a predetermined minimum distance, the fillet is designated a WB fillet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180333752A1 IMAGING SYSTEM FOR SORTING POULTRY MEAT WITH WOODEN BREAST MYOPATHY Public/Granted day:2018-11-22
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