Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for determining internal quality attribute(s) of articles of agricultural produce
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Application No.: US16620345Application Date: 2018-06-11
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Publication No.: US11650162B2Publication Date: 2023-05-16
- Inventor: Zhe Sun , Nathaniel Kenneth Tomer , Vincent Andrew McGlone , Rainer Künnemeyer
- Applicant: The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
- Applicant Address: NZ Auckland
- Assignee: The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
- Current Assignee: The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited
- Current Assignee Address: NZ Auckland
- Agency: Warner Norcross + Judd LLP
- Priority: NZ 2719 2017.06.09
- International Application: PCT/NZ2018/050079 2018.06.11
- International Announcement: WO2018/226105A 2018.12.13
- Date entered country: 2019-12-06
- Main IPC: G01J3/28
- IPC: G01J3/28 ; G06V10/143 ; G01N21/84

Abstract:
An aspect of the invention provides a method for determining at least one internal quality attribute of an article (102) of agricultural produce. The method includes receiving a plurality of first spectroscopic values obtained from directing low band light in a first wavelength associated to a low band of wavelengths from at least one low band light source (104) at least partly through the article (102) toward at least one detector (120); receiving a plurality of second spectroscopic values obtained from directing high band light in a second wavelength associated to a high band of wavelengths from at least one high band light source (106) at least partly through the article (102) toward the at least one detector (120); determining at least one measured spatial profile associated to the article, the at least one measured spatial profile comprising at least one of a plurality of ratios of respective first spectroscopic values to respective second spectroscopic values, a plurality of ratios of respective second spectroscopic values to respective first spectroscopic values; and determining the at least one internal quality attribute at least partly from a comparison of the at least one measured spatial profile with at least one reference spatial profile associated to a class of articles of agricultural produce.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200182696A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING INTERNAL QUALITY ATTRIBUTE(S) OF ARTICLES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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