Optics: measuring and testing – By configuration comparison – With photosensitive film or plate
Patent
1986-05-12
1987-09-15
Evans, F. L.
Optics: measuring and testing
By configuration comparison
With photosensitive film or plate
209586, 209587, G01B 1128
Patent
active
046936076
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for optically measuring the volume of a succession of individual, generally spherical fruit, each located in a separate receptacle of a conveyor. A pair of linear, coplanar arrays of phototransducers are arranged to view a narrow examining region from orthogonal directions as the conveyor moves the fruit through it, and each array is read at regular intervals of time to produce a plurality of pairs of orthogonal width measurements for each fruit, each pair of measurements corresponding to a separate narrow cross section of the fruit. A microprocessor multiplies together each measurement pair and sums together the successive products to produce a measure of the fruit's volume. In addition, the microprocessor compares the maximum width measurement for each fruit with a count of the number of cross sections for the fruit, to ensure that the volume measurement is based on just a single item of fruit. The microprocessor also eliminates the effect of any light-reflecting debris in the receptacle adjacent to the fruit by detecting certain characteristic patterns in the signals derived from the two phototransducer arrays and substituting predetermined width estimates when those patterns are detected.
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Evans F. L.
Sunkist Growers Inc.
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