Method for assessing the quality of animal half-carcasses
CA 2371911 A1 · Owner: Schimitzek, Peter · Inventors: Schimitzek, Peter
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The invention relates to a method which using optical image processing, ensures an automatic quality assessment of animal half-carcasses in , particular, of slaughtered pigs, whereby compared to prior art methods, a , higher reproducible estimation accuracy which can not be significantly , influenced by errors made during the cleaving process of the slaughtered animal, is attained by carrying out image acquisition in a manner that is not absolutely perpendicular in relation to the cleaving plane. To this end the , invention provides that an optical recorded image of the animal half-carcass is photogrammetrically evaluated in the cleaving plane in the area of the ham-, loin region. The …
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