Apparatus and method for producing a numeric display corresponding to the volume of a selected segment of an item

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An apparatus and method for displaying the weight or cost of an uncut selected segment of an item involves passing a position indicating member over the item lying on a support surface. The position indicating member carves one or more sensors which generate signals corresponding to succeeding cross sectional contours of the item as the member is traversed along the item from a reference position to a selected other position over this item defining the , selected segment of the item. At the same time a motion detector arrangement , preferably comprised of one or more microelectromechanical (MEMS) accelerometer devices generates signals corresponding to motion of the position …