Patent ID: 11972566
Assignee: MATRIXSPEC SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 10:
11. A computer-implemented method of detecting a characteristic of an unhatched egg, the method comprising:
receiving, by at least one processor using a transceiver, a set of spectral images of an unhatched egg, each of the spectral images obtained in a particular wavelength range, the set of spectral images forming a three-dimensional data cube;
combining, by the least one processor, a selected subset of the set of spectral images into a first fused image, the selected subset comprising a different subset than all of the received set of spectral images;
processing, by the at least one processor, the first fused image to:
extract image features from the first fused image, the image features from the first fused image including image texture features that describe spatial and spectral information of the first fused image or a region of the first fused image, the image texture features including an image texture feature having information associated with a spatial distribution of tonal variations within the particular wavelength range; and
combine at least two of the extracted image features from the first fused image into a first feature vector;

processing, by the at least one processor, the first feature vector to classify the unhatched egg according to at least one characteristic selected from the group consisting of gender of the unhatched egg and fertility of the unhatched egg; and
transmitting, by the at least one processor using the transceiver, data signals of results of the classified unhatched egg.