Patent ID: 11944105
Assignee: TYSON FOODS, INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B  G | IPC A  B  G

Claim 1:
2. The method for performing a meat cut as recited in claim 1, where determining the keel top location comprises:
generating a 2D image and a 3D point cloud derived from the data set and storing the 2D image and the 3D point cloud in the electronic memory;
operating on the 2D image with an Edge Finder Tool processing on the computer, thereby locating a center of the keel bone structure and two edges of the keel bone structure;
translating the center of the keel bone structure and two edges of the keel bone structure from a 2D to the 3D point cloud with keel bone X and Y coordinates and operating on the keel bone X and Y coordinates of the center of the keel bone structure and the two edges of the keel bone structure with an individual cylinder function to thereby determine a maximum Z of the keel bone and thereby generating center, left and right x, y, and z max coordinates;
operating on the 2D image with a 2D Blob Tool to thereby locate a 2D point at the end of the keel bone structure;
translating the 2D point at the end of the keel bone structure to the 3D point cloud with end point X and Y coordinates and operating on the end point X and Y coordinate with the individual cylinder function to thereby generating a Keel Bottom Point; and
extracting the Keel Bottom Point and placing a line of best fit function along the Keel Bottom Point and applying the cylinder function placed at the start of the best fit line and extracting a Keel Top Maximum Height thereby providing the Keel Top Location.