Patent ID: 9145265
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: A01K,B65B,B65G

Abstract:
1. A control unit for a first egg conveyor belt, comprising: a conveyor belt drive mechanically connected to the first egg conveyor belt for driving the egg conveyor belt at one of at least two different speeds, an image recording unit for recording a predetermined image section of the first egg conveyor belt, an evaluation and adjustment unit connected to the image recording unit by signal technology, the evaluation and adjustment unit further comprising a counting unit designed to count all eggs recorded in a single image recording of the image recording unit in the image section of the first egg conveyor belt as a stocking density, and the evaluation and adjustment unit being connected to the conveyor belt drive by signal technology to adjust the speed of the conveyor belt drive depending on the stocking density, wherein the evaluation and adjustment unit is designed to recognize an egg that enters into the image section, to follow the egg in several consecutive image recordings of an image sequence and to determine from the distance traveled within the image section of the egg per time unit a movement speed of the egg and to output the distance traveled within the image section of the egg per time unit as the conveyor belt speed; wherein a plurality of eggs is recognized and followed and a mean value is calculated from the determined movement speed of the eggs and is outputted as the conveyor belt speed, and wherein a movement speed of an egg which deviates by a predetermined difference from the mean value remains unconsidered and a corrected calculation of the conveyor belt speed is made in determination of the mean value of the remaining movement speeds of the eggs.