Patent ID: 8360230
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically measuring a quantity parameter, the quantity parameter describing a transport of objects by way of a conveyor component, with the objects to be transported lying on the conveyor component during the measurement, the method which comprises: at least one recording time, taking in each case at least one computer-evaluatable photograph of a measurement sector of the conveyor component, and determining a value for a quantity parameter that describes a quantity of objects transported at the recording time, wherein each determining step includes a step of evaluating the at least one photograph taken at the recording time, measuring, for each recording time during the determination of the quantity parameter value, a proportion of a respective measurement sector which is covered at the recording time by objects lying on the conveyor component, and thereby evaluating the photograph of the respective measurement sector taken at the recording time; and calculating the value taken on by the quantity parameter at the recording time, and thereby applying to the covered proportion measured a prescribed, computer-executable, functional relationship between