Patent ID: 7850512
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: A22B,G01N

Abstract:
1. A method for determining physiological parameters of a slaughtered animal body or its parts with the objective of a qualitative evaluation for determining commercial value, with respect to the weights as well as the weight proportions and meat proportions of the parts of the slaughtered animal body that can be processed independently or processed into meat products, and/or with the objective of deriving parameters for automated cutting up, wherein the slaughtered animal body or a part proceeding from the slaughtered animal body based on cutting up the slaughtered animal body is acquired using an image acquisition device and an image acquired from the slaughtered animal body or a part proceeding from the slaughtered animal body is evaluated in a software-supported manner, is hereby characterized in that the acquisition of the object is produced using a tomographic method, such as computer tomography or nuclear spin tomography, and images obtained for one or more slice-type segments of object are input into image-processing software, whereby a light-and-dark and/or color-based threshold-value evaluation of the image points is conducted with respect to differentiating these points for determining whether they belong to background or the object, as well as to tissue compartments of meat, fat and bone, forming the object of the slaughtered animal body, and based on an assignment of image points to object and compartments, a model of the object that directly reproduces contour lines as well as an arrangement and structure of the tissue compartments is prepared.