Patent ID: 8406475

Claim:
A method for analyzing berries, comprising: arranging berries on an analysis plate; an acquisition of an image of the arranged berries, said image of the berries being composed of pixels of at least one elementary colour component; an identification, by a processor, of contours of the berries; a determination, by the processor, of geometric or colorimetric characteristics of the berries; a reiteration of the method according to the invention on a same type of berry over an extended period of time, and a monitoring over the extended period of time of one of the geometric and colorimetric characteristics determined on the berries of the same type to represent capture and analysis of variation of the determined geometric or colorimetric characteristic values of the berries over the extended period of time; and a visualisation, on a visualization screen, of a graph illustrating development over the extended period of time of the determined geometric or colorimetric characteristics.