Patent Document ID: 9578797
Application ID: 13637275
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for measuring a growth parameter of a plant specimen, said system comprising: a light source; an imaging device for capturing an image of the plant specimen, wherein said image is a profile of a transparent receptacle receiving the plant specimen, and wherein the receptacle comprises: a transparent layer at the bottom of the receptacle, a cover layer adjacent the transparent layer, such that there is a first transition line between the transparent layer and the cover layer, and a second transition line between the cover layer and air above the cover layer, and wherein a vertical axis of the receptacle extends through a center of the top of the receptacle and through a center of the bottom of the receptacle, wherein the captured image comprises vertical lines of pixels aligned with the vertical axis of the receptacle and horizontal lines of pixels perpendicular to the vertical axis of the receptacle in the captured image, and said first and second transition lines are horizontal lines of the captured image; a space between the imaging device and the light source for receiving the receptacle and the plant specimen; and a processor for analyzing the captured image to determine a growth parameter of the plant specimen relative to bounds set in the captured image.