ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,088, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NAGOYA DENKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Nagoya, Japan) and HYTEM Co. LTD. (Gifu, Japan).
"Method for measuring eggs" was invented by Toshihiko Tsukada (Toyota, Japan) and Yoshinori Imamura (Kakamigahara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When using a camera (25) to photograph, from directly above, an egg (10) of an unknown size conveyed by a conveyor and determining a real size from the size of an egg image, a reference surface (20) where the distance from the camera is a predetermined value H is set, a relationship between a real length of a maximum short-axis radius and a length in a captured i...