APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SORTING ARTICLES

Patent №

US 7,842,896

Granted

2010-11-30

Filed 2008

Owner

KEY TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12150211

An apparatus and method for selectively removing or sorting undesirable articles wherein a product stream is transported by a conveyor, and then interrogated by an optical scanner and sorting processor to inspect and label the articles according to user specified criteria. Articles labeled or classified as undesirable articles are removed by an ejector or removal station while desirable or acceptable articles are passed.

VisionB07C 5/3427B07C 5/368

AI classification

Vision0.79
AI hardware0.08
Evolutionary computation0.03
Planning0.02
Machine learning0.01
Natural language0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

KEY TECHNOLOGY, INC.

assignment · 212900977

Assignors

CALCOEN, JOHAN, JANSSENS, CARLO, ERINKVELD, JEROEN J.W.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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