EP1196035A1 - Method for assessing the quality of animal half-carcasses - Google Patents
Method for assessing the quality of animal half-carcassesInfo
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- EP1196035A1 EP1196035A1 EP00934925A EP00934925A EP1196035A1 EP 1196035 A1 EP1196035 A1 EP 1196035A1 EP 00934925 A EP00934925 A EP 00934925A EP 00934925 A EP00934925 A EP 00934925A EP 1196035 A1 EP1196035 A1 EP 1196035A1
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Classifications
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A22—BUTCHERING; MEAT TREATMENT; PROCESSING POULTRY OR FISH
- A22B—SLAUGHTERING
- A22B5/00—Accessories for use during or after slaughtering
- A22B5/0064—Accessories for use during or after slaughtering for classifying or grading carcasses; for measuring back fat
- A22B5/007—Non-invasive scanning of carcasses, e.g. using image recognition, tomography, X-rays, ultrasound
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- G01N33/00—Investigating or analysing materials by specific methods not covered by groups G01N1/00 - G01N31/00
- G01N33/02—Food
- G01N33/12—Meat; Fish
Definitions
- the invention relates to a method for assessing the quality of halves of slaughter by means of optical image processing, which can be used in particular for classifying and determining the commercial value of halves of slaughter pigs and can also be used in principle with other large and small slaughter animals.
- slaughtered pork halves In slaughterhouses and meat processing plants, slaughtered pork halves, mostly hanging on the hook, are registered, weighed and evaluated in accordance with an official trade class classification by recording the thickness of bacon and meat at country-specific statutory locations. A commercial value is also determined by including a large number of other, mostly non-standardized, specific parameters of the carcass.
- the documents DD 298 310 A5 / DE 41 31 556 C2 and DE 41 09 345 C2 describe a method for the determination or analysis of carcass halves by image processing, in which the outer contour, fat layer, meat and back fat ratio are determined by taking pictures of the Half of the slaughtered animal with spine and all intervertebral layers.
- the parameters for the decomposition and classification are taken from the sacrum of the spine, which, like the other vertebrae, is determined using object analysis.
- the disadvantage of this method is, on the one hand, the high computational complexity for object analysis with predefined contour and object parameters, and on the other hand, the sacrum cannot always be selected with sufficient certainty in the real processing process in the event of splitting errors.
- the publication DE 197 33 216 Cl describes a method for evaluating slaughtered animal halves by means of optical image processing which, based on the classic two-point method, enables classification based on an optical image evaluation of the expanded lumbar region with the exclusion of subjective sources of error.
- the estimation accuracy for the evaluation and thus for the classification was not improved compared to the previously known evaluation methods.
- a method for evaluating halves of slaughtered animals by optical image processing is also known, in which a photogrammetric method is used as a replica of the conventional two-point method for evaluation.
- a photogrammetric method is used as a replica of the conventional two-point method for evaluation.
- two prominent points the first of which is the body-side end of the lock bone, the second of which is the body-side end of the MGM (Muscle Gluteus Medium) and a straight line with the direction of the middle course of the back fat, are photogrammetric detected.
- the lengths of sections that are on a Make perpendicular to the straight line parallel to the lock bone at the height of the second striking point through the thickness of the back fat.
- the object of the invention is to develop a method which ensures an automatic quality assessment of halves of slaughter animals, in particular slaughter pigs, by means of optical image processing, a higher reproducible estimation accuracy being achieved compared to the known methods, which is only insignificant due to errors in the slaughtering process of the slaughter animal, cannot be influenced by image acquisition that is not absolutely perpendicular to the splitting plane.
- the essence of the invention consists in the photogrammetric evaluation of an optical image of the half of the slaughter animal in the crevice level, in the area of the loin region.
- the lock bone and vertebrae are optically recognizable, the gluteus medium muscle and the back bacon are always optically selectable due to the differences in color and brightness compared to other tissue areas, which means that their computational selectability is guaranteed.
- the spine, the lock bone, the thin thickness of the bacon on the MGM and the contours of the bacon in the selected area are the photogrammetric evaluation.
- the lean meat content which is decisive for the assessment of the quality, is calculated by the sum of the sections of the meat and the bacon layer, which are set in relation to each other and perpendicular to the straight course of the spinal canal, including constants for each term and a basic constant determined from regression calculations.
- the sections required for the calculation are determined by laying a straight line with the direction of the last, straight section of the spine in the middle of the spinal canal, as the first starting line for the measurements. On this straight line, as a second starting line, a vertical section is built up to the outer bacon contour, the inner extension of which touches the lower point of the lock bone tangentially.
- the ratios of the line lengths of the diagonals of partial areas to one another can also be used for the determination.
- the advantages of the invention consist in the determination of distance conditions for assessing the quality of halves of slaughter animals, in particular in the elimination of sources of error by not absolutely perpendicular recordings in the splitting plane, which otherwise lead to incorrect evaluations and incorrect classifications. Gap errors in the slaughter process hardly influence the assessment. The estimation accuracy is significantly increased, whereby a more precise, higher quality of the evaluation is achieved.
- the invention is explained in more detail as an exemplary embodiment with reference to FIG. 1 as a recording area for the evaluation.
- an image area 1 of the ham and lumbar region of a half of a slaughter animal is evaluated photogram ⁇ .etrically, which covers its entire width, the body-side end of the lock bone 2 and the lower end of the spine 3 with vertebrae.
- a straight line 4 is laid with the direction of the straight section of the spine 3 as the first starting line for the measurements.
- a vertical line up to the outer bacon contour 6 is set up as the second starting line 5, one inner extension 7 of the second starting line 5 tangentially touches the lower point of the lock bone 2.
- a first parallel 8 is at the level of the thinnest layer of fat on the MGM, a second parallel 9 at the tail-side end of the last vertebra of spine 3, a third parallel 10 between the last and penultimate vertebrae of spine 3 and a fourth parallel 11 between the penultimate and third to last vertebrae of spine 3 are calculated.
- the second starting line 5 and the parallels 8; 9; 10; 11 are cut by the inner contour line 12 of the bacon, whereby partial sections are created. In this way, sections stl 13 and st2 14 are determined on the second output line 5.
- intersection points determine the length of the outer section stzp 15 of the first parallel 8, which corresponds to the thinnest bacon thickness on the gluteus medium 16 muscle, the length of an inner section stk 17 on the second parallel 9, the lengths of the section st3 18 and st4 19 the third parallel 10 and the fourth parallel 11 the lengths of the sections st5 19 and st6 20.
- the constants pO, pl, p2, p3, p8, p9 are determined by regression calculations using a standardized statistical Program, such as Microsoft Excel, calculated from the actual lean meat content of half of the Schlaciittier as reference values.
- a commercial value determination can also be carried out by means of the ratio of areas or the lengths of the lines, the limits of which.
- Sections stl 13 and st3 18 of the area limited to that of the bacon between sections st2 14 and st4 19 are calculated and a coefficient corresponding to the commercial value is determined.
- the trade value can be determined using coefficients from the values for the diagonals of these areas.
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DE1999136032 DE19936032C1 (en) | 1999-07-30 | 1999-07-30 | Image processing determines the quality of meat within a pig cadaver by calculation of lean meat content between fixed points |
DE19936032 | 1999-07-30 | ||
PCT/DE2000/001287 WO2001008500A1 (en) | 1999-07-30 | 2000-04-20 | Method for assessing the quality of animal half-carcasses |
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EP (1) | EP1196035A1 (en) |
CN (1) | CN1367648A (en) |
CA (1) | CA2371911A1 (en) |
DE (1) | DE19936032C1 (en) |
EA (1) | EA003375B1 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2170737T1 (en) |
PL (1) | PL354080A1 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2001008500A1 (en) |
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- 2000-04-20 CN CN 00811176 patent/CN1367648A/en active Pending
- 2000-04-20 CA CA002371911A patent/CA2371911A1/en not_active Abandoned
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