Improved method and relevant apparatus for determination of body condition score, body weight and state of fertility

A related, pre-defined technology that can be applied to other devices, applications, animal delivery, etc., and can solve the problems of poor accuracy and repeatability that are not applicable to simple devices

Inactive Publication Date: 2018-01-26
INGENERA
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[0053] Therefore, these methods require a 3D scanning system and are therefore not suitable for simple devices, such as those equipped with a single 2D camera (e.g., a smartphone)
[0054] Furthermore, products based on these methods were shown to be poorly precise and reproducible at the boundaries of the measurement levels of body condition scores (e.g., BCS4 for very obese subjects), where exact Diagnosis is most useful in defining the most appropriate intervention to restore adequate body condition type

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[0086] The subject of the present invention is a device and a method for calculating a new fattening composite index FI by detecting and treating certain morphological traits in animals. From the latter a Body Condition Score or BCS is derived. The combination of the FI and other parameter characteristics of the observed object's morphology and behavior, the comprehensive evaluation index of body weight and reproductive status are calculated.

[0087] refer to Figure 5 , shows a device D according to the method of the invention, wherein the method comprises detecting one or more anatomies of the observed object using at least one profiler, at least one data processing unit, and at least one program implementing a specific processing method The outline of the area. The contour is here defined as the shape of a curve describing at least a part of the periphery of a part of an anatomical region of the subject, such curve lying on a virtual plane intersecting said anatomical re...

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The present invention relates to a method for calculating the body condition score BCS, the weight of an animal and its state of fertility by means of the mathematical processing of some characteristic morphological traits of the observed subject, which makes use of at least one contact or no-contact detection device of the profile 109 of the animal, at least a data processing unit and a program that implements a specific mathematical method of interpretation. By such a method, the determination of the body condition and its synthetic index or fattening index or Fl, is independent of species,race, gender, age and absolute size of the examined animal. This method is also robust to possible errors of positioning of the apparatus by an operator.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a method of determining body condition score (BCS), body weight and reproductive status of an organism. [0002] Furthermore, the invention also relates to a device for assessing the body condition score, the body weight and the state of the organism's fertility implementing the method. [0003] More precisely, the present invention relates to a method of calculating a Body Condition Score or BCS by processing the contours of one or more anatomical regions of an observed subject, using at least one profilometer, at least one data processing unit, and implementing contour at least one program of specific processing. The contour is here defined as the shape of a curve describing at least a part of the periphery of a part of an anatomical region of the subject, such curve lying on a virtual plane intersecting said anatomical region. In particular, the method according to the invention requires contours whose size and shape...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A61D17/00A61B5/107
CPCA61D17/00A61D17/002A61B5/1077A61B5/1079A61B5/4872A01K29/005A61B10/0012A61B2010/0019A01K29/00A61B5/107A61B5/00A61B5/01A61B5/7253A61B2503/40A61B2562/0219A61B2562/0223
Inventor 安德烈亚·比翁迪
Owner INGENERA
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