10 results about "Individual animal" patented technology

A free-range livestock management server apparatus acquires information related to an individual animal or a location; identifies the individual animal based on acquired information; identifies location based on acquired information; grasps condition of individual animal or the location based on acquired information; monitors an abnormal condition of the individual animal or the location based on acquired information; sorts the information related to identified individual animal, identified location, grasped condition, and monitored abnormal condition for the identified individual animal or the identified location to associate each piece of the information with the identified individual animal or the identified location; stores the sorted and associated information; determines urgency of information related to abnormal condition of the individual animal or the location among the stored information based on a preset criterion; and creates notification information based on the information determined urgent to transmit the notification information to a predetermined terminal(s).

Provided, according to one aspect of the present invention, is a method for analyzing incidents in a herd including a plurality of individual animals, the method comprising the steps of: grouping a plurality of individual animals on the basis of at least one criterion and extracting a reference behavior pattern for each group; generating information related to whether a current behavior is abnormal for each group with reference to the reference behavior pattern; and generating information related to an incident on the basis of the information related to whether the current behavior of each group is abnormal.

The present invention provides a method and a system for monitoring the mobility levels of individual farm animals and accordingly determining their corresponding mobility score. The mobility score may be indicative of the health and / or welfare status of the animals. The present invention processes a 2D video recording obtained from an imaging device to detect the movement of individual animals through a space. The video recording is segmented over a set of individual frames and in each frame the individual instances of the animal appearing in the vide frame are detected. The detected instances of each animal over a number of frames are grouped together. From each detected instance of an individual animal a set of reference points are extracted. The reference points are associated with location on the animal body. The present invention determines the mobility score of each animal by monitoring the relative position between reference points in each frame and the relative position of each reference point across the set of individual frames associated with an animal.

A animal husbandry system, where a group of animals can move about freely in a shed, a plurality of sensors being provided, suitable for monitoring respective different regions of the shed, the sensors being provided in such a way that, collectively, they are suitable for monitoring substantially the complete shed. The animal identification system provided is suitable for identifying and locating individual animals in the shed, and includes processing means operatively connected to the sensors and to the animal identification system, the processing means being programmed for determining for each individual animal a urinating and / or defecating pattern or frequency. In this way, a highly useful system is realized. Firstly, in order to be able to monitor the health status of animals, urinating and / or defecating patterns or frequencies are highly meaningful. Secondly, they render an efficient cleaning of the shed possible.

An animal husbandry system, wherein a group of animals can move about freely in an area, the system comprising at least one weighing unit in the area, video monitoring and analyzing mechanism being provided suitable for establishing in conjunction with the at least one weighing unit whether an animal is positioned suitably on the weighing unit for a correct weighing, storing device being provided for storing data relating to each individual animal, such as weight data, control mechanism being provided, operatively connected to each weighing unit, the video monitoring and analyzing mechanism and the storing device, wherein the control mechanism is arranged to store weight data from each weighing unit in the storing device as soon as it is established that an animal is positioned suitably on the weighing unit for a correct weighing.

Animal husbandry system, wherein a group of animals can roam freely in an area intended therefor, the system comprising a tracking system with automated tracking means configured for repeatedly tracking a plurality of individual animals in the area and in doing so assigning to the individual animals a track comprising tracking position data and tracking identity data, wherein the system is further provided with at least one autonomously movable vehicle which is provided with identification means configured for determining position and / or identity data of an animal and for transmitting said data to the tracking system. The animals can be tracked efficiently and identified accurately in a cheap and simple manner.

Systems and methods for analyzing milk are described. A plurality of first type sensors are provided, each first type sensor being associated with a respective one of a plurality of teat cup sets of a milking system and configured to analyze milk extracted by the teat cup set from an individual animal to determine at least one first type sensor value of a parameter of the milk across an event period. At least one of a second type sensor associated with at least one of the plurality of teat cup sets is configured to analyze milk extracted by the teat cup set from the individual animal to determine at least one second type sensor value of the parameter of the milk within the event period, wherein the second type sensor is less susceptible to animal-specific bias than the first type sensor. The number of second type sensors in the system is less than the number of first type sensors. Based on the at least one first type sensor value and the at least one second type sensor value of the parameter determined for the individual animal, an animal-specific bias correction is determined for the individual animal. The animal-specific bias correction is applied to the first type sensor values of the parameter obtained from the first type sensors for milk extracted from the individual animal.

This invention belongs to the field of pharmaceutical technology, specifically relating to an injectable sustained-release composition, its preparation method, and its application. Through extensive research, this invention unexpectedly discovered that adding specific release modifiers can significantly slow down the early release rate of drugs. Furthermore, there is a synergistic effect between specific release modifiers and specific structure modifiers, which can effectively improve the sustained-release performance of the composition and significantly reduce the coefficient of variation among individual animals.

Various proxies can be used to qualitatively or quantitatively assess welfare of a poultry flock. For example, as shown and described herein, one or more of a video-based monitoring technique or audio-based monitoring technique can be used. Such monitoring can include a video-based (e.g., image based) technique where indicia of movement of individual members of the flock are automatically tracked. In addition, or instead, an audio-based technique can be used, such as for classification of vocalization. Various metrics can be stored or reported using such techniques and one or more alerts can be generated, such as indicative of flock welfare or a change in flock welfare. Techniques described herein can include identifying paths traversed by respective members of a flock (e.g., individual animals), and then extracting indications such as corresponding to a distribution of such paths. Such paths can be defined by corresponding movement trajectories associated with individual members.

An animal identification system accepts images, determines if animal faces exist in the images, then transforms those animal faces to permit comparison with known animal faces. The comparison process uses vectorized data to determine the similarity between known and unknown animal faces using, in some embodiments, a distance or difference function calculated on or among vectorized data. The system allows capture of known animal faces and addition of those known animal faces to the stored known animal faces in in the system without retraining the comparison algorithm. The system improves over time, in part, from user feedback.