Hyperspectral Egg Examination Device with Light-Tight Partitions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for examining hatching eggs, particularly for determining sex and embryo development, often require invasive procedures or significant effort, and existing technologies do not efficiently analyze properties of hatching eggs or embryos without causing stress to the animals.
Innovation Solution
A device utilizing a hyperspectral camera and electromagnetic waves to analyze hatching eggs, with a carrier and partitions for precise imaging and data processing to classify egg images based on mean gray value, color, or spectral data, enabling the determination of egg properties and embryo development without invasive methods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If invasive methods are used to examine hatching eggs, then measurement precision is improved, but object-affected harmful factors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical/invasive examination methods with electromagnetic radiation (light) to examine hatching eggs. The hyperspectral camera captures light reflections from the eggshell surface, enabling sex determination and embryo development assessment without physical contact or stress to the embryo.
Solution Approach 2:
The eggshell acts as an intermediary that transmits information about the embryo's internal state to the external examination system. By analyzing light reflection patterns from the eggshell surface, the system indirectly detects embryo properties without penetrating or disturbing the embryo directly.
2Productivity
If traditional examination methods are used, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The hyperspectral imaging system performs multiple examination functions simultaneously: sex determination, embryo development stage assessment, and egg quality evaluation. This multi-functionality increases productivity by consolidating multiple examination processes into a single system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system analyzes multiple spectral parameters across different wavelengths to extract comprehensive information from the eggshell surface. By examining variations in light reflection across the spectrum, the system achieves high diagnostic accuracy without requiring invasive procedures.
3Measurement precision
If light-tight coupling is implemented, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The carrier is divided into individual compartments, each housing a single hatching egg. This segmentation allows independent light-tight coupling for each egg, preventing light contamination between adjacent eggs while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The light-tight coupling structures are integrated within the carrier compartments, with partitions and covers forming nested light-blocking elements that contain the illumination field within each egg's examination zone without adding significant external complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient, non-invasive analysis of hatching eggs and embryos, allowing for accurate sorting and identification of unfertilized, dead, or contaminated eggs, as well as sex determination, reducing animal stress and improving efficiency in poultry management.
Implementation Method 1
a source for electromagnetic waves and a hyperspectral camera for imaging, with the source for electromagnetic waves and the hyperspectral camera being connected to a data processing system
Implementation Method 2
a hyperspectral camera for imaging... which determines the egg images from the image of the hyperspectral camera and assigns hyperspectral data
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AI summary
The invention relates to devices (1) for examining hatching eggs (2), by means of which devices it is possible to determine properties of the hatching eggs themselves and/or the embryos in the hatching eggs. To this end, a carrier (3) comprising hatching eggs arranged spaced apart from one another is arranged between a source (4) for electromagnetic waves and a hyperspectral camera (5), which carrier furthermore has sections for placement of the hatching eggs and light-tight coupling of the electromagnetic waves. There are partition walls (7) between the hatching eggs. The source (4) for electromagnetic waves and the hyperspectral camera (5) are connected to a data processing system (6), which determines the egg images from the image of the hyperspectral camera and associates an egg image with hyperspectral data and the position of the hatching egg on the carrier.