MUMBAI, India, Aug. 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441006250 A) filed by Excel Innovations, Hubballi, Karnataka, on Jan. 30, 2024, for 'vision based rapid, non-destructive, and automated method for grading chilli quality.'
Inventor(s) include Dr Mahantesh Sajjan; and Dr N B Gaddagimath.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 1, under issue no. 31/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides a vision based rapid, non-destructive, and automated method for Grading Chilli Quality comprising of image data collection, pre-processing, normalization, segmentation, and feature extraction by incorporating AI/ML & IoT technologies ...