US Patent Issued to Hangzhou Dianzi University on Jan. 13 for "Cherry picking and classifying method and device based on machine vision" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,039, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hangzhou Dianzi University (Hangzhou, China).

"Cherry picking and classifying method and device based on machine vision" was invented by Xiaodong Li (Hangzhou, China), Zhengsheng Yu (Hangzhou, China) and Zhaozhe Gong (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a cherry picking and classifying method based on machine vision, including: acquiring an image for a cherry with a stem hung on a branch, filtering the image to remove noise, and taking a resulting image as an original image; processing the original image to extract a stem feature of the cherry, and det...