Fruit ripeness grading system.

• Main Authors: Mohamed Sharif, Abdul Rashid, Abdullah, Mohd. Zaid, Marhaban, Mohammad Hamiruce, Suhaidi Shafie, Suhaidi, Amiruddin, Mohd. Din, Alfatni, Meftah Salem M.
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32183/

A fruit ripeness grading system which used computer vision application in agricultural quality inspection to ensure ripeness category of fruit characterized in that, the fruit ripeness grading system includes: a) a housing having an enclosure for scanning process; b)an illumination means with optical lens illumination filter provided at the enclosure of the housing; c) a camera provided at top portion of the enclosure of the housing; d) a feeding device for conveying fruit samples to the housing; e) conveyer speed inverter; f) a processing unit process and analyze the fruit sample image; g) a data acquisition interface provided in between the camera and the processing unit; wherein the feeding device further provided with separator controlled by USB controller and supported by compressor for controlling and separating the fruit samples; wherein the processing unit further provided with a disk top computational unit serves to transfer data to a computer.