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Article: Canadian Inventors Develop Seeds Characteristics Identifying Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- May 16, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Eric Gerard Kokko and Bernard Dale Hill, both of Lethbridge, Canada, have developed a method and an apparatus for identifying and quantifying characteristics of seeds and other small objects.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for identifying or quantifying characteristics of interest of unknown objects, comprising training a single neural network model with training sets of known objects having known values for the characteristics; validating the optimal neural network model; and analyzing unknown objects having unknown values of the characteristics by imaging them to obtain a digital image comprising pixels ...