SHTHKE SMART SENSITIVITY OFFERS NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR OPTICAL SORTIRG

摘要

Electric Sorting Machine Company (ESM), a Michigan based company later acquired by Satake, developed the world's first optical sorter approximately 90 years ago. Since then, optical sorters have been used in various industries such as rice milling, flour milling, tree nuts processing, etc. Optical sorter performance has improved year on year by adopting various new technologies available. Among the technological innovations contributing to the improvement, image processing technology is a feature that has tended to be overlooked. However, the effective utilisation of information from modern optics such as higher than 2K pixelhigh-resolution cameras, IR cameras, and full-color cameras, is one of the key features directly affecting sorting performance by helping determine both good product and defects-often referred to as accepts and rejects respectively.