Wood optimization system, method of optimizing wood products and wood product selector therefore

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PATENT NO 12233568
APP PUB NO 20220258376A1
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17517809

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There is described a wood optimization system for a production line. The wood optimization system generally having a conveyor moving wood products across a handling area; a wood product selector positioned proximate to a selected wood product in the handling area; and a computer vision system along the production line having a camera imaging the handling area, a processor communicatively coupled to the camera, and a computer-readable memory having program code that when executed by the processor perform the steps of: receiving from the camera an image representing at least a portion of the handling area; finding the wood product selector in the image; identifying the selected wood product in the image as the wood product of the plurality being most proximate to the wood product selector; receiving an instruction associated to the selected wood product; and implementing the instruction into optimization data associated to the selected wood product.

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  • TIMBER TECHNOLOGY INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Louati, Wassim Lévis, CA 1 0
Paquet, Marc-Antoine Lévis, CA 4 7
Poirier, Carl Lévis, CA 2 0

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