US 12,277,697 B2
Produce quality assessment and pricing metric system
James Rogers, Goleta, CA (US); Jordan Hudson, Goleta, CA (US); Charles Frazier, Goleta, CA (US); and Taylor Hayward, Goleta, CA (US)
Assigned to Apeel Technology, Inc., Goleta, CA (US)
Filed by Apeel Technology, Inc., Goleta, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/718,447.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/173,774, filed on Apr. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0327685 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); G06V 20/68 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 7/0004 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G06V 20/68 (2022.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30128 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for determining quality levels of food items using non-contact assessments of the food items, the system comprising:
an evaluation computing system configured to:
receive, from an imaging device, image data of a particular food item;
identify a type of the particular food item based on applying a food item identification model to the image data;
determine, based on the identified type of the particular food item, an initial quality level of the particular food item;
generate a product identifier that uniquely identifies the particular food item, wherein information associated with the product identifier corresponds to the initial quality level of the particular food item;
generate instructions that cause the particular food item to be transported to an end-consumer retail environment based at least in part on the initial quality level of the particular food item; and
return, to at least one actor in a supply chain associated with the particular food item, (i) the instructions for execution by the at least one actor in the supply chain and (ii) the product identifier;
a quality assessment system configured to:
receive food item data, the food item data including image data of the particular food item based on a request to receive information about quality of the particular food item;
determine a current quality level of the particular food item based on providing the food item data as input to a food item quality model associated with the product identifier of the particular food item, wherein the food item quality model was trained using image data of other food items having distinct quality features, wherein the other food items are of a same food type as the particular food item;
determine, based on the current quality level of the particular food item, a number of days to peak ripeness for the particular food item;
adjust the determined number of days to peak ripeness based on measured volatiles for the particular food item; and
determine at least one supply chain modification for the particular food item based on the current quality level of the particular food item and the adjusted number of days to peak ripeness; and
a display device in communication with the quality assessment system, the display device configured to:
request, from the quality assessment system, the information about the quality of the particular food item, wherein the information includes at least one of the current quality level of the particular food item, the number of days to peak ripeness for the particular food item, the adjusted number of days to peak ripeness, and the at least one supply chain modification; and
visually present the requested information in a display in the end-consumer retail environment.