Device for anesthesia inspection of meat animals

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for anesthetized examination of meat animals (1), the device having a stimulation unit (2) and an image acquisition unit (4) comprising an image acquisition area (5), with which the stimulation unit can The stimulation excitation (3) is output to the meat animal (1), wherein the image acquisition unit (4) is designed as a 3D camera, and in the image acquisition region can optically detect the surface of the meat animal (1) part in which image points in the part of the surface can be detected in the image acquisition region and which can be made available as image point data in a transmittable manner, and the device has an evaluation unit (6), which evaluation unit The image acquisition unit (5) is connected and the evaluation unit detects the image point data provided by the image acquisition unit (5), with which the active movement of the meat animal (1) can be determined from the detected image point data , and with the evaluation unit an outputable examination result can be provided when the active movement of the meat animal ( 1 ) is determined.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a device for anesthesia inspection of meat animals in a meat animal processing system. Background technique [0002] It is often stipulated in meat processing that the meat animals be anesthetized prior to the actual killing process. Here, the anesthesia, depending on the type of meat animal, is achieved by a stun gun, by electrosedation or by means of CO 2 anesthesia to achieve. Said anesthesia is used in particular to avoid unnecessary suffering of the animal during death. [0003] In this regard, the invention is based on the problem that anesthesia of meat animals may sometimes fail or may last only insufficiently for a long time, so that the meat animals may regain consciousness, especially during bleeding. In order to prevent this, it is now stipulated in the European Union that anesthesia checks are carried out in slaughterhouses. Furthermore, such anesthesia checks set up monitoring procedures and regular checks on ...

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[0005] However, such anesthesia monitoring is very labor-intensive and correspondingly expensive to implement

[0006] In addition, misinterpretations by supervisors may also occur in the subjective evaluation of anesthesia quality

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