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28.10.2008

German engineers have created scales that themselves recognize what kind of fruit they put on them.

In order to weigh fruits or vegetables in a self-service store, you need to know their code - only after pressing the correct button, the scales will print out a piece of paper with a price. Somewhere the seller is engaged in this, but somewhere it was reduced and the buyer himself has to look for the code.

A balance created at the Fraunhofer Institute for Data and Information Processing can solve the problem. To do this, they are connected to a video camera, and a program for identifying fruits and vegetables is embedded in the electronic brains in accordance with the previously entered database. As a result, if a person buys tomatoes, then the scales will offer him several buttons with tomatoes and none with sweet peppers, no matter how red they are.

“At first glance, it may seem that this is a simple task,” says Sasha Vot, head of the work. “However, fruits and vegetables vary greatly in their shape and color. Even bananas can be green, yellow, and speckled brown. About the variety of colors of apples "Our algorithm is very stable against color and light fluctuations and it recognizes well the product placed on the scales. Now they are being tested in 300 supermarkets in Europe."

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