PLANT GROWTH ANALYZER

• Main Authors: SHINOMURA TOMOKO, TANABATA TAKAYA, ISHIZUKA TORU, MATSUMURA YASUHIDE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.04.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPSOR SEAWEED; FISHING; FORESTRY; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; TRAPPING; WATERING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plant growth analyzer with which growth information on respective plant samples can be obtained individually and at an always fixed position/angle while simultaneously cultivating a lot of plant samples in order to analyze the change in growing process taking account of long lapsed time of plants. SOLUTION: This plant growth analyzer comprises a first transfer mechanism 2 for transferring a plurality of plant samples, and a second transfer mechanism 3 for transferring a piece of plant sample to a photographing position. In the analyzer, the first transferring mechanism 2 and the second transferring mechanism 3 move to the photographing position for every sample apart from the plurality of other samples; taking a picture thereof with a camera 4; and storing the obtained image data and analysis data based on the image data in a storage medium 6. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI