Abstract: A computer-controlled robot cutting system for making angled or beveled cuts along a preselected path in a workpiece having a generally planar cutting surface. A cutting knife, such as a high-intensity fluid jet, is pivotably mounted in a support frame having two pairs of arcuate guides disposed at right angles to each other for motor-driven rotation of the cutting knife about orthogonal axes. The centers of curvature of both guides lie on a critical plane containing a pivot point about which the cutting knife pivots. An opposing workpiece gantry with horizontal and vertical slides for motor-driven translation of the workpiece along two axes also includes means for holding the workpiece such that its surface to be cut faces the cutting knife and lies in the critical plane. The workpiece is thus translated to define the cutting path on the obverse surface, while the cutting knife is pivoted to define the entry angle of the cut along the cutting path.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a method and apparatus for use in processing fish body sections that have been transversely cut. The system uses a frame with a pair of shrouds, each having an interior space that contains an illumination system for illuminating the fish section. A pair of video cameras housed respectively within the shrouds scan opposed flat sides of the fish section to produce images of the respective sides. Screens move behind the fish section in sequential fashion as each camera scans the fish section.

Abstract: An apparatus for the acquisition and restoration in real time of a framed picture as disclosed. This apparatus utilizes an automaton and a slave circuit of the automaton for the addressing of a memory through the use of digital values from an analog-digital converter for analog picture acquisition signals. The digital values are processed and supplied to a digital-analog converter for the display of a picture on a display unit. Addressing outputs of the automaton are connected to the memory with the outputs of the slave circuit being connected to the synchronization inputs of both the analog-digital and the digital-analog converters in order to display picture corresponding to the processed digital values.