METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND REPORTING VIDEO CORRESPONDING TO PRODUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT

• US 20130016214A1
• Filed: 07/12/2012
• Published: 01/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SureHarvest, Inc. (Where Food Comes From, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SureHarvest, Inc. (Where Food Comes From, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dlott, Jeffrey W., Rosenberg, Harry W., Ohmart, Clifford P., Connolly, Rebecca
• Granted Patent: US 9,619,763 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and apparatus for recording and reporting video corresponding to production of an agricultural product. In an example embodiment, an apparatus comprises a hand-held device including a display and one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with or affixed to a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation. The hand-held device includes at least one processor to determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia; send the identification code to at least one remote server; receive, from the at least one remote server, video data that is associated with the product. The video data is reproducible on a video display apparatus to produce a human-viewable video showing at least one aspect of the production of the food product.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a hand-held device including;

a display; and

one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with or affixed to a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation;

the hand-held device including at least one processor to;

a) determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia;

b) send the identification code to at least one remote server;

c) receive, from the at least one remote server, video data that is associated with the product, the video data reproducible on a video display apparatus to produce a human-viewable video showing at least one aspect of the production of the food product; and

d) display at least some of the received video data on the display in human readable form.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more input devices includes one or more of the following:

a keyboard;

bar code reader;

an audio device;

an imaging camera; and

, a radio frequency identification means.

3-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A system comprising one or more processors to:

a) receive an identification code from one or more input devices, the identification code corresponding to a food product;

b) receive or store information that is associated with the product, the information including video data that is associated with the product, the video data reproducible on a video display apparatus to produce a human-viewable video showing at least one aspect of the production of the food product; and

c) send to a display, in response to receiving the identification code, at least some of the video data associated with the product.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein at least one of the processors is further to receive or store at least some of the video data that is associated with the product at one or more remote servers.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the system further includes a computer or hand-held device comprising at least one of the processors, and wherein the at least one processor is further to receive, from the one or more remote servers, at least some of the video data that is associated with the product.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the computer or hand-held device includes the display to which at least some of the video data information is sent.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more input devices includes one or more of the following:

a keyboard;

a bar code reader;

an audio device;

an imaging camera; and

, a radio frequency identification means.

12-17. -17. (canceled)

18. A computer-implemented method comprising using one or more processors to:

receive an identification code from one or more input devices, the identification code corresponding to a food product;

b) receive or store information that is associated with the product, the information including video data that is associated with the product, the video data reproducible on a video display apparatus to produce a human-viewable video showing at least one aspect of the production of the food product; and

c) send to a display, in response to receiving the identification code, at least some of the vide data that is associated with the product.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising storing or receiving at least some of the video data that is associated with the product at one or more remote servers.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising sending to a computer or hand-held device, from the one or more remote servers, at least some of the vide data that is associated with the product.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the computer or hand-held device includes the display to which at least some of the video data is sent.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein the one or more input devices includes one or more of the following:

a keyboard;

a bar code reader;

an audio device;

an imaging camera; and

, a radio frequency identification means.

23. (canceled)

24. A method of processing data pertaining to an agricultural product, the method comprising receiving product data from a custodian of an agricultural product, the product data including video data that is associated with the product, the video data reproducible on a video display apparatus to produce a human-viewable video showing at least one aspect of the production of the food product at a custodial location.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the product data is received from one or more custodians in a series of custodians, each controlling a custodial location along a chain of custody of the agricultural product.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein one or more of the custodians in the chain of custody performs a data capture operation to capture the video data at the respective custodial location.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the product data further includes location data of the agricultural product at one or more of the custodial locations in the chain of custody.

28-39. -39. (canceled)