Holstein Cow Identification using Black and White Pattern

In September 2001, BSE was found for the first time in Japan. From then, consumers have been more and more interested in the safety of food products. Therefore, breeders and participants have to make a tracing system of productive information of cows and guarantee the quality of products through that system in an emergency Then the government has decided to put ear tags with peculiar numbers on all the cows and control the information of individual production and transference. But the ear tag can be damaged and missing. There is also a research of identification by implanting a microchip into the cow's body. But there are problems that the research can give a distress on cows and the detectable distance is too short. (omitted)