Basf Agro Trademarks Gmbh

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Gregor Fischer

Klaus Ruelberg

Dirk Schaefer

Dirk Schäfer

Benjamin Hoetter

The present invention relates to the technical field of the marking of articles by means of optically readable codes and of reading out the codes. The invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for detecting and interpreting optically readable codes that are introduced into the surfaces of articles.

Readout of optically readable codes

The present disclosure is concerned with the technical field of marking objects with optically readable codes and reading out (decoding) the codes. Subjects of the present disclosure are a method, a system and a computer program product for decoding optically readable codes introduced in surfaces of objects.

Reading out optically readable codes

A method is presented for determining a weight of all of the grains of an ear of a grain stalk. The method comprises providing a digital image of the ear in a spindle step view of the ear, wherein the ear is located in front of a reference card as a background, and determining the length of the ear by means of a comparison with the reference card. Furthermore, the method comprises determining a number of spindle steps of the ear by means of a template matching method, determining a number of grains of the ear and determining of the weight of all of the grains of the ear.

Determining the grain weight of an ear

A method for predicting the yield of a cornfield is presented. The method has the steps of positioning a digital camera at a defined distance above an average plane of ears of a cornfield, capturing a digital image of a section of the cornfield, determining the area of the captured cornfield section, determining the total area of the ears in the digital image compared to the total area of the digital image, and determining the yield of the field from the total area of the ears in the digital image compared to the total area of the digital image, the determined area of the captured cornfield section, the average grain weight of an ear, a total field area and a calibration factor.

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