Robert John Vaselaar

Title: Robert John Vaselaar and Adaptive Color Scanning for Crop Row Detection.

Introduction

Robert John Vaselaar is an inventor associated with Mankato, Minnesota, and Raven Industries, Inc. His patent work addresses computer vision for agricultural applications, particularly the detection of crop rows from images.

Latest Patents

The provided information identifies one patent associated with Vaselaar: “Color Angle Scanning in Crop Row Detection.” The invention describes mapping image colors into a multidimensional space and generating condensed representations by rotating the color distribution through different color angles. Algorithms compare the representations using signal energy to select the highest-quality one. The selected color angle is then used to transform the image into a reduced image that can be transmitted to receiver circuitry in an agricultural vehicle. This adaptive approach is designed to support computer vision in crop-row detection.

Career Highlights

Vaselaar’s listed patent count is 1 patent. His identified work connects image processing and adaptive color transformation with agricultural vehicle systems at Raven Industries, Inc.

Collaborations

David Alan Rislov is identified as Vaselaar’s coworker. The information provided does not specify whether Rislov was a co-inventor or collaborator on the patent.

Conclusion

Robert John Vaselaar’s identified patent applies adaptive color analysis to crop-row detection, illustrating how computer vision techniques can support agricultural vehicle systems.