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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2018
Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Mark A. Foresman, Houston, TX (US);
Bradley J. Prevost, Pearland, TX (US);
Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system that includes a three-dimensional (3D) camera configured to capture a 3D image of a rearview of a dairy livestock in a stall and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain the 3D image, identify one or more regions within the 3D image comprising depth values greater than a depth value threshold, and s to identify a thigh gap region from the one or more regions. The processor is further configured to demarcate an access region within the thigh gap region and demarcate a tail detection region. The processor is further configured to identify one or more tail candidates within the tail detection region, to identify a tail candidate that corresponds with a tail model as the tail, and to determine position information for the tail.