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Patent No.:

US 10499608 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 15, 2018

Vision system with teat detection

Applicant:

Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Mark A. Foresman, Houston, TX (US);

Bradley J. Prevost, Pearland, TX (US);

Assignee:

Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Jayesh A Patel

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A01J 5/007 (2006.01); A01J 5/017 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01); G06T 7/521 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J 5/007 (2013.01); A01J 5/017 (2013.01); G06K 9/00 (2013.01); G06K 9/00362 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01); G06K 9/623 (2013.01); G06K 9/6215 (2013.01); G06T 7/001 (2013.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01); G06T 7/251 (2017.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06T 7/75 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30204 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that includes a laser configured to generate a profile signal of at least a portion of a dairy livestock and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain the profile signal and detect one or more edge pair candidates in the profile signal, compare the complementary distance gradients of each of the one or more edge pair candidates to a minimum distance gradient length to be considered an edge pair, and identify an edge pair from among the one or more edge pair candidates as a teat candidate based on the comparison. The processor is further configured to determine position information for the teat candidate.

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