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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2018
Cnh Industrial Canada, Ltd., Saskatoon, CA;
Autonomous Solutions, Inc., Mendon, UT (US);
Luca Ferrari, Formigine, IT;
John H. Posselius, Ephrata, PA (US);
James W. Henry, Saskatoon, CN;
Taylor C. Bybee, Logan, UT (US);
Bret T. Turpin, Wellsville, UT (US);
CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA;
Autonomous Solutions, Inc., Mendon, UT (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, a system for monitoring sensor performance on an agricultural machine may include a controller configured to receive a plurality of images from the vision-based sensor mounted on an agricultural machine. The controller may be configured to determine an image parameter value associated with each of a plurality of pixels contained within each of the plurality of images. For each respective pixel of the plurality of pixels, the controller may be configured to determine a variance associated with the image parameter values for the respective pixel across the plurality of images. Furthermore, when the variance associated with the image parameter values for a given pixel of the plurality of pixels falls outside of a predetermined range, the controller may be configured to identify the given pixel as being at least one of obscured or inoperative.