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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2019
Terraclear Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Brent Ronald Frei, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dwight Galen McMaster, Burien, WA (US);
Michael Racine, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jacobus du Preez, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
William David Dimmit, Seattle, WA (US);
Isabelle Butterfield, Bellevue, WA (US);
Clifford Holmgren, Spanaway, WA (US);
Dafydd Daniel Rhys-Jones, Tacoma, WA (US);
Thayne Kollmorgen, Eugene, OR (US);
Vivek Ullal Nayak, Seattle, WA (US);
TerraClear Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
An object-collection system is disclosed. The system including a vehicle connected to a bucket, a camera connected to the vehicle, and an object picking assembly configured to pick up objects off of ground. The system further includes a processor that obtains object information for identified objects, guides the object-collection system over a target geographical area toward the identified objects based on the object information, captures images of the ground relative to the object picker as the object-collection system is guided towards the identified objects, identifies a target object in the images, tracks movement of the target object across the images as the object-collection system is guided towards the identified objects, and employs the tracked movement of the target object to instruct the object picker to pick up the target object.