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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 17, 2020
Applicant:

X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhiqiang Yuan, San Jose, CA (US);

Bodi Yuan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ming Zheng, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

X DEVELOPMENT LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06V 10/22 (2022.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01); G06V 20/68 (2022.01); A01D 45/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); G06V 10/22 (2022.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01); A01D 45/22 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30242 (2013.01); G06V 20/68 (2022.01);
Abstract

Implementations are described herein for normalizing counts of plant-parts-of-interest detected in digital imagery to account for differences in spatial dimensions of plants, particularly plant heights. In various implementations, one or more digital images depicting a top of a first plant may be processed. The one or more digital images may have been acquired by a vision sensor carried over top of the first plant by a ground-based vehicle. Based on the processing: a distance of the vision sensor to the first plant may be estimated, and a count of visible plant-parts-of-interest that were captured within a field of view of the vision sensor may be determined. Based on the estimated distance, the count of visible plant-parts-of-interest may be normalized with another count of visible plant-parts-of-interest determined from one or more digital images capturing a second plant.


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