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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:
Mar. 19, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);

Inventors:

Robert E. Lorentzen, Bondurant, IA (US);

Michael M. Miller, Mason City, IA (US);

Kent A. Klemme, Ankeny, IA (US);

Assignee:

DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 17/00 (2006.01); A01B 35/32 (2006.01); A01B 79/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 17/002 (2013.01); A01B 35/32 (2013.01); A01B 79/005 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for tracking missed tassels left by a detasseling machine. Rear-facing image data is captured by a camera positioned with a field of view behind the detasseling machine and image processing is applied to the rear-facing image data to quantity a missed tassel metric for a geospatial area. An indication of the missed tassel metric is displayed to an operator of the detasseling machine. In some implementations, the displayed indication of the missed tassel metric is updated in near real-time as the detasseling machine continue to operate in the crop field as an accumulated total missed tassel percentage for the entire crop field and/or as a missed tassel map indicating a percentage of missed tassels for each of a plurality of different geospatial sub-areas in the crop field.


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