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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. 31, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2022
Applicant:

Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);

Inventors:

Ashraf Qadir, Ankeny, IA (US);

Qiang Ray Liu, Urbandale, IA (US);

Ryan R. White, Polk City, IA (US);

Assignee:

DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2024.01); A01B 79/00 (2006.01); A01D 41/127 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0251 (2013.01); A01B 79/005 (2013.01); A01D 41/127 (2013.01); G05D 1/0278 (2013.01);
Abstract

An upper point cloud estimator is configured to estimate a three-dimensional representation of the crop canopy based on collected stereo vision image data. A lower point cloud estimator is configured to estimate a ground three-dimensional representation or lower point of the ground based on the determined average. The electronic data processor is configured to determine one or more differences between the upper point cloud (or upper surface) of the crop canopy and a lower point cloud of the ground, where each difference is associated with a cell within a grid defined by the front region. The electronic data processor is capable of providing the differences to a data processing system to estimate a yield or differential yield for the front region, among other things.


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