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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
May. 26, 2022
Agco Corporation, Duluth, GA (US);
Alexander Quentin Susko, Jackson, MN (US);
Jeffrey Michael Zimmerman, Lake Park, IA (US);
AGCO Corporation, Duluth, GA (US);
Abstract
Technologies for guiding an agricultural vehicle through crop rows using a camera and signal processing to locate the crop row or centers of the crop row. The signal processing uses a filter to filter data from images captured by the camera and locates the row or the centers based on the filtered data. The filter is generated based on a signal processing transform and an initial image of the crop row captured by the camera. The filter is applied to subsequent images of the crop row captured by the camera. In some embodiments, the camera includes one lens. For example, monocular computer vision is used in some embodiments. Also, in some embodiments, a central processing unit generates the filter based on the transform and the initial image of the crop row and applies the generated filter to the subsequent images of the row.