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Patent No.:

US 12249097 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 08, 2022

Object collection system and method

Applicant:

Terraclear Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

TerraClear Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:

Seed IP Law Group LLP

Primary Examiner:

Tiffany P Young

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 43/00 (2006.01); A01B 59/042 (2006.01); A01B 69/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 18/20 (2023.01); G06F 18/21 (2023.01); G06F 18/211 (2023.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06T 3/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 10/20 (2022.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01); B64U 101/60 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/74 (2017.01); A01B 43/00 (2013.01); A01B 59/042 (2013.01); A01B 69/001 (2013.01); G05D 1/0038 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G06F 18/211 (2023.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06F 18/2163 (2023.01); G06F 18/217 (2023.01); G06F 18/285 (2023.01); G06N 3/045 (2023.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06T 3/00 (2013.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 10/255 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01); G06V 20/38 (2022.01); G08G 5/0034 (2013.01); G08G 5/0069 (2013.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2101/60 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01); G06T 2207/10032 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20104 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30244 (2013.01);
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.

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