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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2022
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Andrei Polzounov, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Patrick Ostrowski, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lee Kamp Redden, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Olgert Denas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chia-Chun Fu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chris Padwick, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A farming machine including a number of treatment mechanisms treats plants according to a treatment plan as the farming machine moves through the field. The control system of the farming machine executes a plant identification model configured to identify plants in the field for treatment. The control system generates a treatment map identifying which treatment mechanisms to actuate to treat the plants in the field. To generate a treatment map, the farming machine captures an image of plants, processes the image to identify plants, and generates a treatment map. The plant identification model can be a convolutional neural network having an input layer, an identification layer, and an output layer. The input layer has the dimensionality of the image, the identification layer has a greatly reduced dimensionality, and the output layer has the dimensionality of the treatment mechanisms.