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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2023
Dalhousie University, Halifax, CA;
Dalhousie University, Halifax, CA;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method of determining a storage location by size for harvested tubers deposited by a bin piler are provided. The method may comprise: capturing one or more images of the harvested tubers; segmenting individual tuber depictions visible in the images; determining one or more shape characteristics for a plurality of the individual tuber depictions; identifying one or more unoccluded tuber depictions by determining that at least one of the individual tuber depictions is an unoccluded tuber depiction based on the shape characteristics of that individual tuber depiction; measuring a size of tubers corresponding to at least one of the unoccluded tuber depictions; attributing an average size to at least tubers corresponding to the occluded tuber depictions based on the measured size; determining the storage location of the harvested tubers based in part on bin piler location data; and recording in memory the storage location and average size.
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