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Patent No.:

US 12761666 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2024

Obstacle detection system, agricultural machine and obstacle detection method

Applicant:

Kubota Corporation, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Nagahiro Fujiwara, Sakai, JP;

Shunsuke Miyashita, Sakai, JP;

Assignee:

KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;

Attorney:

Keating & Bennett, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Dale W Hilgendorf

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/622 (2024.01); G01S 17/86 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G05D 1/242 (2024.01); G05D 105/15 (2024.01); G05D 107/20 (2024.01); G05D 111/10 (2024.01); G06V 10/141 (2022.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/622 (2024.01); G01S 17/86 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G05D 1/242 (2024.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G05D 2105/15 (2024.01); G05D 2107/21 (2024.01); G05D 2111/10 (2024.01); G06V 10/141 (2022.01); G06V 10/56 (2022.01);
Abstract

An obstacle detection system for an agricultural machine to perform self-driving while sensing a surrounding environment with a LiDAR sensor and a camera includes a controller configured or programmed to cause the camera, upon detecting an obstacle candidate based on data that is output from the LiDAR sensor, as a trigger, to acquire an image of the obstacle candidate, and determine whether or not to change a traveling status of the agricultural machine based on the image of the obstacle candidate acquired with the camera.

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