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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Applicant:
Willi Behnke, Steinhagen, DE;
Inventor:
Willi Behnke, Steinhagen, DE;
Assignee:
CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH, Harsewinkel, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for estimating a portion of undesired particles in crop material includes taking a photograph of the crop material; identifying images of at least one type of undesired particle in the photograph that was taken; measuring the surface area covered by the image of every particle shown in the photograph; and determining the portion of undesired particles as a proportion of the surface area of the images, and may be used, in particular, in a harvesting machine on the crop material picked up in an on-going harvesting operation.