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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Johannes Zametzer, Zweibruecken, DE;
Folker Beck, Rieschweiler, DE;
Johannes Zametzer, Zweibruecken, DE;
Folker Beck, Rieschweiler, DE;
DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
An arrangement for the automatic transfer of agricultural crops from a harvesting machine to a transport vehicle has an image capture device, which optically detects one or more features of the transport vehicle. A computer controls an actuator to adjust a transfer device relative to the harvesting machine and/or to change the position of the loading container relative to the harvesting machine based on signals of the image capture device. The computer continually sets up, with the aid of the signals of the image capture device, a virtual movement model of the loading container and controls the actuator with the aid of extrapolated data for an expected position of the loading container derived from the movement model, if the signals of the image capture device are no longer sufficient to recognize the transport vehicle because of an impairment of the visibility conditions.