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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Inventor:
Cristian Dima, St. Ingbert / Rohrbac, DE;
Assignee:
DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/40 (2006.01); A01D 41/127 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); A01D 41/127 (2013.01); A01D 41/1278 (2013.01); G06T 7/408 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and a method for detecting and documenting the quality of straw, having the following steps: recording an image of a straw swath with a camera, generating a signal regarding the quality of the straw by means of an image-processing system based on parameters derived from the image of the camera, and storing and/or displaying the signal of the image processing system and/or controlling an actuator based on the signal of the image processing system.