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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Vineland Research and Innovations Centre Inc., Vineland Station, CA;
Inventors:
John Van De Vegte, Cambridge, CA;
Michael Lawson, Burlington, CA;
John Renfrew, Dundas, CA;
Koshy Mathew, Ajax, CA;
Assignee:
Vineland Research and Innovations Centre Inc., Vineland Station, CA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); A01G 1/04 (2006.01); A01D 45/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 1/04 (2013.01); A01D 45/005 (2013.01); B25J 9/163 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); Y10S 901/31 (2013.01); Y10S 901/40 (2013.01); Y10S 901/47 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for controlling harvesting of mushrooms from a bed during a mushroom graze harvest operation account for both mushroom separation and stagger, thereby providing for automatic and proper selection of which mushrooms in the bed are to be harvested in a given shift.