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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Deere and Company, Moline, IL (US);
Inventors:
Niels Dybro, Sherrard, IL (US);
Larry L. Hendrickson, Savoy, IL (US);
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 19/08 (2006.01); A01D 45/02 (2006.01); G01G 19/00 (2006.01); G01L 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01); G01N 33/00 (2006.01); A01D 41/127 (2006.01); G01L 5/00 (2006.01); G01G 19/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 45/021 (2013.01); A01D 41/127 (2013.01); G01G 19/00 (2013.01); G01L 1/00 (2013.01); G01L 5/0061 (2013.01); G01N 33/0098 (2013.01); G01N 33/24 (2013.01); G01G 19/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A crop harvesting width of a harvester head is partitioned into a plurality of portions. At least one sensor detects a metric of a crop being harvested for each of the plurality of portions. A processing unit determines an attribute of the crop harvested for each of a plurality of portions using the detected metric.