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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2017
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Nikolai Tevs, Daytona Beach Shores, FL (US);
Jeffrey S. Puhalla, Hawley, MN (US);
Elijah B. Garner, Bettendorf, IA (US);
DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
At least one example embodiment discloses a seed monitoring system including a light source configured to emit light in an interior of a seed tube, a plurality of light receivers, each of the plurality of light receivers configured to receive light in at least two sectors of a plurality of sectors of a plane in the interior of the seed tube and generate a sensing signal corresponding to the received light, a processing system including a plurality of conditioning channels, the processing system configured to process the sensing signals to generate conditioned signals and a controller configured to generate a seed count value based on the generated conditioned signals.