Obscurant emission to assist image formation to automate agricultural management and treatment
US11465162B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 21, 2019 |
| Grant date | Oct 11, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 24, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB05B1/02
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Various embodiments relate generally to computer vision and automation to autonomously identify and deliver for application a treatment to an object among other objects, data science and data analysis, including machine learning, deep learning, and other disciplines of computer-based artificial intelligence to facilitate identification and treatment of objects, and robotics and mobility technologies to navigate a delivery system, more specifically, to an agricultural delivery system configured to identify and apply, for example, an agricultural treatment to an identified agricultural object. In some examples, a method may include calculating an amount of light originating from a light source sensed at a location in which an agricultural object is interposed between the light source and an image capture device, causing emission of an obscurant, and directing the obscurant to a region interposed between the light source and the agricultural object.
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