Forward-looking perception and machine control during crop harvesting operations
US11758844B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 19, 2020 |
| Grant date | Sep 19, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 16, 2042 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30188
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A computer-implemented method includes obtaining harvest data indicative of a prior harvesting operation on a field, identifying a region of the field having already-harvested crop plants based on the harvest data, detecting a characteristic of crop plants in a field in a path of an agricultural harvesting machine in a direction of travel, generating, based on the detected characteristic, a height metric representing a height of the crop plants on a particular area of the field, and generating a control signal to control the agricultural harvesting machine based on the height metric and the identified region.
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