Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Normalizing counts of plant-parts-of-interest
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Application No.: US16950037Application Date: 2020-11-17
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Publication No.: US11532080B2Publication Date: 2022-12-20
- Inventor: Zhiqiang Yuan , Bodi Yuan , Ming Zheng
- Applicant: X Development LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Middleton Reutlinger
- Main IPC: G06V20/10
- IPC: G06V20/10 ; G06T7/00 ; G06V10/22 ; G06N3/04 ; G06N3/08 ; G06T7/60 ; G06V20/68 ; A01D45/22

Abstract:
Implementations are described herein for normalizing counts of plant-parts-of-interest detected in digital imagery to account for differences in spatial dimensions of plants, particularly plant heights. In various implementations, one or more digital images depicting a top of a first plant may be processed. The one or more digital images may have been acquired by a vision sensor carried over top of the first plant by a ground-based vehicle. Based on the processing: a distance of the vision sensor to the first plant may be estimated, and a count of visible plant-parts-of-interest that were captured within a field of view of the vision sensor may be determined. Based on the estimated distance, the count of visible plant-parts-of-interest may be normalized with another count of visible plant-parts-of-interest determined from one or more digital images capturing a second plant.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220156917A1 NORMALIZING COUNTS OF PLANT-PARTS-OF-INTEREST Public/Granted day:2022-05-19
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