Identifying and treating plants using depth information in a single image

    公开(公告)号:US11367207B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US17033263

    申请日:2020-09-25

    摘要: A farming machine includes one or more image sensors for capturing an image as the farming machine moves through the field. A control system accesses an image captured by the one or more sensors and identifies a distance value associated with each pixel of the image. The distance value corresponds to a distance between a point and an object that the pixel represents. The control system classifies pixels in the image as crop, plant, ground, etc. based on the visual information in the pixels. The control system generates a labelled point cloud using the labels and depth information, and identifies features about the crops, plants, ground, etc. in the point cloud. The control system generates treatment actions based on any of the depth information, visual information, point cloud, and feature values. The control system actuates a treatment mechanism based on the classified pixels.

    AGRICULTURAL WEED DISPATCHING IMPLEMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220183265A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17552153

    申请日:2021-12-15

    IPC分类号: A01M7/00 A01M21/04

    摘要: An agricultural implement that can concurrently cultivate and spray includes an implement support frame. A plurality of cultivator row units is coupled with the implement support frame. Each cultivator row unit of the plurality of cultivator row units includes a dispatching implement. A sprayer system coupled with the implement support frame includes a fluid holding tank coupled with the implement support frame. The sprayer system includes a fluid pump in fluid communication with the fluid holding tank. The sprayer system includes a plurality of fluid nozzles in fluid communication with the fluid holding tank. Each of the fluid nozzles of the plurality of fluid nozzles is configured to direct fluid between cultivator shovels of the plurality of cultivator row units.

    METHOD FOR PLANTATION TREATMENT OF A PLANTATION FIELD

    公开(公告)号:US20220167606A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-02

    申请号:US17599082

    申请日:2020-03-27

    摘要: A method for plantation treatment of a plantation field, the method, comprising: receiving (S10) a parametrization (10) for controlling a treatment device (200) by the treatment device (200) from a field manager system (100), wherein the parametrization (10) is dependent on offline field data (Doff) relating to expected conditions on the plantation field (300); taking (S20) an image (20) of a plantation of a plantation field (300); recognizing (S30) objects (30) on the taken image (20); determining (S40) at least one treatment product composition (40) optionally dependent or based on the determined parametrization (10), online field data and/or the recognized objects (30); determining (S50) a control signal (S) for controlling a treatment arrangement (270) of the treatment device (200) based on the determined parametrization (10), the recognized objects (30) and the chosen treatment product composition (40).

    Irrigation Pest Control
    106.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220142143A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-12

    申请号:US17094224

    申请日:2020-11-10

    摘要: The present irrigation pest control system relates generally to the automated dispersal of pest control agents and other agricultural agents to lawns and agricultural areas. Users may program a desired schedule for the dispersal of various chemical agents at certain time periods and in specified volumes by automating the dispersal of chemical agents into the irrigation system. This automated system can function through the programming of a multi-port pinch chemigation valve that regulates the dispersal of about twelve (12) different chemical agents housed in a plurality of smart port cartridges in fluid communication with the multi-port pinch chemigation valve. The multi-port pinch chemigation valve eliminates redundancies by integrating the dispersal of pest control and other chemical agents with the normal irrigation process.

    Agricultural Work Vehicle
    107.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220142140A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-12

    申请号:US17440856

    申请日:2020-03-13

    发明人: Kensaku Wakuta

    摘要: An agricultural work vehicle is provided with crawler travel parts, support platform frames, a front/back structure, an engine, a hydraulic pump, a tank frame, and an injection nozzle unit. The crawler travel parts travel so as to hold a plant therebetween in the left/right direction. The support platform frames are disposed as a left/right pair, respectively overlapping with the left/right crawler travel parts in plan view. The front/back structures each include a left frame, a right frame, and a coupling frame. The engine is disposed at the left or right support platform frame. The hydraulic pump is disposed on the same side, out of the left and right support platform frames, as the engine, and is driven by the engine. A hydraulic oil tank is located on the opposite side in the left/right direction from the left support platform frame where the engine is disposed, and stores hydraulic oil to be supplied to the hydraulic pump.

    Tagged Container Tracking
    108.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220142037A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-12

    申请号:US17580601

    申请日:2022-01-20

    摘要: A system and method that automatically monitors product use, such as the type and amount of agricultural and/or horticultural product stored in and dispensed from a cartridge over time and/or by geographic location. Monitored data are stored in memory such as a tag on the cartridge and may be transmitted to a server for storage, aggregation, and analysis. The cartridge may be authenticated before being authorized for use for the benefit of a current user in dispensing the product. The cartridge may be refilled after confirmation of authorization codes on the cartridge and refilling equipment tags. The cartridge may be calibrated automatically based on the bulk density or other parameter of the product in the cartridge. Data may be aggregated from a plurality of cartridges automatically. As-applied data from individual cartridges may be used to verify, independent of operator input, treated area coverage and product application rate.

    Drop-down applicators for an agricultural sprayer

    公开(公告)号:US11324213B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-10

    申请号:US16295853

    申请日:2019-03-07

    IPC分类号: A01M7/00

    摘要: An agricultural vehicle is moveable across a surface. The agricultural vehicle includes a chassis, a traction member coupled to the chassis with the traction member configured to engage the surface and move the chassis relative to the surface, a holding tank coupled to the chassis with the holding tank configured to support agricultural matter, a support boom coupled to the chassis, and a plurality of applicator assemblies. Each applicator assembly of the plurality of applicator assemblies includes a resilient body coupled to the support boom, a foot coupled to the body with the foot configured to be biased into engagement with the surface via the resiliency of the body, and a nozzle. The nozzle is in communication with the holding tank and configured to dispense the agricultural matter.

    Sprayer
    110.
    发明授权
    Sprayer 有权

    公开(公告)号:US11324211B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-10

    申请号:US17010405

    申请日:2020-09-02

    发明人: Gaofeng Wang

    IPC分类号: A01M7/00 B05B11/00 B05B9/08

    摘要: A sprayer includes a spray nozzle, a blower and a sprayer housing. The sprayer housing is configured to contain a liquid. The spray nozzle and the sprayer housing are connected. The spray nozzle is configured to spray the liquid out from the sprayer housing. The blower is fixedly connected with the spray nozzle, and the spray nozzle is connected to the sprayer housing through the blower. The blower is rotatable with respect to the sprayer housing so as to adjust the angle of the blower with respect to the sprayer housing, thereby enabling the angle of the spray nozzle to be adjusted with respect to the sprayer housing. The angle of the spray nozzle with respect to the sprayer housing is adjustable, so the spray nozzle is capable of ejecting the liquid at different angles with respect to the sprayer housing without moving the sprayer.