公开(公告)号：US11991944B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US17306202

申请日：2021-05-03

Applicant: CROP SENTRY LTD.

Inventor： Christopher Brock Porth ,  Lysa M. Porth ,  Ehsan Tahmasebian ,  Vahab Khoshdel ,  Amin Hajihosseinlu

IPC: A01B79/00 ,  G01C15/00 ,  G01C15/06 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G06T7/10 ,  H04N23/53

CPC classification number: A01B79/005 ,  G01C15/002 ,  G01C15/06 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G06T7/10 ,  H04N23/531 ,  G06T2207/10024 ,  G06T2207/10028 ,  G06T2207/30188

Abstract: There is provided a computer vision monitoring system and method for use in agriculture. The system has a frame; a battery mounted to the frame and providing electrical power; a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor mounted to the frame; a camera mounted to the frame; an enclosure mounted to the frame, the enclosure housing a processing structure. The processing structure executes instructions such as capturing point data from the LiDAR sensor; capturing image data from the camera; generating a 3D color-assigned cloud point data set from the image data and the point data; and determining crop characteristic data. The method involves similar steps as executed by the processing structure.