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US 11,304,355 B2Granted
Methods and systems for reducing fitness of weed
AssigneeWeedout Ltd.
InventorsOrly Noivirt-Brik, Efrat Lidor-Nili
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Abstract
A method of weed control is provided. The method comprising: (a) determining development of flowers of at least one weed species of interest; and (b) artificially pollinating at flowering the flowers of the at least one weed species of interest with pollen that reduces fitness of the at least one weed species of interest. Also provided are systems for executing the method.
Claims19
A system for reducing fitness of at least one weed species of interest, comprising:
- a non-transitory memory having stored thereon a code for execution by at least one hardware processor, the code comprising:
- code for inputting into at least one classifier, at least one image captured by at least one imaging sensor, the at least one image depicting at least one weed species of interest;
- code for computing by the at least one classifier, an indication of likelihood of the at least one weed being at a flowering state suitable for being artificially pollinated by artificial pollination of flowers of the at least one weed species of interest at a certain time interval, wherein the at least one classifier is trained on a training dataset comprising a plurality of images of respective at least one weed species of interest captured by the at least one imaging sensor and associated indication of a time interval of when the respective at least one weed species of interest is at the target flowering state suitable for being artificially pollinated by artificial pollination of flowers thereof relative to the time of capture of the respective image;
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- code for generating according to the indication of likelihood and the certain time interval, instructions for execution by pollination controller of a pollinator device for artificially pollinating flowers of the at least one weed species of interest with pollen that reduces fitness of the at least one weed species of interest.
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A system for training at least one classifier for reducing fitness of at least one weed species of interest, comprising:
- a non-transitory memory having stored thereon a code for execution by at least one hardware processor, the code comprising:
- code for accessing a training dataset comprising a plurality of images of respective at least one weed species of interest captured by at least one imaging sensor and associated indication of a time interval of when the respective at least one weed species of interest is at a target flowering state suitable for being artificially pollinated by artificial pollination of flowers thereof relative to the time of capture of the respective image;
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- code for training at least one classifier according to the training dataset, for computing an indicative of likelihood of a target at least one weed being at a target flowering state suitable for being artificially pollinated by artificial pollination of flowers of the at least one weed species of interest at a certain time interval according to at least one target image captured by at least one imaging sensor.
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A method of reducing fitness of at least one weed species of interest, comprising:
- inputting into at least one classifier, at least one image captured by at least one imaging sensor, the at least one image depicting at least one weed species of interest;
- computing by the at least one classifier, an indication of likelihood of the at least one weed being at a target flowering state suitable for being artificially pollinated by artificial pollination of flowers of the at least one weed species of interest at a certain time interval, wherein the at least one classifier is trained on a training dataset comprising a plurality of images of respective at least one weed species of interest captured by the at least one imaging sensor and associated indication of a time interval of when the respective at least one weed species of interest is at the target flowering state suitable for being artificially pollinated by artificial pollination of flowers thereof relative to the time of capture of the respective image;
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- generating according to the indication of likelihood and the certain time interval, instructions for execution by pollination controller of a pollinator device for artificially pollinating flowers of the at least one weed species of interest with pollen that reduces fitness of the at least one weed species of interest.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.