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AssigneesDeere & Company, Carnegie Mellon University
InventorsStephen R. Corban, Scott Miller, William D. Todd, Herman Herman, Zachary Pezzementi, Trenton Tabor, Jonathan Chang
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A grain tailings elevator for a combine harvester includes a an elevator housing having an interior containing a conveyor arrangement configured to transport grain tailings through the elevator housing to a discharge outlet. The elevator housing has a side wall with a window to the interior of the elevator housing. A camera having a camera housing containing an image sensor is mounted to the side wall of the elevator housing over the window with the image sensor in registration with the window. The image sensor is trained on the conveyor arrangement and configured to image the grain tailings transported by the conveyor arrangement through the elevator housing.
A grain tailings elevator for a combine harvester comprising:
The tailings elevator of example 1, wherein a width of the window is equal to a width of the side wall.
The tailings elevator of example 5, wherein the sensor is located adjacent to or within the camera housing;
An agriculture combine comprising:
The agriculture combine of example 7, wherein a width of the window is equal to a width of the side wall.
The agriculture combine of example 11, further including a sensor operatively connected to the control system to provide sensor input to the at least one processor and configured to sense the plurality of the paddles as they pass through the elevator housing;
The agriculture combine of example 12, wherein the sensor is located adjacent to or within the camera housing;
The agriculture combine of example 11, wherein the control system is configured to store images captured by the image sensor into the memory and execute image processing algorithms to assess the content and quality of the grain tailings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.