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US 12,660,806 B2Granted
Intelligent weed treatment
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorNoel W. Anderson
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Abstract
An image of a portion of a geographic area is accessed by a farming machine. The image is analyzed by the farming machine to identify a plant in the portion of the geographic area. A treatment plan is determined for the plant by the farming machine based on one or more characteristics of the plant and further based on a set of treatment objectives. The set of treatment objectives including two or more of a plant hindrance objective, a plant reproduction limiting objective, a carbon footprint limiting objective, and a collateral damage limiting objective. An action is performed by the farming machine based on the treatment plan.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- accessing, by a farming machine, an image of a portion of a geographic area;
- analyzing, by the farming machine, the image to identify a plant in the portion of the geographic area;
- accessing, by the farming machine, a set of treatment objectives, the set of treatment objectives including two or more of a plant hindrance objective, a plant reproduction limiting objective, a carbon footprint limiting objective, and a collateral damage limiting objective;
- determining, by the farming machine, a regime zone corresponding to the portion of the geographic area;
- accessing, for each of a plurality of treatment actions, treatment score data indicating efficacy of the treatment action in achieving a given treatment objective for a given type of plant;
- accessing regime zone data indicating a subset of one or more of the plurality of treatment actions that are impermissible for the regime zone;
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- determining, by the farming machine, one or more treatment actions of a treatment plan for the plant based on one or more characteristics of the plant, the set of treatment objectives, and the regime zone corresponding to the portion of the geographic area, wherein the one or more treatment actions are selected from among the plurality of treatment actions by excluding the subset of treatment actions and selecting, from a remainder of the plurality of treatment actions, the one or more treatment actions based on the treatment score data.
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A farming machine comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by the hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to perform steps comprising:
- accessing an image of a portion of a geographic area;
- analyzing the image to identify a plant in the portion of the geographic area;
- accessing a set of treatment objectives, the set of treatment objectives including two or more of a plant hindrance objective, a plant reproduction limiting objective, a carbon footprint limiting objective, and a collateral damage limiting objective;
- determining a regime zone corresponding to the portion of the geographic area;
- accessing, for each of a plurality of treatment actions, treatment score data indicating efficacy of the treatment action in achieving a given treatment objective for a given type of plant;
- accessing regime zone data indicating a subset of one or more of the plurality of treatment actions that are impermissible for the regime zone;
- and
- determining one or more treatment actions of a treatment plan for the plant based on one or more characteristics of the plant, the set of treatment objectives, and the regime zone corresponding to the portion of the geographic area, wherein the one or more treatment actions are selected from among the plurality of treatment actions by excluding the subset of treatment actions and selecting, from a remainder of the plurality of treatment actions, the one or more treatment actions based on the treatment score data.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by a hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to perform steps comprising:
- accessing an image of a portion of a geographic area;
- analyzing the image to identify a plant in the portion of the geographic area;
- accessing a set of treatment objectives, the set of treatment objectives including two or more of a plant hindrance objective, a plant reproduction limiting objective, a carbon footprint limiting objective, and a collateral damage limiting objective;
- determining a regime zone corresponding to the portion of the geographic area;
- accessing, for each of a plurality of treatment actions, treatment score data indicating efficacy of the treatment action in achieving a given treatment objective for a given type of plant;
- accessing regime zone data indicating a subset of one or more of the plurality of treatment actions that are impermissible for the regime zone;
- and
- determining one or more treatment actions of a treatment plan for the plant based on one or more characteristics of the plant, the set of treatment objectives, and the regime zone corresponding to the portion of the geographic area, wherein the one or more treatment actions are selected from among the plurality of treatment actions by excluding the subset of treatment actions and selecting, from a remainder of the plurality of treatment actions, the one or more treatment actions based on the treatment score data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.