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US 12,677,821 B2Granted
System and method to determine condition of nozzles of an agricultural implement
AssigneePrecision Planting LLC
InventorsSara Collins, Ryan Knuffman
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Abstract
In an aspect of the disclosure there is provided a system including nozzles disposed along an implement, a camera disposed on the implement to capture images of a spray from a nozzle of the nozzles over a time period and a processor to assign a rating to the images to account for the nozzle intermittently being off and not counting the nozzle as plugged. The processor to determine a running average for a condition of the nozzle using the assigned rating for the images.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- a plurality of nozzles disposed along an implement;
- a camera disposed on the implement to capture a plurality of images of a spray from a nozzle of the plurality of nozzles over a time period;
- and
- a processor to assign a rating to the plurality of images to account for the nozzle intermittently being off and not counting the nozzle as plugged and to determine a running average for a condition of the nozzle using the assigned rating for the plurality of images.
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A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- capturing, with a camera, a plurality of images of one or more spray patterns from a nozzle of an agricultural implement;
- assigning a rating to each captured image to account for the nozzle intermittently being off and not counting the nozzle as plugged;
- and
- determining a running average for a condition of the nozzle using the assigned rating for the plurality of images.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.