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US 2023/0143856 A1Published application
Urchin culling mechanism and attractant method
AssigneeCoastal Waters Biotechnology 2, Inc.
InventorsDennis Dwyane YANCEY, JR., Arthur MCCLUNG, III
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system for attracting and monitoring marine life by capturing images on and around the seafloor surrounding a device of the system. The system can quantitatively measure the effectiveness of attracting and culling marine life such as but not limited to sea urchins. The attracting and the culling features can be used independently.
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A system for attracting and monitoring marine life, comprising:
- an underwater device, comprising:
- a weighted base having a top, a bottom, and a side determined by a shape of the weighted base, the weighted base supporting a camera attached to the top of the weighted base;
- an attractant apparatus suspended above the weighted base and connected to the top of the weighted base by an anchor affixed to a proximate side of the attractant apparatus;
- a communications enabled buoy suspended above the weighted base and the attractant apparatus and connected to a distal side of the attractant apparatus by a flexible link;
- a data cable communicatively coupled to the camera and the communications enabled buoy;
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- a microcontroller communicatively coupled to the data cable and disposed within the communications enabled buoy.
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A method for attracting and monitoring marine life, comprising:
- attracting, by an attractant disposed within an attractant apparatus supported by a weighted base, marine life into an entrapment zone;
- capturing, by one or more cameras supported by the weighted base and operably linked to a data cable, an image on and around the weighted base;
- processing, by a computer vision algorithm, the images to identify the density of marine life in the entrapment zone in near real-time;
- and transmitting, by a microcontroller, the image to a remote server over the data cable.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.