360 plant image capturing system and related methods
AssigneeSouth Dakota Board of Regents
InventorsAli Mirzakhani Nafchi, Ahmed Abdalla, Babak Azad
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Abstract
A system for monitoring plant or soil characteristics in a crop field, the system comprising a prime mover comprising a base and a camera frame operably coupled to the base. The camera frame comprises a central frame, a rotatable frame rotatably attached to the central frame, at least one camera attached to the rotatable frame.
Claims20
A system for monitoring plant or soil characteristics in a crop field, the system comprising:
- (a) a prime mover comprising a base;
- (b) a camera frame operably coupled to the base, the camera frame comprising:
- (i) a central frame;
- (ii) a rotatable frame rotatably attached to the central frame;
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- (iii) at least one camera attached to the rotatable frame.
A system for monitoring plant or soil characteristics in a crop field, the system comprising:
- (a) a prime mover comprising at least four wheels and a horizontal bar;
- (b) a height adjustment mechanism coupled to the horizontal bar;
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- (c) a non-rotatable camera frame operably coupled to the height adjustment mechanism, the non-rotatable camera frame comprising at least two cameras attached to the non-rotatable camera frame.
A system for monitoring plant or soil characteristics in a crop field, the system comprising:
- (a) a prime mover comprising a base;
- (b) a height adjustment mechanism coupled to the base comprising a height adjustment actuator and a height sensor;
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- (c) at least one camera frame operably coupled to the height adjustment mechanism, the at least one camera frame comprising:
- (i) a central frame;
- (ii) a rotatable frame rotatably attached to the central frame;
- (iii) a rotatable frame actuator configured to rotatably move the rotatable frame relative the central frame;
- (iv) a rotation sensor configured to track a rotation speed of the rotatable frame;
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- (v) at least one camera attached to the rotatable frame,
- wherein the height sensor is configured to sense a height of the at least one camera frame and the height adjustment actuator is configured to change the height of the at least one camera frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.