Automatic working machine

An automatic working machine comprising:

• a television image input device for obtaining an optical image of a moving object to be worked and for converting the optical image into electrical signals;
• means for detecting the kind of object to be worked including means providing at least one predetermined range of level of electrical signals assumed for the shape of predetermined objects to be worked in an image plane of said television input device, means for measuring the area of the object to be worked in accordance with the electrical signals provided by said television input device obtaining an optical image of the moving object to be worked, and means for comparing the electrical signals of the measured area with the at least one predetermined range of electrical signals to detect the kind of object to be worked;
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• a working unit for effecting a predetermined work on the object to be worked in response to the result of detection of said detecting means.