Enhanced statistical/status display

A centralized monitoring unit for an agricultural implement coupled to a work vehicle, the work vehicle including a cab and the implement including a frame, a plurality of row units coupled to the frame and configured to apply a product to a plurality of rows in a field, the monitoring unit comprising:

• a product delivery apparatus having two product channels for delivering the product to two of the row units;
• two electronic product sensors coupled to the product delivery apparatus and configured to generate two product signals, each product signal representing an amount of the product which moves through one of the product channels;
• an electronic display located in the cab and configured to generate a graphical image in response to a display signal;
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• a processor circuit coupled to the two electronic product sensors and the electronic display, the processor circuit configured to monitor the two product signals, to calculate product rate statistics using the two product signals, and to apply the display signal to the electronic display to generate the graphical image on the electronic display for simultaneous display of the product rate statistics for two of the rows in the field which correspond to the two row units;
• wherein the electronic display includes a system bar located in a first portion of the electronic display configured to display system parameters, a view port located in a second portion of the electronic display configured to display the product rate statistics, and a menu bar located in a third portion of the electronic display configured to display names of a plurality of additional electronic display screens.

A centralized monitoring unit for an agricultural implement coupled to a work vehicle, the work vehicle including a cab and the implement including a frame, a plurality of row units coupled to the frame and configured to apply a product to a plurality of rows in a field, the implement also including a plurality of sections, each section including a plurality of the row units, the monitoring unit comprising:

• a product delivery apparatus having two product channels for delivering the product to two of the row units;
• two electronic product sensors coupled to the product delivery apparatus and configured to generate two product signals, each product signal representing an amount of the product which moves through one of the product channels;
• an electronic display located in the cab and configured to generate a graphical image in response to a display signal;
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• a processor circuit coupled to the two electronic product sensors and the electronic display, the processor circuit configured to monitor the two product signals, to calculate product rate statistics using the two product signals, and to apply the display signal to the electronic display to generate the graphical image on the electronic display for simultaneous display of the product rate statistics for two of the rows in the field which correspond to the two row units, wherein the display signal causes the electronic display to show the product rate statistics for each section sequentially.

A centralized monitoring unit for an agricultural implement coupled to a work vehicle, the work vehicle including a cab and the implement including a frame, a plurality of row units coupled to the frame and configured to apply a product to a plurality of rows in a field, the monitoring unit comprising:

• a product delivery apparatus having two product channels for delivering the product to two of the row units;
• two electronic product sensors coupled to the product delivery apparatus and configured to generate two product signals, each product signal representing an amount of the product which moves through one of the product channels;
• an electronic display located in the cab and configured to generate a graphical image in response to a display signal;
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• a processor circuit coupled to the two electronic product sensors and the electronic display, the processor circuit configured to monitor the two product signals, to calculate product rate statistics using the two product signals, and to apply the display signal to the electronic display to generate the graphical image on the electronic display for simultaneous display of the product rate statistics for two of the rows in the field which correspond to the two row units;
• wherein the displayed image includes a bar graph representing an actual product rate per row normalized by a targeted product rate per row for each of the two rows.

A centralized display unit for an agricultural implement coupled to a work vehicle, the work vehicle including a cab and the implement including a frame having a plurality of sections, each section supporting a plurality of row units, the implement configured to apply a product to a plurality of rows in a field, each section including a product delivery apparatus having two product channels for delivering the product to two of the row units supported by the respective section, the display unit comprising:

• two electronic product sensors coupled to the product delivery apparatus of each section and configured to generate two product signals, each product signal representing an amount of the product which moves through one of the product channels;
• a digital memory coupled to the electronic product sensors of each section and configured to store data representative of the product signals;
• an electronic display located in the cab and configured to generate a graphical image in response to a display signal;
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• a processor circuit coupled to the memory, the electronic product sensors of each section and the electronic display, the processor circuit configured to read the product data from the memory, to analyze the product data associated with each of the row units for a selected section, to calculate product rate statistics for the selected section, and to apply the display signal to the electronic display to generate the graphical image representative of the product rate statistics for the selected section, the image simultaneously displaying the product rate statistics for two of the rows in the field corresponding to the selected section of the implement, the selected section being one of a first and a second of the plurality of sections at different times, the display signal causing the display to show the product rate statistics for the first and the second section at the different times.

A centralized display unit for an agricultural implement coupled to a work vehicle, the work vehicle including a cab and the implement including a frame and a plurality of sections, each section including a plurality of row units, the implement configured to apply a product to a plurality of rows in a field, each section including a product delivery apparatus having two product channels for delivering the product to two of the row units supported by the respective section, the display unit comprising:

• two electronic product sensors coupled to the product delivery apparatus and configured to generate two product signals, each product signal representing an amount of the product which moves through one of the product channels;
• a digital memory coupled to the electronic product sensors and configured to store data representative of the product signals;
• an electronic display located in the cab and configured to generate a graphical image in response to a display signal;
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• a processor circuit coupled to the memory, the electronic product sensors and the electronic display, the processor circuit configured to read the product data from the memory, to analyze the product data associated with each of the row units, to calculate product rate statistics, and to apply the display signal to the electronic display to generate the graphical image representative of the product rate statistics, the image simultaneously displaying the product rate statistics for two of the rows in the field, wherein the display signal causes the electronic display to show the product rate statistics for each section sequentially.

A method of monitoring the performance of an agricultural implement coupled to a work vehicle, the work vehicle including a cab and the implement including a frame having a plurality of sections, each section supporting a plurality of row units, the implement configured to apply a product to a plurality of rows in a field, the method comprising the steps of:

• selecting one of a first and a second of the plurality of sections at different times;
• sensing an amount of the product moving through two channels in a product delivery apparatus supported by the selected section and generating two product signals representative thereof;
• calculating product rate statistics based on the two product signals for the selected section;
• generating a display signal representative of the product rate statistics for the selected section;
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• applying the display signal to an electronic display located in the cab to generate a graphical image on the electronic display representative of the product rate statistics for the selected section so as to simultaneously display the product rate statistics for two of the rows in the field, the display signal also causing the electronic display to show the product rate statistics for the first section and the second section of the implement at the different times.