Transferring device and an agricultural vehicle
AssigneeCLAAS Agrarsystems GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsTommy Ertbolle Madsen, Morten Rufus Blas, Allan Kildeby, Kristian Kirk
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Abstract
A transferring device includes controllable goods carrier conveying goods to a target area, a stereo camera for providing images of the target area and a control system for deriving information from the images and controlling the goods carrier taking into account the information derived from the images. The stereo camera has two objective lenses and defines a common base line with a tilt angle relative to a horizontal. The common base line is placed in a vertical plane. The transferring device also includes floodlight projectors that are placed at a distance of at least 0.5 m from the stereo camera. Preferably, the controllable goods carrier is an ejecting spout.
Claims8
A transferring device comprising:
- a controllable goods carrier (9) for conveying goods to a target area (19);
- an imaging device (29) for providing images of the target area, the imaging device (29) comprising two objective lenses (36a, 36b) positioned at a common base line (43) in a vertical plane and situated relative to a horizontal (45) in a tilted manner;
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- a control system (46) for deriving information from the target area images and controlling the controllable goods carrier (9) in accordance with the derived information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.