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US 9,282,693 B2Granted
Data encoding with planting attributes
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorNoel W. Anderson
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Abstract
A controller controls a device to vary the at least one attribute for each of a plurality of individual plants so as to form a pattern of attributes that encodes data for later recovery.
Claims21
An apparatus comprising:
- an encoder to output encoded data based upon received data;
- and
- a controller configured to control a device to vary at least one attribute for each of a plurality of individual plants so as to form a pattern of attributes that encodes data for later recovery, wherein the at least one attribute is selected from a group of planting location attributes consisting of:
- longitudinal locations relative to a predetermined longitudinal index location;
- and lateral locations relative to a predetermined lateral index location.
2 more elements
An apparatus comprising:
- an encoder to output encoded data based upon received data;
- and
- a controller configured to control a device to vary at least one attribute for each of a plurality of individual plants so as to form a pattern of attributes that encodes data for later recovery, wherein the data comprises a rank of a plant in a sequence of parallel planted rows of the plants.
An apparatus comprising:
- an encoder to output encoded data based upon received data;
- and
- a controller configured to control a device to vary at least one attribute for each of a plurality of individual plants so as to form a pattern of attributes that encodes data for later recovery, wherein the data comprises a machine adjustment trigger.
An apparatus comprising:
- an encoder to output encoded data based upon received data;
- and
- a controller configured to control a device to vary at least one attribute for each of a plurality of individual plants so as to form a pattern of attributes that encodes data for later recovery, wherein the controller is configured to control thinning of plants by the device to vary the at least one attribute for each of a plurality of individual plants so as to form a pattern of attributes that encodes data for later recovery.
A method comprising:
- planting a plurality of individual plants;
- and
- varying at least one attribute of each of the plurality of individual plants to encode data for later recovery, wherein the at least one attribute for each of a plurality of individual plants is varied during planting of the plants so as to form the pattern of attributes that encodes data for later recovery.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.