Systems for monitoring seeds and methods thereof
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsNikolai Tevs, Jeffrey S. Puhalla, Elijah B. Garner
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Abstract
At least one example embodiment discloses a seed monitoring system including a light source configured to emit light in an interior of a seed tube, a plurality of light receivers, each of the plurality of light receivers configured to receive light in at least two sectors of a plurality of sectors of a plane in the interior of the seed tube and generate a sensing signal corresponding to the received light, a processing system including a plurality of conditioning channels, the processing system configured to process the sensing signals to generate conditioned signals and a controller configured to generate a seed count value based on the generated conditioned signals.
Claims3
A seed monitoring system comprising:
- a light source configured to emit light along a plane of an interior of a seed tube;
- a light receiver configured to receive the light and generate a sensing signal corresponding to the received light, the light receiver opposing the light source on the plane of the interior of the seed tube;
- a processing system including a plurality of conditioning channels, the processing system configured to process the sensing signal using at least a selected one of the plurality of conditioning channels to generate a first conditioned signal;
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- a controller configured to generate a seed count value based on the first conditioned signal, wherein each of the plurality of conditioning channels includes a filter and each of the plurality of conditioning channels has a selected gain and a selected bandwidth corresponding to at least one of a seed size range, a seed velocity and a probability of overlapping seeds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.