US 11,937,580 B2
Computer vision-based feeding monitoring and method therefor
Joao Reboucas Dorea, Madison, WI (US); Sek Cheong, Madison, WI (US); and Guilherme Jordao de Magalhaes Rosa, Middleton, WI (US)
Assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US)
Appl. No. 17/428,230
Filed by Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/016804
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/163484, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/801,439, filed on Feb. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0287276 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A01K 29/00 (2006.01); A01K 5/01 (2006.01); G06Q 50/02 (2012.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 29/005 (2013.01) [A01K 5/01 (2013.01); G06Q 50/02 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30232 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30242 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a plurality of networked cameras, each camera configured and arranged to capture images of a livestock feed area;
machine-vision logic circuitry configured and arranged to, for each of the captured images,
characterize an amount of available feed in the livestock feed area depicted in the captured image over time, and
characterize the presence of livestock in the livestock feed area depicted in the captured image over time; and
feed-control logic circuitry configured and arranged to, for each respective feed area characterized by the plurality of networked cameras,
assign time-based condition values to the feed area based on the characterized amount of available feed and the characterized presence of livestock provided via the machine-vision logic circuitry, and
output an instruction characterizing the presentation of feed in the feed area based on the assigned time-based condition values and a current time.