US 11,748,976 B2
Automated plant detection using image data
Lee Kamp Redden, Palo Alto, CA (US); Christopher Grant Padwick, Menlo Park, CA (US); Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Mountain View, CA (US); and James Patrick Ostrowski, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to BLUE RIVER TECHNOLOGY INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Blue River Technology Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/378,658.
Application 17/378,658 is a continuation of application No. 15/975,092, filed on May 9, 2018, granted, now 11,093,745.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/580,290, filed on Nov. 1, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/503,770, filed on May 9, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0406540 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); A01M 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 10/20 (2022.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06F 18/2413 (2023.01)
CPC G06V 10/764 (2022.01) [A01M 7/0089 (2013.01); G06F 18/2414 (2023.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06T 7/75 (2017.01); G06V 10/255 (2022.01); G06V 10/451 (2022.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20132 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01); G06T 2210/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
capturing a first image from a camera mounted on a plant treatment platform passing through or over a field, the captured first image comprising image data representing an area of the field;
inputting, with a computer, a second image based on the captured first image into a plant detection model to:
generate a plant bounding box within the second image that encloses image data representing an individual plant growing in the area of the field and a region of the field surrounding the individual plant,
determine a location of the plant bounding box in the second image, and
identify a physical location of the individual plant based on the location of the plant bounding box in the second image; and
treating, with a treatment mechanism, at least the individual plant enclosed by the plant bounding box by dispensing a treatment at the identified physical location.