	US 12,213,478 B2
	Method and system for treating plants for use in agriculture, analyzing images captured by camera, and identifying the plants to be treated
Hugo Serrat, Gentilly (FR); Jules Beguerie, Gentilly (FR); Pierre Rouchaud, Gentilly (FR); and Loïc Steunou, Gentilly (FR)
Assigned to BILBERRY SAS, Gentilly (FR)
Appl. No. 17/627,381
Filed by BILBERRY SAS, Gentilly (FR)
PCT Filed Jul. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/056704 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 14, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/009710, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1908025 (FR), filed on Jul. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0256832 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. A01M 7/00 (2006.01); A01C 23/00 (2006.01); B05B 12/16 (2018.01); G03B 15/02 (2021.01); G06V 10/145 (2022.01)

CPC A01M 7/0089 (2013.01) [A01C 23/007 (2013.01); B05B 12/16 (2018.02); G03B 15/02 (2013.01); G06V 10/145 (2022.01)]

17 Claims

1. A system for treating plants for use in agriculture, comprising a spray boom provided with a plurality of spray nozzles supplied by a spray control device, the system further comprising a set of cameras capable of capturing images of a crop area, a digital processing device capable of analyzing the images captured by the camera, identifying plants to be treated and sending commands to the spray control device with a view to selectively spraying a product on plants to be treated, the system further comprising an arrangement for lighting the crop area captured by the cameras, the lighting arrangement comprising plurality of projectors distributed along the boom and having fields of illumination such that each point of a scene captured by a camera receives light from at least two projectors in at least two different orientations in a plane passing through said point and the projectors in question.