US 12,229,621 B2
Contactless bale discharge and position monitoring
Eric John Herbers, Hesston, KS (US)
Assigned to AGCO Corporation, Duluth, GA (US)
Filed by AGCO Corporation, Duluth, GA (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/656,955.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/167,450, filed on Mar. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0309262 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 19/07 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/10366 (2013.01) [G06K 19/0723 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
20. A method, comprising the following steps:
(a) interrogating, by a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader of a baler, an RFID tag of a bale before discharge of the bale;
(b) identifying, by a computing device of or connected to the RFID reader, a relative location of the RFID tag with respect to the RFID reader based on the interrogation;
(c) determining, by the computing device, a position of the bale on the baler based on the identified relative location of the RFID tag and spatial attributes of the baler and the bale;
(d) repeating steps (a) through (c) for multiple bales; and
(e) generating, by the computing device, a map of determined positions of each bale on the baler for the multiple bales.