US 12,079,740 B2
Disambiguation of agricultural input
Marc LeMoine, Bettendorf, IA (US); Catherine Schwartz, Alexandria, VA (US); Erik E. Stein, Gaithersburg, MD (US); Zachary Price, Alexandria, VA (US); and John A. Sipple, Potomac Falls, VA (US)
Assigned to Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US)
Filed by Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US)
Filed on May 31, 2016, as Appl. No. 15/168,944.
Prior Publication US 2017/0344896 A1, Nov. 30, 2017
Int. Cl. G06N 7/01 (2023.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01)
CPC G06N 7/01 (2023.01) [G06F 16/242 (2019.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system configured to disambiguate agricultural input, the system comprising:
a central electronic data processing system communicatively coupled to a graphical user interface and a vehicle via a wireless communications network, wherein the vehicle includes vehicle electronics and a global positioning system receiver configured to determine a vehicle location, wherein the graphical user interface is operable to enter a first product specifier, wherein the central electronic data processing system includes:
a processor coupled to a storage device comprising a product disambiguator and a variety database, wherein the product disambiguator comprises logic to:
receive vehicle activity data from the vehicle electronics, the vehicle activity data including the first product specifier and the vehicle location,
generate a plurality of second product specifiers, the second product specifiers based on a portion of the first product specifier,
calculate a first probability for each of the second product specifiers using a minimum cost edit-distance transformation, the first probability indicating a likelihood that the corresponding one of the second product specifiers is correct,
modify the first probability of the one of the second product specifiers with a second probability in response to determining that one of the second product specifiers matches one of agricultural input identifiers for a manufacturer associated with the portion of the first product specifier in the variety database,
modify, via the processor, the corresponding first probability with a third probability different from the second probability and select one of a geographic probability or a field documentation probability to be the third probability in response to determining that the second product specifiers do not match one of the agricultural input identifiers for the manufacturer associated with the portion of the first product specifier in the variety database,
compare each of the modified first probabilities with a threshold, and
associate a the one of the second product specifiers associated with the highest one of the modified first probabilities that satisfies the threshold with the vehicle location, wherein the one of the second product specifiers associated with the highest one of the modified first probabilities that satisfies the threshold associated with the vehicle location is a corrected product specifier, and
display, via the graphical user interface, the corrected product specifier as a candidate to replace the first product specifier, and
store the corrected product specifier in the storage device as a replacement product specifier when the corrected product specifier is selected via the graphical user interface.