US 11,771,074 B2
Sensor based observation of anthropods
Robert Wollenhaupt, Langenfeld (DE); Dennis Göke, Cologne (DE); Stefan Gröger, Odenthal-Eikamp (DE); and Ernst-Georg Schmid, Duisburg (DE)
Assigned to Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/278,054
Filed by Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 16, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/074663
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/058170, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18195871 (EP), filed on Sep. 21, 2018; and application No. 19171993 (EP), filed on Apr. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0360204 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A01M 1/02 (2006.01); A01M 1/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06F 18/2415 (2023.01)
CPC A01M 1/026 (2013.01) [A01M 1/10 (2013.01); G06F 18/214 (2023.01); G06F 18/2415 (2023.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); H04N 7/188 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device comprising:
a collecting region for receiving an arthropod;
an imaging sensor for generating images of the collecting region;
a transmitter for sending image data from the imaging sensor to a computer system via a network, wherein the image data comprises one or more of: the generated images and information associated with the generated images;
a physical property sensor for detecting a physical property of an environment in a vicinity of the collecting region, wherein the physical property sensor is part of a light barrier, wherein breaking of the light barrier indicates the presence of the arthropod in the collecting region or breaking of which indicates entrance and/or exit of the arthropod into/out of the device via an opening in the device; and
a control unit configured to:
receive a signal comprising the physical property of the environment in the vicinity of the collecting region from the physical property sensor;
interpret the signal to determine whether the physical property is indicative of a presence of the arthropod in the collecting region;
control the imaging sensor and the transmitter in response to the interpretation of the signal wherein controlling the imaging sensor and the transmitter comprises adjusting one or more of: a time at which the images are generated by the imaging sensor, a frequency in which the images are generated by the imaging sensor, a time at which the image data is sent to the computer system by the transmitter, and a frequency in which the image data is sent to the computer system by the transmitter,
wherein the control unit is configured to increase the frequency in which images of the collecting region are generated by the imaging sensor if the interpretation of the signal by the control unit indicates that there is an increased probability that an arthropod is present in the collecting region.