US 11,793,108 B2
Agriculture support system, agriculture support device and agriculture support method
Shuji Takeda, Osaka (JP); Yoshiharu Yoshimoto, Osaka (JP); Masayuki Yao, Osaka (JP); Kazuhiro Takahara, Osaka (JP); and Tomohiro Nishikawa, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed by KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Dec. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/727,368.
Application 16/727,368 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2018/024442, filed on Jun. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-126787 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2017; and application No. 2017-126788 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0128726 A1, Apr. 30, 2020
Int. Cl. A01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01C 21/007 (2013.01) [G01C 21/005 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agriculture support device which communicates with a managing computer having a monitor, the agriculture support device comprising:
a controller; and
a storage connected to the controller, wherein
the controller is configured or programed to:
store in the storage, a plurality of types of crop data which relates to planting of crops in a plurality of divided areas locating a whole of an agricultural field, and a plurality of position data of each of the plurality of divided areas, each of the plurality of types of crop data being assigned to the respective one of the position data of each of the plurality of divided areas, each of the plurality of divided areas having a predetermined mesh size,
categorize each of the plurality of divided areas into a plurality of ranked groups defined by a plurality of reference values for each of the plurality of types of crop data, wherein the plurality of divided areas categorized in the plurality of ranked groups locates the whole of the agricultural field,
display correlation among the plurality of types of crop data in each of the plurality of divided areas, on the monitor of the managing computer,
calculate a plurality of sub-total sums of products of the predetermined size and the number of the plurality of divided areas categorized in each of the plurality of ranked groups as a plurality of ranked group sub-total areas,
display an agricultural field-unit input blank for an operator of the managing computer to input a field-unit spreading amount of spread substance available to be spread in the whole of the agricultural field, on the monitor of the managing computer,
calculate a plurality of group-unit spreading amounts of the spread substance each for the plurality of ranked group sub-total areas such that a sum of the plurality of group-unit spreading amounts of the spread substance equals to the field-unit spreading amount input by the managing computer, and
display the plurality of group-unit spreading amounts each for the plurality of ranked group sub-total areas, on the monitor of the managing computer.