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US 12,260,635 · App. 17/790,131 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Computer-executable method relating to weeds and computer system

Inventors: Qingsong Xu (Hangzhou, CN); Qing Li (Hangzhou, CN)
Assignee: Hangzhou Glority Software Limited
G06V20/188A01B79/005G06T7/0014G06V10/764G06V10/82G06V20/41G06T2207/20081G06T2207/20084G06T2207/30188G06V2201/07
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Patent No.
US 12,260,635
App. No.
17/790,131
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A computer-executable method relating to weeds, and a computer system. The method comprises: receiving an image (S 11 ); recognizing one or more plants in the image in order to obtain the classification and/or names of the plants, and determining whether the plants are weeds (S 12 ); and in response to determining that at least one plant is a weed, outputting information indicating that the at least one plant is a weed (S 13 ).

Claims (55)

1. A computer-executable method related to a weed, comprising:

receiving an image;

recognizing one or more plants in the image to obtain a classification and/or a name of the plants, and determining whether the plants are the weed;

in response to determining that at least one of the plants is the weed, outputting information indicating that the at least one of the plants is the weed;

in response to a user's operation, re-recognizing the weed based on a pre-established weed feature database to obtain a revised classification or a more detailed classification of the weed; and

outputting a result of re-recognition.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

in response to determining that the at least one of the plants is the weed, determining whether the weed is a malignant weed; and

in response to determining that the weed is the malignant weed, outputting information indicating that the weed is the malignant weed, wherein the malignant weed comprises a noxious weed, a thorny weed, an allergic weed, and an invasive weed.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising: in response to determining that the weed is the malignant weed, outputting a classification and/or a name of the weed and a geographic location where the weed appears to geographically relevant people; and

outputting at least one of the following items of the weed: a common form, a form matching a current growth stage, a hazard, and a method of avoiding the hazard.

4. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising: in response to determining that the weed is the malignant weed, outputting a classification and/or a name, a geographic location, and control measures of the weed to government departments, enterprises, institutions, and/or individuals related to weed control; and

outputting a current growth stage of the weed, wherein the control measures are control measures matched with the current growth stage.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the control measures comprise optimal removal measures, wherein a recommended implementation time and/or an implementation urgency of the optimal removal measures are further output.

6. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:

in response to determining that the weed is the malignant weed, re-recognizing the weed based on a pre-established weed feature database to obtain a revised classification or a more detailed classification of the weed; and

outputting information of the weed to government departments, enterprises, institutions, and/or individuals related to weed control according to a result of re-recognition.

7. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising:

determining whether the weed is the malignant weed according to the result of the re-recognition; and

in response to determining that the weed is the malignant weed, outputting the information of the weed to geographically relevant people.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of obtaining the classification of the plants comprises obtaining a species of the plants, and the step of determining whether the plants is the weed comprises:

in response to the species of the plants being pre-recorded as the weed, determining that the plants are the weed; or

in response to the species of the plants not being pre-recorded as the weed, but other classifications subordinate to a higher-level classification of the species are pre-recorded as the weed, outputting information to prompt a user to input an additional image comprising the plants, and determining whether the plants are the weed based on the additional image, or based on the image and the additional image.

9. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

in response to the classification of the plants not being pre-recorded as the weed, but other classifications subordinate to a higher-level classification of the classification are pre-recorded as the weed, outputting information to government departments, enterprises, institutions, and/or individuals related to weed control to inform a presence of family of the weed.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

in response to determining that the at least one of the plants is the weed, recognizing a location of the at least one of the plants;

in response to recognizing that the location is a private place, outputting a classification and/or a name, a hazard, and control measures of the weed; and

in response to recognizing that the location is a public place, outputting contact information of government departments, enterprises, institutions, and/or individuals related to weed control, and/or

further comprising: in response to determining that the at least one of the plants is the weed, outputting information about the weed to the government departments, the enterprises, the institutions, and/or the individual related to the weed control.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein recognition is based on a neural network model, and the neural network model is pre-trained based on a pre-established weed feature database.

12. The method according to claim 11 , further comprising:

performing a target detection on the image prior to the recognition; and

performing the recognition on one or more targets, which are detected, respectively.

13. A computer system related to a weed, comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memories configured to store a series of computer-executable instructions and computer-accessible data associated with the series of computer-executable instructions,

wherein, when the series of computer-executable instructions are executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processors are enabled to perform the method claimed in claim 1 .

14. A computer-executable method related to a weed, comprising:

receiving an image;

recognizing a classification and/or a name of the weed in the image based on a neural network model, which is pre-trained, and determining whether the weed is a malignant weed, wherein the neural network model is trained based on a pre-established weed sample library; and

in response to determining that the weed is the malignant weed, outputting a warning message;

wherein the step of outputting the warning message comprises: outputting the classification and/or the name of the weed, a geographic location where the weed appears, a form of the weed, and a hazard of the weed to geographically related people.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the step of outputting the warning message comprises:

outputting a message to prompt a user not to approach the weed;

outputting a message to inform the user of a hazard of the weed; and/or

outputting a message to inform the user that the weed is the malignant weed.

16. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the step of outputting the warning message comprises: outputting the classification and/or the name of the weed, as well as a geographical location where the weed appears to government departments, enterprises, institutions, and/or individuals related to weed control.

17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein the step of outputting the warning message further comprises: outputting a current growth stage, control measures, and/or a recommended time of controlling the weed to the government departments, the enterprises, the institutions and/or the individuals related to the weed control.

18. A computer-executable method related to a weed, comprising:

receiving an image;

recognizing a classification and/or a name of the weed in the image based on a neural network model, which is pre-trained, wherein the neural network model is trained based on a pre-established weed sample library;

outputting the classification and/or the name of the weed, and at least one of the following: a current growth stage, a hazard, methods to avoid the hazard, control measures, and a recommended control time;

in response to a user's operation, re-recognizing the weed based on a pre-established weed feature database to obtain a revised classification or a more detailed classification of the weed; and

outputting a result of re-recognition.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 8, 2022
From: XU, QINGSONG; LI, QING
To: HANGZHOU GLORITY SOFTWARE LIMITED
Reel/Frame 060457/0374 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010076015.1 · Jan 23, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230044040A1 · Feb 9, 2023
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