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US 12,374,103 · App. 17/999,380 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Method and system for controlling an agricultural treatment

Inventor: Gerald Germain (Châteauneuf-sur-Isè, FR)
Assignee: CARBON BEE
G06V20/188A01M7/0089G06V10/82
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Patent No.
US 12,374,103
App. No.
17/999,380
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Computerized method for controlling an agricultural treatment in which; a receiver module receives a two-dimensional image of an agricultural area acquired by a sensor; a processing module ( 16 ) determines a time period for activating an agricultural treatment device for agriculturally treating a portion of the agricultural area identified by a neural network ( 20 ) processing the image as requiring an agricultural treatment. The time period has a predetermined duration which includes a time of treating the portion of the agricultural area around an average time determined for a virtual portion of the agricultural area, identified as requiring an agricultural treatment and determined in the horizontal plane of the agricultural treatment device ( 3 ).

Claims (17)

1. A computerized method for controlling agricultural treatment, wherein the computerized method for controlling agricultural treatment comprises:

a receiving module receives at least one two-dimensional image of an agricultural zone acquired by a sensor,

a processing module determines an image projected in the horizontal plane of the agricultural treatment device from said two-dimensional image,

the processing module determines a virtual portion of the agricultural zone identified as requiring agricultural treatment in the horizontal plane of the agricultural treatment device ( 3 ) by using a neural network processing said projected image,

the processing module determines a mean instant corresponding to an instant of treatment of said virtual portion of the agricultural zone by using a relative location of an agricultural treatment device and of the sensor, and a speed of movement of the sensor,

the processing module determines a lower bound and an upper bound of an activation time interval of the agricultural treatment device for the agricultural treatment of a portion of the agricultural zone identified as requiring agricultural treatment, said mean instant being within the activation time interval of predetermined duration such that the time interval includes an instant of treatment of the portion of the agricultural zone.

2. The computerized method for controlling according to claim 1 , wherein the two-dimensional image comprises at least one diffraction comprising hyperspectral characteristics, and wherein the neural network processes said hyperspectral information.

3. The computerized method for controlling according to claim 1 , wherein the neural network further processes a non-diffracted two-dimensional image of the agricultural zone.

4. The computerized method according to claim 1 , wherein the processing module implements a projection taking into account the instantaneous orientation of the sensor.

5. The computerized method according to claim 1 , further comprising: the sensor acquires the two-dimensional image of the agricultural zone, and transmits the two-dimensional image to the receiving module.

6. An agricultural treatment method, wherein the computerized method for controlling agricultural treatment according to claim 1 is applied, and in which agricultural treatment is applied for the determined time interval.

7. The agricultural treatment method according to claim 6 , wherein an agricultural treatment device is selected from a plurality of agricultural treatment devices from locations of a plurality of agricultural treatment devices.

8. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with an information processing program for use in an information processing device, the program when executed performs the method according to claim 1 .

9. A computerized control system for agricultural treatment wherein the computerized control system for agricultural treatment comprises:

a receiving module adapted to receive at least one two-dimensional image of an agricultural zone acquired by a sensor,

a processing module adapted to determine a projected image in the horizontal plane of an agricultural treatment device from said two-dimensional image, a virtual portion of the agricultural zone identified as requiring agricultural treatment in the horizontal plane of the agricultural treatment device by using a neural network processing said projected image, a mean instant corresponding to a treatment instant of said virtual portion of the agricultural zone by using a relative location of an agricultural treatment device and of the sensor, and a speed of movement of the sensor, a lower bound and an upper bound of an activation time interval of the agricultural treatment device for the agricultural treatment of a portion of the agricultural zone identified as requiring agricultural treatment, said mean instant being within the activation time interval of predetermined duration such that the time interval includes a treatment instant of the portion of the agricultural zone.

10. An agricultural machine comprising the computerized agricultural treatment control system according to claim 9 , a sensor adapted to acquire the two-dimensional image, and an agricultural treatment device adapted to treat the agricultural parcel during the time interval determined by the computerized agricultural treatment control system.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 21, 2022
From: GERMAIN, GERALD
To: CARBON BEE
Reel/Frame 061839/0972 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR FR2005355 · May 20, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230206627A1 · Jun 29, 2023
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