ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,981, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Dynamic lighting for plant imaging" was invented by Yueqi Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Erich Schlaepfer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include processing an instance of image data using a reinforcement learning policy model to generate illumination output, where the illumination output indicates one or more lights of an agricultural robot or modular sensor package to adjust based on uneven illumination in the instance of image data. In many implementations, the initial instance of image data is captured using one or more sensors...