ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,695, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Trench profile determination by motion" was invented by Michio Kise (Bondurant, Iowa), Boyoon Jung (Long Beach, Calif.) and Cristian Dima (St. Ingbert / Rohrbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying geometric parameters of a trench during a planting process. The method includes, providing image data of the trench from a camera to a computing device, the image data including more than one image, identifying at least one artifact in a first image and a second image of the image data, determining camera displacement between the first image a...