ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,551, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Tracking objects with changing appearances" was invented by Daniel Ribeiro Silva (San Jose, Calif.) and Jinmeng Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for tracking objects with changing appearances across temporally-disparate images. In various implementations, a first probability distribution over a plurality of classes may be determined for a first biological object depicted in a first image captured at a first point in time. The classes may represent stages of growth of biological objects. Additional probabili...