US Patent Issued to Kubota on Nov. 11 for "Crop row detection system, agricultural machine having a crop row detection system, and method of crop row detection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,169, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Crop row detection system, agricultural machine having a crop row detection system, and method of crop row detection" was invented by Shunsuke Miyashita (Sakai, Japan), Toru Tambo (Sakai, Japan) and Mitsuaki Nagao (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crop row detection system includes a camera mounted to an agricultural machine to image a ground surface traveled by the agricultural machine to acquire time-series color images including at least a portion of the ground surface, and a processor configured or programmed to (i) perform image processing for the...