ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,318, issued on May 20, was assigned to Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio).
"Center path estimator for agricultural windrows" was invented by Edmond DuPont (San Antonio) and Prasanna R Kolar (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A windrow path detector for use by baling equipment. A camera system is mounted on the baling equipment and provides image data representing a stereo view of a windrow ahead of the baling equipment. A pre-processor to generates a depth image. A neural network receives the depth image and the image data from at least one camera, and is trained to use that input to generate a predicted center line ...