Kernel-level grain monitoring systems for combine harvesters

Embodiments of a kernel-level grain monitoring system include a grain camera positioned to capture bulk grain sample images of a currently-harvested grain taken into and processed by a combine harvester, a moisture sensor, and a display device. A controller architecture is coupled to the grain camer...

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Hauptverfasser:	Corban, Stephen R, Lassers, Alexander B, Johnson, Jeremiah K, Meyers, Zachary A
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AGRICULTURE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY CALCULATING COMPUTING COUNTING DEVICES FOR STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY FISHING FORESTRY HARVESTING HAY OR STRAW PRESSES HUMAN NECESSITIES HUNTING IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MEASURING MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUIDLEVEL METERING BY VOLUME MOWING PHYSICS PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION PROCESSING OF HARVESTED PRODUCE TESTING TRAPPING WEIGHING
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Zusammenfassung:	Embodiments of a kernel-level grain monitoring system include a grain camera positioned to capture bulk grain sample images of a currently-harvested grain taken into and processed by a combine harvester, a moisture sensor, and a display device. A controller architecture is coupled to the grain camera, to the moisture sensor, and to the display device. The controller architecture is configured to: (i) analyze the bulk grain sample images, as received from the grain camera, to determine an average per kernel (APK) volume representing an estimated volume of a single average kernel of the currently-harvested grain; (ii) repeatedly calculate one or more topline harvesting parameters based, at least in part, on the determined APK volume and the moisture sensor data; and (iii) selectively present the topline harvesting parameters on the display device for viewing by an operator of the combine harvester.