US Patent Issued to Garford Farm Machinery on Sept. 15 for "Method of crop image processing to determine real-world coordinates" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,918, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Garford Farm Machinery Ltd (Peterborough, Great Britain).

"Method of crop image processing to determine real-world coordinates" was invented by Tom Lane (Peterborough, Great Britain), Robert Silvester (Peterborough, Great Britain) and Nigel Trevarthen (Peterborough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an image of a crop, the image comprising an array of elements which includes depth information. The image is a multiple-channel image comprising at least a colour channel and a depth channel providing per-element de...