US Patent Issued to Kubota on March 31 for "Row detection system, agricultural machine having a row detection system, and method of row detection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,578, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Row detection system, agricultural machine having a row detection system, and method of 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 row detection system includes a camera mounted to an agricultural machine to acquire time-series images including at least a portion of a ground surface, and a processor configured or programmed to perform image processing for the time-series images, and to determine, from images among the time-series images that have bee...