US Patent Issued to Raven Industries on Sept. 22 for "Color angle scanning in crop row detection" (Minnesota, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,870, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Raven Industries Inc. (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Color angle scanning in crop row detection" was invented by David Alan Rislov (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and Robert John Vaselaar (Mankato, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for adaptive color transformation to aid computer vision are described herein. Colors from an image are mapped into a multi-dimensional space to create a distribution of colors in the image. A dimension of the multi-dimensional space can correspond to a color characteristic. An array of condensed representations of the distribution of colors can be generated. E...