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- Patent Title: Image-based field boundary detection and identification
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Application No.: US15948260Application Date: 2018-04-09
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Publication No.: US10015360B1Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Alex A. Kurzhanskiy , John J. Mewes , Thomas N. Blair , Dustin M. Salentiny
- Applicant: CLEARAG, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Ana
- Assignee: CLEAR AG, INC.
- Current Assignee: CLEAR AG, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Ana
- Agency: Lazaris IP
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; H04N1/387 ; G06T11/60 ; G06T5/00

Abstract:
Detection and identification a field's boundaries is performed in a workflow based on processing images of the field captured at different times, relative to a defined seed point. Images are clipped to align with the seed point and a bounding box around the seed point, and a mask is built by extracting edges of the field from the images. The workflow floods an area around the seed point that has pixels of a similar color, using the mask as an initial boundary. The flooded area is compared to threshold parameter values, which are tuned to refine the identified boundary. Flooded areas in multiple images are combined, and a boundary is built based on the combined flooded set. Manual, interactive tuning of floodfill areas allows for a separate boundary detection and identification workflow or for refinement of the automatic boundary detection workflow.
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