Agricultural Image Database Linking Camera Data to Process Parameters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing agricultural working machine systems with camera-based control and regulation are limited by storage capacity and data transmission rates, leading to insufficient real-time control and limited information content in image data, which hampers the analysis of complex relationships between working parts and invisible crop properties like moisture content.
Innovation Solution
A method and device for creating an image database where individual images from camera systems are linked to specific data of the working process, stored in a central computer, allowing for enhanced information content and offline analysis, including additional data like crop properties and environmental information, which can be used for optimizing working element settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If image data is stored with only basic crop flow information, then storage capacity is conserved, but information content is insufficient for comprehensive analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges image data with multiple types of process data including working element settings, machine operational parameters, and environmental conditions into a single integrated database record. This combining approach enriches the information content without requiring separate storage systems, effectively resolving the contradiction between storage capacity and information content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary data collection and linking during the harvesting process itself, storing all relevant parameters simultaneously with each image. This preliminary action ensures that comprehensive information is captured at the source, eliminating the need for later data gathering and ensuring complete information content is preserved.
2Measurement precision
If complex image analysis is performed in real-time on the agricultural working machine, then control precision is improved, but storage capacity and data transmission rates are exceeded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex computational processes from the agricultural working machine itself and relocates them to external offline analysis systems. The machine only performs basic real-time functions, while detailed image analysis and optimization calculations are performed externally using greater computational resources, thus avoiding storage and transmission bottlenecks.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary database layer that stores all image and process data for later analysis. This intermediary structure allows the machine to operate with minimal real-time processing while enabling comprehensive offline analysis, effectively mediating between real-time operational needs and detailed analytical requirements.
3Quantity of substance
If image data is not stored due to large data volumes, then storage requirements are reduced, but later analysis capability is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameters of data storage by compressing and structuring image and process data into efficient database formats. This parameter transformation reduces the overall storage footprint while preserving all essential information for later analysis, resolving the contradiction between storage requirements and analysis capability.
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AI summary
The method involves generating individual image (34) during an operating process of an agricultural work machine by a camera system assigned to the agricultural work machine. The individual image generated by the camera system is associated with specific data (33,38-40) of the operating process of the agricultural work machine. The individual image associated with specific data is repeatedly retrieved and stored in an editable manner in an image database (32). : An independent claim is included for a device for executing the image database creation method for image evaluation process. USE : Method for creating an image database for an image evaluation process. ADVANTAGE : The individual image generated by the camera system is associated with specific data of the operating process of the agricultural work machine and the individual image associated with specific data is repeatedly retrieved and stored in an editable manner in the image database, and hence ensures that the image database has an enhanced information content so that the image data include useful information for the image evaluation process. DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS : The drawing shows a schematic view of an image database. (Drawing includes non-English language text). 26 : Sensor systems 32 : Image database 33,38-40 : Specific data 34 : Individual image 41 : Information source.