Patent ID: 11937524
Assignee: VERDANT ROBOTICS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 14:
15. A treatment system mountable on a moving platform, comprising:
one or more processors,
a storage configured to hold instructions or data used by the one or more processors, and
a treatment mechanism;
wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
implement a machine learning (ML) algorithm,
obtain images of a region of an agricultural environment;
apply a sequence of image processing algorithms to portions of images of the agricultural environment ingested from sensors on the moving platform, wherein the sequence of image processing algorithms includes a first image processing algorithm that performs object detection and a second image processing algorithm that performs object tracking of detected objects from the object detection;
make a decision about whether and which of the detected and tracked objects are candidates for a treatment by the treatment system; and
apply, by controlling the treatment mechanism, the treatment to the objects according to the decision;
wherein, the sequence of image processing algorithms is applied such that upon detecting an object in a first image by the first image processing algorithm, processing of the object by the first image processing algorithm is turned off for next N frames and the object is tracked by the second image processing algorithm for the next N frames, where N is a positive integer.