Patent ID: 11889789
Assignee: MYCIONICS INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B  G | IPC A  B

Claim 10:
11. A method for operating a vision system for an automated harvester, the vision system comprising a rail sized to extend across a first dimension of a growing bed and be supported above the growing bed by a frame of the automated harvester, and a processing unit, the method comprising:
providing a plurality of 3D scanners spaced along the rail to span across the first dimension of the growing bed that lies beneath the rail;
directing an output emitted by a laser of at least one of the 3D scanners, through a slot of the at least one 3D scanner, towards the growing bed below the rail;
using at least one camera to capture images of items in the growing bed that intersect from the output from the laser emitted from the slot; and
processing the captured images from the plurality of 3D scanners, using the processing unit.