Patent ID: 11880970
Assignee: CLAAS SELBSTFAHRENDE ERNTEMASCHINEN GMBH
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining a portion of one or both of broken grain or non-grain components in a stream of harvested material, comprising instructions stored thereon, that when executed on a processor, perform the steps of:
accessing a number of images of a harvested material;
accessing a first-order classifier that is configured to estimate a first parameter of a stream of harvested material in order to identify one of a plurality of varieties of crop by using at least one image of the stream of harvested material, and a plurality of second-order classifiers, each of the plurality of second-order classifiers are trained for a respective variety of the plurality of varieties of crop and are configured to estimate the portion;
using the first-order classifier to estimate a value of the first parameter in order to identify a specific variety of crop;
by using the specific variety of crop, selecting a second-order classifier from the plurality of second-order classifiers, wherein the second-order classifier that is selected is trained for the specific variety of the crop in order to estimate the portion of the at least one of the broken grain or the non-grain components; and
using the selected second-order classifier in order to obtain an estimated value of the portion of one or both of broken grain or non-grain components.