Patent ID: 11930726
Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 10:
11. A system for tracking missed tassels left by a detasseling machine, the system comprising:
a cutterhead mounted to a body of the detasseling machine, the cutterhead including at least one cutter for removing one or more tassels during a detasseling operation from plants planted in a geospatial area;
a rear-facing camera positioned on a main vehicle body of the detasseling machine with a field of view behind the detasseling machine;
a display screen positioned within an operator cab of the detasseling machine; and
an electronic controller configured to
receive rear-facing image data captured by the rear-facing camera,
apply image processing to the rear-facing image data to quantify a missed tassel metric for the geospatial area based on the rear-facing image data, the missed tassel metric corresponding to a number of tassels not removed from plants in the geospatial area by the at least one cutter during the detasseling operation, and
transmit a signal to the display screen causing the display screen to output an indication of the missed tassel metric for the geospatial area.