Patent ID: 11953589
Assignee: AGCO INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A  B | IPC A  B  G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
an agricultural harvester including
a crop processor for reducing crop material to processed crop,
an unload conveyor for transferring a stream of processed crop out of the agricultural harvester,
an electromagnetic detecting and ranging module for detecting the location of an object relative to the agricultural harvester, and
a camera for capturing images of an area within a field of view of the electromagnetic detecting and ranging module and generating image data; and

one or more computing devices for
receiving first data from the electromagnetic detecting and ranging module, the first data indicating the location of an object relative to the agricultural harvester,
receiving image data from the camera,
using the image data to determine whether the object is a receiving vehicle, and
if the object is a receiving vehicle, generating automated navigation data based on the first data and the image data, the automated navigation data to automatically control operation of at least one of the agricultural harvester and the receiving vehicle to align the unload conveyor with a grain bin of the receiving vehicle.