Patent ID: 9706745
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A01J,A01K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A system, comprising: a robotic arm on which at least one camera is attached; a memory that stores historical information associated with a dairy livestock, the historical information including a previously-determined location of a teat of the dairy livestock; a controller communicatively coupled to the memory and that instructs the robotic arm to move the camera toward the previously-determined location of the teat, wherein the camera generates an image of the teat of the dairy livestock from a position to which it is moved, and the controller determines a current location of the teat of the dairy livestock based at least in part on the image; wherein the previously-determined location of the teat is relative to a reference point and the reference point is relative to at least one of a hind leg of the dairy livestock or a mid-point of an udder of the dairy livestock.