Patent ID: 8635840

Claim:
A device for detection and determination of a composition of a bulk material, comprising: an image recording unit; at least one control unit; at least one memory unit; wherein said image recording unit has at least two image detectors for recording images or image series of the crop material flow at equidistant intervals or permanently, wherein one of said image detectors is disposed substantially perpendicularly to a top side of a surface of the crop material flow emerging from a grain elevator head or a discharge chute, and another one of the two image detectors is disposed substantially perpendicularly to an underside of a surface of the crop material flow; a selection unit to enable a qualified determination to be made, during a transfer of a crop material flow into a container of an agricultural harvesting machine, of a composition of a crop during processing of the crop material using the images or image series, so that adjustment parameters of working assemblies of the agricultural harvesting machine are changeable during the processing of the crop material; and wherein the at least one control unit is configured to operate an algorithm for determining a volumetric flow rate of the crop material flow and a compressability of the crop using the images or image series.