Patent Document ID: 10015360
Application ID: 15948260
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of detecting and identifying a boundary of one or more zones of a field, comprising: defining positional coordinates of a seed point within one or more zones of a particular field, and a first bounding box around the seed point, from a plurality of images over time that include the first bounding box around the seed point; identifying pixels in each image of the plurality of images that have a similar color to pixels representing the seed point, the pixels in each image of the plurality of images that have a similar color to the pixels representing the seed point representing a transient in-field variability of one or more conditions between the one or more zones of the particular field; building a mask for a boundary of the one or more zones by identifying one or more edges from the plurality of images based on the transient in-field variability of the one or more conditions; filling an area around the seed point and within the mask that has pixels in each image of the plurality of images that have a similar color to pixels representing the seed point; checking the filled area around the seed point by a) defining a second boundary box for the filled area and representing a specific zone within the particular field having a specific condition, b) determining whether threshold parameter values representing upper and lower distances from a pixel brightness of the seed point are satisfied in the second boundary box for the filled area, and c) tuning the threshold parameters values where the pixel brightness is outside the threshold parameter values to adjust the filled area; combining, for each image, the filled area into a combined flooded set for the specific zone within the particular field; determining a boundary for the specific zone from the combined flooded set; and identifying the one or more conditions between the one or more zones in the particular field from the plurality of images taken over time, and generating a report of the transient in-field variability for each specific zone in the particular field.