Method, portable device, and system for detecting physiological phenotype of crops

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10013629-B2
Application number	US-201615145275-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 3, 2016
Priority date	Nov 25, 2015
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method, portable device, and system for detecting physiological phenotype of crops, which determines a digital color chart according to the distance between a designated crop and the portable device and the present environmental brightness, and then determines that the appearance color of the designated crop belongs to which control color information of the selected digital color chart. It can avoid causing the error result because of the influence of the subjective determination and the environmental light. Therefore, the selected control color information may correspond to physiology information of the designated crop, to provide farmers with an understanding the present physiological phenotype of the designated crop.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for detecting physiological phenotype of crops, adapted for a portable device, which detects a physiological phenotype of a designated crop, and the method comprising the steps of:
selecting a plurality of digital color charts corresponding to the designated crop from a color chart database, wherein each digital color chart corresponds to a specific brightness and a specified object distance, each digital color chart has a plurality of control color information, and each control color information corresponds to physiological information of the designated crop;
capturing an image to be detected of the designated crop and acquiring color information corresponding to the image to be detected;
detecting an environmental brightness and an object distance between the designated crop and the portable device;
determining an adaptive digital color chart corresponding to the image to be detected from the digital color charts according to the environmental brightness and the object distance;
comparing the color information of the image to be detected with the control color information of the adaptive digital color chart, and selecting one of the control color information according to the correlation with the control color information and the color information; and
displaying the corresponding physiology information according to the selected control color information;
wherein in the step of acquiring the color information corresponding to the image to be detected, further comprises:
averaging a plurality of pixels of the image to be detected, or selecting the pixels having the most amount of the color information corresponding to the designated crop, to acquire the color information data indicating the image to be detected.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the step of capturing the image to be detected of the designated crop, further comprises:
by the portable device, taking a crop image and providing a region for detection to capture the image to be detected from the crop image through the region for detection.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the step of determining the adaptive digital color chart corresponding to the image to be detected from the digital color chart, further comprises:
selecting one of the digital color charts having the highest correlation with the environmental brightness and the object distance according to the specific brightness and the specified object distance of each digital color chart, and taking the selected digital color chart as the adaptive digital color chart for the image to be detected.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein in the step of selecting one of the digital color charts having the highest correlation, further comprises:
selecting at least one digital color chart having the highest correlation with the environmental brightness from the digital color charts according to the specific brightness of each digital color chart; and
selecting one of the digital color chart having the highest correlation with the object distance from at least one digital color chart having the highest correlation with the environmental brightness according to the specified object distance of each digital color chart, and taking the selected digital color chart as the adaptive digital color chart for the image to be detected.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the step of selecting one of the control color information, further comprises:
selecting one of the control color information of the adaptive digital color chart as the selected control color information by a correlation analysis, wherein the selected control color information has the highest correlation with the color information of the image to be detected.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the step of determining the adaptive digital color chart corresponding to the image to be detected, further comprises:
selecting at least two digital color charts having the higher correlation with the environmental brightness and the object distance from the digital color charts according to the specific brightness and the specified object distance of each digital color chart, and calculating the control color information for the adaptive digital color chart according to the selected at least two digital color charts, wherein the specific brightness and the specified object distance of the adaptive digital color chart are respectively the environmental brightness and the object distance.

7. A portable device for detecting crops, used for detecting a physiological phenotype of a designated crop, and the portable device comprising:
a camera, configured for capturing an image to be detected of the designated crop;
an environmental light sensor, configured for detecting an environmental brightness;
a distance sensor, configured for detecting an object distance between the designated crop and the portable device;
a color chart database, configured for storing a plurality of digital color charts of the designated crop, wherein each digital color chart corresponds to a specific brightness and a specified object distance, and has a plurality of control color information, and each control color information corresponds to physiology information of the designated crop; and
a processor, electrically connected to the camera, the environmental light sensor, the distance sensor, and the color chart database, the processor is configured for averaging a plurality of pixels of the image to be detected or selecting the pixels having the most amount of the color information corresponding to the designated crop to acquire color information corresponding to the image to be detected, selecting the digital color charts corresponding to the designated crop from the color chart database according to the designated crop, determining an adaptive digital color chart corresponding to the image to be detected from the digital color charts according to the environmental brightness and the object distance, and comparing the color information of the image to be detected with the control color information of the adaptive digital color chart, to select one of the control color information according to the correlation with the control color information and the color information, and to display the corresponding physiology information according to the selected control color information in a displayer.

8. The portable device according to claim 7 , wherein the camera takes a crop image indicating the designated crop, and the processor provides a region for detection to capture the image to be detected from the crop image through the region for detection.

9. The portable device according to claim 7 , wherein the processor selects one of the digital color charts having the highest correlation with the environmental brightness and the object distance according to the specific brightness and the specified object distance of each digital color chart, and takes the selected digital color chart as the adaptive digital color chart for the image to be detected.

10. The portable device according to claim 9 , wherein the processor selects at least one digital color chart having the highest correlation with the environmental brightness from the digital color charts according to the specific brightness of each digital color chart, and selects one of the digital color chart having the highest correlation with the object distance from at least one digital color chart having the highest correlation with the environmental brightness according to the specified object distance of each digital color chart, to take the selected digital color chart as the adaptive digital color chart for the image to be detected.

Assignees

• Inst Information Ind

Inventors

• Lin Chien-Der
• Peng Yung-Hsing
• Hsu Chin-Shun

Classifications

• G06V10/56

  relating to colour · CPC title

• G06T7/0004 Primary

  Industrial image inspection · CPC title

• G06T7/408

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K9/00657

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T2207/30128

  Food products · CPC title