Agricultural work management system and agricultural crop harvester

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10410149-B2
Application number	US-201314431098-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2013
Priority date	Sep 26, 2012
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

An agricultural work management system includes: a data input unit configured to receive, from an agricultural crop harvester, harvesting position data indicating a harvesting work position as agricultural land information, harvest amount data indicating a harvest amount of the agricultural crop harvested in the agricultural land, and quality data indicating the quality thereof as agricultural crop information; a database server configured to store the agricultural land information and the agricultural crop information such that they can be associated with each other; an agricultural work evaluation unit configured to perform agricultural work evaluation on the agricultural land based on the agricultural land information and the agricultural crop information; and a data output unit configured to send out the agricultural work evaluation data generated by the agricultural work evaluation unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An agricultural work management system configured to manage agricultural land information relating to an agricultural land in which harvesting work is performed by an agricultural crop harvester, and agricultural crop information relating to an agricultural crop obtained with the harvesting work, the agricultural work management system comprising:
the agricultural crop harvester configured to obtain, during the harvesting work, harvesting position data indicating a harvesting work position in the agricultural land as the agricultural land information, harvest amount data indicating a harvest amount of the agricultural crop harvested in the agricultural land, and quality data indicating the quality of the agricultural crop harvested in the agricultural land as the agricultural crop information;
an agricultural land information generation unit configured to generate the agricultural land information in association with small plots obtained by the agricultural land that is to be subject to work being divided by a predetermined size, and convert a value of the harvesting position data into a value of a coordinate system in which a predetermined position set in the agricultural land is used as the origin;
an agricultural crop information generation unit configured to generate the agricultural crop information in association with the small plots;
a data input unit configured to receive, from the agricultural crop harvester, the harvesting position data indicating the harvesting work position in the agricultural land as the agricultural land information, the harvest amount data indicating a harvest amount of the agricultural crop harvested in the agricultural land, and the quality data indicating the quality thereof as the agricultural crop information, wherein the agricultural land information generation unit converts the harvesting position data;
a database server configured to store the agricultural land information and the agricultural crop information such that they can be associated with each other;
an agricultural work evaluation unit configured to perform agricultural work evaluation of the agricultural land based on the agricultural land information and the agricultural crop information, wherein the agricultural work evaluation unit generates a map of the harvest amount indicating a harvest amount of the agricultural crop harvested for each of the small plots; and
a data output unit configured to output the map generated by the agricultural work evaluation unit.

2. The agricultural work management system according to claim 1 , wherein the agricultural work evaluation unit performs data conversion according to which time-based agricultural crop information generated in correspondence with a travel route of the agricultural crop harvester is allocated to the small plots.

3. The agricultural work management system according to claim 1 , wherein the agricultural crop harvester is a combine for grain, the harvest amount data is generated based on a threshing processing amount per unit time, and the quality data is generated based on a measurement result of a taste sensor unit equipped in the combine.

4. The agricultural work management system according to claim 3 , wherein the quality data includes moisture of harvested grain.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Seki Mitsuhiro
• Takahara Kazuhiro

Classifications

• H04W4/40

  for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] · CPC title

• A01B79/005

  Precision agriculture · CPC title

• A01D41/1277

  for measuring grain quality · CPC title

• G06Q10/063114 Primary

  Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group · CPC title

• G06Q10/06395

  Quality analysis or management · CPC title