Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes a crop processor, a grain tank, an unload conveyor, and an electromagnetic detecting and ranging module positioned at or above a top of the grain tank for detecting a fill level of the grain tank and the location of a receiving vehicle relative to the combine harvester. One or more computing devices receive data from the electromagnetic detecting and ranging module, the data indicating the fill level of the grain tank and the location of the receiving vehicle relative to the combine harvester, and use the data to generate graphic data defining a graphical representation illustrating the relative positions of the unload conveyor and a grain bin of the receiving vehicle. An electronic device including a graphical user interface presents the graphical representation on the graphical user interface.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring the operation of an implement associated with an agricultural machine. An imaging sensor may be used having an imaging region at least partly covering the implement, along with a thermal sensor having a sensing region which at least partly coincides with the imaging region of the imaging sensor. The image data from the imaging sensing is used to determine a location of one or more operational elements of the implement within the imaging region. The thermal sensor is used to determine a thermal characteristic (e.g. temperature) associated with each of the one or more operational elements. One or more systems of the agricultural machine may then be controlled in dependence on the determined thermal characteristic.

Abstract: Described herein are technologies that use LIDAR and computer vision to detect a location of a receiving vehicle relative to a forage harvester, fill levels of crop material within the receiving vehicle, and path and landing position of material expelled from the forage harvester and received by a bin of the receiving vehicle. The technologies use such information as feedback for operating the harvester or the receiving vehicle. Some embodiments detect ground level in front of the harvester or the receiving vehicle, and such information is used as feedback too. Some embodiments include a link to communicate the feedback to a GUI for user visualization of the feedback and semi-automated operations of the harvester or the receiving vehicle. For example, readings from LIDAR and a camera of the harvester detect a topography of the material deposited in the bin of the receiving vehicle, and a GUI outputs the topography.

Abstract: An antiperspirant aerosol composition comprising a three-component mixture of propellant, ethanol and a lipid mixture consisting of glycerol monolaurate and isostearyl alcohol at a ratio of from 25:75 to 45:55, wherein the propellant content of the three-component mixture is from 40 to 87.5%; the ethanol content of the three-component mixture is from 10 to 57.5% and the lipid content of the three-component mixture is from 2.5% up to a maximum equal to the sum of 4.805 and the ethanol content multiplied by 0.115.

Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring the distribution of residue material from a spreader tool of an agricultural machine. A sensing arrangement including one or more sensors, with the sensors defining a sensing region corresponding to an operating area of the spreader tool. A lighting arrangement including one or more light sources for illumination to at least part of the sensing region depending on a capture state of the one or more sensors of the sensing arrangement.

Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes a crop processor for reducing crop material to processed crop, an unload conveyor for transferring a stream of processed crop out of the harvester, and a camera for capturing images of an area proximate the harvester and generating image data from the captured images. One or more computing devices are configured for receiving the image data from the camera, identifying, from the image data, a visual marker corresponding to a receiving vehicle, and determining, from the visual marker, a location of the receiving vehicle relative to the agricultural harvester. An electronic device presents, on a graphical user interface of the device, a graphical representation of the relative locations of the unload conveyor and at least a portion of the receiving vehicle, the graphical representation based on the location of the receiving vehicle relative to the agricultural harvester determined by the one or more computing devices.

Abstract: A cosmetic composition comprising a lipid mixture consisting of isostearyl alcohol and glycerol monolaurate at a weight ratio of from 25:75 to 40:60 and a fatty material selected from C10-C18 linear alcohols and C8 to C16 alkanes, and the use of such compositions in sweat management.

Abstract: A cosmetic composition comprising ethanol, a lipid mixture consisting of isostearyl alcohol and glyceryl monolaurate at a weight ratio of from 25:75 to 40:60 and an oil selected from C8 to C16 alkanes, and the use of such compositions in sweat management.

Abstract: An agricultural system having at least two connectors for moving a first tool with a first marker and a method are configured to check a controllability of the tool by connecting a first actuator with at least one of the least two connectors for moving the first tool in a first degree of freedom, triggering an actuation via one connector, receiving sensor information from a sensor unit capturing a first marker connected with the first tool and determining whether the first marker moves in the first degree of freedom in response to the triggered actuation via the one connector.

Abstract: A method and a camera system for generating a combined image projection includes a control unit configured to carry out the method including the steps of capturing a first and a second image of an object by a first and a second camera generating a first and a second image projection of the captured images, finding an image content being contained in both image projections, overlapping the first and second image projections, determining a resolution value for each of two overlapping pixels in an overlapped area and combining the first and the second image projection so that the pixel of the two overlapping pixels having the higher resolution value is included in a combined image projection.

Abstract: A computer system that includes one or more processors configured to execute a secure sovereign manager that controls remote execution of commands on a sovereign cloud computing platform. The secure sovereign manager is configured to create an escorted session for an unqualified user for invoking commands on the sovereign cloud computing platform. The unqualified user does not have sovereign-trusted credentials that define qualifications required for accessing the sovereign cloud computing platform. The escorted session is asynchronously supervised by a qualified user that has sovereign-trusted credentials. The secure sovereign manager is configured to receive an indication of approval or denial of invocation of a received command. Based on at least receiving an indication of approval, the secure sovereign manager invokes the received command on the sovereign cloud computing platform.

Abstract: A harvester includes a crop processor, a crop transfer arm and a vision system with a first camera with a field of view of at least one hundred and forty degrees and a second camera with a field of view of at least one hundred and forty degrees. A control system is configured to combine image data from the first camera and the second camera to form a single two-dimensional image, use the single two-dimensional image to identify the receiving vehicle, combine image data from the first camera and the second camera to form a stereo image, and use the stereo image to determine a location of the receiving vehicle relative to the harvester.

Abstract: A vision system for a harvester includes a first camera positioned on a first side of a crop transfer arm of the harvester and a second camera positioned on a second side of the crop transfer arm of the harvester, the second side being opposite the first side. A center of the first field of view and a center of the second field of view are angled away from one another by an angle of at least ten degrees. A first portion of the first field of view overlaps at least a portion of the second field of view and a second portion of the first field of view does not overlap the second field of view, and a first portion of the second field of view overlaps at least a portion of the first field of view and a second portion of the second field of view does not overlap the first field of view.

Abstract: A harvester includes a crop processor for reducing crop material to processed crop, a crop transfer arm for transferring processed crop material to a receiving vehicle, and a vision system including a first camera having a first field of view and a second camera having a second field of view, wherein the first camera is separated from the second camera along two axes. A control system is configured to use image data from the first camera and image data from the second camera to detect the presence of a receiving vehicle and to determine a distance between the harvester and the receiving vehicle, and generate control signals for automatically aligning the crop transfer arm with the receiving vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring and controlling the distribution of residue material from a spreader tool of an agricultural machine. A sensor is mounted to the machine and has a sensing region rearwards of the agricultural machine. Using data from the sensor a distribution of residue material associated with the spreader tool is determined. Based on this distribution, a user interface associated with the agricultural machine is used to provide an indicator indicative of the determined distribution.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring and controlling the distribution of residue material from a spreader tool of an agricultural machine. A sensor is mounted to the machine and has a sensing region rearwards of the agricultural machine. Using data from the sensor a distribution of residue material associated with the spreader tool is determined. Based on this distribution, one or more operational parameters of the agricultural machine or one or more components thereof are controlled to achieve a desired or improved residue spread from the spreader tool.

Abstract: A computer system that includes one or more processors configured to execute a secure sovereign manager that controls remote execution of commands on a sovereign cloud computing platform. The secure sovereign manager is configured to create an escorted session for an unqualified user for invoking commands on the sovereign cloud computing platform. The unqualified user does not have sovereign-trusted credentials that define qualifications required for accessing the sovereign cloud computing platform. The escorted session is asynchronously supervised by a qualified user that has sovereign-trusted credentials. The secure sovereign manager is configured to receive an indication of approval or denial of invocation of a received command. Based on at least receiving an indication of approval, the secure sovereign manager invokes the received command on the sovereign cloud computing platform.

Abstract: A display controller configured to cause a display to show successive frames of a main presentation and to intermittently display a predetermined map of indicia between the frames of the main presentation, whereby a device can determine its location.

Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes an electromagnetic detecting and ranging module for detecting a location of an object relative to the agricultural harvester and a camera for capturing images of an area within a field of view of the electromagnetic detecting and ranging module. One or more computing devices receive first data from the electromagnetic detecting and ranging module, the first data indicating the location of the object relative to the agricultural harvester, receive image data from the camera and use the image data to determine whether the object is a receiving vehicle. If the object is a receiving vehicle, the one or more computing devices use the first data and the second data to generate graphic data defining a graphical representation illustrating the relative positions of the unload conveyor and the receiving vehicle. An electronic device including a graphical user interface presents the graphical representation on the graphical user interface.

Abstract: A harvester includes a crop processor, a crop transfer arm and a vision system with a first camera with a field of view of at least one hundred and forty degrees and a second camera with a field of view of at least one hundred and forty degrees. A control system is configured to combine image data from the first camera and the second camera to form a single two-dimensional image, use the single two-dimensional image to identify the receiving vehicle, combine image data from the first camera and the second camera to form a stereo image, and use the stereo image to determine a location of the receiving vehicle relative to the harvester.