Patents by Inventor Pál Jancsók

Pál Jancsók has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus and method for analysing the composition of crop in a crop-conveying machine
    Patent number: 8045168
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for analysing the composition of crop in a crop-conveying machine, such as a harvesting machine. The crop in the machine is conveyed along a crop movement path, whereof a portion is illuminated by a light source (23). A camera (24) captures sequential images of crop in the crop movement path. The apparatus further comprises a control device and a processing device operatively connected to the camera and light source. The intensity and/or the colour of light output by the light source (23) is adjustable in dependence on one or more control commands generated by the control device and determined by optical characteristics generated by the processing device from one or more prior images captured by the camera (24). A portion of the image may include a reference member (26) adjacent the crop movement path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Bart M. A. Missotten, Lodewijk J. G. Claessens, Koen O. G. Maertens, Pál Jancsók
  • Apparatus and method for analysing the composition of crop in a crop-conveying machine
    Publication number: 20090258684
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for analysing the composition of crop in a crop-conveying machine, such as a harvesting machine. The crop in the machine is conveyed along a crop movement path, whereof a portion is illuminated by a light source (23). A camera (24) captures sequential images of crop in the crop movement path. The apparatus further comprises a control device and a processing device operatively connected to the camera and light source. The intensity and/or the colour of light output by the light source (23) is adjustable in dependence on one or more control commands generated by the control device and determined by optical characteristics generated by the processing device from one or more prior images captured by the camera (24). A portion of the image may include a reference member (26) adjacent the crop movement path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Bart M. A. Missotten, Lodewijk J.G. Claessens, Koen O. G. Maertens, Pal Jancsok