Patents by Inventor Zhiyu Zuo

Zhiyu Zuo 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).

  • Patent number: 11465886
    Abstract: A suspension rail type greenhouse comprehensive information automatic cruise monitoring device, includes a sliding rail a sliding platform, and a lifting and lowering mechanism suspended on a greenhouse truss; a multi-sensor system which includes a binocular vision multifunctional camera, a laser ranging sensor, an infrared temperature measuring sensor, an illumination intensity sensor, and a temperature and humidity sensor, and an electronically controlled rotary pan-tilt mounted below the lifting and lowering mechanism of the sliding platform; a detection azimuth overlooks plant canopies; and a multi-sensor system configured to perform stationary point detection on the plant canopies one by one along planting lines of plants under the driving of the sliding platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Hanping Mao, Hongyan Gao, Zhiyu Zuo, Yixue Zhang
  • Patent number: 11436824
    Abstract: A water stress detection method for tomatoes in a seedling stage based on micro-CT and polarization-hyperspectral imaging multi-feature fusion, comprising: using micro-CT to scan microscopic morphological features such as water stress stomata, spongy body, palisade tissue, cilia, vascular bundle, root volume, main root, and root hair density of tomatoes; using a polarization-hyperspectral imaging system to obtain macroscopic morphological features such as crown width, plant height, and leaf inclination of water stress plants, as well as leaf vein distribution, average gray, and leaf margin shaded area under a water-sensitive wavelength of 1450 nm, and macroscopic morphological features such as polarization states, stock vectors, and Mueller matrix variables of 1450 nm feature images at 0°, 45°, 90°, 135°, and 180° feature polarization angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Hanping Mao, Hongyan Gao, Zhiyu Zuo, Yixue Zhang
  • Patent number: 11406057
    Abstract: A multi-scale habitat information-based method and device for detecting and controlling water and fertilizer for crops in seedling stage: performing fusion analysis on multi-scale features of the water and fertilizer stress of crops on the basis of crop canopy-scale three-dimensional laser scanning information, foliage-scale polarization-hyperspectral imaging information, and micro-scale micro-CT scanning information; combining the real-time feedback of the temperature, humidity, illumination and substrate moisture content within a crop growing greenhouse; by means of multi-information fusion modeling, comprehensively determining and feeding back the water and fertilizer stress of the crops as well as water requirement and fertilizer requirement information, and providing policy information for the amount of fertilization and irrigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Hanping Mao, Hongyan Gao, Zhiyu Zuo, Yixue Zhang
  • Patent number: 11397174
    Abstract: A greenhouse information automatic monitoring method, adopting a multi-sensor system, using binocular vision multi-function cameras combining with a laser ranging sensor and an infrared temperature measuring sensor, realizing online patrol monitoring of greenhouse crop comprehensive information of image and infrared temperature characteristics of plant nutrition, water, pest and disease damage as well as plant crown width, plant height, fruit and growth characteristics. The multi-sensor system is mounted on a suspension slide platform and combines with a lifting mechanism and an electric control rotation pan-tilt, such that not only accurate positioning and stationary point detection in the detection travelling direction can be realized, but also multi-sensor information patrol detection at different detection distances, different top view fields and different detection angles is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Pei Wang, Hanping Mao, Hongyan Gao, Zhiyu Zuo, Yixue Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210364487
    Abstract: A greenhouse information automatic monitoring method, adopting a multi-sensor system, using binocular vision multi-function cameras combining with a laser ranging sensor and an infrared temperature measuring sensor, realizing online patrol monitoring of greenhouse crop comprehensive information of image and infrared temperature characteristics of plant nutrition, water, pest and disease damage as well as plant crown width, plant height, fruit and growth characteristics. The multi-sensor system is mounted on a suspension slide platform and combines with a lifting mechanism and an electric control rotation pan-tilt, such that not only accurate positioning and stationary point detection in the detection travelling direction can be realized, but also multi-sensor information patrol detection at different detection distances, different top view fields and different detection angles is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaodong ZHANG, Pei WANG, Hanping MAO, Hongyan GAO, Zhiyu ZUO, Yixue ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210289692
    Abstract: A multi-scale habitat information-based method and device for detecting and controlling water and fertilizer for crops in seedling stage: performing fusion analysis on multi-scale features of the water and fertilizer stress of crops on the basis of crop canopy-scale three-dimensional laser scanning information, foliage-scale polarization-hyperspectral imaging information, and micro-scale micro-CT scanning information; combining the real-time feedback of the temperature, humidity, illumination and substrate moisture content within a crop growing greenhouse; by means of multi-information fusion modeling, comprehensively determining and feeding back the water and fertilizer stress of the crops as well as water requirement and fertilizer requirement information, and providing policy information for the amount of fertilization and irrigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaodong ZHANG, Hanping MAO, Hongyan GAO, Zhiyu ZUO, Yixue ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210056685
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring comprehensive growth condition of potted lettuce consists of a polarized hyperspectral imaging system and a 3D laser scanning system. The polarized hyperspectral imaging system includes a control system, a dual-coordinate sample holder, an image acquisition system, and a light source system, and the polarized hyperspectral imaging system detects water and fertilizer stress in lettuce by polarized hyperspectral multi-dimensional reflection imaging of characteristics on a canopy/leaf scale. The 3D laser scanning system detects morphological characteristics such as the biomass, stem diameter, plant height, and leaf area of lettuce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaodong ZHANG, Xuewei ZHANG, Hanping MAO, Baijing QIU, Hongtao ZHANG, Zhiyu ZUO, Hongyan GAO, Jiheng NI, Yixue ZHANG, Fang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200325005
    Abstract: A suspension rail type greenhouse comprehensive information automatic cruise monitoring device, includes a sliding rail a sliding platform, and a lifting and lowering mechanism suspended on a greenhouse truss; a multi-sensor system which includes a binocular vision multifunctional camera, a laser ranging sensor, an infrared temperature measuring sensor, an illumination intensity sensor, and a temperature and humidity sensor, and an electronically controlled rotary pan-tilt mounted below the lifting and lowering mechanism of the sliding platform; a detection azimuth overlooks plant canopies; and a multi-sensor system configured to perform stationary point detection on the plant canopies one by one along planting lines of plants under the driving of the sliding platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaodong ZHANG, Hanping MAO, Hongyan GAO, Zhiyu ZUO, Yixue ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200272817
    Abstract: A water stress detection method for tomatoes in a seedling stage based on micro-CT and polarization-hyperspectral imaging multi-feature fusion, comprising: using micro-CT to scan microscopic morphological features such as water stress stomata, spongy body, palisade tissue, cilia, vascular bundle, root volume, main root, and root hair density of tomatoes; using a polarization-hyperspectral imaging system to obtain macroscopic morphological features such as crown width, plant height, and leaf inclination of water stress plants, as well as leaf vein distribution, average gray, and leaf margin shaded area under a water-sensitive wavelength of 1450 nm, and macroscopic morphological features such as polarization states, stock vectors, and Mueller matrix variables of 1450 nm feature images at 0°, 45°, 90°, 135°, and 180° feature polarization angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaodong ZHANG, Hanping MAO, Hongyan GAO, Zhiyu ZUO, Yixue ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10752120
    Abstract: A charging device of an automatic cruise platform for a greenhouse comprises a power monitoring module, an information transmission module and a sensor module, which are located on a movement monitoring platform (25), and a ground pressure sensor module, a charging module, an information receiving module (20), an information collection module (21), a control module (22), an AC-DC conversion module (23), and a power control module (24), which are located on a smart charging device (33). The device can automatically return to be charged at a cruise detection interval of a movement platform when the electric quantity is lower than a threshold, thereby improving the working efficiency and automation degree of a movement monitoring platform, reducing the labor management cost, and meanwhile greatly improving the reliability and safety of a charging docking process and facility power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Hanping Mao, Hongyan Gao, Zhiyu Zuo, Baijing Qiu, Hongtao Zhang, Yixue Zhang
  • Patent number: 10591927
    Abstract: A smart mobile detection platform for a greenhouse comprises a frame, a front suspension assembly, a rear suspension assembly, a power assembly and a drive assembly for driving a mobile platform to move, a steering system for controlling the mobile platform to steer, an automatic-cruising pose-detection sensor module needed for automatic mobile platform cruising, a greenhouse environment and crop detection image sensor module (29), a signal collection module (30) for collecting a sensor signal, a central control system for controlling the mobile platform to move, an information transmission module, and a power module for supplying power to the whole mobile platform. By means of a central control system, a mobile platform completes automatic inspection of the greenhouse environment and crop growth information, and an automatic charging device provides supplemental electric energy to the mobile platform, thereby improving detection efficiency and accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Hanping Mao, Hongyan Gao, Zhiyu Zuo, Baijing Qiu, Hongtao Zhang, Yixue Zhang
  • Patent number: 10455776
    Abstract: A dynamic detection device for the growth of a potted crop, includes a detection platform and a rotating shaft. A first cantilever frame is fixed at an upper portion of the rotating shaft; a laser ranging sensor is mounted at a tail end of the first cantilever frame; a second cantilever frame is fixed at a lower portion of the rotating shaft, and a pressure sensor is mounted at a tail end of the second cantilever frame. The detection platform has several bases; weight information crop is collected via a load sensor; stem diameter and plant height information crop is collected via the pressure sensor, a photoelectric encoder and the laser ranging sensor; and growth information crop is described through information fusion, which can improve the efficiency and continuously monitor dynamic change information about the growth of a target crop in a growth process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zhang, Hanping Mao, Hongyan Gao, Zhiyu Zuo, Li Li, Yixue Zhang
  • Patent number: 10317326
    Abstract: A testing device for integrated irrigation and disinfection includes a centrifugal pump, pressure sensors, flow sensors, an ion concentration sensor, and a control system. The testing device has comprehensive functions of fertilization, spray and drip irrigation load simulation, water and fertilizer parameter detection, fertilizer absorbing channel parameter detection and backflow channel parameter detection. The detection of nutrient ion concentration in a nutrient solution is combined with the aspects of irrigation, dynamic preparation of a nutrient solution and disinfection of a nutrient solution, to realize a high-precision dynamic preparation of a nutrient solution and irrigation area load simulation, and satisfy the requirements on a test system during a research and development process of an irrigation and fertilization system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Zhiyu Zuo, Lijuan Qin, Hanping Mao, Xiaodong Zhang, Jiheng Ni, Qinglin Li, Tianyuan Lv
  • Publication number: 20180201146
    Abstract: A charging device of an automatic cruise platform for a greenhouse comprises a power monitoring module, an information transmission module and a sensor module, which are located on a movement monitoring platform (25), and a ground pressure sensor module, a charging module, an information receiving module (20), an information collection module (21), a control module (22), an AC-DC conversion module (23), and a power control module (24), which are located on a smart charging device (33). The device can automatically return to be charged at a cruise detection interval of a movement platform when the electric quantity is lower than a threshold, thereby improving the working efficiency and automation degree of a movement monitoring platform, reducing the labor management cost, and meanwhile greatly improving the reliability and safety of a charging docking process and facility power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaodong ZHANG, Hanping MAO, Hongyan GAO, Zhiyu ZUO, Baijing QIU, Hongtao ZHANG, Yixue ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20180203458
    Abstract: A smart mobile detection platform for a greenhouse comprises a frame, a front suspension assembly, a rear suspension assembly, a power assembly and a drive assembly for driving a mobile platform to move, a steering system for controlling the mobile platform to steer, an automatic-cruising pose-detection sensor module needed for automatic mobile platform cruising, a greenhouse environment and crop detection image sensor module (29), a signal collection module (30) for collecting a sensor signal, a central control system for controlling the mobile platform to move, an information transmission module, and a power module for supplying power to the whole mobile platform. By means of a central control system, a mobile platform completes automatic inspection of the greenhouse environment and crop growth information, and an automatic charging device provides supplemental electric energy to the mobile platform, thereby improving detection efficiency and accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaodong ZHANG, Hanping MAO, Hongyan GAO, Zhiyu ZUO, Baijing QIU, Hongtao ZHANG, Yixue ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9970918
    Abstract: A portable device for detecting the nutrition level of a plant includes an outer casing and a detection circuit. The outer casing includes belt pulleys, a cam, upper and lower clamping plates. The detection circuit is arranged in the outer casing and realizes an electric signal processing function and a display function. The portable device for detecting the nutrition level of the plant has the following beneficial effects: the device can be used for analyzing whether nutrient elements in crops are deficient or excessive, which is taken as the basis for accurate fertilization, and the device has low detection cost, high real-time capability, small size and is portable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Zhiyu Zuo, Tianyuan Lv
  • Publication number: 20170318757
    Abstract: A dynamic detection device for the growth of a potted crop, includes a detection platform and a rotating shaft. A first cantilever frame is fixed at an upper portion of the rotating shaft; a laser ranging sensor is mounted at a tail end of the first cantilever frame; a second cantilever frame is fixed at a lower portion of the rotating shaft, and a pressure sensor is mounted at a tail end of the second cantilever frame. The detection platform has several bases; weight information crop is collected via a load sensor; stem diameter and plant height information crop is collected via the pressure sensor, a photoelectric encoder and the laser ranging sensor; and growth information crop is described through information fusion, which can improve the efficiency and continuously monitor dynamic change information about the growth of a target crop in a growth process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Xiaodong ZHANG, Hanping MAO, Hongyan GAO, Zhiyu ZUO, Li LI, Yixue ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170254789
    Abstract: A portable device for detecting the nutrition level of a plant includes an outer casing and a detection circuit. The outer casing includes belt pulleys, a cam, upper and lower clamping plates. The detection circuit is arranged in the outer casing and realizes an electric signal processing function and a display function. The portable device for detecting the nutrition level of the plant has the following beneficial effects: the device can be used for analyzing whether nutrient elements in crops are deficient or excessive, which is taken as the basis for accurate fertilization, and the device has low detection cost, high real-time capability, small size and is portable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Zhiyu ZUO, Tianyuan LV
  • Publication number: 20170115195
    Abstract: A testing device for integrated irrigation and disinfection includes a centrifugal pump, pressure sensors, flow sensors, an ion concentration sensor, and a control system. The testing device has comprehensive functions of fertilization, spray and drip irrigation load simulation, water and fertilizer parameter detection, fertilizer absorbing channel parameter detection and backflow channel parameter detection. The detection of nutrient ion concentration in a nutrient solution is combined with the aspects of irrigation, dynamic preparation of a nutrient solution and disinfection of a nutrient solution, to realize a high-precision dynamic preparation of a nutrient solution and irrigation area load simulation, and satisfy the requirements on a test system during a research and development process of an irrigation and fertilization system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Zhiyu Zuo, Lijuan Qin, Hanping Mao, Xiaodong Zhang, Jiheng Ni, Qinglin Li, Tianyuan Lv