DIVOT REPAIR MACHINE
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a divot repair machine capable of automatically burying a divot with sand and identifying an exact position of the divot.SOLUTION: A divot repair machine 1 comprises: a front camera 11 imaging a lawn surface area in a travelling direction; a sensor detecting inclinat...
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Format | Patent |
Language | English |
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13.03.2014
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Summary: | PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a divot repair machine capable of automatically burying a divot with sand and identifying an exact position of the divot.SOLUTION: A divot repair machine 1 comprises: a front camera 11 imaging a lawn surface area in a travelling direction; a sensor detecting inclination angles and movement speeds of the lawn surface area imaged by the camera in a front-back and a left-right direction; and a hopper 13 for discharging a predetermined amount of sand. The divot repair machine 1 creates a flat image in which image data for the lawn surface area imaged by the front camera 11 is compensated with inclination of the divot repair machine 1 at the imaging, detects a divot from the created flat image, specifies the hopper 13 which will discharge the sand toward the detected divot, estimates a timing of reaching a position of the detected divot, and discharges the sand toward the divot at the estimated timing. |
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Bibliography: | Application Number: JP20120186872 |