Sony patents software to track soil and organism changes on farms
Sony has filed a patent for a system that measures how soil and living things in a specific area change over time. It compares data from an earlier date with data from a later date to calculate how much these factors have shifted.
In the filing’s own words
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable appropriate evaluation of a place such as a farm field. The evaluation unit evaluates a transition degree of index values, based on a plurality of the index values relating to soil or organisms at a predetermined time point of a predetermined target place and a plurality of the index values at a time point later than the predetermined time point. The present technology can be applied to the case of evaluating a place such as a farm field where various agricultural methods are implemented.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing device comprising: an evaluation unit that evaluates, based on a plurality of the index values relating to soil or organisms at a predetermined time point of a predetermined target place and a plurality of the index values at a time point later than the predetermined time point, a transition degree of the index values.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260268360A1
- Application number
- 19165664
- Filed
- Sep 21, 2023
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06Q 30/0206 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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