Patent 7930147 was granted and assigned to DEERE & COMPANY on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A sensor response time acceleration method including the steps of reading a signal step and an operating on the signal step. The reading a signal step includes reading a signal from a sensor, the signal representative of an environmental attribute as detected by the sensor. The operation on the signal step includes operating on the signal with a function of an inverse model of the sensor and a function representative of a desired sensor model to yield an accelerated output representative of the environmental attribute.