Farm work support device and method, program, recording medium, and farm work support system

Abstract

Provided is a farm work support device including a reception unit configured to receive designation of plants to be cultivated, a retrieval unit configured to retrieve a vegetation design which is a vegetation combination proper for construction of a mixed and dense growth state of the designated plants, and an output unit configured to output the retrieved vegetation design.

1 . A collaborative farm work support system comprising:
 a memory; and   a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to:
 store information regarding a plurality of previous key events of previous instances of a crop cultivated in one or more fields; 
 receive information regarding a key event of the crop cultivated in a first field different from the one or more fields from a user device via a network; 
 generate support information for the crop based on a relationship between the received information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field and the stored information regarding the plurality of previous key events of previous instances of the crop cultivated in the one or more fields; and 
 transmit the support information and the generated tagged image to the user device via the network. 
   
     
     
         2 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 1 , wherein the information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field includes an image of the crop cultivated in the first field, a date that the image of the crop cultivated in the first field was taken, GPS coordinates of the position of the crop cultivated in the first field, and natural language text describing the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field. 
     
     
         3 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 1 , wherein the support information links the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field to at least one of the previous key events in a cause-and-effect relationship. 
     
     
         4 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 1 , wherein the support information is a cause-and-effect estimation graph generated using a machine learning model. 
     
     
         5 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 1 , wherein the information regarding a plurality of previous key events of previous instances of a crop cultivated in one or more fields is stored in a plurality of discrete databases. 
     
     
         6 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 5 , wherein the support information is a cause-and-effect estimation graph, and wherein the cause-and-effect estimation graph is generated by a graph and network software program that links information between the plurality of discrete databases. 
     
     
         7 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 1 , wherein the received information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field includes a natural language text string describing the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field, wherein the stored information regarding the plurality of previous key events of previous instances of the crop cultivated in the one or more fields includes a plurality of natural language text strings describing the plurality of previous key events, and wherein the relationship between the received information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field and the stored information regarding the plurality of previous key events of previous instances of the crop cultivated in the one or more fields is defined based on the natural language text string and the plurality of natural language text strings. 
     
     
         8 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 1 , wherein the information regarding the plurality of previous key events of previous instances of the crop cultivated in the one or more fields includes information on reactions of the crop to environmental factors including temperature, precipitation, sunshine, or chemical indexes of soil. 
     
     
         9 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 1 , wherein the augmented reality tag includes GPS coordinates at which the crop was located in the image of the crop cultivated in the first field. 
     
     
         10 . A collaborative farm work support method comprising:
 storing information regarding a plurality of previous key events of previous instances of a crop cultivated in one or more fields;   receiving information regarding a key event of the crop cultivated in a first field different from the one or more fields from a user device via a network;   generating support information for the crop based on a relationship between the received information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field and the stored information regarding the plurality of previous key events of previous instances of the crop cultivated in the one or more fields; and   transmitting the support information and the generated tagged image to the user device via the network.   
     
     
         11 . The collaborative farm work support method of  claim 10 , wherein the information regarding the key event of the cultivated crop includes an image of the crop cultivated in the first field and a date that the image of the crop cultivated in the first field was taken. 
     
     
         12 . The collaborative farm work support method of  claim 10 , wherein the information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field includes GPS coordinates of the crop cultivated in the first field. 
     
     
         13 . The collaborative farm work support method of  claim 10 , further comprising generating a tagged image including an augmented reality tag superimposed on the received image of the crop cultivated in the first field, wherein the augmented reality tag includes at least some of the received information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field. 
     
     
         14 . The collaborative farm work support method of  claim 13 , wherein the augmented reality tag includes position information of the crop cultivated in the first field. 
     
     
         15 . The collaborative farm work support method of  claim 10 , wherein the information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field includes a natural language text string describing the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field. 
     
     
         16 . The collaborative farm work support method of  claim 10 , wherein each of the one or more fields and the first field include a plurality of different crop species arranged for collaborative farming. 
     
     
         17 . The collaborative farm work support method of  claim 10 , wherein the first field is in a different geographical region than the one or more fields. 
     
     
         18 . The collaborative farm work support method of  claim 10 , wherein the support information is generated based on received feedback from the user device related to a cause-and-effect relationship linking at least two of the plurality of previous key events. 
     
     
         19 . A collaborative farm work support system comprising:
 a first user device including:
 a first memory, and 
 a first processor in communication with the first memory, the first processor configured to transmit information regarding a key event of a crop cultivated in a first field; 
   a second user device including:
 a second memory, and 
 a second processor in communication with the second memory, the second processor configured to transmit information regarding a key event of the crop cultivated in a second field, the second field in a different geographic region than the first field; and 
   a collaborative farming support apparatus including:
 a third memory, and 
 a third processor in communication with the third memory, the processor configured to:
 store information regarding a plurality of previous key events of previous instances of the crop cultivated in one or more fields including the information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the second field received from the second user device via a network, 
 receive the information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field from the first user device via the network, 
 generate support information for the crop based on a relationship between the received information regarding the key event of the crop cultivated in the first field and the stored information regarding the plurality of previous key events of previous instances of the crop cultivated in the one or more fields; and 
 transmit the support information and the generated tagged image to the first user device via the network. 
 
   
     
     
         20 . The collaborative farm work support system of  claim 16 , wherein the first and second user devices are each configured to be carried by an individual in the first and second fields respectively.