Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Kilho Son

Ejaz Ahmed

Jeremy Samuel De Bonet

Oded Maron

Mirko Ristivojevic

Abhay Doke

Vinod Krishnan Kulathumani

Austen Groener

Mohsen Malmir

This disclosure is directed to an item-identifying, mobile cart that may be utilized by a user in a materials handling facility to automatically identify items that the user places into a basket of the cart. The cart may include cameras for detecting activity near a basket of the cart, such as a user placing an item into the basket. The cart or a computing device communicatively coupled to the cart may use a trained machine-learning model to identify the activity, and may improve the accuracy of the model over time using real-world data of users operating carts in respective facilities.

Conserving power in item-identifying carts

This disclosure is directed to, in part, a processing pipeline for detecting predefined activity using image data, identifying an item-of-interest and a location of the item-of-interest across frames of the image data, determining a trajectory of the item-of-interest, and determining an identifier of the item-of-interest and an action taken with respect to the item-of-interest. The processing pipeline may utilize one or more trained classifiers and, in some instances, additional data to identify items that are placed into or removed from a tote (e.g., basket, cart, or other receptacle) by users in material handling facilities as the users move around the material handling facilities.

Using sensor data to determine activity

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