Walmart Apollo, LLC

Lars C Rehder

Jeffrey Lui

Adil Ansari

Matheus K Iser

Pin Jui Huang

John C Liedtke

David W Sica

Sheetal Patel

Suk Wai Theda Chong

Khasan Shirmatov

Thiago Pereira Rocha

Some embodiments product identifying systems comprising: a scanner control circuit; an imaging system; a display; and a memory storing a product identifier module executed by the control circuit to: detect, through a series of images, a machine-readable identifier pattern; control the display to render the series of images on the display; activate a scan timer having a scan duration; render, on the display, a scan timer graphic overlaid on a subset of the series of images and corresponding to a changing remaining time of the scan duration as the remaining time expires; confirm that the identifier pattern was maintained within a threshold distance of the center of the field of view over at least a threshold read duration of the scan duration; extract identifying information; and obtain a product identifier corresponding to the identifying information and add the product identifier to a virtual shopping cart.

Systems and methods of identifying products through portable scanning

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San Bruno, CA, United States of America

Lars C Rehder