Walmart Apollo, LLC

Maxwell A Yardley

Matthew Allen Jones

Britto Michaelsamy

Jadran Sirotkovic

Jody P Cook

Rahul S Kala

Mirko A Arnold

Asim S Alvi

Christopher R Jescheling

Kumar Chandan

Kshitiz Gupta

Peter M Terlecky

Sung H Kim

Tirui Wu

Methods and systems for managing inventory at a retail facility include an image capture device having a field of view that includes a product display shelf of the retail facility, an electronic database that stores a planogram of product display shelves at the retail facility and a computing device. The computing device obtains an image of a product display shelf, detects the individual packages of each of the different products captured in the image, defines different product display areas for the different products on the product display shelf captured in the image, and generates virtual boundary lines that surround each of the defined product display areas. The computing device also determines an identity of a product contained located in each defined product display area, and associates the virtual boundary lines surrounding each defined product display area with an identifier unique to the product contained in the defined product display area.

Systems and methods of defining and identifying product display areas on product display shelves

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Maxwell A Yardley