Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Michael Derryberry

Oded Maron

Ejaz Ahmed

Daniel Ron

Sreemanananth Sadanand

Shamil Abzalov

This disclosure is directed to item-identifying carts that may be utilized by users in material handling facilities to automatically identify items that the users place in their carts as they move around the material handling facilities. In addition, these carts may automatically determine the outcome of respective events that occur with respect to these identified items. For example, the carts may be configured to identify one or more items that are placed into or removed from the cart, and thereafter determine one or more actions taken with respect to the identified items and a quantity of the items involved.

Resolving events in item-identifying carts

This disclosure is directed to item-identifying carts that may generate and store image data of items being placed into, or removed from, the carts in the event that a cart is unable to recognize an item. For example, the cart may analyze frames of generated image data, representing item(s) being placed into or removed from the cart, to determine which one or more frames to store. If the cart is later unable to identify such an item, the cart may retrieve one or more of the stored frames, generate a user interface (UI) that includes these frame(s) and a request that a user operating the cart to help identify the item, and present the UI on a display of the cart.

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Nashua, NH, United States of America

Michael Derryberry