Walmart Apollo, LLC

Shouyi Zhang

Zhichun Xiao

Ryan B Reagan

Tianyi Mao

Lingfeng Zhang

Mingquan Yuan

Haining Liu

Feiyun Zhu

Yao Liu

Jon Hammer

Pingjian Yu

Yutao Tang

Sicong Fang

Zhenyu Wang

Shangeetha Ravichandran Susseelaa

Yijing Sun

Joseph Duffy

Jiankun Liu

Yi Ding

Jinhan Zhang

There are provided systems and methods relating to checking and confirming merchandise purchased at shopping facilities. In one form, the system includes: a shopping cart containing merchandise items to be purchased; a sales transaction database; a point-of-sales system that creates transaction records identified by transaction identifiers; and a mobile device used by an employee that includes a sensor to scan a paper or digital receipt to obtain the transaction identifier and a camera to capture images of the items in the shopping cart. The system also includes a control circuit that receives the transaction identifier, accesses the database using the identifier to determine the purchased items; analyzes the images of the merchandise items in the shopping cart and creates a computer vision receipt listing detected items; compares the purchased items with the detected items; and takes an action if there is a discrepancy.

Systems and methods for checking and confirming the purchase of merchandise items

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to detecting inbound and outbound traffic. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for detecting inbound and outbound traffic at a facility including a video camera and a control circuit configured to detect a human and estimate a location of the human; determine whether the detected human is inbound or outbound the facility based on a relative movement of the detected human within a first region, a second region, and a third region; and transmit data based on the determination.

Systems and methods for detecting inbound and outbound traffic at a facility

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Dallas, TX, United States of America

Shouyi Zhang