Walmart Apollo, LLC

Tianyi Mao

Zhichun Xiao

Lingfeng Zhang

Mingquan Yuan

Haining Liu

Feiyun Zhu

Ryan B Reagan

Han Zhang

Yao Liu

Pingjian Yu

Jon Hammer

Yutao Tang

Sicong Fang

Shouyi Zhang

Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade

Raghava Balusu

Zhaoliang Duan

Shangeetha Ravichandran Susseelaa

Yijing Sun

Joseph Duffy

Zhenyu Wang

Amit Jhunjhunwala

Wei Wang

Srinivas Muktevi

Ashlin Ghosh

William Craig Robinson

Abhinav Pachauri

Chunmei Wang

Paul Lewis Lobo

Zhiwei Huang

Yi Ding

Jinhan Zhang

Xiang Yao

Jiankun Liu

Pingyuan Wang

Yu Tao

Muzzammil Afroz

Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to detect one or more adjacent product storage structures (shelves, pallets, etc.) and identifies and selects a single image that fully shows a product storage structure of interest and fully shows each of the products stored on the product storage structure of interest.

Systems and methods of selecting an image from a group of images of a retail product storage area

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

Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to extract meta data from the packaging the individual products to detect one more keywords and determine the locations of the detected keywords on the packaging, and then utilize this information to predict an identity of the products associated with the packaging.

Systems and methods of identifying individual retail products in a product storage area based on an image of the product storage area

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

A transaction record is created showing a purchase transaction of a customer. A CV profile showing a list of items in the transaction obtained from images is also obtained. The items in the transaction record are compared to items on the list. When there is a discrepancy, an action to take is determined.

System and method for detecting unpaid items in retail store transactions

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Tianyi Mao