Aifi Inc.

Other

Ying Zheng

Steve Gu

Joao Falcao

Tyler Crain

Shuang Liu

Brian L Bates

Hector Sanchez

Juan Terven

Long Chen

Juan Ramon Terven-Salinas

Stuart K Neubarth

Carlos E Ruiz

Juan Ramon Terven

Will Hendry

Zijie Zhuang

Staurt Kyle Neubarth

Marek Drozdowski

Ying He

Mahmoud Hassan

Wangpeng An

Stuart Kyle Neubarth

This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for methods of auto-annotating objects using thermal imaging.

Auto-annotating objects using thermal imaging

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for anonymous checkout in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system of the store, information associated with a payment account of a person; sending, by the computer system to a server associated with a payment system, the received information associated with the payment account of the person; receiving, by the computer system from the server associated with the payment system, a token associated with the payment account of the person; receiving, by the computer system from a plurality of sensors, data associated with the person; extracting, by the computer system based on the received data associated with the person, a plurality of features of the person; and storing, by the computer system, the received token in correspondence with information associated with the extracted features of the person.

Method and system for anonymous checkout in a store

This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a hybrid autonomous store that can be utilized within a retail environment. This system with doors, cameras, and sensors is designed to have many functions within a store with identification system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.

Hybrid autonomous store

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking objects in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by one or more first computing devices, data captured by one or more sensors in the store; identifying, by the one or more first computing devices, a plurality of objects based on the received data, wherein the identified objects comprise one or more persons and one or more product items; extracting, by the one or more first computing devices, a plurality of features associated with each of the identified objects; generating, by the one or more first computing devices, a digest comprising information of the extracted features associated with the identified objects; and sending, by the one or more first computing devices, the digest to one or more second computing devices for processing.

Method and system for tracking objects in an automated-checkout store based on distributed computing

This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques that can be utilized to generate models for a camera system simulation in a retail environment and perform simulation to perfect these models.

Method to generate models for testing and training in a retail environment for a camera simulation system

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking a product item in an automated-checkout store. One of the methods includes receiving, from a plurality of sensors, data collected by the sensors, identifying an account associated with a person who enters the store, receiving data on movement of the product item collected by one or more of the sensors, determining an interaction between the person and the product item based on the data collected by one or more of the sensors, storing information associating the product item with the person; and deducting a payment amount from the identified account, wherein the payment amount is based on a price of the product item associated with the person.

Tracking product items in an automated-checkout store

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking a product item in an automated-checkout store. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system, data collected by multiple image sensors, the received data including data associated with a person, identifying, by the computer system based on the received data, multiple features of the person, extracting, by the computer system based on the identified features, data associated with the person from the received data, wherein the extracted data correspond to multiple time periods, and determining, by the computer system, a location of the person in each of the time periods based on the extracted data corresponding to the time period, wherein the determining includes aggregating the extracted data collected by different image sensors based at least in part on a location and a line of sight of each of the image sensors.

Tracking persons in an automated-checkout store

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for monitoring shopping activities using weight data in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, from one or more image sensors and one or more weight sensors, data collected by the one or more image sensors and data collected by the one or more weight sensors; identifying, based at least on the data collected by the one or more image sensors, one or more product items removed by a person from the store; calculating an expected total weight of the one or more product items based on information associated with the one or more product items stored by the computer system; determining, based on the data collected by the one or more weight sensors, an actual total weight of the one or more product items removed by the person; and verifying the actual total weight is consistent with the expected total weight.

Monitoring shopping activities using weight data in a store

The present invention describes a system for calibrating a plurality of cameras in an area. The system functions by using certain patterns with visible or invisible properties In addition, the system implements automatic re-calibration in a specific way to reduce human intervention, cost and time.

Smart self calibrating camera system

The present invention describes a shelf system for monitoring items coupled with support utilities. The system is configured to detect item change caused by customer actions and optimize the camera system and computing resources of a remote server. The system also is configured to sense certain visual indicators with customer actions.

Smart shelf system

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing product items in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system associated with the store, sensor data collected by a plurality of sensors associated with the store, wherein the data is associated with a plurality of product items in the store; determining, by the computer system based on the received sensor data, status information associated with the product items in the store; creating, by the computer system based on the determined status information, a task associated with a group of product items among the product items in the store; sending, by the computer system to a mechanical device, instructions for moving from a current location of the mechanical device to a location of the group of product items and instructions for executing one or more interactions associated with the task with the group of product items; and updating the status information upon completion of the task.

Method and system for managing product items in a store

The present invention describes a system for monitoring items coupled with support utilities. The system is configured to detect motions caused by customer actions and optimize the camera system and computing resources of a remote server. The system also is configured to sense items that are removed, added or misplaced automatically.

Smart item monitoring system

This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a system with cameras and mirrors that can be utilized with an auto-checkout system within a retail environment. This system with cameras and mirrors is designed to have many functions within a store with auto-checkout system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Ying Zheng