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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2016
Conduent Business Services, Llc, Dallas, TX (US);
Wencheng Wu, Webster, NY (US);
Dennis L. Venable, Marion, NY (US);
Charles D. Rizzolo, Fairport, NY (US);
Thomas F. Wade, Rochester, NY (US);
Daniel S. Hann, Williamson, NY (US);
Ethan Shen, Toronto, CA;
Lee Anne Williams, Pittsford, NY (US);
Conduent Business Services, LLC, Dallax, TX (US);
Abstract
A system to detect and maintain retail store promotional price tags (PPTs) includes a heuristic PPT description extractor module, a heuristic rule deriver module, a store shelf image acquisition system, a barcode locator and recognizer module, and a heuristic PPT classifier module. The heuristic PPT description extractor module extracts heuristic descriptions of PPTs. The heuristic rule deriver module derives a set of heuristic parameters for the PPTs. The barcode locator and recognizer module analyzes images acquired by the store shelf image acquisition system to localize and recognize barcodes. The heuristic PPT description classifier module extracts heuristic attributes from the images acquired by the store shelf image acquisition system using the set of PPT parameters supplied by the heuristic rule deriver module.