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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Charles M. Griffith, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Andrew Shapira, Kirkland, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a system and method and apparatus for determining a grouping of containers, assigning a visually distinctive indicator to the group, directing application of the visually distinctive indicator to the containers of the group are disclosed. The visually distinctive indicators of containers of a group may be analyzed manually or automatically and a message may be issued for containers that are determined to not be members of the group based on the dominant visually distinctive indicators of the group. The distinctive characteristics of the visually distinctive indicators may be colors, patterns or the like.