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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2016
Position Imaging, Inc., Portsmouth, NH (US);
Alex Seiger, Concord, NH (US);
Shahzad Farooq Kirmani, Scarborough, ME (US);
Edward L. Hill, Exeter, NH (US);
POSITION IMAGING, INC., Portsmouth, NH (US);
Abstract
A shelving system has at least one shelf, a camera fixed at a distance from the at least one shelf such that a field of view of the camera faces the at least one shelf and closely encompasses the at least one shelf, and a controller in communication with the camera. The controller has a processor adapted to receive images captured by the camera within the camera's field of view and to determine from the images whether a particular object has been placed on, moved, or removed from the at least one shelf.
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