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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Timothy T. Bohn, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Natalie N. Brooks Powell, Bolingbrook, IL (US);
Gary W. Crupi, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Ho-Yiu Lam, Mountain View, CA (US);
David C. Martin, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandhya ReddyVeera, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for identifying and quantifying waste in a process. Waste information is input via images and/or natural language. The amount of waste is estimated based on information in images and/or a natural language description. A computer-implemented technique extracts metadata on waste products from the images and/or natural language description. A variety of factors such as social media trends, weather, traffic, and/or sports schedules are evaluated by the computer and used in predicting the amount of waste that will occur.