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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Navid Shiee, Seattle, WA (US);
Michel Leonard Goldstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Ramanathan Palaniappan, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Redmond, WA (US);
Xiaofeng Ren, Yarrow Point, WA (US);
Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher Robert Towers, Seattle, WA (US);
Yasser Baseer Asmi, Redmond, WA (US);
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
An item stowed at an inventory location may rest on a surface such as a shelf or may be supported above the surface. The item may exhibit a footprint that is representative of a physical perimeter of the item. For example, the footprint may be an edge of a shadow cast by the item. Information about a size and shape of a footprint associated with a particular item may be stored. An optical sensor array may acquire sensor image data indicative of the footprint of one or more of the items stored at an inventory location. A quantity of items at the inventory location may be determined by comparing the sensor image data with the stored data.