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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
May. 19, 2017
Simbe Robotics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Bradley Bogolea, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mirza Akbar Shah, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lorin Vandegrift, San Francisco, CA (US);
Luke Fraser, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jariullah Safi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Gee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simbe Robotics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image recorded by a mobile robotic system within a store; detecting a shelf in a region of the image; based on an address of the shelf, retrieving a list of products assigned to the shelf by a planogram of the store; retrieving a set of template images—from a database of template images—defining visual features of products specified in the list of products; extracting a set of features from the region of the image; determining that a unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf in response to deviation between the set of features and features in a template image, in the set of template images, representing the product; and in response to determining that the unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf, generating a restocking prompt for the product.