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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2017
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Aditya R. Cheruku, Bentonville, AR (US);
Stephen Steel, Bentonville, AR (US);
Hamza Farooq, Rogers, AR (US);
Trinath Patri, Bentonville, AR (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring retail products. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for monitoring retail products including: one or more shelf image capturing devices disposed within a retail shopping facility. The one or more shelf image capturing devices configured to capture shelf images of retail store shelves. The captured shelf images having an associated shelf timestamp. By one approach, a control circuit in communication with the one or more shelf image capturing devices is configured to analyze the captured shelf images by comparing brightness, contrast levels, and luminous intensity at a particular frequency between at least two shelf images of the captured shelf images to determine a rate of shelf product depletion for a particular retail product and send a shelf depletion warning regarding a particular retail item to an associate device or a central computer.