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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2016
Fedex Corporate Services, Inc., Collierville, TN (US);
Reuben F. Burch, V, Rossville, TN (US);
William Cawein, Germantown, TN (US);
FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC., Collierville, TN (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and systems are described for dynamically transforming dimensional data representing a shipping item being loaded within a container using a scanning sensor node mounted above a space within the container. Generally, the scanning sensor node has a memory, a depth sensor oriented to scan the space from above, and a communications interface to an external managing node. For example, the method uses the scanning sensor node to access the onboard memory for available material dimension data related to the shipping item. The method uses the depth sensor to generate scan data on the shipping item once the shipping item is placed within the container, compare the generated scan data to the available material dimension data, and dynamically transform the available material dimension data into the current dimensional data representing the shipping item based upon the comparison of the generated scan data to the available material dimension data.