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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
May. 01, 2018
Symbol Technologies, Llc, Holtsville, NY (US);
Marco Perrella, Vaughan, CA;
Iaacov Coby Segall, Toronto, CA;
Jordan K. Varley, Mississauga, CA;
Michael Ramputi, Ronkonkoma, NY (US);
Ron Mercer, Guelph, CA;
Robert E. Beach, Los Altos, CA (US);
Adrian J. Stagg, Belfountain, CA;
Symbol Technologies, LLC, Holtsville, NY (US);
Abstract
A product status detection system includes a mobile automation apparatus having a sensor to capture data representing a shelf supporting products, responsive to data capture instructions. The system includes a server in communication with the mobile apparatus, having: a mobile apparatus controller to generate data capture instructions for the mobile apparatus; a repository to store captured data from the mobile apparatus; a primary object generator to generate primary data objects from the captured data, each including a location in a common frame of reference; a secondary object generator to generate and store secondary data objects based on the primary data objects; a detector to identify mismatches between reference data and the secondary data objects; and an alert generator to select a subset of the mismatches, and generate and transmit a status alert corresponding to the subset. The system also includes a client device to receive and display the status alert.