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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2021
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tony F. Rodriguez, Portland, OR (US);
Bruce L. Davis, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
Alastair M. Reed, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Eric D. Evans, Portland, OR (US);
Rebecca L. Gerlach, Beaverton, OR (US);
John F. Stach, Portland, OR (US);
Marc G. Footen, Beaverton, OR (US);
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, a retail store has multiple sensors, including item sensors in a shopping cart for gathering data from a shopper-selected first item. At least certain of the sensor data is provided to a classifier, which was previously-trained (using data including optical data from known items) to identify possible item matches corresponding to data sensed from the first item. An item identification hypothesis that the shopper-selected first item has a particular identity is evaluated based on (a) information from the classifier, and (b) store layout data indicating items associated with a store location visited by the cart or shopper. The item identification hypothesis has a confidence score. If the score meets a criterion, an item of the hypothesized identity is added to a shopping tally. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.