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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2020
Applicant:
Block, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jonathan Andrew Wolter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06Q 50/12 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/202 (2013.01); G06K 9/00711 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0875 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0282 (2013.01); G06K 2209/17 (2013.01); G06Q 50/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a restaurant having a customer-facing food service counter, a video camera is positioned to produce video of an area that includes the food service counter. The video is analyzed to determine the ingredients that are used to prepare each of multiple customer meals. This information may be used to recommend a modified ingredient layout of the food service counter, where the modified ingredient layout is formulated so as to improve serving efficiency or customer convenience.