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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2022
Simbe Robotics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Kanchan Bahirat, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Shiva Reddy, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Bradley Bogolea, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Jariullah Safi, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Simbe Robotics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for maintaining inventory within a store includes: accessing an image (e.g., a color image, depth image) depicting an inventory structure; detecting a slot region of the image depicting a slot; identifying a product type assigned to the slot; accessing a product dimension of the product type; defining a target region within the slot in the image based on the product dimension; defining a product region within the slot in the image based on the product dimension and the target region; defining a back-of-shelf plane intersecting the target region of the image; detecting a surface within the product region; and, in response to the surface intersecting the back-of-shelf plane, identifying the slot as empty and generating a prompt to restock the slot with product units of the product type.