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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
May. 21, 2020
Simbe Robotics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Bradley Bogolea, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mirza Akbar Shah, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lorin Vandegrift, San Francisco, CA (US);
Luke Fraser, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jariullah Safi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Gee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Durgesh Tiwari, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simbe Robotics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for stock keeping in a store includes: accessing an image captured by a fixed camera within the store; retrieving a field of view of the fixed camera; estimating a segment of an inventory structure in the store depicted in the image based on a projection of the field of view onto a planogram of the store; identifying a set of slots within the inventory structure segment; retrieving a product model representing a set of visual characteristics of a product type assigned to a slot, in the set of slots, by the planogram; extracting a constellation of features from the image; if the constellation of features approximates the set of visual characteristics in the product model, detecting presence of a product unit of the product type occupying the inventory structure segment; and representing presence of the product unit, occupying the inventory structure segment, in a realogram.