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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2018
Ses-imagotag, Nanterre, FR;
Thierry Gadou, Paris, FR;
François Robin, Paris, FR;
Andreas Rössl, Voitsberg, AT;
Thomas Schwarz, Hohberg, DE;
VusionGroup, , FR;
Abstract
In a sales area, a method for checking the layout of articles in a gondola, the gondola comprising at least one electronic shelf label which corresponds to a matching area of a gondola, with a single product slot field comprising a gondola number, a row number and a shelf label number, the method comprising steps of: acquisition of an image of the gondola; automated detection of electronic shelf labels, and automated detection of rows; for at least one electronic shelf label, determination of the matching area of the gondola, and determination of the slot field; detection of layout information in said area of the gondola in the acquired image; identification of the associated article identifier in a realogram database; and check of compliance of detected layout information, with respect to expected layout information stored in the realogram database.