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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2022
Target Brands, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Todd A. Hagen, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Andrew Wipf, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Donnie Tolbert, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Arne Wilkin, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Target Brands, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
The disclosed technology provides for reconstructing products that are added to a shopping cart in three-dimensional space. The reconstructed products can be used for product validation. A shopping cart can include product validation hardware including light emitters and light sensors along a top perimeter of the shopping cart. The shopping cart can activate the light emitters to emit light across a top horizontal plane of the shopping cart, receive, from light sensors on a side of the shopping cart opposite a side where the activated light emitter is located, light intensity data as a product passes through the top horizontal plane and obstructs at least a portion of the emitted light from being detected by the light sensors, identify, from the light intensity data, slices of the product, and reconstruct the product in 3D space based on stitching together the slices.