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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2021
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Sung H. Kim, Bentonville, AR (US);
Asim S. Alvi, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Jody P. Cook, New York, NY (US);
Kshitiz Gupta, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Christopher R. Jescheling, Bentonville, AR (US);
Matthew A. Jones, Bentonville, AR (US);
Rahul S. Kala, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Britto J. Michaelsamy, Bentonville, AR (US);
Maxwell A. Yardley, Redmond, WA (US);
Kumar Chandan, Newark, NJ (US);
Jadran Sirotkovic, Dublin, IE;
Mirko A. Arnold, Dublin, IE;
Peter M. Terlecky, Yonkers, NY (US);
Tirui Wu, Tuam, IE;
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for managing inventory at a retail facility include an image capture device having a field of view that includes a product display shelf of the retail facility, an electronic database that stores a planogram of product display shelves at the retail facility and a computing device. The computing device obtains an image of a product display shelf, detects the individual packages of each of the different products captured in the image, defines different product display areas for the different products on the product display shelf captured in the image, and generates virtual boundary lines that surround each of the defined product display areas. The computing device also determines an identity of a product contained located in each defined product display area, and associates the virtual boundary lines surrounding each defined product display area with an identifier unique to the product contained in the defined product display area.