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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2021
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Justin F. Barish, Kings Park, NY (US);
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
A method includes: generating a three-dimensional grid of cells representing respective portions of an interior of a container, each cell having a status indicator defining an occupancy state of the corresponding portion of the container interior; during loading of the container: maintaining, for each of the cells, a current status indicator, controlling a depth sensor to capture a sequence of point clouds, each point cloud depicting the container interior, in response to each point cloud capture in the sequence, generating updated status indicators for the cells, based on (i) the point cloud, and on (ii) the current status indicators, replacing the current status indicators with the updated status indicators, measuring a current fullness of the container based on the current status indicators, and transmitting the current fullness to a computing device for at least one of display of the current fullness, or alert generation associated with the current fullness.