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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2022
Focal Systems, Inc., Burlingame, CA (US);
Francois Chaubard, Millbrae, CA (US);
Focal Systems, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An inventory visibility management system utilizes fixed or motorized cameras to scan inventory bearing shelves in a backroom or warehouse of a store, as opposed to store shelves where merchandise is available for purchase, for inventory frequently to keep the system up to date on what boxes of inventory are on the shelf, what is in those boxes and where those boxes are on the shelf. The system may identify a bounding polygon around an identifier corresponding to the product and apply the bounding polygon to a machine-learned model, which may generate a high-resolution crop of the identifier as output. The system registers the identifier to the first bounding polygon and to a location associated with cameras that captured the plurality of low-resolution images. Upon receiving a request from a client device, the system may provide the location associated with the one or more cameras to the client device.