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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2018
Shanghai Hanshi Information Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Sarjoun Skaff, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Stephen Vincent Williams, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
SHANGHAI HANSHI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
A method for greatly reducing data storage requirements of autonomous robots capable of product inventory is described. Instead using high resolution images for label identification and position tracking, a lower resolution map can be searched. Human or machines can identify position of labels, and via a reverse mapping, the corresponding position of a label on the high resolution image can be identified. Except for those portions of the high resolution image showing a label, most of the high resolution image can be discarded. Further processing on the limited image subset can be used to read the labels.