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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2023
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Wei Wang, Dallas, TX (US);
Lingfeng Zhang, Dallas, TX (US);
Han Zhang, Allen, TX (US);
Avinash M. Jade, Bangalore, IN;
Mingquan Yuan, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Zhaoliang Duan, Frisco, TX (US);
Siddhartha Chakraborty, Kolkata, IN;
Benjamin R. Ellison, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Craig Robinson, Jr., Centerton, AR (US);
Eric W. Rader, Plano, TX (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of detecting support members of product storage structures that store products at a product storage facility include an image capture device that captures images of a product storage structure including vertical and horizontal support members. A computing device including a control circuit is configured to: obtain the images of the product storage structure captured by the image capture device, stitch the obtained images together to generate a stitched image that depicts the product storage structure, generate a color distribution map of the stitched image of the product storage structure to detect individual ones of the horizontal and vertical support members of the product storage structure.