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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
May. 18, 2021
Avery Dennison Retail Information Services Llc, Mentor, OH (US);
Frederick Bleckmann, Barrington, NH (US);
Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC, Mentor, OH (US);
Abstract
Methods for identifying one or more items in close proximity to a mobile device and/or are within a digital image. The location of the mobile device can be determined using outdoor positioning systems ('OPS'), indoor positioning systems (“IPS”), or combinations thereof. The identity of the item or items can be determine using planograms; visual inventory; RFID handheld inventory; RFID overhead inventory; vision system inventory; UR; barcode; NEC; or combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the methods described herein include or involve identifying one or more items within a digital image, such as a photograph or video. The image has an identification (ID)/time stamp that is used to associate the items in the image that have been read in the same area as the image so that the items can be actively searched as a digital image to highlight or list items that are in the image.