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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Ankit Gupta, Bangalore, IN;
Saurav Shah, Bangalore, IN;
Venkata Pranay Kumar Sowdaboina, Bangalore, IN;
WAL-MART STORES, INC., Bentonville, AK (US);
Abstract
A system for computer-aided visual recognition of products may help a customer navigate to a selected product in a retail store. A customer can direct a mobile computing device camera at one or more targeted products displayed on store shelves. Image recognition operations can be carried out to compare the targeted product image(s) against images from a prepopulated product image store of known products. Upon a positive match, shelf location information of the identified targeted product(s) may be used to determine the current location of the customer. An in-store destination location is defined by the shelf location for the selected product. A route may be calculated to navigate the customer from the current location to the destination location.