Image processing based methods and apparatus for planogram compliance
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136247
This application relates to automated processes for determining item placement compliance within retail locations. For example, a computing device may obtain an image of a fixture within a store. The image may be captured by a camera with a field of view directed at the fixture. The computing device may apply a segmentation process to the image to determine a portion of the image. Further, the computing device may determine a correlation between the portion of the image and each of a…
Systems and methods for transportation staffing
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12136056
Exemplary embodiments provide a transportation staffing management system. An amount of transportations miles are forecasted for delivering inventory from a distribution enter to a store based on a sales forecast for a store. Non-driving time for drivers engaged in delivering inventory to a store is tracked based on data collected in real-time from mobile computing devices associated with delivery vehicles. An amount of time needed to deliver the inventory based on the forecasted amount…
Automated in-rack picking
Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number:
12134521
An automated in-rack picking solution enables improved efficiency by permitting automatic reconfiguration of automated picking system (APS) deployments within an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). The storage volume of an ASRS can be more thoroughly utilized, even with a smaller number of APSs, when at least one APS is operable to autonomously relocate within the ASRS based at least on a stored item's location and/or property (e.g., suitability for handling by a particular…
Systems and methods for detecting exposed data
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130935
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to determining if sensitive data has been exposed externally. In some embodiments, a system for determining if sensitive data has been exposed externally comprises an external database including a plurality of external repositories, an internal database including a plurality of internal repositories, an internal catalog including search candidates, and a control circuit configured to receive hash search results based…
Ball spline having bypass track
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12129889
A ball spline with detour tracks includes spline shaft, nut part movable along a longitudinal direction of the spline shaft, and balls between the nut part and the spline shaft, wherein the nut part includes nut adapted to insert the spline shaft thereinto and retainers on longitudinal sides of the nut, the spline shaft includes tracks extended along the longitudinal direction, the nut includes load track grooves formed in longitudinal direction on inner peripheral surface into which the…
System and method for ripening produce
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12129119
A ripening schedule for produce is created and the ripening schedule when implemented at a ripening chamber is effective to control the environmental conditions and the time spent in the ripening chamber by the produce in order to conform ripening conditions of the produce to the target shipping date. The ripening schedule is applied to control ripening conditions in the ripening chamber.
Systems and methods for assembling unpacked merchandise in containers
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12129066
There are provided systems and methods relating to assembling unpacked merchandise in containers. In one form, the system includes an order of merchandise items to be assembled in containers, and a predetermined set of containers defining different sizes and including at least two different types of containers. The system also includes a control circuit configured to: receive notification of the order, select a first type of container, determine a first subset of the plurality of…
Systems and methods for notification and deployment of an installation at a plurality of device locations
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124829
A deployment system can include a computing device that is configured to receive a broadcast message from a deployment device in response to the deployment device receiving an approval notification and obtain a plurality of deployment parameters via a distributed communications system. The computing device can also be configured to identify an installation time included in the plurality of deployment parameters and download application data associated with an application identifier…
System and method for textual analysis of images
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12125080
Segmentation first breaks the images into segments or regions, with the segments of the region having text or symbols. The segmented image is separately applied to two different CNN-based models. Each model produces text boxes where potential text might exist. Then, a selective NMS algorithm is applied to the output of each model to produce a final group of text regions. These text regions are analyzed and actions are taken.
Systems and methods for verifying machine-readable label associated with merchandise
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124951
A system for verifying a machine-readable label comprises a scan table processing device comprising a first input for receiving a list of items with machine-readable labels; a second input for receiving a list of stores that have an inventory of the items in the list of items and that have at least one sensing device for capturing images of the items; and an output that includes a plurality of electronic records. The system further comprises a data repository that stores the captured…
Systems and methods for managing concurrent data requests
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124426
In some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein useful for managing a plurality of concurrent and nearly concurrent data requests within a computer system. The systems have a main data storage for storing source data, and a high speed, and/or remote data storage for storing computed data. In some embodiments, a combination of data filters and distributed mutex processes are used to eliminate or limit duplicate reads and writes into the high speed data storage…
System and method for package construction
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12123644
An optimal package structure and an amount of refrigerant to insert into the package structure are determined based upon product information, consumer preference information, and weather information. The optimal package structure and the amount of refrigerant are an optimized combination that is effective to both protect the product from damage and preserve the product from spoilage. A package is constructed to contain the product according to the optimal package structure and the amount…
Apparatus and method of monitoring product placement within a shopping facility
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12123155
Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in monitoring product placement within a shopping facility. Some embodiments provide an apparatus configured to determine product placement conditions within a shopping facility, comprising: a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive communications; a product monitoring control circuit coupled with the transceiver; a memory coupled with the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause…
Checkout station
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
D1047548
Systems and methods of product recognition through multi-model image processing
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118509
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize products in a physical facility through a portable device that comprises a decision control circuit configured to: process each frame of the subset of frames by multiple modeling techniques each relative to a corresponding image attribute and obtain a corresponding product identification probability; determine corresponding aggregated identification probabilities of the first product based on the product identification…
Systems and methods for automatically determining a preferred communication channel for messaging
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118442
A method including determining a preferred communication channel for a user by: (a) determining a respective normalized propensity score for each subscribed communication channel to which the user subscribes, based at least in part on a respective propensity score for the each subscribed communication channel; and (b) determining the preferred communication channel from among subscribed communication channels based on the respective normalized propensity score. The method further can…
System and method for opening containers
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12115590
Features are applied to a mathematical model to produce a cutting pattern for opening a container. The cutting pattern specifies which of one or more cutting tools is to be used and the location of where cuts are to be made on the container. The cutting pattern is sent to a container opening machine. The container opening machine is operated and the container cut and opened by the container opening machine according to the cutting pattern.
Automatically planning delivery route
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12111163
A method including setting a preferred delivery route as an initial delivery route comprising original delivery stops. The method further can include evaluating, in real-time, the preferred delivery route, comprising: (a) determining a to-be-resequenced delivery stop list by moving a random quantity of delivery stops from the original delivery stops to the to-be-resequenced delivery stop list based on a delivery-stop-selecting act, wherein: after the to-be-resequenced delivery stop list…
Scalable pipeline for machine learning-based base-variant grouping
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12112520
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: creating an adjacency list for candidate items using a distance threshold; generating graphs of the candidate items in the adjacency list, wherein nodes of the graphs represent the candidate items, and wherein edges of the graphs represent respective predicted variant neighbor links between pairs of…
Systems and methods for generating a customized graphical user interface
Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number:
12112127
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and cause the one or more processors to perform receiving one or more user utterances; re-training a pre-trained natural language processing (NLP) algorithm on the one or more user utterances; using the pre-trained NLP algorithm, as re-trained, as one or more layers in a neural network; combining at least one…
