Item identification among a variant of items

    公开(公告)号:US11568632B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US17013207

    申请日:2020-09-04

    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for automatically identifying an item from among a variation of items of a same type. For example, an image may be processed and resulting item image information compared with stored item image information to determine a type of item represented in the image. If the matching stored item image information is part of a cluster, the item image information may then be compared with distinctive features associated with stored item image information of the cluster to determine the variation of the item represented in the received image.

    Management of sensor failure in a facility

    公开(公告)号:US11412185B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-09

    申请号:US17128774

    申请日:2020-12-21

    Abstract: Sensors in a facility generate sensor data associated with a region of the facility, which can be used to determine a 3D location of an object in the facility. Some sensors may sense overlapping regions of the facility. For example, a first sensor may generate data associated with a first region of the facility, while a second sensor may generate data associated with a second region of the facility that partially overlaps the first region. Sensors may fail at times as determined from sensor output data or status data. In response to identifying a failed sensor, an undetected region corresponding to the failed sensor is identified, as well as a substitute sensor that partially senses the undetected region. Sensor data from the substitute sensor, such as 2D data, is acquired and used to estimate a 3D location of an object in the undetected region.

    Item variation management
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10769488B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-08

    申请号:US16520861

    申请日:2019-07-24

    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for automatically identifying an item from among a variation of items of a same type. For example, an image may be processed and resulting item image information compared with stored item image information to determine a type of item represented in the image. If the matching stored item image information is part of a cluster, the item image information may then be compared with distinctive features associated with stored item image information of the cluster to determine the variation of the item represented in the received image.

    Item identification among item variations

    公开(公告)号:US10366306B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-30

    申请号:US14031798

    申请日:2013-09-19

    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for automatically identifying an item from among a variation of items of a same type. For example, an image may be processed and resulting item image information compared with stored item image information to determine a type of item represented in the image. If the matching stored item image information is part of a cluster, the item image information may then be compared with distinctive features associated with stored item image information of the cluster to determine the variation of the item represented in the received image.

    Detecting inventory changes
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12211004B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-28

    申请号:US18064698

    申请日:2022-12-12

    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for tracking removal or placement of items at inventory locations with a materials handling facility. In some instances, a user may remove an item from an inventory location and the inventory management system may detect that removal and update a user item list associated with the user to include an item identifier representative of the removed item. Likewise, if the user places an item at an inventory location, the inventory management system may detect that placement and update the user item list to remove an item identifier representative of the placed item.

    Detecting inventory changes
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11526840B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-13

    申请号:US16390966

    申请日:2019-04-22

    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for tracking removal or placement of items at inventory locations with a materials handling facility. In some instances, a user may remove an item from an inventory location and the inventory management system may detect that removal and update a user item list associated with the user to include an item identifier representative of the removed item. Likewise, if the user places an item at an inventory location, the inventory management system may detect that placement and update the user item list to remove an item identifier representative of the placed item.

    Item identification
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10657411B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-19

    申请号:US14225240

    申请日:2014-03-25

    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for utilizing multiple image processing techniques to identify an item represented in an image. In some implementations, one or more image processing algorithms may be utilized to process a received image to generate item image information and compare the item image information with stored item image information to identify the item. When a similarity score identifying the similarity between the item image information and at least one of the stored item image information is returned, a determination may be made as to whether the similarity score is high enough to confidently identify the item. If it is determined that the similarity score is high enough to confidently identify the item, the other algorithms may be terminated and the determined identity of the item returned.

    Tiered processing for item identification

    公开(公告)号:US11288539B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US16876762

    申请日:2020-05-18

    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for utilizing multiple image processing techniques to identify an item represented in an image. In some implementations, one or more image processing algorithms may be utilized to process a received image to generate item image information and compare the item image information with stored item image information to identify the item. When a similarity score identifying the similarity between the item image information and at least one of the stored item image information is returned, a determination may be made as to whether the similarity score is high enough to confidently identify the item. If it is determined that the similarity score is high enough to confidently identify the item, the other algorithms may be terminated and the determined identity of the item returned.

    Context-inclusive face clustering
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11080316B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-03

    申请号:US15607199

    申请日:2017-05-26

    Abstract: People represented in multiple images can be recognized using accurate facial similarity metrics, where the accuracy can be further improved using contextual information. A set of models can be trained to process image data, and facial features can be extracted from a face region of an image and passed to the trained models. Resulting feature vectors can be concatenated and the dimensionality reduced to generate a highly accurate feature vector that is representative of the face in the image. The feature vector can be used to locate similar vectors in a multi-dimensional vector space, where similarity can be determined based at least in part upon the distance between the endpoints of those vectors in the vector space. Context information from the image can be used to adjust the similarity determination. Similar vectors can be clustered together such that the faces represented by those images are associated with the same person.

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