公开(公告)号：US12288408B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17963802

申请日：2022-10-11

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Lingfeng Zhang ,  Han Zhang ,  Abhinav Pachauri ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  Ashlin Ghosh ,  Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Mingquan Yuan ,  Zhaoliang Duan ,  Zhiwei Huang ,  Tianyi Mao

IPC: G06V30/148 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06V20/00

Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to extract meta data from the packaging the individual products to detect one more keywords and determine the locations of the detected keywords on the packaging, and then utilize this information to predict an identity of the products associated with the packaging.

公开(公告)号：US20240249239A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18158983

申请日：2023-01-24

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Ashlin Ghosh ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Abhinav Pachauri ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  William Craig Robinson, JR. ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Zhaoliang Duan

IPC: G06Q10/087

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087

Abstract: Systems and methods of creating reference template images for detecting and recognizing products at a product storage facility include an image capture device having a field of view that includes a product storage structure of the product storage facility, and a computing device including a control circuit and being communicatively coupled to the image capture device. The computing device obtains images of the product storage structure captured by the image capture device, analyzes the obtained images to detect individual ones of the products located on the product storage structure. Then, the computing device identifies the individual ones of the products detected in the images and crops each of the individual ones of the identified products from the images to generate cropped images. The computing device then creates a cluster of the cropped images, and selects one of the cropped images as a reference template image of an identified individual product.

公开(公告)号：US20240257047A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18161788

申请日：2023-01-30

Applicant: WALMART APOLLO, LLC

Inventor： Raghava Balusu ,  Siddhartha Chakraborty ,  Ashlin Ghosh ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala

IPC: G06Q10/087 ,  G06V10/762

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  G06V10/762

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects including a memory and a control circuit executing a trained machine learning model. The memory may be configured to store a plurality of images comprising first images and second images. The control circuit may be configured to: allocate each of the first images into one of a plurality of datasets; cluster each image in the dataset into one of a plurality of groups; select a sample from at least one of the plurality of groups; cluster each of the second images into one of dominant product identifier group and a non-dominant product identifier group; select a sample from the dominant product identifier group and a sample from the non-dominant product identifier group; and output the selected sample.

公开(公告)号：US20240249524A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18158969

申请日：2023-01-24

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Zhaoliang Duan ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Mingquan Yuan ,  Zhichun Xiao

IPC: G06V20/50 ,  G06F16/538 ,  G06V10/50 ,  G06V10/75 ,  G06V20/62

CPC classification number: G06V20/50 ,  G06F16/538 ,  G06V10/50 ,  G06V10/751 ,  G06V20/63 ,  G06Q10/087

Abstract: Systems and methods of detecting and recognizing products on product storage structures of a product storage facility include an image capture device that moves about and captures images of the product storage structures at the product storage facility. A computing device processes the obtained images to detect and identify the products on the product storage structure, crops each of the identified individual products from the image to generate a plurality of cropped images and generates an image histogram template, feature vector template and location information template for each of the cropped images. The cropped images are stored in an electronic database and represent a reference model for each of the identified individual products and are stored in association with the generated image histogram template, feature vector template and location information template to facilitate recognition of products subsequently captured on the product storage structure by the image capture device.

公开(公告)号：US20240249506A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18158950

申请日：2023-01-24

Applicant: WALMART APOLLO, LLC

Inventor： Ishan Arora ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Avi Raj ,  Abhinav Pachauri ,  Han Zhang ,  Mingquan Yuan ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  Siddhartha Chakraborty

IPC: G06V10/774 ,  G06V10/762 ,  G06V10/764 ,  G06V10/776 ,  G06V10/94 ,  G06V20/70 ,  G06V30/19

CPC classification number: G06V10/774 ,  G06V10/762 ,  G06V10/764 ,  G06V10/776 ,  G06V10/945 ,  G06V20/70 ,  G06V30/19007 ,  G06V10/82

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to labeling objects in captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for labeling objects in images captured at a product storage facility including a control circuit and a user interface. The control circuit is configured to select a set of unprocessed images; receive a selected configuration based on data resulting from iteratively processing the set of unprocessed images; cluster each unprocessed image into a corresponding group based on the selected configuration; select a plurality of clustered images from each of the plurality of groups; and output the plurality of clustered images from each group. The user interface is configured to: display each clustered image; and receive a user input labeling one or more objects shown in each clustered image resulting in a labeled dataset used to train a machine learning model.

公开(公告)号：US20240273863A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18168198

申请日：2023-02-13

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Ashlin Ghosh ,  Feiyun Zhu ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  Raghava Balusu ,  William Craig Robinson, JR. ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Zhaoliang Duan

IPC: G06V10/762 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06V10/74

CPC classification number: G06V10/762 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06V10/761 ,  G06V2201/07

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects at a product storage facility including a trained machine learning model; and a control circuit. The control circuit may group a plurality of product identifiers into one or more clusters based on at least one of visual similarity of corresponding images, textual similarity of corresponding associated descriptions, and associated relationships between product identifiers of the plurality of product identifiers; determine clusters having common elements that are at least within a similarity threshold of each other; merge the clusters with the common elements; and generate a mapping dataset used to retrain the trained machine learning model to identify a plurality of objects. The mapping dataset may include a plurality of associations of associated product identifiers to a single object.

公开(公告)号：US20240273463A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18168174

申请日：2023-02-13

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Abhinav Pachauri ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  Zhaoliang Duan

IPC: G06Q10/087 ,  G06V10/77 ,  G06V30/14

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  G06V10/7715 ,  G06V30/1444 ,  G06V2201/07

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects at a product storage facility including a trained machine learning model; and a control circuit. The control circuit may identify a product identifier associated with an object in a captured image; generate predicted product identifiers associated with the object in the captured image based on text identified from the object in the captured image; aggregate the predicted product identifiers; determine a feature of the objects associated with the aggregated predicted product identifiers; determine one or more confusing product identifiers based on a determination of the aggregated predicted product identifiers being associated with the feature; and update a dataset with at least one of the one or more confusing product identifiers and images associated with the one or more confusing product identifiers.

公开(公告)号：US20240257043A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18102999

申请日：2023-01-30

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Han Zhang ,  Abhinav Pachauri ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Ashlin Ghosh ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  Zhaoliang Duan

IPC: G06Q10/087 ,  G06V20/60

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  G06V20/60 ,  G06V2201/07

Abstract: Systems and methods of updating templates for use in recognizing individual products in images captured at a product storage facility include an image capture device that captures one or more images of product storage structure at a product storage facility, a computing device in communication with the image capture device, and an electronic database that stores keyword model templates and feature model templates associated with images of previously recognized individual products detected at the product storage facility. The computing device obtains the keyword and feature model templates associated with a recognized product from the electronic database, extracts the keywords from the products associated with the obtained keyword model templates, identifies products that are similar to the recognized product, and updates the keyword model template for each of the products to include must keywords and negative keywords, facilitating recognition of products in subsequent images captured by the image capture device.

公开(公告)号：US20240232795A9

公开(公告)日：2024-07-11

申请号：US17971350

申请日：2022-10-21

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Jing Wang ,  Han Zhang ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Zhaoliang Duan ,  Mingquan Yuan ,  Wei Wang ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Zhichun Xiao

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G06T7/50 ,  G06T7/62 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V10/762 ,  G06V30/41

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  G06T7/50 ,  G06T7/62 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V10/762 ,  G06V30/41

Abstract: Systems and methods of analyzing on-shelf price tag labels and products at a product storage facility include an image capture device that captures one or more images of one or more product storage structures at a product storage facility. A computing device communicatively coupled to the image capture device analyzes the images of the product storage structures captured by the image capture device and detects individual price tag labels and individual products located on the product storage structure. Based on the detection of the price tag labels and the products, the computing device also defines separate product storage spaces of the product storage structure, determines which price tag labels are allocated to which of the separate product storage spaces, and associates in a database the price tag labels allocated to the product storage spaces with the products stored in those product storage spaces.

公开(公告)号：US20240152863A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-09

申请号：US17983773

申请日：2022-11-09

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Lingfeng Zhang ,  Wei Wang ,  Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Mingquan Yuan ,  Jing Wang ,  Han Zhang ,  Zhaoliang Duan ,  William Craig Robinson, Jr. ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Paul Lewis Lobo

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G06V20/50 ,  G06V30/19 ,  G06V30/30

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  G06V20/50 ,  G06V30/19007 ,  G06V30/30

Abstract: Systems and methods of verifying pairings of price tag labels and products at a product storage facility include an image capture device that moves about and captures images of product storage structures at the product storage facility, and a database that stores inventory data associated with the products stocked at the product storage facility. A computing device processes the images to extract one or more characters from the price tag labels and products detected in the images, correlates the extracted characters to the inventory data to identify a product code and a product name that matches the characters extracted from the price tag labels and the products. If the characters extracted from the price tag and from the on-shelf product to which the price tag label is allocated match, the database is updated to reflect that the price tag label is properly allocated to the appropriate on-shelf product.