US 12,205,075 B2
Systems and methods for inventory management
Benjamin R. Ellison, San Francisco, CA (US); Ravi Kumar Dalal, Dallas, TX (US); Monisha Elumalai, Dallas, TX (US); and Yilun Chen, Rogers, AR (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/196,823.
Prior Publication US 2022/0292454 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0875 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/30 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0875 (2013.01) [G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/30 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inventory management system, the inventory management system comprising:
an application configured to execute on a mobile device, the application when executed on the mobile device configured to:
cause an image capture device of the mobile device to capture an image of a product storage unit, wherein the image capture device comprises a sensor configured to capture an image of a product storage unit; and
cause transmission, via a communications transceiver of the mobile device, of the image of the product storage unit, wherein the image of the product storage unit includes indicia, wherein the indicia indicate a first sign and a second sign included in the image of the product storage unit; and
a control circuit, wherein the control circuit is communicatively coupled to the mobile device via a network, the control circuit configured to:
receive, from the mobile device, the image of the product storage unit;
detect, within the image of the product storage unit, the first sign and the second sign included in the image of the product storage unit;
isolate, from the image of the product storage unit, the first sign and the second sign to remove extraneous portions of the image not including the first sign and the second sign;
create a new data file comprising the first sign and the second sign isolated from the image;
crop, from the first sign, a visual indicator depicting a product identifier, wherein the crop removes all portions of the image outside of the cropped area;
identify, based on the visual indicator depicting a product identifier, a product associated with the first sign;
crop, from the second sign, a visual indicator depicting a product location, wherein the crop removes all portions of the image outside of the cropped area;
identify, based on the visual indicator depicting a product location, a location of the product storage unit; and
associate, in a database, an indication of the product associated with the first sign and the location of the product storage unit.