US 12,243,005 B2
Method for tracking stock level within a store
Mirza Akbar Shah, San Francisco, CA (US); Bradley Bogolea, San Francisco, CA (US); and Jeffrey Gee, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Simbe Robotics, Inc, South San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Simbe Robotics, Inc, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/592,462.
Application 17/592,462 is a continuation of application No. 16/792,101, filed on Feb. 14, 2020, granted, now 11,276,034.
Application 16/792,101 is a continuation of application No. 15/347,689, filed on Nov. 9, 2016, granted, now 10,607,182, issued on Mar. 31, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/339,039, filed on May 19, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/253,023, filed on Nov. 9, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0156687 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/08 (2023.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G05D 2201/0207 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate along a path within a store during a first scan cycle;
accessing a set of images:
recorded by the robotic system during the first scan cycle; and
depicting a set of inventory structures in the store;
in a first image, in the set of images, detecting a first slot and a second slot in a first inventory structure, the first slot assigned a first product type, and the second slot assigned a second product type;
based on the first image, detecting a first stock condition of the first slot and a second stock condition of the second slot;
accessing a first slot value of the first slot and a second slot value of the second slot; and
in response to the first slot value exceeding the second slot value:
based on the first stock condition, generating a first prompt to restock the first slot in the first inventory structure with the first product type;
transmitting the first prompt to a computing device affiliated with an associate of the store during the first scan cycle; and
withholding transmission of a second prompt to restock the second slot.