US 12,307,415 B2
Shelf inventory management system, shelf inventory management method, and program
Kunihiro Iwamoto, Nagakute (JP); Yuta Itozawa, Nagoya (JP); Hirotaka Komura, Tokyo (JP); and Yutaro Takagi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/565,524.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-025081 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0270032 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); G01G 19/42 (2006.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G01G 19/42 (2013.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); B65G 1/1371 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shelf inventory management system comprising:
a shelf including a plurality of storage boxes each of which is identified, wherein identification information for each storage box is provided on a side wall of each storage box, and the shelf comprises a partition plate and a plurality of readers each of which faces the identification information for each respective storage box;
a first sensor provided for each row of the shelf to detect a mass change of the storage boxes, and wherein the plurality of readers detect that each of the respective storage boxes has been pulled out from the shelf; and
a management unit that manages an inventory of an article stored in each of the storage boxes, wherein the management unit determines which article has been taken out from which of the storage boxes, based on detection results of the first sensor and the plurality of readers.