US 12,333,813 B2
Apparatus and method to facilitate identification of items
Joshua M. Horowitz, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Appl. No. 17/914,745
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/024052
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/195314, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/000,029, filed on Mar. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0129852 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/53 (2019.01); G06V 10/762 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06V 20/70 (2022.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC G06V 20/52 (2022.01) [G06F 16/53 (2019.01); G06V 10/762 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06V 20/70 (2022.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
by a control circuit:
accessing a digitized image of a particular item, wherein the particular item is an item being offered for sale at retail;
processing the digitized image to thereby assign various aspects of the digitized image to various dimensions in N-dimensional Euclidian space to thereby provide an N-dimensional representation (where N comprises an integer);
accessing a database containing a plurality of clustered groups of other N-dimensional representations, wherein at least some of the clustered groups have a corresponding identifying label, and conducting a nearest neighbor search to identify a clustered group to which the particular item most likely belongs to thereby provide an identified clustered group;
when the identified clustered group does not have a corresponding identifying label, determining whether the identified clustered group that does not have a corresponding identifying label has at least a predetermined number of members, wherein the predetermined number of members is an integer greater than one;
when the identified clustered group that does not have a corresponding identifying label does have at least the predetermined number of members, alerting a user via a user interface that the identified clustered group should be assigned an identifying label.