US 12,340,357 B1
In-facility item purchase
Shawn Bigger, Bellevue, WA (US); Yi Xiang, Seattle, WA (US); Kerry Ann McGuire, Seattle, WA (US); Caroline Hurd, Edmonds, WA (US); Raj Kumar, Redmond, WA (US); Kevin Kuehler, Seattle, WA (US); Steven Zheng, Saratoga, CA (US); Mustafa Majeed, Mill Creek, WA (US); and Aarti Sundararajan, North Bend, WA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/544,682.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/280,011, filed on Nov. 16, 2021.
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/08 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G07C 9/00 (2020.01)
CPC G06Q 20/203 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/085 (2013.01); G06Q 20/207 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4014 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01); G07C 9/00 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
under control of one or more computing systems configured with executable instructions:
generating, with at least one of a plurality of cameras located within a materials handling facility, a plurality of images of an inventory location, wherein the plurality of images include a first image of an object before the object enters the inventory location and a second image of the object after the object is removed from the inventory location;
comparing a first plurality of pixels of the first image with a second plurality of pixels of the second image to determine a first item is included with the object in the second image that is not included with the object in the first image;
in response to determination that the first item is included with the object in the second image, determining a first item pick by a user of the first item from the inventory location;
comparing at least one of an identity of the first item or a feature of the first item with stored inventory item information to determine that the first item is an inventory item associated with the inventory location and offered for sale by a first seller;
in response to determining that the first item is the inventory item, updating an item identifier list corresponding to the user to include a first item identifier of the first item;
subsequent to the first item pick, determining an in-facility purchase of the first item and a second item offered for sale by a second seller, wherein:
the in-facility purchase is between the user and the second seller;
the in-facility purchase includes a payment, by the user to the second seller, of a first purchase price for the first item, a first tax for the first item, a second purchase price for the second item, and a second tax for the second item; and
the second seller is a seller of record of the first item and second item;
subsequent to the in-facility purchase, determining that the user is exiting the materials handling facility; and
in response to determining that the user is exiting the materials handling facility, causing a payment of at least a portion of the first purchase price from the second seller to the first seller.