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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for building image databases to facilitate computer vision-based consumer product identification
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Application No.: US17459751Application Date: 2021-08-27
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Publication No.: US11934484B2Publication Date: 2024-03-19
- Inventor: Soren A. Larson , Soheil Salehian-Dardashti , Elizabeth J. Barton , Victoria A. Moeller-Chan
- Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AR Bentonville
- Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Current Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AR Bentonville
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, LLP
- Main IPC: G06V20/10
- IPC: G06V20/10 ; G06F16/53 ; G06F18/214 ; G06Q10/087 ; H04N23/90

Abstract:
Systems and methods for facilitating computer-vision-based detection and identification of consumer products comprise a support surface for supporting thereon one or more consumer products to be detected and a plurality of digital cameras each arranged at a different height relative to the support surface and positioned such that a field of view of each of the digital cameras includes the consumer product(s) located on the support surface. Movement of the support surface and/or the digital cameras permits the digital cameras to capture images of the consumer product from different angles of view and up to a full 360 degree of rotation around the at least one consumer product. A computing device uses at least the image data from such images to train a computer vision consumer product identification model to generate a reference image data model to be used for recognition of the at least one consumer product.
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