公开(公告)号：AU2022483941A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-17

申请号：AU2022483941

申请日：2022-10-27

Applicant: MAPLEBEAR INC

Inventor： GAO LIN ,  HUANG YILIN ,  YANG SHIYUAN ,  ZHOU XIAOFEI ,  ZHOU XIAO ,  LIU QUNWEI

IPC: G06Q20/20 ,  G06Q30/06

Abstract: An automated checkout system accesses an image of an item inside a shopping cart and a location of the shopping cart within a store. The automated checkout system identifies a set of candidate items located within a threshold distance of the location of the shopping cart based on an item map. The item map describes a location of each item within the store and the location of each candidate item corresponds to a location of the candidate item on the item map. The automated checkout system inputs visual features of the item extracted from the image to a machine-learning model to identify the item by determining a similarity score between the item and each candidate item of the set of candidate items. After identifying the item, the automated checkout system displays a list comprising the item and additional items within the shopping cart to a user.

公开(公告)号：AU2022473700A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：AU2022473700

申请日：2022-08-10

Applicant: MAPLEBEAR INC

Inventor： GAO LIN ,  HUANG YILIN ,  YANG SHIYUAN ,  WU HAO ,  WU GANGLU ,  ZHOU XIAO

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q30/00

Abstract: An online concierge system may use images received from shopping carts within retailers to determine the availability of items within those retailers. A shopping cart includes externally-facing cameras that automatically capture images of the area around the shopping cart as the shopping cart travels through a retailer. The online concierge system receives these images, which depict displays within the retailers from which a picker or a retailer patron can collect items. The online concierge system determines which items should be depicted in the images and which items are actually depicted in the images. The online concierge system identifies which items should be depicted, but are not depicted, and determines that these items are unavailable (e.g., out of stock) at that retailer. The online concierge system updates an availability database to indicate that these items are unavailable and may notify the retailer that the item is unavailable.

公开(公告)号：AU2022349437A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：AU2022349437

申请日：2022-09-22

Applicant: MAPLEBEAR INC

Inventor： YANG SHIYUAN ,  GAO LIN ,  HE YUFENG ,  ZHOU XIAO ,  HUANG YILIN ,  KELLY GRIFFIN ,  TSAI ISABEL ,  BESHRY AHMED

IPC: G06Q20/20 ,  B62B3/14 ,  B62B5/00 ,  G01G19/41 ,  G06K19/06 ,  G06K19/07 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G07G1/00

Abstract: Self-checkout vehicle systems and methods comprising a self-checkout vehicle having a camera(s), a weight sensor(s), and a processor configured to: (i) identify via computer vision a merchandise item selected by a shopper based on an identifier affixed to the selected item, and (ii) calculate a price of the merchandise item based on the identification and weight of the selected item. Computer vision systems and methods for identifying merchandise selected by a shopper comprising a processor configured to: (i) identify an identifier affixed to the selected merchandise and an item category of the selected merchandise, and (ii) compare the identifier and item category identified in each respective image to determine the most likely identification of the merchandise.

公开(公告)号：AU2022471598A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：AU2022471598

申请日：2022-07-29

Applicant: MAPLEBEAR INC

Inventor： GAO LIN ,  HUANG YILIN ,  YANG SHIYUAN ,  MENG JIANBO ,  LI YAKUN ,  LUO LINHUA ,  CHEN WEITING

IPC: H02J7/00 ,  B62B3/14

Abstract: An automated checkout system uses a shopping cart that is automatically charged when stacked into another shopping cart. Each shopping cart has a front charging connector and a rear charging connector. When a first shopping cart is stacked into a second shopping cart, the front charging connector of the first shopping cart connects with the rear charging connector of the second shopping cart. Electrical power can flow to the first shopping cart via the second shopping cart to charge a battery of the first shopping cart. The second shopping cart may be similarly stacked into a third shopping cart, wherein the second shopping cart receives electrical power from the third shopping cart. The second shopping cart may use this electrical power to charge its own battery or may provide some or all of the electrical power to the first shopping cart to charge the first shopping cart's battery.

公开(公告)号：IL311378A

公开(公告)日：2024-05-01

申请号：IL31137824

申请日：2024-03-10

Applicant: MAPLEBEAR INC ,  YANG SHIYUAN ,  GAO LIN ,  HE YUFENG ,  ZHOU XIAO ,  HUANG YILIN ,  KELLY GRIFFIN ,  TSAI ISABEL ,  BESHRY AHMED

Inventor： YANG SHIYUAN ,  GAO LIN ,  HE YUFENG ,  ZHOU XIAO ,  HUANG YILIN ,  KELLY GRIFFIN ,  TSAI ISABEL ,  BESHRY AHMED

IPC: G01G19/414 ,  G06Q20/20

Abstract: Self-checkout vehicle systems and methods comprising a self-checkout vehicle having a camera(s), a weight sensor(s), and a processor configured to: (i) identify via computer vision a merchandise item selected by a shopper based on an identifier affixed to the selected item, and (ii) calculate a price of the merchandise item based on the identification and weight of the selected item. Computer vision systems and methods for identifying merchandise selected by a shopper comprising a processor configured to: (i) identify an identifier affixed to the selected merchandise and an item category of the selected merchandise, and (ii) compare the identifier and item category identified in each respective image to determine the most likely identification of the merchandise.

公开(公告)号：CA3231794A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：CA3231794

申请日：2022-09-22

Applicant: MAPLEBEAR INC

Inventor： YANG SHIYUAN ,  GAO LIN ,  HE YUFENG ,  ZHOU XIAO ,  HUANG YILIN ,  KELLY GRIFFIN ,  TSAI ISABEL ,  BESHRY AHMED

IPC: G06Q20/20 ,  G01G19/41 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06V10/82

Abstract: Self-checkout vehicle systems and methods comprising a self-checkout vehicle having a camera(s), a weight sensor(s), and a processor configured to: (i) identify via computer vision a merchandise item selected by a shopper based on an identifier affixed to the selected item, and (ii) calculate a price of the merchandise item based on the identification and weight of the selected item. Computer vision systems and methods for identifying merchandise selected by a shopper comprising a processor configured to: (i) identify an identifier affixed to the selected merchandise and an item category of the selected merchandise, and (ii) compare the identifier and item category identified in each respective image to determine the most likely identification of the merchandise.

公开(公告)号：AU2022468820A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-20

申请号：AU2022468820

申请日：2022-07-06

Applicant: MAPLEBEAR INC

Inventor： GAO LIN ,  HUANG YILIN ,  YANG SHIYUAN ,  WU GANGLU ,  WANG YANG ,  PAN WENTAO ,  ZHOU XIAOFEI ,  LUO YOUMING

IPC: G06Q20/18 ,  A47F9/04 ,  G06K11/00

Abstract: A smart shopping cart includes internally facing cameras and an integrated scale to identify objects that are placed in the cart. To avoid unnecessary processing of images that are irrelevant, and thereby save battery life, the cart uses the scale to detect when an object is placed in the cart. The cart obtains images from a cache and sends those to an object detection machine learning model. The cart captures and sends a load curve as input to the trained model for object detection. Labeled load data and labeled image data are used by a model training system to train the machine learning model to identify an item when it is added to the shopping cart. The shopping cart also uses weight data and the image data from a timeframe associated with the addition of the item to the cart as inputs.