公开(公告)号：US20210379765A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-09

申请号：US17412065

申请日：2021-08-25

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Mirza Akbar Shah ,  Bradley Bogolea ,  Jeffrey Gee ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Luke Fraser

IPC: B25J11/00 ,  G06Q20/00 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B25J19/02 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/20

Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating waypoints for imaging shelves within a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously generating a map of a floor space within the store; accessing an architectural metaspace defining target locations and addresses of the set of shelving structures within the store; distorting the architectural metaspace into alignment with the map to generate a normalized metaspace representing real locations and addresses of the set of shelving structures in the store; defining a set of waypoints distributed longitudinally along and offset laterally from a first shelving structure represented in the normalized metaspace based on a known position of an optical sensor in the robotic system; and dispatching the robotic system to record optical data while occupying the set of waypoint optv-mo3 in:#finance s during an imaging routine.

公开(公告)号：US20210357851A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US17387866

申请日：2021-07-28

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Bradley Bogolea ,  Durgesh Tiwari ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Shiva Reddy ,  Lorin Vandegrift

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/11

Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store includes: accessing a image of an inventory structure in the store; identifying a top shelf, in the inventory structure, depicted in the image; identifying a set of product units occupying the top shelf based on features detected in the image; identifying a second shelf, in the set of shelves in the inventory structure, depicted in the image, the second shelf arranged below the top shelf in the inventory structure; based on features detected in the image, detecting an understock condition at a slot—assigned to a product type—on the second shelf; and, in response to the set of product units comprising a product unit of the product type, generating a prompt to transfer the product unit of the product type from the top shelf into the slot on the second shelf at the inventory structure.

公开(公告)号：US20200286032A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-10

申请号：US16880582

申请日：2020-05-21

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Bradley Bogolea ,  Mirza Akbar Shah ,  Lorin Vandegrift ,  Luke Fraser ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Jeffrey Gee ,  Durgesh Tiwari

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04N5/357 ,  G05D1/02 ,  H04N1/00 ,  G06K9/03 ,  G06K9/62

Abstract: One variation of a method for stock keeping in a store includes: accessing an image captured by a fixed camera within the store; retrieving a field of view of the fixed camera; estimating a segment of an inventory structure in the store depicted in the image based on a projection of the field of view onto a planogram of the store; identifying a set of slots within the inventory structure segment; retrieving a product model representing a set of visual characteristics of a product type assigned to a slot, in the set of slots, by the planogram; extracting a constellation of features from the image; if the constellation of features approximates the set of visual characteristics in the product model, detecting presence of a product unit of the product type occupying the inventory structure segment; and representing presence of the product unit, occupying the inventory structure segment, in a realogram.

公开(公告)号：US20170337508A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-23

申请号：US15600527

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Bradley Bogolea ,  Mirza Akbar Shah ,  Lorin Vandegrift ,  Luke Fraser ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Jeffrey Gee

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G06K9/03 ,  G05D1/02 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G06K9/62

Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image recorded by a mobile robotic system within a store; detecting a shelf in a region of the image; based on an address of the shelf, retrieving a list of products assigned to the shelf by a planogram of the store; retrieving a set of template images—from a database of template images—defining visual features of products specified in the list of products; extracting a set of features from the region of the image; determining that a unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf in response to deviation between the set of features and features in a template image, in the set of template images, representing the product; and in response to determining that the unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf, generating a restocking prompt for the product.

公开(公告)号：US20240403824A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18803355

申请日：2024-08-13

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Jariullah Safi ,  Bradley Bogolea ,  Durgesh Tiwari ,  Lorin Vandegrift ,  Cem Ersoz

IPC: G06Q10/087 ,  G06Q10/047 ,  G06Q10/0631

Abstract: One variation of a method for deploying a robotic system to scan inventory within a store includes: retrieving generic recommended baseline scan frequencies assigned to a set of product types stocked in the store; annotating a map of the store according to generic recommended baseline scan frequencies and locations of the set of product types in the store; overwriting baseline scan frequencies assigned to locations in the store based on inputs from the user; accessing elapsed times since capture of last images of slots in the store, assigned to these product types, by the robotic system; calculating urgency scores for imaging these slots proportional to differences between elapsed times and scan frequencies; and calculating a scan route traversable by the robotic system to preferentially locate, within the field of view of the robotic system, locations in the store associated with higher urgency scores over locations associated with lower urgency scores.

公开(公告)号：US12079765B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US17387866

申请日：2021-07-28

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Bradley Bogolea ,  Durgesh Tiwari ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Shiva Reddy ,  Lorin Vandegrift

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06V10/22 ,  G06V20/00 ,  G06V20/10 ,  G06V20/40 ,  G06V20/52 ,  G06V30/224

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  G06T7/0008 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06V10/22 ,  G06V20/10 ,  G06V20/36 ,  G06V20/41 ,  G06V20/52 ,  G06V30/2247 ,  G06T2207/30108 ,  G06T2207/30242

Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store includes: accessing a image of an inventory structure in the store; identifying a top shelf, in the inventory structure, depicted in the image; identifying a set of product units occupying the top shelf based on features detected in the image; identifying a second shelf, in the set of shelves in the inventory structure, depicted in the image, the second shelf arranged below the top shelf in the inventory structure; based on features detected in the image, detecting an understock condition at a slot—assigned to a product type—on the second shelf; and, in response to the set of product units comprising a product unit of the product type, generating a prompt to transfer the product unit of the product type from the top shelf into the slot on the second shelf at the inventory structure.

公开(公告)号：US12073431B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-27

申请号：US17403782

申请日：2021-08-16

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Bradley Bogolea ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Lorin Vandegrift ,  Shiva Reddy ,  Tom Gehani

IPC: G06Q30/0241 ,  G06F18/22 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G06V20/52

CPC classification number: G06Q30/0248 ,  G06F18/22 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06Q20/201 ,  G06V20/52

Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking promotional states of slots in inventory structures within a store includes: accessing an image of an inventory structure within a store; detecting a shelf tag on the inventory structure in the image; extracting a set of features from the shelf tag detected in the image; detecting a promotional tag on the inventory structure in the image; extracting a set of features from the promotional tag detected in the image; detecting a deviation between the shelf tag and the promotional tag based on a difference between the sets of features; and, in response to detecting the deviation between the shelf tag and the promotional tag, identifying the first promotional tag as erroneous, and notifying a store associate to replace the first promotional tag with a second promotional tag at the first slot, the second promotional tag correcting the difference.

公开(公告)号：US11897148B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US17169327

申请日：2021-02-05

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Mirza Akbar Shah ,  Cem Ersoz ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Bradley Bogolea

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/00 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q10/087

CPC classification number: B25J9/1697 ,  B25J9/1674 ,  B25J9/1679 ,  B25J13/006 ,  G06Q10/087

Abstract: One variation of a method for deploying a mobile robotic system to scan inventory structures within a store includes: dispatching the mobile robotic system to navigate along inventory structures within the store during a setup cycle; at the mobile robotic system, while navigating along the inventory structures during the setup cycle, capturing a set of wireless connectivity metrics representing connectivity to a first wireless network; assembling the set of wireless connectivity metrics into a wireless connectivity map of the store; estimating a processing duration from start of the scan cycle to transformation of images of the inventory structures, captured by the mobile robotic system, into a stock condition of the store; and dispatching the mobile robotic system to autonomously capture images of the inventory structures within the store during a scan cycle preceding a scheduled restocking period in the store based on the processing duration.

公开(公告)号：US11593755B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16880582

申请日：2020-05-21

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Bradley Bogolea ,  Mirza Akbar Shah ,  Lorin Vandegrift ,  Luke Fraser ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Jeffrey Gee ,  Durgesh Tiwari

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/357 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G06K9/62 ,  H04N1/00 ,  G06V10/98 ,  G06V20/52

Abstract: A method for stock keeping in a store includes: accessing an image captured by a fixed camera within the store; retrieving a field of view of the fixed camera; estimating a segment of an inventory structure in the store depicted in the image based on a projection of the field of view onto a planogram of the store; identifying a set of slots within the inventory structure segment; retrieving a product model representing a set of visual characteristics of a product type assigned to a slot, in the set of slots, by the planogram; extracting a constellation of features from the image; if the constellation of features approximates the set of visual characteristics in the product model, detecting presence of a product unit of the product type occupying the inventory structure segment; and representing presence of the product unit, occupying the inventory structure segment, in a realogram.

公开(公告)号：US11130239B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-28

申请号：US16513228

申请日：2019-07-16

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Mirza Akbar Shah ,  Bradley Bogolea ,  Jeffrey Gee ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Luke Fraser

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  B25J11/00 ,  G06Q20/00 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B25J19/02 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/20 ,  G06K9/52 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G06T7/00

Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating waypoints for imaging shelves within a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously generating a map of a floor space within the store; accessing an architectural metaspace defining target locations and addresses of the set of shelving structures within the store; distorting the architectural metaspace into alignment with the map to generate a normalized metaspace representing real locations and addresses of the set of shelving structures in the store; defining a set of waypoints distributed longitudinally along and offset laterally from a first shelving structure represented in the normalized metaspace based on a known position of an optical sensor in the robotic system; and dispatching the robotic system to record optical data while occupying the set of waypoints during an imaging routine.