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公开(公告)号:US20180005035A1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-04
申请号:US15600591
申请日:2017-05-19
Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.
Inventor: Bradley Bogolea , Mirza Akbar Shah , Jariullah Safi , Luke Fraser , Lorin Vandegrift , Jeffrey Gee
CPC classification number: B25J11/008 , B25J9/1664 , B25J9/1697 , B25J13/089 , B25J19/023 , B64C2201/127 , B64C2201/146 , G06K9/00671 , G06K9/2063 , G06K9/52 , G06Q10/087 , G06Q30/0201 , G06T5/006 , G06T7/0008
Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating a planogram for a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate within the store during a mapping routine; accessing a floor map of the floor space generated by the robotic system from map data collected during the mapping routine; identifying a shelving structure within the map of the floor space; defining a first set of waypoints along an aisle facing the shelving structure; dispatching the robotic system to navigate to and to capture optical data at the set of waypoints during an imaging routine; receiving a set of images generated from optical data recorded by the robotic system during the imaging routine; identifying products and positions of products in the set of images; and generating a planogram of the shelving segment based on products and positions of products identified in the set of images.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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公开(公告)号:US20230401531A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-14
申请号:US18085465
申请日:2022-12-20
Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.
Inventor: Dave Cortese , Brad Bogolea
IPC: G06Q10/087 , G06V20/40 , G06Q10/067
CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 , G06V2201/07 , G06Q10/067 , G06V20/44
Abstract: A method includes: accessing a first image captured at a first time; deriving a first in-stock condition of the slot at the first time based on product units of a product type occupying a slot, depicted in the first image, at the first time based on features detected in the first image; accessing a second image captured at a second, later time; deriving a second out-of-stock condition of the slot at the second time based on features detected in the second image; accessing a back-of-store inventory status of the product type at the second time; and triggering an increase in quantity of facings of the product type at the slot based on a) the first in-stock condition at the slot at the first time, b) the first out-of-stock condition at the slot at the second time, and c) presence of back-of-store inventory of the product type at the second.
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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.
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公开(公告)号:US11514398B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-29
申请号:US17113877
申请日:2020-12-07
Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.
Inventor: Bradley Bogolea , Durgesh Tiwari
IPC: G06Q10/08 , G06Q30/02 , G06Q10/06 , G05D1/00 , G05D1/02 , G06T7/73 , H04N7/18 , G06V10/56 , G06V10/60 , G06V20/10 , H02J7/02
Abstract: One variation of a method for deploying fixed cameras within a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate along a set of inventory structures in the store and generate a spatial map of the store during a scan cycle; generating an accessibility heatmap representing accessibility of regions of the store to the robotic system based on the spatial map; generating a product value heatmap for the store based on locations and sales volumes of products in the store; accessing a number of fixed cameras allocated to the store; generating a composite heatmap for the store based on the accessibility heatmap and the product value heatmap; identifying a subset of inventory structures occupying a set of locations within the store corresponding to critical amplitudes in the composite heatmap; and generating a prompt to install the number of fixed cameras facing the subset of inventory structures in the store.
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公开(公告)号:US20220156687A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-19
申请号:US17592462
申请日:2022-02-03
Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc
Inventor: Mirza Akbar Shah , Bradley Bogolea , Jeffrey Gee
Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking stock level within a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to image shelving structures within the store during a scan cycle; receiving images from the robotic system, each image recorded by the robotic system during the scan cycle and corresponding to one waypoint within the store; identifying, in the images, empty slots within the shelving structures; identifying a product assigned to each empty slot based on product location assignments defined in a planogram of the store; for a first product of a first product value and assigned to a first empty slot, generating a first prompt to restock the first empty slot with a unit of the first product during the scan cycle; and, upon completion of the scan cycle, generating a global restocking list specifying restocking of a set of empty slots associated with product values less than the first product value.
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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.
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