公开(公告)号：US20240249239A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18158983

申请日：2023-01-24

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Ashlin Ghosh ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Abhinav Pachauri ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  William Craig Robinson, JR. ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Zhaoliang Duan

IPC: G06Q10/087

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087

Abstract: Systems and methods of creating reference template images for detecting and recognizing products at a product storage facility include an image capture device having a field of view that includes a product storage structure of the product storage facility, and a computing device including a control circuit and being communicatively coupled to the image capture device. The computing device obtains images of the product storage structure captured by the image capture device, analyzes the obtained images to detect individual ones of the products located on the product storage structure. Then, the computing device identifies the individual ones of the products detected in the images and crops each of the individual ones of the identified products from the images to generate cropped images. The computing device then creates a cluster of the cropped images, and selects one of the cropped images as a reference template image of an identified individual product.

公开(公告)号：US20240265565A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18165152

申请日：2023-02-06

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Han Zhang ,  Yilun Chen ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Adam Cantor ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  William Craig Robinson, JR. ,  Mingquan Yuan ,  Zhaoliang Duan ,  Wei Wang

IPC: G06T7/70 ,  G06T7/50 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V10/762

CPC classification number: G06T7/70 ,  G06T7/50 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V10/762 ,  G06V2201/07

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects at a product storage facility including a trained machine learning model stored in a memory; and a control circuit. The control circuit may obtain an image at the product storage facility; cluster objects depicted in the image that have same product identifiers into a corresponding group; determine coordinates of each bounding box of each clustered object in the corresponding group; determine a bounding box representative depth value of pixels inside the bounding box of each clustered object; determine an overall representative depth value of the corresponding group based on bounding box representative depth values of clustered objects; and exclude the clustered objects from identified objects in the image upon a determination that the overall representative depth value is greater than a threshold.

公开(公告)号：US20240249524A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18158969

申请日：2023-01-24

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Zhaoliang Duan ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Raghava Balusu ,  Mingquan Yuan ,  Zhichun Xiao

IPC: G06V20/50 ,  G06F16/538 ,  G06V10/50 ,  G06V10/75 ,  G06V20/62

CPC classification number: G06V20/50 ,  G06F16/538 ,  G06V10/50 ,  G06V10/751 ,  G06V20/63 ,  G06Q10/087

Abstract: Systems and methods of detecting and recognizing products on product storage structures of a product storage facility include an image capture device that moves about and captures images of the product storage structures at the product storage facility. A computing device processes the obtained images to detect and identify the products on the product storage structure, crops each of the identified individual products from the image to generate a plurality of cropped images and generates an image histogram template, feature vector template and location information template for each of the cropped images. The cropped images are stored in an electronic database and represent a reference model for each of the identified individual products and are stored in association with the generated image histogram template, feature vector template and location information template to facilitate recognition of products subsequently captured on the product storage structure by the image capture device.

公开(公告)号：US20220117496A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17505388

申请日：2021-10-19

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Eric Chad Neipling ,  Addison K. Bostian ,  Manideep Pabba ,  Ryan J. Giovacchini ,  Alisha D. Fleshman ,  Kipp S. Coco

IPC: A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/117 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G16H40/63

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to screening a body temperature of a human. In some embodiments, there is provided a touchless temperature screening system that screens a body temperature of a human including a housing comprising an output interface; one or more first sensors; a temperature sensor; and a control circuit configured to: cause the output interface to provide one or more messages; receive the one or more user inputs indicative of responses to at least one of the one or more messages; receive temperature data corresponding to the body temperature; determine whether the human meets a health criteria; and transmit a control signal indicative of the human meeting the health criteria in response to the human meeting the health criteria.

公开(公告)号：USD1071969S1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-22

申请号：US29971033

申请日：2024-10-31

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Designer： Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Ravi Kumar Dalal

公开(公告)号：US20240273863A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18168198

申请日：2023-02-13

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Ashlin Ghosh ,  Feiyun Zhu ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  Raghava Balusu ,  William Craig Robinson, JR. ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Zhaoliang Duan

IPC: G06V10/762 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06V10/74

CPC classification number: G06V10/762 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06V10/761 ,  G06V2201/07

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects at a product storage facility including a trained machine learning model; and a control circuit. The control circuit may group a plurality of product identifiers into one or more clusters based on at least one of visual similarity of corresponding images, textual similarity of corresponding associated descriptions, and associated relationships between product identifiers of the plurality of product identifiers; determine clusters having common elements that are at least within a similarity threshold of each other; merge the clusters with the common elements; and generate a mapping dataset used to retrain the trained machine learning model to identify a plurality of objects. The mapping dataset may include a plurality of associations of associated product identifiers to a single object.

公开(公告)号：US20240119408A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-11

申请号：US17963751

申请日：2022-10-11

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Yilun Chen ,  Ravi Kumar Dalal ,  Adam Cantor ,  Monisha Elumalai ,  Benjamin R. Ellison

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06V10/75 ,  G06V20/00 ,  G06V20/62 ,  G06V30/148

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  G06T5/003 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G06V10/75 ,  G06V20/36 ,  G06V20/62 ,  G06V30/153 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G06T2207/20132

Abstract: Some embodiments provide systems comprising: a machine learning model database; a deblur system configured to receive at least a portion of an image comprising a presumed location label captured by the image capture device, and apply at least a deblurring machine learning framework to generate a deblurred label image comprising the presumed location label; a rectification system configured to apply an machine learning transform algorithm to the deblurred label image to generate a rectified label image; an optical character recognition (OCR) system configured to apply a recognition machine learning model to the rectified label image to estimate text; and a location estimation system configured to estimate a location of the presumed location label as a function of the estimated text of the presumed location label relative to known text on known location labels position at respective different known locations within the product storage facility.

公开(公告)号：US20230380696A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-30

申请号：US18233539

申请日：2023-08-14

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Eric Chad Neipling ,  Addison K. Bostian ,  Manideep Pabba ,  Ryan J. Giovacchini ,  Alisha D. Fleshman ,  Kipp S. Coco

IPC: A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/117 ,  G16H40/63 ,  G01J5/00 ,  G01J5/02 ,  G01J5/04

CPC classification number: A61B5/015 ,  A61B5/7495 ,  A61B5/742 ,  A61B5/117 ,  G16H40/63 ,  G01J5/0025 ,  G01J5/026 ,  G01J5/04 ,  A61B2562/18

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to screening a body temperature of a human. In some embodiments, there is provided a temperature screening system that screens a body temperature of a human including a housing comprising an output interface; one or more first sensors; a temperature sensor; and a control circuit configured to: cause the output interface to provide one or more messages; receive the one or more user inputs indicative of responses to at least one of the one or more messages; receive temperature data corresponding to the body temperature; determine whether the human meets a health criteria; and transmit a control signal indicative of the human meeting the health criteria in response to the human meeting the health criteria.

公开(公告)号：US20250111333A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18980629

申请日：2024-12-13

Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC

Inventor： Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Ravi Kumar Dalal ,  Monisha Elumalai ,  Yilun Chen

IPC: G06Q10/0875 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06V10/30 ,  G06V20/10

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to inventory management. In some embodiments, an inventory management system comprises a mobile device comprising an image capture device configured to capture an image and a communications transceiver configured to transmit the image, and a control circuit configured to receive, from the mobile device, the image, detect, within the image, the first sign and the second sign, identify, based on the first sign, a product associated with the first sign, identify, based on the second sign, a location of the product storage unit, associate, in a database, an indication of the product associated with the first sign and the location of the product storage unit.

公开(公告)号：US20240249505A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18158925

申请日：2023-01-24

Applicant: WALMART APOLLO, LLC

Inventor： Raghava Balusu ,  Avinash M. Jade ,  Lingfeng Zhang ,  William C. Robinson, JR. ,  Benjamin R. Ellison ,  Srinivas Muktevi ,  Amit Jhunjhunwala ,  Zhaoliang Duan ,  Siddhartha Chakraborty ,  Ashlin Ghosh ,  Mingquan Yuan

IPC: G06V10/774 ,  G06V10/74 ,  G06V10/94 ,  G06V20/50

CPC classification number: G06V10/774 ,  G06V10/761 ,  G06V10/945 ,  G06V20/50 ,  G06V10/82

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing captured images of objects at a product storage facility. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects including a trained machine learning model and a control circuit. In some embodiments, the trained machine learning model is configured to process unprocessed captured images. In some embodiments, the control circuit is configured to associate each of the processed images into one of a first group, a second group, or a third group; remove at least one processed image associated with the first group from the processed images in accordance with a first processing rule; and output remaining processed images associated with the first group and processed images associated with the second group to be used to retrain the trained machine learning model.