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US 10,373,107 B2Granted
Generation of actions to correct physical configurations
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsKoji Kawashima, Robert Moore
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Abstract
A system includes acquisition of an electronic image of items disposed in first locations, determination, based on the electronic image, of a visit image result comprising a first one or more linear groups, a first one or more facings per linear group and a first zero or more product identifiers per facing, determination of planogram reference data comprising a second one or more linear groups, a second one or more facings per linear group and a second zero or more product identifiers per facing, and determination of one or more corrective actions based on the visit image result and on the planogram reference data.
Claims14
A computing system comprising:
- a memory storing processor-executable program code;
- and
- a processor to execute the processor-executable program code in order to cause the computing system to:
- acquire an electronic image of items disposed in first locations;
- determine, based on the acquired electronic image, a visit image result comprising a first one or more linear groups, a first one or more facings per linear group and a first zero or more product identifiers per facing, the visit image result including a unique identifier for the items in the acquired electronic image and indications of relative locations for those items, the linear groups including at least a portion of a shelf supporting the items in the acquired electronic image, and the facings each being a sub-portion of a linear group;
- filter the determined visit image result to remove items other than those items related to a first entity;
- determine planogram reference data comprising a second one or more linear groups, a second one or more facings per linear group and a second zero or more product identifiers per facing, the planogram reference data specifying expected item count, shelf configuration, shelf size, unique product identifier for the expected items and their corresponding location;
- determine, based on the planogram reference data, a table of items which should be located in the facings by:
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, retrieve a corresponding linear group of the table of items located in the facings;
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, mark all items with a second flag which are not marked with the first flag and which are also present in the corresponding linear group of the table of items located in the facings;
- and
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, mark all unmarked items with a third flag, the third flag indicating that an item is missing from the facings;
- and
- determine one or more corrective actions based on the visit image result and on the planogram reference data, determination of the one or more corrective actions comprises:
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, determine all items marked with the third flag;
- for each of the items marked with the third flag, determine whether the item is present in the visit image result;
- for each of the items marked with the third flag and not present in the visit image result, associate the item with a corresponding facing of a corrective action result table and mark the item with a flag indicating that the item is out of stock;
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- for each of the items marked with the third flag and present in the visit image result, and if the item is not marked with the first flag, associate the item with a corresponding facing of a corrective action result table and mark the item with a flag indicating that the item is partially missing from the corresponding facing.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program code, the program code executable by a processor of a computing system to cause the computing system to:
- acquire an electronic image of items disposed in first locations;
- determine, based on the acquired electronic image, a visit image result comprising a first one or more linear groups, a first one or more facings per linear group and a first zero or more product identifiers per facing, the visit image result including a unique identifier for the items in the acquired electronic image and indications of relative locations for those items, the linear groups including at least a portion of a shelf supporting the items in the acquired electronic image, and the facings each being a sub-portion of a linear group;
- filter the determined visit image result to remove items other than those items related to a first entity;
- determine planogram reference data comprising a second one or more linear groups, a second one or more facings per linear group and a second zero or more product identifiers per facing, the planogram reference data specifying expected item count, shelf configuration, shelf size, unique product identifier for the expected items and their corresponding location;
- determine, based on the planogram reference data, a table of items which should be located in the facings by:
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, retrieve a corresponding linear group of the table of items located in the facings;
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, mark all items with a second flag which are not marked with the first flag and which are also present in the corresponding linear group of the table of items located in the facings;
- and
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, mark all unmarked items with a third flag, the third flag indicating that an item is missing from the facings;
- and
- determine one or more corrective actions based on the visit image result and on the planogram reference data, the determination of the one or more corrective actions comprises:
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, determine all items marked with the second flag;
- for each of the items marked with the second flag, determine whether the item is present in the visit image result;
- for each of the items marked with the second flag and not present in the visit image result, associate the item with a corresponding facing of a corrective action result table and mark the item with a flag indicating that the item is out of stock;
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- for each of the items marked with the second flag and present in the visit image result, and if the item is not marked with the first flag, associate the item with a corresponding facing of a corrective action result table and mark the item with a flag indicating that the item is partially missing from the corresponding facing.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- acquiring an electronic image of items disposed in first locations;
- determining, based on the acquired electronic image, a visit image result comprising a first one or more linear groups, a first one or more facings per linear group and a first zero or more product identifiers per facing, the visit image result including a unique identifier for the items in the acquired electronic image and indications of relative locations for those items, the linear groups including at least a portion of a shelf supporting the items in the acquired electronic image, and the facings each being a sub-portion of a linear group;
- filtering the determined visit image result to remove items other than those items related to a first entity;
- determining, based on the visit image result, a table of items located in facings by:
- creating, for each of the first one or more linear groups, of a plurality of combinations of items matching items in a corresponding one of the second one or more linear groups;
- determining a best matching combination of the plurality of combinations of items matching items for each of the first one or more linear groups;
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- populating any empty facings in each of the plurality of determined best matching combinations;
- determining planogram reference data comprising a second one or more linear groups, a second one or more facings per linear group and a second zero or more product identifiers per facing, the planogram reference data specifying expected item count, shelf configuration, shelf size, unique product identifier for the expected items and their corresponding location;
- determining, based on the planogram reference data, a table of items which should be located in the facings by:
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, retrieving a corresponding linear group of the table of items located in the facings;
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, marking all items with a second flag which are not marked with the first flag and which are also present in the corresponding linear group of the table of items located in the facings;
- and
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, marking all unmarked items with a third flag, the third flag indicating that an item is missing from the facings;
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- determining one or more corrective actions based on the table of items located in facings and on the planogram reference data, the determining of the one or more corrective actions comprises:
- for each of the second one or more linear groups, determining all items marked with the second flag;
- for each of the items marked with the second flag, determining whether the item is present in the visit image result;
- for each of the items marked with the second flag and not present in the visit image result, associating the item with a corresponding facing of a corrective action result table and mark the item with a flag indicating that the item is out of stock;
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- for each of the items marked with the second flag and present in the visit image result, and if the item is not marked with the first flag, associating the item with a corresponding facing of a corrective action result table and mark the item with a flag indicating that the item is partially missing from the corresponding facing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.