US 10,380,814 B1Granted

System for determining entry of user to an automated facility

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsThomas Meilandt Mathiesen, Maren Marie Costa, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai, Christopher Richard Fescoe, Casey Louis Thurston, Jason Michael Famularo, Sudarshan Narasimha Raghavan

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Abstract

Users may enter a facility singly or in groups. Users may present entry credentials to a scanner. The entry credentials assist in identification of the user. After entry, users are tracked within the facility. If determinations about one or more of identification or tracking by an automated system fall below a threshold value, an employee associated with the facility is presented with a user interface. The user interface may include a gallery of images including those of the user and others in the facility. User input to the user interface is then used to reestablish one or more of identification or tracking.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, at a first time and from a barcode sensor corresponding to an entry lane of a facility, entry credential data presented as a barcode by a user device;
determining a group account associated with the entry credential data, the group account associated with two or more users;
acquiring, at the first time, first image data of a first user at a first location proximate to the entry lane;
generating image gallery data including the first image data and information indicative of the group account;
initiating image-based tracking of the first user from the entry lane of the facility to one or more locations within the facility based at least in part on the first image data, wherein the image-based tracking accesses a plurality of images obtained from a plurality of cameras to determine the one or more locations of the first user within the facility;
and
determining an identity of the first user, at the first time, based on the group account and the first image data.

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A system comprising:

at least one server comprising:
a first memory, storing first computer-executable instructions;
and
a first hardware processor to execute the first computer-executable instructions to:
receive a request for entry credential data from a user device;
generate the entry credential data;
send the entry credential data to the user device;
receive first lane data indicative of receipt of the entry credential data by a sensor at a first lane of a facility at a first time;
determine an identifier associated with the entry credential data;
access first image data obtained proximate to the first lane;
determine presence of a representation of at least one user in the first image data;
generate group data for two or more users, the two or more users comprising the at least one user;
and
associate data indicative of the identifier with the at least one user as represented in the first image data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.