Method and medium for shopping in a physical store
AssigneeIMAGR Limited
InventorsWilliam Chomley, Peter Szoldan
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Abstract
A method and system for assisting in shopping at a physical store (104) is described. The method includes receiving image data of the inside of a shopping cart (108) and processing the image data to detect one or more events. An event is the addition of an item (114) to the shopping cart (108) or the removal of an item (114) from the shopping cart (108). Responsive to detecting an event, the method processes the image data to identify an item associated with the event, and generates cart information based on the identified item. The cart information includes a record of items currently in the shopping cart (108). The method also communicates the cart information with respect to the identified item to a customer device (118).
Claims11
A computer implemented method for assisting in shopping at a physical store, the method including:
- after a customer device is linked to a cart system, activating a camera of the cart system that is mechanically coupled to a shopping cart, the camera configured to capture image data of an inside of the shopping cart;
- receiving the image data;
- processing the image data to detect one or more events and, for each event, determining an event type, the event type being an item addition event involving the addition of an item to the shopping cart or an item removal event involving the removal of the item from the shopping cart;
- responsive to detecting an event:
- processing the image data to identify an item associated with the event;
- generating cart information based on the identified item, the cart information including a record of items currently in the shopping cart;
- communicating the cart information with respect to the identified item to the customer device;
- detecting the shopping cart in an exit area;
- and
- responsive to detecting the shopping cart in the exit area, automatically processing a payment based on the invoice;
- and
- responsive to processing the payment, deactivating the camera.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more computer processing units, cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
- activating a camera of a cart system mechanically coupled to a shopping cart at the physical store, the cart system configured to capture footage of the inside of the shopping cart during a shopping session;
- receiving image data;
- processing the image data to detect one or more events and, for each event, determining the event type, the event type being an item addition event involving the addition of an item to the shopping cart or an item removal event involving the removal of an item from the shopping cart;
- processing the image data to identify an item associated with an event, responsive to detecting the event;
- generating cart information based on the identified item, the cart information including a record of items currently in the shopping cart;
- communicating the cart information with respect to the identified item to a customer device;
- detecting the shopping cart in an exit area;
- and
- responsive to detecting the shopping cart in the exit area, automatically processing a payment based on the invoice;
- and
- responsive to processing the payment, deactivating the camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.