System and method for taking an inventory of containers for beverages
OwnerNikhil Kundrainventor
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Abstract
A computer based system for taking the physical inventory of liquids dispensed in full and partially full containers. A database stores images of containers and their associated volumes. The containers to be inventoried are identified by a user and input to a computer at a graphical user interface (GUI) input/output. A computer causes the display of an image of the container and a sliding level indicator at the GUI. The level indicator is slidable along the image. The computer calculates a volume of liquid remaining in the container as a function of the position of the level indicator along the image of the container.
Claims16
A method for taking an inventory of containers for beverage comprising the steps of:
- providing a portable computing device having a graphical user interface;
- providing a digital image of a container corresponding to an open container at the graphical user interface, the digital image including an identification characteristic;
- providing a position indicator at the graphical user interface indicating a level by covering at least a part of the digital image;
- contacting the digital image at a position, relative to the identification characteristic, along the digital image of the open container corresponding to an amount of beverage remaining in an actual container to be inventoried causing the position indicator to indicate at the graphical user interface an amount of beverage remaining;
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- determining a volume of remaining beverage in the open container as a function of the position of the position indicator along the digital image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.