US 12,634,654 B2 · Methods for identifying items in close proximity to a mobile device or within a digital image

Abstract

Methods for identifying one or more items in close proximity to a mobile device and/or are within a digital image. The location of the mobile device can be determined using outdoor positioning systems (“OPS”), indoor positioning systems (“IPS”), or combinations thereof. The identity of the item or items can be determine using planograms; visual inventory; RFID handheld inventory; RFID overhead inventory; vision system inventory; UR; barcode; NEC; or combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the methods described herein include or involve identifying one or more items within a digital image, such as a photograph or video. The image has an identification (ID)/time stamp that is used to associate the items in the image that have been read in the same area as the image so that the items can be actively searched as a digital image to highlight or list items that are in the image.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for identifying one or more items in close proximity to a mobile device, the method comprising:

determining a location of the mobile device;
storing the location of the mobile device in a first digital identity repository;
scanning, by a localized scanner, for each of the one or more items, a sensor attached to the item of the one or more items,
obtaining the location of each item of the one or more items from the scanning of the sensor attached to that item;
storing the location of each item of the one or more items in a second digital identity repository;
determining the one or more items to be in close proximity to the mobile device by comparing the location of the mobile device with the obtained location of each item of the one or more items based on the locations stored in the first and second digital identity repository;
and
associating the location of the mobile device with one or more items at the location of the mobile device.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Methods for identifying items in close proximity to a mobile device or within a digital image

Life of this patent

Methods for identifying items in close proximity to a mobile device or within a digital image

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims20