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US 2018/0018519 A1Published application
Systems and Methods for Automated Assessment of Physical Objects
AssigneeWal-Mart Stores, Inc.
InventorsJohn Jeremiah O'Brien, Donald High, Nicholas Antel, Chandrashekar Natarajan
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Abstract
Described in detail herein are methods and systems for performing a physical object assessment. The system entails an automated system to receive, unpack and assess a physical object based on automated determined attributes. The system can determine an element based on the assessment and generate a webpage including the attributes of the physical object and the determined element.
Claims20
An autonomous distributed computing system comprising:
- a conveyer belt configured to receive, support, and transport a physical object, wherein the physical object is associated with a machine-readable element encoded with an identifier corresponding to the physical object;
- a scanner disposed with respect to the conveyer belt and configured to scan the machine-readable element of the physical object and decode the machine-readable element to extract the identifier;
- an image capturing device disposed with respect to the conveyer belt and configured to capture an image of the physical object;
- a scale operatively coupled to the conveyer belt and configured to determine a weight of the physical object;
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- a computing system including a server and a database operatively coupled to the scanner, the image capturing device, and the scale, the computing system being programmed to (i) query the database using the identifier extracted from the machine-readable element by the scanner to retrieve information regarding the physical object from one or more tables in the database, (ii) extract a set of attributes associated with the physical object from the image of the physical object, (iii) identify an element associated with the physical object based on the retrieved information regarding the physical object, the set of attributes associated with the physical object and the weight of the physical object, and (iv) creating a webpage including the information, the set of attributes associated with the physical object, and the element.
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An autonomous distributed computing method comprising:
- receiving, a physical object by a conveyor belt, the physical object being associated with a machine-readable element encoded with an identifier corresponding to the physical object;
- transporting the physical object via the conveyer belt;
- scanning, via a scanner disposed with respect to the conveyer belt, the machine-readable element of the physical object
- decoding, via the scanner, the machine-readable element to extract the identifier;
- capturing, via an image capturing device disposed with respect to the conveyer belt, an image of the physical object;
- determining, via a scale operatively coupled to the conveyer belt, a weight of the physical object;
- querying, via a computing system including a server and a database operatively coupled to the scanner, the image capturing device, and the scale, the database using the identifier extracted from the machine-readable element by the scanner to retrieve information regarding the physical object from one or more tables in the database;
- extracting, via the computing system, a set of attributes associated with the physical object from the image of the physical object
- identifying, via the computing system, an element associated with the physical object based on the retrieved information regarding the physical object, the set of attributes associated with the physical object and the weight of the physical object;
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- creating, via the computing system, a webpage including the information, the set of attributes associated with the physical object, and the element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.