Product identification system and method
AssigneeIntelligrated Headquarters, LLC
InventorsKent FULLER, Brian D. HYSELL
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for identifying and tracking products in a material handling system and/or for identifying and handling product defects in a material handling system are provided. An example method may include receiving one or more articles in the material handling system; capturing one or more images of the one or more articles; identifying at least one visual defect indicator on at least one article of the one or more articles; and determining an indication corresponding to at least one of a defect of the at least one article or a portion of the material handling system causing the defect.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A material handling system comprising a merge portion and a central controller that is configured to:
- determine one or more product parameters associated with one or more articles based at least in part on one or more unique product identifiers associated with the one or more articles;
- and
- adjust one or more merge variables associated with the merge portion based at least in part on the one or more product parameters.
A method comprising:
- determining, by a central controller of a material handling system, one or more product parameters associated with one or more articles based at least in part on one or more unique product identifiers associated with the one or more articles;
- and
- adjusting, by the central controller, one or more merge variables associated with a merge portion of the material handling system based at least in part on the one or more product parameters.
A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising an executable portion configured to:
- determine one or more product parameters associated with one or more articles based at least in part on one or more unique product identifiers associated with the one or more articles;
- and
- adjust one or more merge variables associated with a merge portion based at least in part on the one or more product parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.