US 2025/0148419 A1 · REAL-TIME SHELF INVENTORY AND NOTIFICATION

Abstract

Cameras capture images of shelves/displays having items. The images are processed to identify real-time item counts on the shelves and/or empty or partially empty shelves with less than a configured number of items. Notifications or messages regarding item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are sent through an Application Programming Interface (API) to consuming services in accordance with custom defined rules. In an embodiment, real-time item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are dynamically reported through the API based on on-demand requests from the consuming services.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

identifying a shelf of items from an image;
at least determining whether the shelf is partially empty of the items for an item type from the image;
and
providing a notification message for the shelf and the item type to a service.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

19/013,774Filed 8 Jan 2025

Priority

27 Sep 2019

Published

8 May 2025

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

G06Q 10/087
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling,…
G06V 20/52
Context or environment of the image: surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects
G06Q 10/08724
Using inventory planning: by shelf level inventory management, e.g. planograms
G06Q 10/08726
Using inventory planning: for replenishment processing, procedures, or recommendations using forecasting or optimisation

Real-time shelf inventory and notification

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Real-time shelf inventory and notification

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Abstract

Claims1