Augmented reality shopper routing
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorRobert B. Nicholson
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Abstract
A store routing system for guiding a shopper in a store comprises a storage storing a store product map comprising location information for products available at the store. The system also comprises an analytics engine for identifying one or more recommended products for the shopper based on a set of one or more sought products. The system also comprises a route calculator for calculating a route through the store to a location of each of the sought products based on the store product map and for including a waypoint in the route corresponding to a location of each of the one or more recommended products.
Claims9
A store routing system for guiding a shopper in a store, comprising:
- a storage storing a store product map comprising location information for products available at the store;
- an analytics engine for identifying one or more recommended products for the shopper based on a set of one or more sought products;
- and
- a route calculator for:
- calculating a route through the store to a location of each of the sought products based on the store product map and for including a waypoint in the route corresponding to a location of each of the one or more recommended products;
- obtaining a current view of the shopper in the store, the current view obtained via a camera held by the user;
- and
- presenting, to the shopper, the route in conjunction with a representation of the current view of the shopper in the store.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.