APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACKING CARTS IN A SHOPPING SPACE

Patent №

US 10,072,935

Granted

2018-09-11

Filed 2017

Owner

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

AI components

2

kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15423095

Systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein for tracking carts in a shopping space. A system for tracking carts in a shopping space comprises: a sound sensor array, a cart location database storing location information and sound profiles associated with a plurality of shopping cart identifiers, and a control circuit configured to: identify a cart sound made by a movement of a shopping cart traveling in the shopping space, determine a current location of the shopping cart based on the cart sound, match the shopping cart to a shopping cart identifier in the cart location database, update the location information associated the shopping cart identifier in the cart location database based on the current location of the shopping cart; and update the sound profile of the shopping cart identifier based on the cart sound captured by the sound sensor array.

Knowledge representationPlanningG01C 21/206G01C 21/20G01S 1/68G06Q 10/087H04R 3/005H04W 88/02H04R 2430/20

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.83
Planning0.55
Speech0.30
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

assignment · 411610594

Assignors

VASGAARD, AARON J., JONES, MATTHEW A., JONES, NICHOLAUS A., TAYLOR, ROBERT J.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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