SHOPPING FACILITY ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS

Patent №

US 10,130,232

Granted

2018-11-20

Filed 2016

Owner

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

AI components

3

vision · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15061801

System, apparatuses, and methods for bringing a shopping container to a customer in a shopping space are provided. A system for bringing a shopping container to a customer in a shopping space comprises a plurality of sensors, a plurality of motorized transport units, and a control circuit. The control circuit being configured to: receive a shopping container request from a user interface device associated with the customer, determine at least one available shopping container based on data collected by the plurality of sensors, the at least one available shopping container being empty and not used by another customer, select an available shopping container based at least on a location information of the user interface device, select a motorized transport unit to transport the available shopping container, and provide instructions to the motorized transport unit to bring the available shopping container to the customer.

VisionKnowledge representationPlanningE01H 5/061A47F 3/08A47F 10/04A47F 13/00A47L 11/4011B07C 5/28B07C 5/3422B60L 53/36+124 more

AI classification

Vision0.98
Knowledge representation0.98
Planning0.96
AI hardware0.10
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

assignment · 382880796

Assignors

ATCHLEY, MICHAEL D., HIGH, DONALD R., WINKLE, DAVID C.

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

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