STOCK LEVEL INDICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD

Patent №

US 10,169,738

Granted

2019-01-01

Filed 2017

Owner

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15709812

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to provide a visual indication of a weight of products stocked on a display assembly, such as a shelf of a shelving unit. The visual indication is provided by virtue of the display assembly having a product support member with a curved configuration that sequentially flattens as additional weight is added thereto. An electronic imaging device can be mounted proximate to the assembly and oriented to capture an image of the product support member and a control circuit can be configured to receive the image and analyze the image to determine a current stock level.

VisionG06Q 10/087G01G 19/52H04N 23/54

AI classification

Vision1.00
Knowledge representation0.14
Natural language0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
AI hardware0.00

Ownership

WAL-MART STORES, INC.

assignment · 436400305

Assignors

JONES, NICHOLAUS A., JONES, MATTHEW A.

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

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