IMAGE OVERLAYING AND COMPARISON FOR INVENTORY DISPLAY AUDITING

Patent №

US 8,917,902

Granted

2014-12-23

Filed 2011

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

Lab

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13217031

Image overlaying and comparison for inventory display auditing is disclosed herein. An example method to perform inventory display auditing disclosed herein comprises overlaying a reference image over a current image displayed on a camera display, the reference image corresponding to an inventory display to be audited, comparing the reference image and the current image to determine whether the current image and the reference image correspond to a same scene and when the reference image and the current image are determined to correspond to the same scene, indicating a difference region in the current image displayed on the camera display, the difference region being a first region of the current image that differs from a corresponding first region of the reference image.

VisionPlanningG06Q 10/0875G06F 18/22G06T 7/001G06T 7/11G06T 7/90G06T 11/60G06T 2207/20112G06T 2207/30108

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.20
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

assignment · 269840035

Assignors

HICKS, MICHAEL A.

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

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