Method, system and apparatus for gap detection in support structures with peg regions

    公开(公告)号:US11080566B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-03

    申请号:US16429687

    申请日:2019-06-03

    Abstract: A method of detecting gaps on a support structure includes: obtaining, at an imaging controller, (i) a plurality of depth measurements representing the support structure according to a common frame of reference, and (ii) a plurality of label indicators each defining a label position in the common frame of reference; for each of the label indicators: classifying the label indicator as either a peg label or a shelf label, based on a portion of the depth measurements selected according to the label position and a portion of the depth measurements adjacent to the label position; generating an item search space in the common frame of reference according to the class of the label indicator; and determining, based on a subset of the depth measurements within the item search space, whether the item search space contains an item.

    Method, system and apparatus for detecting item facings

    公开(公告)号:US11107238B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-31

    申请号:US16713508

    申请日:2019-12-13

    Abstract: A method by an imaging controller of detecting item facings from image sensor data includes: obtaining, at the imaging controller, the image sensor data corresponding to a support structure containing at least one item; identifying, by a feature detector of the imaging controller, a set of matched keypoint pairs from keypoints of the image sensor data; determining, by a peak detector of the imaging controller, a separation distance between the keypoints of each matched keypoint pair; detecting, by the peak detector, a count of item instances represented in the image sensor data based on the separation distances; and presenting item facing detection output including the count of item instances.

    Method, system and apparatus for auxiliary label detection and association

    公开(公告)号:US11100303B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-24

    申请号:US16214752

    申请日:2018-12-10

    Abstract: A method of auxiliary label detection includes: at an imaging controller, obtaining (i) an image of a support structure and (ii) a plurality of primary label indicators each defining a position of a primary label within the image; at the imaging controller, selecting a detection region from the image based on a reference indicator; at the imaging controller, detecting an auxiliary label within the detection region based on predefined visual attributes of the auxiliary label; at the imaging controller, selecting one of the primary label indicators based on proximity between the auxiliary label and the selected primary label indicator; updating the selected primary label indicator with an identifier of the auxiliary label; and storing the updated primary label indicator in a memory.

    Method, System and Apparatus for Detecting Item Facings

    公开(公告)号:US20210183095A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-17

    申请号:US16713508

    申请日:2019-12-13

    Abstract: A method by an imaging controller of detecting item facings from image sensor data includes: obtaining, at the imaging controller, the image sensor data corresponding to a support structure containing at least one item; identifying, by a feature detector of the imaging controller, a set of matched keypoint pairs from keypoints of the image sensor data; determining, by a peak detector of the imaging controller, a separation distance between the keypoints of each matched keypoint pair; detecting, by the peak detector, a count of item instances represented in the image sensor data based on the separation distances; and presenting item facing detection output including the count of item instances.

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