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公开(公告)号：US11488103B1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-01
申请号：US16907579
申请日：2020-06-22
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Aaron M. McDaniel , Joel Stirling , Emily Marsden , Nirmal Doshi , Nathan P. O'Neill
Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling facilities to implement techniques to determine when users are in possession of items when located within and/or exiting the facilities. For instance, a system may use one or more sensors to determine locations of a user that navigated through a facility. Additionally, the system may use one or more sensors to determine locations of an item while the item was located within the facility. The system may then determine a probability that the user was in possession of the item when in the facility and/or when exiting the facility based at least in part on the locations of the user and the locations of the item. If the system determines that the user was in possession of the item when exiting the facility, the system may charge a payment instrument of the user for a price of the item.
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公开(公告)号：US12002337B1
公开(公告)日：2024-06-04
申请号：US18059144
申请日：2022-11-28
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Aaron M. McDaniel , Nathan P. O'Neill , Nirmal Doshi , Yuxing Tang , Robert Jerome Colwill
CPC classification number: G08B13/1472 , G08B13/2417 , G08B13/246 , G08B13/248 , G08B13/2485
Abstract: Storage units including platforms that are outfitted with RFID antennas and auxiliary sensors detect changes in loading on the platforms based on changes in loading determined by the auxiliary sensors or changes in signals received by the RFID antennas. The platforms include surfaces for receiving items tagged with RFID transmitters thereon, such as items of common types and variable weights. An interaction involving the placement of an item on the platform, or the removal of the item from the platform, is detected by the auxiliary sensors. The energization of an RFID field is triggered in response to the detected interaction, and an item is identified where an RFID signal transmitted by the item is present at one time and absent at another time.
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公开(公告)号：US11797920B1
公开(公告)日：2023-10-24
申请号：US16806484
申请日：2020-03-02
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Aaron M. McDaniel , Nirmal Doshi , Nathan P. O'Neill , Michael Joseph Ausich , Joel Stirling , Joseph W. Chauvin , Willy Scott Mordant , Nir Charny , Kaigene Jennifer Lin , Spencer Ralph Dodge
IPC: G06Q10/087 , G06Q30/0283 , G06Q20/08 , G01G19/414 , G01G23/34 , G06F16/9535 , G06V40/16 , G06N20/00
CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 , G01G19/414 , G01G23/34 , G06F16/9535 , G06Q20/085 , G06Q30/0283 , G06V40/172 , G06N20/00
Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling physical retail stores and other facilities to implement automated-checkout techniques for the purchase of items that are priced per unit weight. For example, the described systems may enable a facility to implement technology where users are able to remove items from inventory locations, where the inventory locations include weight sensors detecting the weights of the items that were removed. The system then determines the prices based on the weights and charges the users for the prices of the items without performing manual checkout of the items. The price of an item is determined based on the weight of the item and the price per unit weight of the item. The systems described herein thus enable customized retail facilities, as opposed to a retail facility that allows automated-checkout only for prepackaged-type or otherwise non-customizable merchandise.
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公开(公告)号：US11657689B1
公开(公告)日：2023-05-23
申请号：US16806573
申请日：2020-03-02
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Aaron M. McDaniel , Nirmal Doshi , Nathan P. O'Neill , Joel Stirling , Joseph W. Chauvin , Nir Charny , Kaigene Jennifer Lin , Spencer Ralph Dodge
CPC classification number: G08B13/2462 , G06Q20/102 , G06V20/52 , G08B13/1472 , G08B13/246 , G08B13/248 , G08B13/2454
Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling physical retail stores and other facilities to implement automated-checkout techniques for the purchase of items that are priced per unit weight. For example, the described systems may enable a facility to implement technology where users are able to remove items from inventory locations, place the items on weight sensors, and then be charged for the prices of the items without performing manual checkout of the items. The price of an item is determined based at least in part on the identifier of the item and the price per unit weight of the item. The systems described herein thus enable customized retail facilities, as opposed to a retail facility that allows automated-checkout only for prepackaged-type or otherwise non-customizable merchandise.
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公开(公告)号：US12159756B1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-03
申请号：US17930657
申请日：2022-09-08
Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor： Andrew James Pierce , James Stephanick , Joshua Smith , Nathan P. O'Neill , Robert M. Riggs , Sergio Alfredo Phan Lung Li , Benjamin Hong Yee , Alan Akiyoshi Nonaka , Ali Rahimi , Graham Cyril Jordan , David Bryan Michelman
Abstract: An apparatus comprising an array of electrical conductors connected to circuitry that determines data indicative of objects at particular locations based on capacitance at junctions of conductors in the array. The apparatus comprises a first set of conductors arranged on a first substrate and a second set of conductors arranged on a second substrate to form an array. The first and second substrates are separated by an air gap within which the electrical conductors are positioned. Each conductor may be independently addressable, having a proximal end connected to readout electronics and a distal end that is not. The apparatus may be cut, at the ends distal to where the conductors connect to the circuitry, to fit a desired location, such as on a store shelf, while remaining operational.
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公开(公告)号：US11514766B1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-29
申请号：US17118417
申请日：2020-12-10
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Aaron M. McDaniel , Nathan P. O'Neill , Nirmal Doshi , Yuxing Tang , Robert Jerome Colwill
Abstract: Storage units including platforms that are outfitted with RFID antennas and auxiliary sensors detect changes in loading on the platforms based on changes in loading determined by the auxiliary sensors or changes in signals received by the RFID antennas. The platforms include surfaces for receiving items tagged with RFID transmitters thereon, such as items of common types and variable weights. An interaction involving the placement of an item on the platform, or the removal of the item from the platform, is detected by the auxiliary sensors. The energization of an RFID field is triggered in response to the detected interaction, and an item is identified where an RFID signal transmitted by the item is present at one time and absent at another time.
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