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公开(公告)号:US10223666B1
公开(公告)日:2019-03-05
申请号:US15250611
申请日:2016-08-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Andriy Palamarchuk , Jeremiah David Brazeau
Abstract: A system for managing inventory items includes a portable inventory holder and an unmanned drive unit configured to move the inventory holder between locations in an inventory facility. The inventory facility includes a plurality of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers having a small set of values distributed in a pattern. The drive unit captures at least one image of a subset of the plurality of the fiducial markers. The at least one captured image is processed to determine a location of the drive unit within the facility. A path is determined along which the drive unit moves to an inventory holder and moves the inventory holder to another location. The pattern of fiducial markers can include one or more repeated instances of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers. A fiducial marker can encode information using a readable code and at least one attribute of the fiducial marker.
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公开(公告)号:US09280153B1
公开(公告)日:2016-03-08
申请号:US14491752
申请日:2014-09-19
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Andriy Palamarchuk , Jeremiah David Brazeau
CPC classification number: B65G1/137 , G05B15/02 , G05D1/00 , G05D1/021 , G05D1/0214 , G05D1/0297 , G05D2201/0216 , G06Q10/08
Abstract: An inventory system includes an inventory holder and a mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit includes sensors for detecting one or more load characteristics of the inventory holder and/or includes magnets and/or magnetic surfaces for securing the inventory holder to the mobile drive unit during lifting and/or moving.
Abstract translation: 库存系统包括库存持有人和移动驱动单元。 移动驱动单元包括用于检测库存保持器的一个或多个负载特性的传感器和/或包括用于在升降和/或移动期间将库存支架固定到移动驱动单元的磁体和/或磁性表面。
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公开(公告)号:US09471894B2
公开(公告)日:2016-10-18
申请号:US14841505
申请日:2015-08-31
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Andriy Palamarchuk , Jeremiah David Brazeau
CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 , G01C21/206 , G05D1/0234 , G05D1/0246 , G05D2201/0216
Abstract: A system for managing inventory items includes a portable inventory holder and an unmanned drive unit configured to move the inventory holder between locations in an inventory facility. The inventory facility includes a plurality of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers having a small set of values distributed in a pattern. The drive unit captures at least one image of a subset of the plurality of the fiducial markers. The at least one captured image is processed to determine a location of the drive unit within the facility. A path is determined along which the drive unit moves to an inventory holder and moves the inventory holder to another location. The pattern of fiducial markers can include one or more repeated instances of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers. A fiducial marker can encode information using a readable code and at least one attribute of the fiducial marker.
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公开(公告)号:US20150353280A1
公开(公告)日:2015-12-10
申请号:US14298756
申请日:2014-06-06
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Jeremiah David Brazeau , Andriy Palamarchuk
IPC: B65G1/02
CPC classification number: G05D1/00 , G05D1/0234 , G05D1/0274 , G05D2201/0216
Abstract: A system for managing inventory items includes a portable inventory holder and an unmanned drive unit configured to move the inventory holder between locations in an inventory facility. The inventory facility includes a plurality of light emitting elements. The drive unit captures an image of a subset of the light emitting elements. The captured image is processed to determine the location of the drive unit within the facility. A path is determined along which the drive unit moves to an inventory holder and moves the inventory holder to another location. The light emitting elements can be provided by optical fibers embedded in the floor of the inventory facility.
Abstract translation: 用于管理库存物品的系统包括便携式库存持有者和被配置为在库存设施中的库存位置之间移动库存持有者的无人驾驶单元。 库存设施包括多个发光元件。 驱动单元捕获发光元件的子集的图像。 捕获的图像被处理以确定设备内的驱动单元的位置。 确定驱动单元移动到库存持有者的路径,并将库存持有者移动到另一位置。 发光元件可以由嵌入在库存设备的地板中的光纤提供。
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公开(公告)号:US09152149B1
公开(公告)日:2015-10-06
申请号:US14298789
申请日:2014-06-06
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Andriy Palamarchuk , Jeremiah David Brazeau
IPC: G05D1/02
CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 , G01C21/206 , G05D1/0234 , G05D1/0246 , G05D2201/0216
Abstract: A system for managing inventory items includes a portable inventory holder and an unmanned drive unit configured to move the inventory holder between locations in an inventory facility. The inventory facility includes a plurality of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers having a small set of values distributed in a pattern. The drive unit captures at least one image of a subset of the plurality of the fiducial markers. The at least one captured image is processed to determine a location of the drive unit within the facility. A path is determined along which the drive unit moves to an inventory holder and moves the inventory holder to another location. The pattern of fiducial markers can include one or more repeated instances of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers. A fiducial marker can encode information using a readable code and at least one attribute of the fiducial marker.
Abstract translation: 用于管理库存物品的系统包括便携式库存持有者和被配置为在库存设施中的库存位置之间移动库存持有者的无人驾驶单元。 库存设施包括多个唯一可识别的基准标记,其具有以图案分布的小的一组值。 驱动单元捕获多个基准标记的子集的至少一个图像。 处理至少一个捕获的图像以确定设施内的驱动单元的位置。 确定驱动单元移动到库存持有者的路径,并将库存持有者移动到另一位置。 基准标记的模式可以包括唯一可识别的基准标记的一个或多个重复实例。 基准标记可以使用可读代码和基准标记的至少一个属性对信息进行编码。
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公开(公告)号:US20190007366A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-03
申请号:US15636523
申请日:2017-06-28
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Michael Siaosi Voegele , Kevin Christopher Miller , Justin Canfield Crites , Andriy Palamarchuk , Andrew Bruce Dickinson , Christopher Carson Thomas , Rebecca Claire Weiss
IPC: H04L29/12 , H04L12/741 , H04L12/803 , H04L12/46
Abstract: A customer may request a service endpoint for a service in their virtual network on a provider network. In response, a service endpoint is generated in the customer's virtual network, a local IP address in the IP address range of the customer's virtual network is assigned to the service endpoint, and a DNS name is assigned to the service endpoint. Resources on the customer's virtual network resolve the DNS name of the service endpoint to obtain the local IP address of the service endpoint and send service requests for the service to the local IP address of the service endpoint. The service endpoint adds routing information to the service requests and sends the service requests over the network substrate to be routed to the service.
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公开(公告)号:US09494934B2
公开(公告)日:2016-11-15
申请号:US14298756
申请日:2014-06-06
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Jeremiah David Brazeau , Andriy Palamarchuk
CPC classification number: G05D1/00 , G05D1/0234 , G05D1/0274 , G05D2201/0216
Abstract: A system for managing inventory items includes a portable inventory holder and an unmanned drive unit configured to move the inventory holder between locations in an inventory facility. The inventory facility includes a plurality of light emitting elements. The drive unit captures an image of a subset of the light emitting elements. The captured image is processed to determine the location of the drive unit within the facility. A path is determined along which the drive unit moves to an inventory holder and moves the inventory holder to another location. The light emitting elements can be provided by optical fibers embedded in the floor of the inventory facility.
Abstract translation: 用于管理库存物品的系统包括便携式库存持有者和被配置为在库存设施中的库存位置之间移动库存持有者的无人驾驶单元。 库存设施包括多个发光元件。 驱动单元捕获发光元件的子集的图像。 捕获的图像被处理以确定设备内的驱动单元的位置。 确定驱动单元移动到库存持有者的路径,并将库存持有者移动到另一位置。 发光元件可以由嵌入在库存设备的地板中的光纤提供。
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公开(公告)号:US20150371181A1
公开(公告)日:2015-12-24
申请号:US14841505
申请日:2015-08-31
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Andriy Palamarchuk , Jeremiah David Brazeau
CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 , G01C21/206 , G05D1/0234 , G05D1/0246 , G05D2201/0216
Abstract: A system for managing inventory items includes a portable inventory holder and an unmanned drive unit configured to move the inventory holder between locations in an inventory facility. The inventory facility includes a plurality of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers having a small set of values distributed in a pattern. The drive unit captures at least one image of a subset of the plurality of the fiducial markers. The at least one captured image is processed to determine a location of the drive unit within the facility. A path is determined along which the drive unit moves to an inventory holder and moves the inventory holder to another location. The pattern of fiducial markers can include one or more repeated instances of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers. A fiducial marker can encode information using a readable code and at least one attribute of the fiducial marker.
Abstract translation: 用于管理库存物品的系统包括便携式库存持有者和被配置为在库存设施中的库存位置之间移动库存持有者的无人驾驶单元。 库存设施包括多个唯一可识别的基准标记,其具有以图案分布的小的一组值。 驱动单元捕获多个基准标记的子集的至少一个图像。 处理至少一个捕获的图像以确定设施内的驱动单元的位置。 确定驱动单元移动到库存持有者的路径,并将库存持有者移动到另一位置。 基准标记的模式可以包括唯一可识别的基准标记的一个或多个重复实例。 基准标记可以使用可读代码和基准标记的至少一个属性对信息进行编码。
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公开(公告)号:US10666606B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-26
申请号:US15636523
申请日:2017-06-28
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Michael Siaosi Voegele , Kevin Christopher Miller , Justin Canfield Crites , Andriy Palamarchuk , Andrew Bruce Dickinson , Christopher Carson Thomas , Rebecca Claire Weiss
IPC: H04L29/12 , H04L12/46 , H04L12/741 , H04L12/803
Abstract: A customer may request a service endpoint for a service in their virtual network on a provider network. In response, a service endpoint is generated in the customer's virtual network, a local IP address in the IP address range of the customer's virtual network is assigned to the service endpoint, and a DNS name is assigned to the service endpoint. Resources on the customer's virtual network resolve the DNS name of the service endpoint to obtain the local IP address of the service endpoint and send service requests for the service to the local IP address of the service endpoint. The service endpoint adds routing information to the service requests and sends the service requests over the network substrate to be routed to the service.
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公开(公告)号:US10112772B1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-30
申请号:US15847863
申请日:2017-12-19
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Andriy Palamarchuk , Jeremiah David Brazeau
Abstract: An inventory system includes an inventory holder that may be moved by a mobile drive unit. The inventory holder may hold inventory items. The mobile drive unit may move in a manner for facilitating a shift of position of at least one inventory item relative to the inventory holder. Such movement may be accomplished, for example, by accelerating, decelerating, turning while driving, spinning, dropping the inventory holder, or by causing at least one of the mobile drive unit or the inventory holder to at least one of interact with or engage an obstacle such as a bump over which the mobile drive unit drives, a bar positioned above a floor on which the mobile drive unit drives, a wall, another mobile drive unit, or another inventory holder.
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