Method, system and apparatus for support structure depth determination

    公开(公告)号:US11506483B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US16152986

    申请日:2018-10-05

    Abstract: A method of determining a support structure depth of a support structure having a front and a back separated by the support structure depth includes: obtaining a point cloud of the support structure, and a mask indicating, for a plurality of portions of an image of the support structure captured from a capture pose, respective confidence levels that the portions depict the back of the support structure; selecting, from the point cloud, an initial set of points located within a field of view originating at the capture pose; selecting, from the initial set of points, an unoccluded subset of depth measurements, the depth measurements in the unoccluded subset corresponding to respective image coordinates; retrieving, from the mask, a confidence level for each of the depth measurements in the unoccluded subset; and based on the depth measurements in the unoccluded subset and the retrieved confidence levels, determining the support structure depth.

    Method, system and apparatus for object detection in point clouds

    公开(公告)号:US11010920B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-18

    申请号:US16153064

    申请日:2018-10-05

    Abstract: A method of detecting objects on a support structure includes: obtaining a point cloud of the support structure supporting an object; obtaining a position of a back of the support structure in the point cloud; discarding a portion of the point cloud based on the position of the back of the support structure; generating a three-dimensional occupancy grid from the point cloud, the occupancy grid having a plurality of cells each indicating whether the cell is one of occupied and unoccupied; identifying a contiguous region of occupied cells in the occupancy grid corresponding to the object; and generating a detected object position based on the contiguous region.

    Method, System and Apparatus for Object Detection in Point Clouds

    公开(公告)号:US20210272316A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-02

    申请号:US17322545

    申请日:2021-05-17

    Abstract: A method of detecting objects on a support structure includes: obtaining a point cloud of the support structure supporting an object; obtaining a position of a back of the support structure in the point cloud; discarding a portion of the point cloud based on the position of the back of the support structure; generating a three-dimensional occupancy grid from the point cloud, the occupancy grid having a plurality of cells each indicating whether the cell is one of occupied and unoccupied; identifying a contiguous region of occupied cells in the occupancy grid corresponding to the object; and generating a detected object position based on the contiguous region.

    Method, System and Apparatus for Detecting Product Facings

    公开(公告)号:US20200380454A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16429820

    申请日:2019-06-03

    Abstract: A method of detecting product facings from captured depth and image data includes: obtaining, at an imaging controller, (i) depth measurements representing a support structure supporting a plurality of product facings, (ii) image data representing the support structure, and (iii) a set of region of interest (ROI) indicators each indicating a position of a plurality of the product facings; generating a first set of candidate facing edges from the depth measurements; generating a second set of candidate facing edges from the image data; generating a third set of candidate facing edges by combining the first and second sets; generating, for each adjacent pair of the third set of candidate facing edges, a candidate facing boundary; selecting a subset of output facing boundaries from the candidate facing boundaries, based on the ROI indicators; and storing the output facing boundaries in a memory coupled to the imaging controller.

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