Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring retail store display compliance are provided. One or more images of one or more retail store conditions are captured and associated with related information. The one or more captured images and the related information are transmitted to a processing location for storage and processing. The one or more captured images and the related information are received at the processing location, stored in a repository and processed. The one or more retail store conditions in the one or more captured images are compared with a library to identify them and obtain identification information. The one or more identified captured images and identification information for the one or more retail store conditions are stored in the repository. The one or more retail store conditions in the one or more captured images and identification information are analyzed and one or more summary reports or one or more alerts are generated based upon the analysis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 12, 2006
Date of Patent:
April 23, 2013
Assignee:
Store Eyes, Inc.
Inventors:
Craig Hamilton, Wayne Spencer, Alexander Ring
Abstract: Method and apparatus for measuring retail store display and shelf compliance are provided. A mobile capture unit, (21), determines a movement distance and moves the mobile capture unit, (21), the determined movement distance. The mobile capture unit, (21), captures one or more images of one or more product displays, (22), product shelves or products with the mobile image capture unit (21), using one or more cameras.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 28, 2007
Publication date:
July 8, 2010
Applicant:
STORE EYES, INC.
Inventors:
Craig Hamilton, Wayne Spencer, Alexander Ring, Peter L. Pastor, Donald E. Campbell