Patents by Inventor Lorin Vandegrift
Lorin Vandegrift has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230421705Abstract: One variation of a method for stock keeping in a store includes: accessing an image captured by a fixed camera within the store; retrieving a field of view of the fixed camera; estimating a segment of an inventory structure in the store depicted in the image based on a projection of the field of view onto a planogram of the store; identifying a set of slots within the inventory structure segment; retrieving a product model representing a set of visual characteristics of a product type assigned to a slot, in the set of slots, by the planogram; extracting a constellation of features from the image; if the constellation of features approximates the set of visual characteristics in the product model, detecting presence of a product unit of the product type occupying the inventory structure segment; and representing presence of the product unit, occupying the inventory structure segment, in a realogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee, Durgesh Tiwari
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Publication number: 20230131517Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating a planogram for a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate within the store during a mapping routine; accessing a floor map of the floor space generated by the robotic system from map data collected during the mapping routine; identifying a shelving structure within the map of the floor space; defining a first set of waypoints along an aisle facing the shelving structure; dispatching the robotic system to navigate to and to capture optical data at the set of waypoints during an imaging routine; receiving a set of images generated from optical data recorded by the robotic system during the imaging routine; identifying products and positions of products in the set of images; and generating a planogram of the shelving segment based on products and positions of products identified in the set of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Jariullah Safi, Luke Fraser, Lorin Vandegrift, Jeffrey Gee
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Patent number: 11593755Abstract: A method for stock keeping in a store includes: accessing an image captured by a fixed camera within the store; retrieving a field of view of the fixed camera; estimating a segment of an inventory structure in the store depicted in the image based on a projection of the field of view onto a planogram of the store; identifying a set of slots within the inventory structure segment; retrieving a product model representing a set of visual characteristics of a product type assigned to a slot, in the set of slots, by the planogram; extracting a constellation of features from the image; if the constellation of features approximates the set of visual characteristics in the product model, detecting presence of a product unit of the product type occupying the inventory structure segment; and representing presence of the product unit, occupying the inventory structure segment, in a realogram.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee, Durgesh Tiwari
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Publication number: 20220391825Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image recorded by a mobile robotic system within a store; detecting a shelf in a region of the image; based on an address of the shelf, retrieving a list of products assigned to the shelf by a planogram of the store; retrieving a set of template images—from a database of template images—defining visual features of products specified in the list of products; extracting a set of features from the region of the image; determining that a unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf in response to deviation between the set of features and features in a template image, in the set of template images, representing the product; and in response to determining that the unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf, generating a restocking prompt for the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee
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Publication number: 20220230128Abstract: One variation of a method for deploying a robotic system to scan inventory within a store includes: retrieving generic recommended baseline scan frequencies assigned to a set of product types stocked in the store; annotating a map of the store according to generic recommended baseline scan frequencies and locations of the set of product types in the store; overwriting baseline scan frequencies assigned to locations in the store based on inputs from the user; accessing elapsed times since last images of slots in the store, assigned to these product types, were captured by the robotic system; calculating urgency scores for imaging these slots proportional to differences between elapsed times and their scan frequencies; and calculating a scan route that preferentially locates, within the field of view of the robotic system, locations in the store associated with higher first urgency scores over locations associated with lower first urgency scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Jariullah Safi, Bradley Bogolea, Durgesh Tiwari, Lorin Vandegrift, Cem Ersoz
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Patent number: 11341454Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image depicting a shelving structure in the store; reading a product identifier of a product from a shelf tag detected in the image; accessing a set of template features associated with the product identifier; based on the shelf tag detected in the image, locating a region in the first image depicting a slot on the shelving structure; confirming presence of a unit of the product in the slot in response to detecting features analogous to the set of template features in the region in the image; detecting absence of the product from the slot based on absence of features analogous to the set of template features in the region in the image; and in response to detecting absence of the product from the slot, generating a prompt to restock the slot.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee
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Publication number: 20210374662Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking promotional states of slots in inventory structures within a store includes: accessing an image of an inventory structure within a store; detecting a shelf tag on the inventory structure in the image; extracting a set of features from the shelf tag detected in the image; detecting a promotional tag on the inventory structure in the image; extracting a set of features from the promotional tag detected in the image; detecting a deviation between the shelf tag and the promotional tag based on a difference between the sets of features; and, in response to detecting the deviation between the shelf tag and the promotional tag, identifying the first promotional tag as erroneous, and notifying a store associate to replace the first promotional tag with a second promotional tag at the first slot, the second promotional tag correcting the difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Jariullah Safi, Lorin Vandegrift, Shiva Reddy, Tom Gehani
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Publication number: 20210357851Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store includes: accessing a image of an inventory structure in the store; identifying a top shelf, in the inventory structure, depicted in the image; identifying a set of product units occupying the top shelf based on features detected in the image; identifying a second shelf, in the set of shelves in the inventory structure, depicted in the image, the second shelf arranged below the top shelf in the inventory structure; based on features detected in the image, detecting an understock condition at a slot—assigned to a product type—on the second shelf; and, in response to the set of product units comprising a product unit of the product type, generating a prompt to transfer the product unit of the product type from the top shelf into the slot on the second shelf at the inventory structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Durgesh Tiwari, Jariullah Safi, Shiva Reddy, Lorin Vandegrift
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Patent number: 11126962Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking promotional states of slots in inventory structures within a store includes: accessing an image of an inventory structure within a store; detecting a shelf tag on the inventory structure in the image; extracting a set of features from the shelf tag detected in the image; detecting a promotional tag on the inventory structure in the image; extracting a set of features from the promotional tag detected in the image; detecting a deviation between the shelf tag and the promotional tag based on a difference between the sets of features; and, in response to detecting the deviation between the shelf tag and the promotional tag, identifying the first promotional tag as erroneous, and notifying a store associate to replace the first promotional tag with a second promotional tag at the first slot, the second promotional tag correcting the difference.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Jariullah Safi, Lorin Vandegrift, Shiva Reddy, Tom Gehani
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Patent number: 11107035Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store includes: accessing a image of an inventory structure in the store; identifying a top shelf, in the inventory structure, depicted in the image; identifying a set of product units occupying the top shelf based on features detected in the image; identifying a second shelf, in the set of shelves in the inventory structure, depicted in the image, the second shelf arranged below the top shelf in the inventory structure; based on features detected in the image, detecting an understock condition at a slot—assigned to a product type—on the second shelf; and, in response to the set of product units comprising a product unit of the product type, generating a prompt to transfer the product unit of the product type from the top shelf into the slot on the second shelf at the inventory structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Durgesh Tiwari, Jariullah Safi, Shiva Reddy, Lorin Vandegrift
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Publication number: 20210241214Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking promotional states of slots in inventory structures within a store includes: accessing an image of an inventory structure within a store; detecting a shelf tag on the inventory structure in the image; extracting a set of features from the shelf tag detected in the image; detecting a promotional tag on the inventory structure in the image; extracting a set of features from the promotional tag detected in the image; detecting a deviation between the shelf tag and the promotional tag based on a difference between the sets of features; and, in response to detecting the deviation between the shelf tag and the promotional tag, identifying the first promotional tag as erroneous, and notifying a store associate to replace the first promotional tag with a second promotional tag at the first slot, the second promotional tag correcting the difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Jariullah Safi, Lorin Vandegrift, Shiva Reddy, Tom Gehani
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Publication number: 20210158278Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking and maintaining inventory in a store includes: accessing a image of an inventory structure in the store; identifying a top shelf, in the inventory structure, depicted in the image; identifying a set of product units occupying the top shelf based on features detected in the image; identifying a second shelf, in the set of shelves in the inventory structure, depicted in the image, the second shelf arranged below the top shelf in the inventory structure; based on features detected in the image, detecting an understock condition at a slot—assigned to a product type—on the second shelf; and, in response to the set of product units comprising a product unit of the product type, generating a prompt to transfer the product unit of the product type from the top shelf into the slot on the second shelf at the inventory structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Durgesh Tiwari, Jariullah Safi, Shiva Reddy, Lorin Vandegrift
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Publication number: 20200286032Abstract: One variation of a method for stock keeping in a store includes: accessing an image captured by a fixed camera within the store; retrieving a field of view of the fixed camera; estimating a segment of an inventory structure in the store depicted in the image based on a projection of the field of view onto a planogram of the store; identifying a set of slots within the inventory structure segment; retrieving a product model representing a set of visual characteristics of a product type assigned to a slot, in the set of slots, by the planogram; extracting a constellation of features from the image; if the constellation of features approximates the set of visual characteristics in the product model, detecting presence of a product unit of the product type occupying the inventory structure segment; and representing presence of the product unit, occupying the inventory structure segment, in a realogram.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee, Durgesh Tiwari
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Publication number: 20200215698Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating a planogram for a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate within the store during a mapping routine; accessing a floor map of the floor space generated by the robotic system from map data collected during the mapping routine; identifying a shelving structure within the map of the floor space; defining a first set of waypoints along an aisle facing the shelving structure; dispatching the robotic system to navigate to and to capture optical data at the set of waypoints during an imaging routine; receiving a set of images generated from optical data recorded by the robotic system during the imaging routine; identifying products and positions of products in the set of images; and generating a planogram of the shelving segment based on products and positions of products identified in the set of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Jariullah Safi, Luke Fraser, Lorin Vandegrift, Jeffrey Gee
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Patent number: 10625426Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating a planogram for a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate within the store during a mapping routine; accessing a floor map of the floor space generated by the robotic system from map data collected during the mapping routine; identifying a shelving structure within the map of the floor space; defining a first set of waypoints along an aisle facing the shelving structure; dispatching the robotic system to navigate to and to capture optical data at the set of waypoints during an imaging routine; receiving a set of images generated from optical data recorded by the robotic system during the imaging routine; identifying products and positions of products in the set of images; and generating a planogram of the shelving segment based on products and positions of products identified in the set of images.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Jariullah Safi, Luke Fraser, Lorin Vandegrift, Jeffrey Gee
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Publication number: 20200013007Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image recorded by a mobile robotic system within a store; detecting a shelf in a region of the image; based on an address of the shelf, retrieving a list of products assigned to the shelf by a planogram of the store; retrieving a set of template images—from a database of template images—defining visual features of products specified in the list of products; extracting a set of features from the region of the image; determining that a unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf in response to deviation between the set of features and features in a template image, in the set of template images, representing the product; and in response to determining that the unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf, generating a restocking prompt for the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee
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Patent number: 10467587Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image recorded by a mobile robotic system within a store; detecting a shelf in a region of the image; based on an address of the shelf, retrieving a list of products assigned to the shelf by a planogram of the store; retrieving a set of template images—from a database of template images—defining visual features of products specified in the list of products; extracting a set of features from the region of the image; determining that a unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf in response to deviation between the set of features and features in a template image, in the set of template images, representing the product; and in response to determining that the unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf, generating a restocking prompt for the product.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Simbe Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee
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Publication number: 20180005035Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating a planogram for a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate within the store during a mapping routine; accessing a floor map of the floor space generated by the robotic system from map data collected during the mapping routine; identifying a shelving structure within the map of the floor space; defining a first set of waypoints along an aisle facing the shelving structure; dispatching the robotic system to navigate to and to capture optical data at the set of waypoints during an imaging routine; receiving a set of images generated from optical data recorded by the robotic system during the imaging routine; identifying products and positions of products in the set of images; and generating a planogram of the shelving segment based on products and positions of products identified in the set of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Jariullah Safi, Luke Fraser, Lorin Vandegrift, Jeffrey Gee
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Publication number: 20170337508Abstract: One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image recorded by a mobile robotic system within a store; detecting a shelf in a region of the image; based on an address of the shelf, retrieving a list of products assigned to the shelf by a planogram of the store; retrieving a set of template images—from a database of template images—defining visual features of products specified in the list of products; extracting a set of features from the region of the image; determining that a unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf in response to deviation between the set of features and features in a template image, in the set of template images, representing the product; and in response to determining that the unit of the product is mis-stocked on the shelf, generating a restocking prompt for the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Bradley Bogolea, Mirza Akbar Shah, Lorin Vandegrift, Luke Fraser, Jariullah Safi, Jeffrey Gee