Patents by Inventor Steve Gu
Steve Gu 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: 20230245087Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a meta world autonomous store that can be utilized within a retail environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: AiFi CorpInventor: Steve Gu
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Publication number: 20230123576Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for anonymous checkout in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system of the store, information associated with a payment account of a person; sending, by the computer system to a server associated with a payment system, the received information associated with the payment account of the person; receiving, by the computer system from the server associated with the payment system, a token associated with the payment account of the person; receiving, by the computer system from a plurality of sensors, data associated with the person; extracting, by the computer system based on the received data associated with the person, a plurality of features of the person; and storing, by the computer system, the received token in correspondence with information associated with the extracted features of the person.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Joao Falcao, Tyler Crain
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Publication number: 20230052213Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques that can be utilized to simulate and analyze behaviors of customers in a retail environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Ying Zheng, Steve Gu, Long Chen, Joao Falcao
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Publication number: 20230049057Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for utilizing visual reality shopping experience for users.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng
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Publication number: 20220414657Abstract: The present invention describes a self checkout system with a cloud server. The system is configured to detect item change caused by customer actions and optimize the camera system and computing resources of a cloud server. The system also can distribute low confidence transactions to persons for review.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng
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Patent number: 11526863Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a hybrid autonomous store that can be utilized within a retail environment. This system with doors, cameras, and sensors is designed to have many functions within a store with identification system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Joao Falcao
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Method and system for tracking objects in an automated-checkout store based on distributed computing
Patent number: 11521248Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking objects in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by one or more first computing devices, data captured by one or more sensors in the store; identifying, by the one or more first computing devices, a plurality of objects based on the received data, wherein the identified objects comprise one or more persons and one or more product items; extracting, by the one or more first computing devices, a plurality of features associated with each of the identified objects; generating, by the one or more first computing devices, a digest comprising information of the extracted features associated with the identified objects; and sending, by the one or more first computing devices, the digest to one or more second computing devices for processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: AiFi Inc.Inventors: Ying Zheng, Steve Gu, Shuang Liu, Juan Ramon Terven-Salinas, Marek Drozdowski, Joao Falcao -
Publication number: 20220374852Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a hybrid autonomous store that can be utilized within a retail environment. This system with doors, cameras, and sensors is designed to have many functions within a store with identification system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Joao Falcao
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Publication number: 20220374853Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods. devices, and other techniques for a hybrid autonomous store that can be utilized within a retail environment. This system with doors, cameras, and sensors is designed to have many functions within a store with identification system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Joao Falcao
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Publication number: 20220374851Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a hybrid autonomous store that can be utilized within a retail environment. This system with doors, cameras, and sensors is designed to have many functions within a store with identification system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2021Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Joao Falcao
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Publication number: 20220366109Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for methods to generate and training models within a retail environmentType: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Brian Bates
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Publication number: 20220358512Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a smart autonomous store entry system that can be utilized within a retail environment. This system with doors, cameras, and sensors is designed to have many functions within a store with identification system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Joao Falcao
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Patent number: 11488386Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques that can be utilized to generate models for a camera system simulation in a retail environment and perform simulation to perfect these models.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: AiFi CorpInventors: Ying Zheng, Steve Gu, Brian Bates, Long Chen, Will Hendry, Juan Terven, Joao Falcao, Tyler Crain
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Publication number: 20220319289Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for a system with cameras and mirrors that can be utilized with an auto-checkout system within a retail environment. This system with cameras and mirrors is designed to have many functions within a store with auto-checkout system and sometimes can be utilized in a store with or without human cashier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Steve Gu, Ying Zheng, Tyler Crain
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Patent number: 11443291Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking a product item in an automated-checkout store. One of the methods includes receiving, from a plurality of sensors, data collected by the sensors, identifying an account associated with a person who enters the store, receiving data on movement of the product item collected by one or more of the sensors, determining an interaction between the person and the product item based on the data collected by one or more of the sensors, storing information associating the product item with the person; and deducting a payment amount from the identified account, wherein the payment amount is based on a price of the product item associated with the person.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: AIFI INC.Inventors: Steve Gu, Joao Falcao, Ying Zheng, Shuang Liu, Brian Bates, Juan Ramon Terven-Salinas, Carlos Ruiz, Tyler Crain
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Publication number: 20220262085Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for methods with cameras and specialized ink spreads and augmented reality technology that can be utilized to generate models within an auto-checkout system within a retail environmentType: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Ying Zheng, JUAN TERVEN, Qingyun Sun, Steve Gu, Shuang Liu
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Patent number: 11393213Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking a product item in an automated-checkout store. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system, data collected by multiple image sensors, the received data including data associated with a person, identifying, by the computer system based on the received data, multiple features of the person, extracting, by the computer system based on the identified features, data associated with the person from the received data, wherein the extracted data correspond to multiple time periods, and determining, by the computer system, a location of the person in each of the time periods based on the extracted data corresponding to the time period, wherein the determining includes aggregating the extracted data collected by different image sensors based at least in part on a location and a line of sight of each of the image sensors.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: AIFI INC.Inventors: Shuang Liu, Long Chen, Wangpeng An, Zijie Zhuang, Ying He, Ying Zheng, Steve Gu
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Patent number: 11373160Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for monitoring shopping activities using weight data in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, from one or more image sensors and one or more weight sensors, data collected by the one or more image sensors and data collected by the one or more weight sensors; identifying, based at least on the data collected by the one or more image sensors, one or more product items removed by a person from the store; calculating an expected total weight of the one or more product items based on information associated with the one or more product items stored by the computer system; determining, based on the data collected by the one or more weight sensors, an actual total weight of the one or more product items removed by the person; and verifying the actual total weight is consistent with the expected total weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: AIFI INC.Inventors: Steve Gu, Joao Falcao, Ying Zheng, Shuang Liu
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Patent number: 11341683Abstract: The present invention describes a system for calibrating a plurality of cameras in an area. The system functions by using certain patterns with visible or invisible properties In addition, the system implements automatic re-calibration in a specific way to reduce human intervention, cost and time.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: AiFi CorpInventors: Ying Zheng, Hector Sanchez, Steve Gu, Staurt Kyle Neubarth, Mahmoud Hassan, Juan Ramon Terven
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Publication number: 20220157033Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for methods with cameras and specialized ink spreads and augmented reality technology that can be utilized to generate models within an auto-checkout system within a retail environmentType: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: AiFi CorpInventors: Ying Zheng, JUAN TERVEN, Qingyun Sun, Steve Gu, Shuang Liu