Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating computer-vision-based detection and identification of consumer products comprise a support surface for supporting thereon one or more consumer products to be detected and a plurality of digital cameras each arranged at a different height relative to the support surface and positioned such that a field of view of each of the digital cameras includes the consumer product(s) located on the support surface. Movement of the support surface and/or the digital cameras permits the digital cameras to capture images of the consumer product from different angles of view and up to a full 360 degree of rotation around the at least one consumer product. A computing device uses at least the image data from such images to train a computer vision consumer product identification model to generate a reference image data model to be used for recognition of the at least one consumer product.

Abstract: A personalized message-blanket package enclosing a plurality of customer-selected tangible items for delivery to a plurality of recipients. In the preferred embodiment, the package comprises a blanket that completely covers its outer surface with the customer's message imprinted or otherwise impressed thereon. The present invention also provides a system and a method for generating such a message-blanket package by a customer interfacing with a personal computer that is connected to the Internet or to an intranet. By engaging with this interface, the customer gains interactive access to specially-designed software located on a host file-server in order to generate a customized multifaceted message consisting of a combination of pertinent verbiage, graphics images, clipart, and music. This customized message is physically imprinted upon the outer surface of the front and back panel of the message-blanket package.