Patents by Inventor Justin Michael Brown

Justin Michael Brown 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).

  • Patent number: 11972624
    Abstract: A delivery system may include a pallet wrapper system having a turntable, a camera directed toward an area above the turntable, and a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable. A computer receives images from the camera of multiple sides of a pallet loaded with packages on the turntable. The computer stitches images from different sides of the stack of packages that correspond to the same package. At least one machine learning model may be used to infer SKUs of each package. Optical character recognition may be performed in parallel on the images. The determination of the SKU of each package may be based upon the inferred SKUs and on the OCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, Jr., Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown
  • Publication number: 20240020957
    Abstract: An imaging system and method uses grouping and elimination to label images of unknown items. The items may be stacked together with known or unknown items. The items may be packages, such as packages of beverage containers. A machine learning model may be used to infer skus of the packages. The machine learning model is trained on known skus but is not trained on unknown skus. Multiple images of the same unknown sku are grouped using the machine learning model. Elimination based upon lists of expected skus is used to label each group of unknown skus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Justin Michael Brown, Daniel James Thyer
  • Patent number: 11823440
    Abstract: An imaging system and method uses grouping and elimination to label images of unknown items. The items may be stacked together with known or unknown items. The items may be packages, such as packages of beverage containers. A machine learning model may be used to infer skus of the packages. The machine learning model is trained on known skus but is not trained on unknown skus. Multiple images of the same unknown sku are grouped using the machine learning model. Elimination based upon lists of expected skus is used to label each group of unknown skus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventors: Justin Michael Brown, Daniel James Thyer
  • Publication number: 20230360419
    Abstract: A delivery system may include a pallet wrapper system having a turntable, a camera directed toward an area above the turntable, and a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable. A computer receives images from the camera of multiple sides of a pallet loaded with packages on the turntable. The computer stitches images from different sides of the stack of packages that correspond to the same package. At least one machine learning model may be used to infer SKUs of each package. Optical character recognition may be performed in parallel on the images. The determination of the SKU of each package may be based upon the inferred SKUs and on the OCR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, JR., Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown
  • Patent number: 11783606
    Abstract: A delivery system may include a pallet wrapper system having a turntable, a camera directed toward an area above the turntable, and a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable. A computer receives images from the camera of multiple sides of a pallet loaded with packages on the turntable. The computer stitches images from different sides of the stack of packages that correspond to the same package. At least one machine learning model may be used to infer SKUs of each package. Optical character recognition may be performed in parallel on the images. The determination of the SKU of each package may be based upon the inferred SKUs and on the OCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, Jr., Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown
  • Publication number: 20230147974
    Abstract: A pick assist system may include a pallet destacker storing a front column of pallets and a back column of pallets. At least one rfid reader is configured to read an rfid tag on a pallet in or below at least one of the front column of pallets or the back column of pallets. The pick assist system may include a pallet sled including a display indicating a product to be retrieved. The pallet sled may determine that the product has been placed in a center of a pallet on the pallet sled. A method for verifying a pallet may include identifying skus on exterior products in a layer in a stack of products. Based upon that determination, the skus of the interior products may also be determined. For example, it may be determined that the interior products were part of a layer pick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Lee Martin, JR., Peter Douglas Jackson, Steven Stavro, Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown, Vance Asher Weintraub
  • Publication number: 20230140119
    Abstract: A delivery system may include a pallet wrapper system having a turntable, a camera directed toward an area above the turntable, and a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable. A computer receives images from the camera of multiple sides of a pallet loaded with packages on the turntable. The computer stitches images from different sides of the stack of packages that correspond to the same package. At least one machine learning model may be used to infer SKUs of each package. Optical character recognition may be performed in parallel on the images. The determination of the SKU of each package may be based upon the inferred SKUs and on the OCR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, JR., Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown
  • Publication number: 20230058363
    Abstract: A semantic similarity fingerprint is generated for an image by inferring a plurality of SKUs each at an associated first weight based upon analysis of the image using the machine learning models. The associated first weights for each of the classifications based upon each machine learning model is the semantic similarity fingerprint. The semantic similarity fingerprint may be compared to previously generated semantic similarity fingerprints. If a match is found with a semantic similarity fingerprint that has previously been identified as a particular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Leon Reynolds, Justin Michael Brown, Daniel James Thyer
  • Publication number: 20230054508
    Abstract: An imaging system and method uses grouping and elimination to label images of unknown items. The items may be stacked together with known or unknown items. The items may be packages, such as packages of beverage containers. A machine learning model may be used to infer skus of the packages. The machine learning model is trained on known skus but is not trained on unknown skus. Multiple images of the same unknown sku are grouped using the machine learning model. Elimination based upon lists of expected skus is used to label each group of unknown skus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Justin Michael Brown, Daniel James Thyer
  • Publication number: 20220129836
    Abstract: A delivery system generates a pick sheet containing a plurality of SKUs based upon an order. A loaded pallet is imaged to identify the SKUs on the loaded pallet, which are compared to the order prior to the loaded pallet leaving the distribution center. The loaded pallet may be imaged while being wrapped with stretch wrap. At the point of delivery, the loaded pallet may be imaged again and analyzed to compare with the pick sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, JR., Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown
  • Publication number: 20210334594
    Abstract: An imaging station includes a rotating pedestal, a camera mover, multiple light sources, and back lit screens. It also includes a computer with all of the software to control the imaging station. The output of the imaging station is a set of images of an object that represents a subset of the ideal set, which can be used to train an object detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Justin Michael Brown