Patents by Inventor Petko Tsonev
Petko Tsonev 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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Patent number: 12198179Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for updating planogram data associated with a facility. The planogram may indicate, for different shelves and other inventory locations within the facility, which items are on which shelves. For example, the planogram data may indicate that a particular item is located on a particular shelf. Therefore, when a system identifies that a user has taken an item from that shelf, the system may update a virtual cart of that user to indicate addition of the particular item. In some instances, however, a new item may be stocked on the example shelf instead of a previous item. The techniques described herein may use sensor data generated in the facility to identify this change and update the planogram data to indicate an association between the shelf and the new item.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Behjat Siddiquie, Petko Tsonev, Claire Law, Connor Spencer Blue Worley, Jue Wang, Bharat Singh, Hue Tuan Thi, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai
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Patent number: 11810362Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for updating planogram data associated with a facility. The planogram may indicate inventory locations within the facility for various types of items supported by product fixtures. In particular an image of a product fixture is analyzed to identify image segments corresponding to product groups, where each product group consists of instances of the same product and each image segment corresponds to a group of image points. Image data is further analyzed to determine coordinates of the points of each image segment. A product space corresponding to the product group is then defined based on the coordinates of the points of the product group. In some cases, for example, a product space may be defined in terms of the coordinates of the corners of a rectangular bounding box or volume.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Behjat Siddiquie, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Petko Tsonev, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai, Gerard Guy Medioni, Jean Laurent Guigues, Chuhang Zou, Connor Spencer Blue Worley, Claire Law, Paul Ignatius Dizon Echevarria, Matthew Fletcher Harrison, Pahal Kamlesh Dalal
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Patent number: 11790630Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for updating planogram data associated with a facility. The planogram may indicate, for different shelves and other inventory locations within the facility, which items are on which shelves. For example, the planogram data may indicate that a particular item is located on a particular shelf. Therefore, when a system identifies that a user has taken an item from that shelf, the system may update a virtual cart of that user to indicate addition of the particular item. In some instances, however, a new item may be stocked on the example shelf instead of a previous item. The techniques described herein may use sensor data generated in the facility to identify this change and update the planogram data to indicate an association between the shelf and the new item.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Behjat Siddiquie, Petko Tsonev, Claire Law, Connor Spencer Blue Worley, Jue Wang, Bharat Singh, Hue Tuan Thi, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai
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Patent number: 11657595Abstract: An imaging device may capture images of a scene, where the scene includes retroreflective materials. Where visual images and depth images are captured from a scene, and the depth images have ratios of supersaturated pixels that are less than a predetermined threshold, a location map of the scene is generated or updated based on the depth images. Where the ratios are greater than the predetermined threshold, the location map of the scene is generated or updated based on the visual images. Additionally, where each of a plurality of imaging devices detect concentrations of supersaturated pixels beyond a predetermined threshold or limit within their respective fields of view, an actor present on the scene may be determined to be wearing retroreflective material, or otherwise designated as a source of the supersaturation, and tracked with the scene based on coverage areas that are determined to have excessive ratios of supersaturated pixels.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Nathan Hallman, Petko Tsonev, Michael Francis O'Malley, Jayakrishnan Eledath, Jue Wang, Tian Lan
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Patent number: 11093785Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for updating planogram data associated with a facility. The planogram may indicate, for different shelves and other inventory locations within the facility, which items are on which shelves. For example, the planogram data may indicate that a particular item is located on a particular shelf. Therefore, when a system identifies that a user has taken an item from that shelf, the system may update a virtual cart of that user to indicate addition of the particular item. In some instances, however, a new item may be stocked on the example shelf instead of a previous item. The techniques described herein may use sensor data generated in the facility to identify this change and update the planogram data to indicate an association between the shelf and the new item.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Behjat Siddiquie, Petko Tsonev, Claire Law, Connor Spencer Blue Worley, Jue Wang, Bharat Singh, Hue Tuan Thi, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai
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Patent number: 10915783Abstract: An imaging device may capture images of a scene, where the scene includes retroreflective materials. Where visual images and depth images are captured from a scene, and the depth images have ratios of supersaturated pixels that are less than a predetermined threshold, a location map of the scene is generated or updated based on the depth images. Where the ratios are greater than the predetermined threshold, the location map of the scene is generated or updated based on the visual images. Additionally, where each of a plurality of imaging devices detect concentrations of supersaturated pixels beyond a predetermined threshold or limit within their respective fields of view, an actor present on the scene may be determined to be wearing retroreflective material, or otherwise designated as a source of the supersaturation, and tracked with the scene based on coverage areas that are determined to have excessive ratios of supersaturated pixels.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Nathan Hallman, Petko Tsonev, Michael Francis O'Malley, Jayakrishnan Eledath, Jue Wang, Tian Lan