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Automated vision-based clutter detector and notifier

  • US 9,213,900 B2
  • Filed: 06/06/2013
  • Issued: 12/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of monitoring a customer space comprising:

  • obtaining visual data comprising image frames of the customer space over a period of time;

    periodically defining a region of interest within the customer space using computer vision techniques to locate an elevated surface that is movable to different locations within the customer space;

    monitoring the region of interest for at least one predefined clutter condition; and

    generating a notification when the at least one predefined clutter condition is detected;

    wherein the region of interest corresponds to a portion of the customer space in which customers relocate objects, and wherein the predefined clutter condition includes detecting a presence of relocated objects in the region of interest.

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