ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,441, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).
"Item location detection using homographies" was invented by Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, Texas), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Crystal Maung (Dallas) and Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configured to identify a first pixel location within a first plurality of pixels corresponding with an item in a first image and to apply a first homography to the first pixel location to determine a first (x,y) coordinate. The device is further configured to identify a second pixel location within a second plurality o...