ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,321, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).
"Action detection during image tracking" was invented by Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, Texas), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, Texas), Sarath Vakacharla (Irving, Texas) and Deepanjan Paul (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a sensor, a weight sensor, and a tracking subsystem. The tracking subsystem receives an image feed of top-view images generated by the sensor and weight measurements from the weight sensor. The tracking subsystem detects an event associated with an item being removed from a rack in which the weight sensor i...