US Patent Issued to Digimarc on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems employing image sensing and 3D sensing to identify shelved products" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,542, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Methods and systems employing image sensing and 3D sensing to identify shelved products" was invented by Eric D. Evans (Portland, Ore.) and Bryan Olmstead (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inventory on a rack of store shelves is monitored by a camera-equipped system that senses when items have been removed. Image data is desirably sensed at plural spectral bands, to enhance item identification by digital watermark and/or other image recognition techniques. The system can be alert to the presence of nearby shoppers, and change its mode of operation in ...